How Spritely Goblins Makes Building Distributed Applications Easy!

https://spritely.institute

Intros!

We are a research institution!

Research means collaboration

Meet the Spritely (Networked Communities) Institute!
We're building the future of networked communities architecture
But decentralized networks are too hard!
How we're solving these problems
- A few things you may have seen last year
- A whole bunch of new stuff this year
Where we're going

On "Networked Communities" at a high level

But it's too hard to build this stuff right now!

Secure, distributed programming is hard

Goblins: distributed, cooperative, transactional programming

Distributed security you can understand

If you don't have it, you can't use it
It's just argument passing!

Error recovery is hard

Easy local transactions

(define (^mint _bcom)
  (define-values (decr-seal decr-unseal _decr-sealed?)
    (make-sealer-triplet 'mint))
  (define (^purse _bcom initial-balance)
    (define-cell balance
      initial-balance)
    (define (<=-balance? amount)
      (<= amount ($ balance)))
    (define/contract (decr amount)
      (-> (and/c integer? (>=/c 0) <=-balance?)
          any/c)
      ($ balance (- ($ balance) amount)))
    (define/contract (deposit-method amount src)
      (-> (and/c integer? (>=/c 0)) any/c any/c)
      ((decr-unseal ($ src 'get-decr)) amount)
      ($ balance (+ ($ balance) amount)))
    (methods
     [(get-balance) ($ balance)]
     [(sprout) (spawn ^purse 0)]
     [deposit deposit-method]
     [(get-decr) (decr-seal decr)]))
  (define/contract (fiat-make-purse initial-balance)
    (-> (and/c integer? (>=/c 0)) any/c)
    (spawn ^purse initial-balance))
  (methods [new-purse fiat-make-purse]))