Why Decentralized?
DPSN (Decentralized Publish-Subscribe Network) brings the trustless transparency of decentralized systems to real-time data distribution. Here's why decentralization is critical to DPSN's vision and how it transforms messaging, data integrity, and ecosystem innovation:
Decentralized systems inherently foster trust because they operate transparently. Participants can clearly see how data is handled, who accesses it, and what mechanisms are in place to ensure security and performance. Messaging as a core layer must be trustless, where every participant can verify operations without relying on central authorities.
A decentralized system eliminates single points of failure, ensuring it always operates, even if some nodes go offline or are attacked. DPSN is architected in a way that malicious nodes can not spam the integrity of the data. Example:
Centralized Risk: In 2021, Facebook’s centralized servers experienced an outage that took down their entire ecosystem, impacting billions of users globally.
Decentralized Advantage: With DPSN, node failures don’t disrupt the entire network. If an OracleStream node fails, other nodes pick up the slack, ensuring uninterrupted data flow for critical applications like DeFi trading or IoT monitoring.
Decentralized operators are governed by transparent protocols, ensuring no hidden fees, unauthorized data manipulation, or monopolistic practices. Example:
Centralized Risk: Traditional financial data providers often inflate costs, creating barriers for smaller developers while centralizing data control. Centralized parties can favour one entity vs another by providing them faster access to data for premium, liabilities or closeness.
Decentralized Advantage: In DPSN, gas fees are fixed and transparent. For instance, a developer subscribing to a price feed in OracleStream knows exactly how much they’re paying in TLOS, with no hidden fees. Transparency is enforced by the open network, and bad actors can’t manipulate the system.
Decentralization demands, and is impossible to operate without robust encryption and privacy mechanisms to ensure data security, as all operations occur in an open system visible to everyone.
Example:
Centralized Risk: Centralized systems can expose sensitive data through hacks or insider breaches, like the Equifax breach that leaked personal financial information of 147 million people. Would you ever share your private information over centralized infrastructures trusting none of their internal parties or engineers can never find information in their logs? There has to be proof of encryption etc. When is the last time you started checking encryption of every app you have used. Apps built over DPSN have trust built into the foundational thesis.
Decentralized Advantage: DPSN employs advanced encryption protocols for data transmission. For example, a decentralized IoT feed publishing live weather data on DPSN uses end-to-end encryption to prevent eavesdropping, even though the network operates transparently.
Decentralization creates an open ecosystem where anyone can contribute, innovate, or access the system, fostering competition and growth. Example:
Centralized Risk: Closed ecosystems like traditional oracles (e.g., Bloomberg) limit data to privileged entities, stifling innovation.
Decentralized Advantage: In DPSN, anyone can publish or subscribe to real-time feeds. DPSN OracleStreams are building a validation system that can further verify the data like Oracles do. For instance, a small startup can create custom oracles for niche use cases (like tracking ESG metrics) without relying on gatekeepers, making the system accessible and driving innovation.
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