Moving Towards Scalability: Docks Plasma Cash POChttps://medium.com/dock/moving-towards-scalability-docks-plasma-cash-poc-f8ce26966dc6Dock is a data exchange protocol designed to keep users in control of their own data at all times with cryptographic guarantees about data integrity and flow. The concept is two-sided. On one side, Dock provides an option for internet users to free themselves from the centralized, monolithic, data-hungry organizations that keep user data hostage in well-guarded silos. At the same time, it provides an option for progressive companies to build services where data exchange between companies is incentivized to break the data silos. Across the board, this data exchange is always controlled by the users permission of their own data.
We have been working towards this mission on both the blockchain side, which is the core infrastructure layer to realize the Dock vision, as well as on the user side with a working App for users and APIs for partners to get initiated with the Dock vision.
The biggest challenge that we face, like many other projects that want to use blockchain at scale, is to architect a scalable solution to implement the Dock protocol. A lot of projects on various major blockchains are working on different approaches and we compared a few for our use case in an earlier post. Since then we have successfully developed a POC rooted in a Plasma Cash-based approach.
In this post we will discuss our goals and findings from the POC as well as discuss how it all works together to solve the scalability problem for our use case. We will also share some of the challenges and the road ahead of us.
