World's First DAPI: Decentralized Application Programming Interface

World's First DAPI: Decentralized Application Programming Interface

Lead Dash developer Evan Duffield recently gave a presentation for Bitcoin Wednesday. After an introduction to Dash's core protocol functions, Duffield went on to give a pre-announcement of a series of upgrades called “Evolution.” The first part of Evolution is what Duffield calls the world's first decentralized Application Programming Interface (API), or DAPI. Duffield explains that the DAPI will enable other people or programs to query Dash's blockchain data as though they had access to a full node themselves – without having to actually run one. The data returned by the DAPI will be....


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