🧑‍🚀Architecture Overview

What we're using and ways we're using it.

The framework selected should be secure, permanent, immutable, fast, extensible, modular, and interoperable.

Secure: Rust

The core should be developed in a trusted, secure programming language, called Rust (check our quick-start guide).

Fast, Extensible, Modular: substrate_

Using substrate_ allows us to quickly build radically new implementations of long-trusted standards and protocols. substrate_ is an out-of-the-box blockchain building framework.

Also:

• substrate_ is written in rust.

• substrate_ compiles to WASM for highly portable runtimes. (the language of all modern web browsers).

Interoperable: Polkadot

Polkadot is a new blockchain network that turns blockchain into a multi-threaded multi-core processor.

Key strengths in the Polkadot network:

• Building with substrate_ also allows the opportunity to share network security with the Polkadot.Network in the form of a parachain or parathread.

• Polkadot itself was built with substrate_.

• Both Polkadot and substrate_ we made open source through the work of the world-renowned web3.foundation.

• Polkadot will host multiple blockchains serving multiple purposes increasing the interoperability of web3 applications.

Polkadot (and similar substrate_ based blockchains) will make it easy for users and developers to interact with with different services on different chains such as

• insurance providers

• deed of trust record keepers

• legal services

• underwriting, etc.

Don't want to be on Polkadot? Not a problem.

Any application built with substrate_ can easily be configured to operate completely independently from the Polkadot.Network.

Permanent and Immutable: IPFS

this proposed standard is still undergoing research but serves as an example of the kind of need and the kind of solution.

IPFS is a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol intended to serve as a functionally immutable permanent record.

IPFS (or a similar protocol) would

• allow "proof" that a document was the formal record document and

• that it was signed by a verifiable authority of record.