Q3 2023 in Review at Decent Land Labs

October 6th, 2023

This quarter the Labs launched MEM, published the VACP thesis, and onboarded a host of great partners to namespace.gg. Read on for a full update on our progress and a hint of what’s to come in the future. 🔮

MEM testnet and developer tooling

The Molecular Execution Machine (MEM) went live on testnet August 1st 2023 and has since released an array of developer tooling and educational resources.

MEM is the web3-ready serverless functions platform that empowers developers to build lightning fast trustless dApps. Deploy MEM in conjunction with other on-chain elements of your stack, or use it to build entire backends from the ground up.

The IDE offers a web-based playground to build and test MEM functions without needing to deploy or install dependencies. It’s packed with ready-made examples that make it easy to get started with common use cases: CRUD, multichain authentication, fetching APIs, etc.

Alongside the IDE, we published a repository of examples and two templates for UI integration based on Svelte and Next.js.

Decent Land Labs joins the Hansa Accelerator

Hansa invests, incubates, and accelerates networks that power the future of open societies on web3. The team is an early Arweave ecosystem backer, and provides mentorship and connections to the top 1% of domain experts.

Decent Land Labs is proud to be one of the first projects accepted into the accelerator program by Hansa, who have already provided exceptional guidance for the MEM protocol launch.

New namespace.gg brand and documentation

We rebranded the platform previously known as ONSF (Open Name Service Framework) to namespace.gg, complete with a new logo and brand identity.

The namespace.gg framework enables anyone to spin up a custom name service for their DAO, protocol or community. It’s an abstraction of the tooling in production for ANS, complete with a minting UI, dashboard and marketplace.

namespace.gg is built on MEM and everPay, meaning that addresses from any chain can be assigned identities, paid for in any token supported by everPay.

Need a custom identity layer for your dApp or community? Check the docs for a DIY approach or ways to let us help you get it live.

Hackernoon, Raven Protocol and AlphaKEK on namespace.gg

Three new implementations of namespace.gg are set to launch in 2023: .hackernoon, .raven, and .aikek.

Hackernoon -- one of the largest sources for technology news -- will use namespace.gg to add a DID layer for authors connecting with an Ethereum wallet. It will be possible to claim your Hackernoon username as a decentralized handle living on Arweave via MEM, improving the robustness and portability of Hackernoon’s identity layer.

Since Hackernoon identity is currently exposed over a web2 API, namespace.gg is uniquely suited to perform checks against this off-chain data to validate that the claimant’s wallet and Hackernoon username match.

Learn more about how namespace.gg works and how to launch your own implementation.

The Verifiable Atomic Computing Paradigm

The VACP thesis describes an architectural model where computation is handled off-chain yet posted to a public and immutable data availability layer where it can be validated by any third party.

VACP underpins the design of MEM (diagrammed above), which offloads verifiable computation to a massively scalable centralized node while retaining a high degree of transparency, trustlessness and determinism.

“MEM, through its adherence to VACP principles, redefines the data-driven smart contracts landscape by offering enhanced scalability, better UX & DX, diversified data sources, protocol evolution, atomic node efficiency, optimal Arweave DA layer utilization, and affordability. This comprehensive approach sets MEM apart as a pioneer in the domain.” - Darwin, CTO @ Decent Land Labs

xMEM is coming

The MEM team is working on a variant named xMEM, which is a fork of MEM that implements privacy-focused features, such as encrypted states and interactions, and support for secrets.

xMEM facilitates the use of confidential information (similar to .env files) and offers a separate node to guarantee that execution doesn't compete for TPS with other contracts. The function code, input, and output data can all be encrypted by default using xMEM, giving deployers full control over how their gate areas of their application.

With xMEM’s support for secrets, molecules will be able to authenticate private API endpoints, which adds versatility and expanded possibilities for your applications.

ANS migration and Ledger support

As of Arweave blockheight 1231248, we have successfully migrated ans.gg over to use the new Arweave signature standard and reactivated all functionality. The new MEM contract address for ANS is Tih8T1uESATJNzdwBIY3rpe25kWTzjw8uNiMRYe9I5M.