THE DEVELOPMENT OF DAPPS WITH CARTESI

Cartesi is used for designing decentralized applications (Dapps). It provides all the necessary tools and software required in managing the Dapps. To understand the mechanism of Cartesi, it is crucial to know what decentralized applications are.

What are decentralized applications?
The centralized applications work on one computer. Unlike these, the decentralized applications are structured to work on a large scale or sometimes small scale peer-to-peer network of several computers. They essentially do not always run on a blockchain network. Some of them are designed to work independently of the blockchain, for example, Bit Torrent, Tor. But when used with blockchain, the DApps can interlink with all the network actors easily. The interfaces are simple and focus on usability. The smart contracts are the fundamental structures making up any blockchain network. The smart contracts can manage the state of the actors within the network by processing the information received from the external sensors.
The entire logic of this system involves several smart contracts interacting with the fundamental blockchain. The storage network of the DApps can host many files like pictures, videos or audios. The conventional web pages or applications are designed with CSS, javascript, and HTML, interacting with a centralized database. DApps work in a similar fashion to these. They are designed in the same way, but they comprise of ‘wallets’ that transmit and activate a smart contract which then communicates with the decentralized blockchain network. The wallet often uses multi-layers of security like cryptographic keys and public keys. It keeps the data safe and secure and requires authentication protocols. The users can assign permissions to different users to let multiple levels of authorities use a single account.

Cartesi
Cartesi provides a Linux infrastructure for constructing DApps. The software language, tools, and network required in creating these apps are familiar to the developers. The developed DApps can be run on Linux. These applications all have an off-chain component, which works independently of the blockchain. So, all the limitations and expenses of the blockchain are tackled with these verifiable DApps.

A highly capable team of developers, structured Cartesi platform. This platform delivers all types of stacks of software, libraries, and services that are needed in developing decentralized applications supported by Linux. The complicated network of Nodes, which can be native or reproducible, enables the user to run an independent off-chain interacting innovatively to the blockchain. The native modality of the off-chain element of DApps, work on the host hardware. The reproducible modality of the off-chain is in the Cartesi hardware and controlled with the internal Cartesi Node. Nodes are the components that help Cartesi Machines connect to the remote user interface.

The current wave of digitization has visualized the new applications of blockchain for different purposes. It is already being used in healthcare, financial services, social and e-commerce networks. Many of these systems have faced problems associated with scalability and reproducibility. Cartesi offers a modern solution, with the use of blockchain to develop DApps. The off-chain components render the system scalable and its interaction with the blockchain help with reproducibility.