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Re:Handshake – Decentralized naming and certificate authority by whatisweb3 on Monday July 25, 2022 @07:46AM (#32223079)
Application-level protocols should not be attempting to secure their own consensus mechanisms - it ties the security of the application to the base token.

If you are seeking decentralized naming and certificate authorities you can look at Ethereum and ENS. Besides the eventual transition to Proof-of-Stake, building an application on top of an existing consensus mechanism means that your application will inherit the security of that blockchain.

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Re:Handshake – Decentralized naming and certificate authority by easrng on Monday July 25, 2022 @11:31AM (#32225781)
It's not possible to make a lightweight ENS resolver that doesn't fully trust the Ethereum node it's using.
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Re:Handshake – Decentralized naming and certificate authority by whatisweb3 on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:13PM (#32227572)
True, even though a current "light client" can run on Raspberry Pi, really there should be even lighter clients for validating on-chain state. See [1] which is an area of development.

[1] https://nimbus.team/docs/fluffy.html

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