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Season 2Episode 85

Polis

September 30, 2023
30m
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About This Episode

In this episode of DevNTell, Narb welcomes members of the Rapid Application Development (RAD) team at Consensys, along with a DevRel manager from MetaMask, to showcase their new project called Polis. Polis is a decentralized marketplace for dApp templates and tools, designed to make open-source Web3 projects more discoverable and forkable for developers. The project uses decentralized storage like IPFS and IPNS via Infura to ensure that data remains mutable and accessible without the gas costs associated with on-chain storage. The RAD team highlights the importance of providing production-ready use cases and templates that others can easily clone and build upon, emphasizing the collaborative and open-source nature of the Web3 community.

Key Takeaways

1

Polis is a decentralized marketplace that allows developers to submit and discover dApp templates and tools, aimed at reducing the siloed nature of Web3 projects.

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The project prioritizes decentralization by using IPFS and IPNS for storage, making it free for developers to upload and update their project data.

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Polis is designed to be highly forkable, encouraging developers to clone production-ready code and adapt it for their own use cases, rather than starting from scratch.

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Consensys's RAD team uses Polis to showcase production-ready use cases that integrate technologies like MetaMask SDK, Snaps, and Linea, providing valuable examples for the developer community.

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The platform is multi-chain and open to projects from any ecosystem, not just Ethereum, promoting inclusivity and cross-chain collaboration in the Web3 space.

Featured Guest

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Eric Wood

co-founder @ Polis

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