from Osmocon Video Part 1: 51:28 - 59:15
tl;dr — The bulk of the introductory info in this talk was in a pre-recorded video that does not play in the YouTube video, and I couldn’t find it in a brief search. Hopefully, it will be available when the fully edited content comes out.
-in brief, Andromeda aims to be “The Wordpress of Cosmos”
-like this video from October: “Building the Wordpress of Blockchains”
-by creating libraries of interoperable smart contract pieces that can basically be plug-and-play, making development easy, even for inexperienced developers
Andromeda Digital Objects
-can be used on any chain using IBC
-connects the best objects on all chains to others
From their docs: “At their core, these ADOs are a collection of smart contracts that have been designed to work together and are built for scalable interoperability and updating. Standalone, these contracts serve one strict purpose or none at all, but when combined with other ADOs, they can achieve endless utility. This is where our Apps come into play. Andromeda technology allows bundling multiple ADOs in one App contract to build the project the user desires. All of this and more will be available to do on a friendly user interface with a few clicks. We have a very wide variety of ADOs that are expanding on the daily, from very simple escrows to complex Defi contracts.”
CLI: right now, protocols are managing multi-millions of assets through a pro plugin
-can deploy to an HSM (hardware security model) or more-hardened infra
HSM acc. to wikipedia - “a physical computing device that safeguards and manages digital keys, performs encryption and decryption functions for digital signatures, strong authentication and other cryptographic functions”
-interface is independent of having a key (don’t need a wallet attached to model the system)
-security dept. can then deploy it on the chain
CW20 token [maker?]: it’s not just a form that you fill out that puts in the parameters for launching a new contract, rather, it instantiates a new contract inside the system
-therefore, nothing is centralized, nothing is DIY
-there’s a communication layer that Andromeda built behind the scenes in Rust to communicate natively
-IBC is being used in the back-end
Question — [inaudible]
-we’re not worried about [concern], it’s in a different part of the stack than we’re working with
Inaudible question:
-I’ve been wanting to build Andromeda for 5 years. I used to be an Ethereum maxi — waiting for Solidity to get dynamic arrays and loops, and all the things you need to do proper programming.
-Once I found CosmWasm and Rust, I knew it could be done (still can’t be done on Ethereum)
-lots of system design, etc. that had to be done
Documentation question: there is a complete, open-source system of documentation is ready to go
Is this for all Cosmos chains, or just CosmWasm?
-just CosmWasm.
-have talked to some EVM-based ecosystems, and we could potentially send assets in that direction, but the wallet would have to be poked to send them back