The Bitcoin network got its own community-based social token ecosystem, after a new project emerged overnight called Alpha.
Alpha is similar to the widely-known, Ethereum-based platform Friend.tech, as it acts as a decentralized social network protocol. It allows users to monetize their online persona and content creation via its social tokens.
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However, unlike Friend.tech, Alpha has a different makeup. The finality is anchored on the Bitcoin blockchain, while the Polygon blockchain is used for data storage and then Trustless Computer is the project’s own scaling network for Bitcoin.
A co-founder of the project, a pseudonymous user dubbed Punk3700 is quoted describing the makeup of Alpha, “a rollup that rolls up to another rollup that rolls up to Bitcoin.”
Cointelegraph spoke with Punk3700 to better understand the developments behind the launch of the new Bitcoin-based social token network.
“Alpha implies a layered architecture that includes NOS-TC. Trustless Computer (TC) is an optimistic rollup layer that centers directly on the Bitcoin blockchain. NOS is implemented as another optimistic product of layers to provide additional scalability on Bitcoin.”
Optimistic rollups are also referred to as zero-knowledge rollups (zkRollups). He said the layers “work in tandem” to provide security and efficiency for the environment to deploy decentralized applications.
“NOS is configured with a hybrid design that uses Bitcoin for data validity,” he said, “and then uses Polygon for data storage – in the end, we settle on Bitcoin.”
“This will allow for flexibility with data storage for different needs because the fee on Bitcoin is insanely expensive. We believe that for those kinds of actions, we shouldn’t pay a lot.”
He said building up Alpha in this way helps benefit the users in terms of lowering transaction fees. According to Punk3700 users and the community are the main drive for the creators of the Alpha platform, who developed and launched in only 48 hours.
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