▶️ Watch it on YouTube (English captions): https://youtu.be/7yEoxju-1zI
▶️ Watch it on Twitter: https://x.com/QuilibriumInc/status/1892756256320082046
📅 Live-stream date: 20-02-2025
✅ Key topics:
- Quilibrium’s mission: Securing global internet traffic
- Legislative concerns: UK backdoor demands & US privacy bill
- Fundraising updates: Hiring developers, sales engineers, and marketing team
- Media outreach: Community efforts for mainstream recognition
- Decentralization issues: How crypto networks have been compromised
- Alternative to blockchains: Why Quilibrium takes a new approach
- Technical architecture: Shards, hypergraphs, and decentralized storage
What is Quilibrium and Why Does it Matter?
Cassie, the speaker and core contributor, begins the stream with a discussion on Quilibrium’s mission: securing every bit of internet traffic. Unlike most blockchain projects, Quilibrium is not just another financial ledger—it aims to build a decentralized alternative internet infrastructure that protects users from surveillance and corporate control.
Legislative & Privacy Concerns
- UK’s Anti-Privacy Push: The UK government is pressuring Apple to create a backdoor that could compromise user data worldwide. Quilibrium, alongside organizations like Mozilla and Tor, opposes this move.
- US Privacy Bill: Senator Wyden has introduced a bill to protect American companies from foreign surveillance demands. Quilibrium supports this as it aligns with their goal of keeping data private and secure.
Fundraising and Team Expansion
Quilibrium is nearing the end of its fundraising round, with some funds already received. This allows them to begin hiring for three major roles:
- Developers to build the protocol
- Sales Engineers to assist companies integrating with Quilibrium
- Marketing Specialists to improve public outreach
Additionally, a community-led PR effort is working to increase Quilibrium’s presence in mainstream media (e.g., Forbes, Business Insider).
The Problem with Today’s Crypto Space
Quilibrium believes that the current crypto landscape is deeply flawed and controlled by powerful interests:
- Bitcoin: Mining is dominated by a few large pools, limiting protocol improvements.
- Ethereum: Centralized through staking dominance (e.g., exchanges like Coinbase).
- Solana: Prioritizing speculative token launches rather than meaningful infrastructure.
Crypto has drifted away from its original purpose of decentralizing the internet and has become a financial playground for corporations and hedge funds.
Why Blockchain Can’t Solve This Problem
Blockchains, while useful for financial transactions, cannot scale to handle the entire internet. The rigid structure of traditional blockchains limits their ability to function as a decentralized web infrastructure.
Quilibrium proposes an entirely different approach: a parallelized, private execution network that can scale globally.
How Quilibrium Works: The Architecture
While the second half of the stream is very technical, here are the key innovations that set Quilibrium apart:
- Global Synchronization: Nodes maintain a tiny 19 KB synchronized dataset, allowing for high scalability.
- Sharding with Merkle Trees: Instead of one large chain, Quilibrium uses a structured tree that allows efficient data storage and retrieval.
- Verifiable Encryption: All data is encrypted in a way that can be mathematically proven secure, ensuring privacy.
- Oblivious Hypergraph Storage: A unique method that stores and retrieves data without revealing what’s being accessed.
- Decentralized API Compatibility: Quilibrium is building S3-compatible object storage and KMS-compatible key management to replace centralized cloud services.
The Bigger Vision
Quilibrium’s long-term goal is to rebuild the core infrastructure of the internet with truly decentralized alternatives. Planned features include:
- Streaming video/audio storage
- Decentralized AI and compute services
- Fully private, scalable internet applications
Unlike many crypto projects that focus on selling tokens, Quilibrium is focused on real-world infrastructure that can be seamlessly integrated into existing developer workflows.
Conclusion
The stream ends with a Q&A session, where Cassie emphasizes Quilibrium’s commitment to open-source development and a community-driven approach. The project follows strict ethical guidelines to ensure it can never be corrupted by corporate interests.
Next Sunday’s stream will cover the S3-compatible API, KMS key management, and Q-Console, providing developers with deeper insights into how to build on Quilibrium.