The Status and Future of Steem DApp
There are many Steem Dapps and also many new DApps are under development process - I want to believe that.
What is DApp and how are the Steem DApps going?
DApp
As the concept is still in its infancy, there might not be one definition of what a DApp is. But there are general common concepts about it.
DApp, or a decentralized application, is an application whose back-end code runs on a decentralized peer-to-peer network.
Basic Structure
Source: Ethereum Stack exchange
Decentralized applications communicates with the blockchain, which manages the state of all network actors.
The interface of the decentralized applications does not look any different than any website or mobile app today. The smart contract represents the core logic of a decentralized application. Smart contracts are integral building blocks of blockchains, that process information from external sensors or events and help the blockchain manage the state of all network actors.
In Which Blockchains do DApps run?
DApps may run on top of distributed computing systems such as Ethereum or Bitcoin. Decentralized applications are stored on and executed by a blockchain system. Steem created a well-established dapp ecosystem.
DApps can be browsed on marketplaces such as State of the DApps, Dapp.com, Holdex, DAppRadar and CoinGecko.
Steem DApps
Steem has developed or had from 3rd parties its various DApps.
Steemit is a sort of main and backbone DApp that sometimes consider steem itself by the people who do not have much knowledge on blockchain or steem and there are Steem Peak, steemcoinpan and Splinterlands etc as most popular dapps.
But recently there have not been many new DApps or project to to develop DApp which satisfy many steem users or investors.
And with recent hard fork that result in new Copy and Paste sister blockchain “Hive”, some DApps moved to HIVE blockchain and some DApps do have clear view for their future direction in this mass chaos.
List of Steem DApps(or Interfaces)
I captured this Steem DApps ranking list from dapp.com
Still it is not so clear how much I could believe this data. But several popular sites mention this site as a sort of one of DApps portal site.
In terms of 30 Days User
In terms of 30 Days Transaction
Source: dapp.com
There are total around 100 dapps.
Some Dapps are listed DApps can be browsed on marketplaces such as State of the DApps, Dapp.com, Holdex, DAppRadar and CoinGecko.
that already moved to HIVE blockchain.
In terms of 30 days Users, Steemit take top position, for 30 days transaction Splinterlands is top position.
Many game or gamling dapps take high rankings.
Beside this list, there may be others such as zzan, neoxiancity, Marlians etc.
I didn’t know that this lots of Dapps Steem ecosystem has while I just have used total 10 Dapss up to now.
Many DApps developed and then disappeared without any proper notification. It may be the time to make clear reliable backbone DApps for communication and transaction while makeing robust ecology to cheer up good trilal to make creative DApps.