How VANTA’s API can help your Business

tamle (6)in #vanta • 5 years ago

VANTA is a decentralized and permissionless network that ensures real-time, secure and private connectivity. Through VANTA, both individuals and corporations will be able to develop real-time data transmission services and commercialize those services at low costs. VANTA will eventually allow infinite connectivity among all devices regardless of location.

VANTA’s aim is to allow individuals to create decentralized networks that perform real-time data transmissions as well as process and store that data by selecting intelligent peers, collaborating, and evaluating each other using the VANTA network protocol and the consensus algorithm.

If you’ve ever played online games or any type of games with online communities, you’ve probably seen cases where players communicate with each other through text or voice chat services. The question that people usually don’t think about is: Did the creators of these games develop their in-game communication services?

The answer is most likely no.

Developing an in-game communication service can be incredibly time-consuming and may require more manpower if a company doesn’t already have the technology. APIs can come in handy where companies need specific functions integrated into their own services.

APIs (Application Programming Interface) can be accessible through Software Development Kits (SDK) that are provided by the creators. SDK is a set of software development tools that allow anyone to implement one or more APIs in the form of on-device libraries to interface to a particular programming language. It could also be a hardware-specific tool that can communicate with a particular embedded system.

These well-documented modules will allow developers to easily build services that can access the numerous devices worldwide that already participate in the VANTA Network. For example, a developer could build a messaging application using existing technologies and subsequently connect to the VANTA Network using these modules. The application would then be available for devices connected to VANTA. Thus, VANTA will act as the backend, with the application being run in real-time across many devices in a P2P fashion.

Instead of the typical client-server model with many devices connecting to a single, centralized server, VANTA offers a secure, P2P, scalable and stable network to facilitate real-time network. Our “Proof of Network” consensus algorithms using Verifiable Random Functions (VRFs) solves the issue of achieving consensus over a large network, with typical Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) algorithms running in O(n²) time. Furthermore, the lack of centralized servers means that the user’s data is secure on their own devices. Many services such as LinkedIn and Uber have disclosed that data on millions of users have previously been compromised. Secure communication services and encryptions over a P2P network such as VANTA ensures that this will be impossible. Furthermore, since the blockchain will be running on many verifying nodes, VANTA has no single point of failure, meaning that even if many devices fail, applications can keep running.

Thus, VANTA will provide easy-to-use and well documented modules to allow developers with their existing knowledge to use VANTA as the backend, providing all the benefits of a decentralized network for real-time communication in a scalable, secure manner.