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| What is Lume? |
What is Lume? This is something we have often asked ourselves to explain it 😅.
Lume can be broken down into a few major focuses:
- Lume is a P2P network that uses public keys instead of torrent hashes to access peers and content.
- Like a BitTorrent, but ready for Web3. You can also see it to be a bit like IPFS which uses Libp2p, but more light weight.
- The goal here is to create a bridge P2P network
to service all of Web3. It's NOT a blockchain. You don't need one since anyone can provide services with RPC or their own custom protocol, and anyone can query them.
- The goal here is to create a bridge P2P network
- Like a BitTorrent, but ready for Web3. You can also see it to be a bit like IPFS which uses Libp2p, but more light weight.
- Lume is a storage portal (think
L2in blockchain terms).- It builds on Sia and stores your private data, and eventually public. In other words think of it like a paid IPFS service, but its not IPFS.
- Lume is the end user gateway.
- It is how you will interface with all content networks, blockchains, or other nets in the future. This could be a browser extension, web browser itself or anything in-between.