David Vorick expressed:  DeFi today struggles because the frontends are centralized, giving devs the ability to hardfork contracts, steal user funds, and censor specific tokens. With Homescreen, you can eliminate dev control over frontends. Demand end-to-end decentralization.

Jerry Brito expressed:  This is great. And I look forward to smart contract devs building decentralized frontends from the get-go.

How does the trust model work? Can the user’s browser verify that the home screen frontend served matches what is on Sia/Skynet?

David Vorick expressed:  For now, you have to trust the portal, which is open source, so you can run your own and be trustless. In eta 2-3 months we will have a browser extension that makes Siasky fully trustless too.

Updates like this are exceeding what I imagined when I first learned about the network behind this – Sia. Skynet is coming with what people need at the right time and offers easy to use solution. This needs more adoption.

How does HNS/ENS/DLink play into all of this.  This is a necessary piece of infrastructure, but framing it as “the devs are bad, they can change things on you” is the wrong take. A better approach: Here’s a tool we can give to devs so that regulators can’t go after them and force changes that are detrimental to UX.

David Vorick:  It talks about how vulnerabilities exist that can result in exploits like what happened with Miso. The devs aren’t evil, but they shouldn’t leave room for evil regardless. Don’t trust, verify.

Another user:  I think maybe the first couple paragraphs could be reworked then to not come across slightly accusatory to the original dev team.  I understand the point of the product and it solves a very real problem just giving input on how it reads as an outside eye.

For clarity, the frontend of a smart contract is the webapp or UI that you use to interact with the contract. The contract itself is a piece of invisible code on the blockchain.

Defi apps are mostly accessed using DNS or ENS, but in both bases the dev team has control over what code the user receives, and could change that code at any time. This is problematic as it gives the dev team the ability to alter the user’s experience in a negative way.

Homescreen is a platform, which permits projects to fully decentralize their frontends. Most existing frontends work out-of-the-box with Homescreen.  You do not need to write special code or get special support from the Skynet team.