Channel database for State and Payment Channels

[haadcode]

The other week I was thinking that the log database in OrbitDB would be perfect for creating another database on top of it to have Payment Channels and it can be extended to a generalized State Channel.

Having read this nice blog post today, I went ahead and did a really quick and dirty prototype here. The idea is that the Channel is like a database, such as KeyValue is, and internally the ChannelIndex processes and verifies the operations in the channel (open/create, update/send, close/settle). This is still highly experimental, but I think this could be a cool primitive to have in OrbitDB.

If anyone wants to continue this, feel free to run with. I'd be happy to brainstorm more and help!

[7flash]

Looks like suitable solution for voting app or even DAO's. Is it?

[haydenyoung]

Looks like suitable solution for voting app or even DAO's. Is it?

I've been working on a PoC that looks into off-chain voting using OrbitDB peers as validators and then using smart contracts to 1) validate votes and 2) solidify voting results on the blockchain.

I've put up some code here https://github.com/haydenyoung/orbitdb-governance.

It is pretty hacky and is missing some key features (although I'm adding all the time) but it does highlight some nice features, epecially using smart contracts for ACs and using the p2p nature of OrbitDB to audit voting results. I think it also shows a nice use case for OrbitDB.