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Skrumble Network makes a lot of adventurous claims about its accessible ICO and its new communications application, which its tokenizing with the SKM token.
“Skrumble Network is a absolutely new, avant-garde blockchain and appliance that centers on creating the best defended access for advice possible.”
“Skrumble Network is a secure, communication-centric blockchain, decentralized advice applications and a advice band for developers to add into any application.”
Bold claims.
A quick agenda on alive against accident driven. A blockchain (in the acceptable sense) is accident driven. Accident A triggers accident B and this stops. Communication is beck driven, a approach is opened amid A and B, and abstracts is consistently streamed. A blockchain, is not communication-centric.
There are absolutely a few use cases for blockchain, but advice alive is not one of them.
“Along with architecture a proprietary, defended blockchain, Skrumble will additionally body the aboriginal complete abounding spectrum decentralized advice appliance that will advance acceptable firewalls, accredit acceptability administration while acceptable user anonymity, agreement agreeable and abstracts aloofness delivered with appearance like messaging, calling, video, book sharing, and more. The Skrumble Network blockchain and appliance will additionally actualize opportunities for bodies to add decentralized advice elements into any ecosystem or platform.”
So, they are architecture the blockchain, and they are additionally architecture the decentralized advice application. So these are two abstracted things? And how absolutely will it advance acceptable firewalls? Random anchorage selection? Metamorphic headers? Just actuality p2p isn’t enough.
No acknowledgment of how Consensus is achieved. They acknowledgment validation nodes, so I accept authority.
Increased payloads, so apprehend a lot of bloat.
Secure Real-time Transport Protocol, it aims to be low bandwidth (while abacus encryption?), low computational amount (low computational amount = low encryption). This is a trifecta problem, you can’t accept security, baby payloads, and low computational overhead.
There is a lot activity on in this whitepaper, but I’m disturbing to tie the pieces together: their amount is the p2p messenger, and again blockchain is aloof beggared on to the aback of it. The p2p agent abstraction is nice, but I feel the blockchain is pointless. What amount does it absolutely add? Identity management? Initiating alarm sessions? Everything that makes the p2p agent acceptable is fabricated bad by abacus a blockchain.
But let’s attending at the three notable advantages
So I can’t see any acumen they charge their own blockchain, and added accurately they accept no acquaintance with blockchains, they are a messaging company, so do I anticipate they can body a air-conditioned p2p messaging app? Sure.
Do they charge a blockchain? Well, apprehend our abounding Skrumble ICO review.
But ok, let’s get to some code: there isn’t any blockchain code, so we will attending at the messaging code.
I apprehend them to advantage what they know, so it’s safe to accept they will stick to their react-native-js-sdk-demo app (React Native allows you to advance cross-platform for iOS and Android)
So let’s jump into it.
Initial commit, 12 canicule ago, absorbing timing. Let’s not speculate. This is aloof a demo, so I will try to not be over stringent. But alike in a demo, I like to see the appropriate patterns applied. This is a actual raw prototype, no Redux, no dumb/smart components, no accompaniment control. At the aforementioned time, this audience is apparently meant to aloof bound appearance the abilities of their js-sdk, so let’s accept that and move on.
Rest is mostly boilerplate. Let’s attending at chatlist.
Seems rushed. Nothing actuality and LoginForm is banal as well. Let’s acquisition article abroad to attending at.
Their js-sdk, let’s accept a look, it has apparent added attention.
Not a lot in the repo, and afresh modified.
Started on April 4th. Have they been bankrupt antecedent all this time and alone started to absolution cipher recently? I was beneath the consequence they were a able-bodied accustomed absolute company.
Skrumble Android app:
100 installs. 100 installs. Don’t apperceive how abroad to say that. 100 installs.
15 ratings. 15 ratings. Ok, you get the picture.
So, not as accustomed as I had originally thought. Had a quick attending at the aggregation as well, lots of adaptable developers. No blockchain developers. Starting to attending like a aggregation that is aloof pivoting to blockchain because they bare to reinvent themselves.
Let’s abide with the code.
REST boilerplate and wrappers. Moving on.
And SDK adhesive for their API.
I will comment, it’s acceptable commenting, acceptable anatomy and layout, but there isn’t annihilation here, it’s aloof a wrapper. Not added than a few weeks of work.
Rest of the cipher isn’t available, we could still break the Android APK, but I anticipate I accept apparent enough.
Skrumble ICO Conclusion
I don’t see any blockchain acquaintance or skillset on the team, or any absolute purpose for the blockchain, they attending to be an absolute appliance that is pivoting to blockchain to capitalize on the hype.
There are added chargeless p2p messengers out there.
Read the abounding Skrumble ICO Review.
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Skrumble Code Review Timestamp: April 24th, 2024 at 08:12 GMT
