all right Trinity is today I want to
talk to you about Trinity Trinity is a
client for the theory network similar to
get their parity we are however in an
alpha stage don't use this in production
yet this is a project I started around
two years ago we had our first public
alpha release earlier this year and in
August we had our first successful sync
with the etherium Network here's some
numbers we've got three full-time
engineers on the project I have put two
years of my life into this and it takes
about ten or more days to sync with the
network which is slow right now we're
working on a couple of things main
efforts are on making synchronization
faster the research team from Taipei is
working on implementation of the beacon
chain in our base EVM library and today
I want to talk to you about our plug-in
API which is the cool part as far as I'm
concerned a good way to think about
plugins is that they're similar to
extensions for a web browser they're
like a native way to extend the
functionality of the client and rather
than I figured the best way to talk to
you about what these can do is to talk
about some use cases that we foresee
happening one of these is application
specific JSON RPC endpoints a lot of
applications have a lot of business
logic tied up with them often the
developers of the applications or
protocols know how those things are
supposed to work and being able to
expose these at a high level through the
JSON RPC API it's just a better user
experience at least that's what we think
so we are one of the use cases we see is
the ability to expose JSON RPC a new
JSON RPC endpoints to your users through
our client another thing that I don't
know if I made this word up but protocol
daemons a lot of protocols have a need
for like an off chain actor to perform
some actions things like that and these
are often shift shipped around as their
own binary and you have to link it up to
a running aetherium node we foresee
packaging these up as a plug-in as like
a much better user experience anybody
who's already running the Trinity client
it's like gonna be a one-click install
type thing
and make an on board to your protocol
and what we're shooting for is entire
the ability to implement entire
protocols altogether so we're gonna be
looking at whether or not we can
implement the beacon chain using this
API
similarly at some point here I suspect
swarm and Whisperer will be on the table
for plugins and I would love to get even
broader beyond our own personal
ecosystem and get things like IP FS but
this is the one that I'm most excited
about a couple weeks ago this thing
showed up on reddit one of the members
of this community made this this is a in
terminal wallet that has like a cursive
style interface and when myself and my
team saw this we got really excited
because for a long time I thought UX is
always going to be in the browser user
land is always in the browser
and while end-users are not likely to
use terminal applications there are a
whole suite of use cases that are
absolutely suitable for a cursive style
interface and we think that there's a
lot that can be done here and we want to
enable that that through plugins we are
dogfooding this API pretty heavily we
have converted a bunch of our internal
things to be plugins we are considering
and and we have the idea of converting
our entire synchronization to be a
plug-in so this is an API that's new
it's an alpha we got the documentation
up today I encourage you to go check it
out but now I want to do something
completely different so the original
idea for this talk was for me to tell
you a story about Trinity how it got to
where it was today and where it's going
but as I started working on that I had a
hard time digging my personal life out
of that story all of you have a story
how you got here today how you got into
blockchain and why you do this work and
I want to tell you my story I spent
three years of my life doing this three
years of code three years building and
creating three years steeped in the
uncertainty unsure if I'm making a
disparate difference but desperately
wanting things to be different
I'm back at the beginning now it's 2013
my newborn son takes his first breath
while the cpu on my laptop spits out one
more shot 256 overheats and burns itself
to death the Silk Road is open now the
Dread Pirate Roberts shows us something
new my mind expands while the weapon
tracks città she has given us a glimpse
of a world without walls but the walled
gardens continue to grow my son is one
now it's late in the Attic Tanvi main
lines yet another blog post about this
Ethier iam thing I spend money I don't
have on an idea I don't understand but a
small seed is planted in my mind my mind
the part of myself I hold most dear
powerful flawed beautiful but wracked
with unspoken pain crumbling and falling
to pieces my son is too now to seed lies
dormant darkness encroaches my demon is
coming my demon has no name and it
destroys everything everything that has
come before consuming me from the inside
leaving me hollow broken the shell of a
person and like so many times before I
could fall into its embrace while it
tears my world to pieces given and let
go while it burns everything I love
everything I hold dear my marriage my
life my son my son is 3 now my daughter
is born my demon is at bay my demon has
a name its name is depression and in
naming it I can know it and in knowing
it I can fight it but the fight is
brutal and I am in pieces but I put the
pieces back together I will not let this
define me in the seed is sprouting now
the seed is growing spreading its roots
taking form and I'm at the frontier
the network takes its first breath and
my mind breathes it in at work I build I
create but I am uncertain is this real
is this the force of change that I've
yearned for can we really build this new
thing we're a few but we are strong we
know it can be better
and for the first time I feel empowered
we are in this together a community
distributed but connected we create
fulcrums with game theory and economics
we create levers with protocol and code
we want to move the world
my son is for now he is strong-willed
and kind my daughter is one now she
screams less and smiles more and I am
remade the molecules and memories remain
but the whole is something new and I
start work on something new I work alone
I am isolated but I am inspired I am
building the lever I want to move things
I want to make a difference but I'm
afraid my an imposter I am uncertain I
work at Build I create is this real I
think it's really feels so real my son
is five now he starts kindergarten when
he grows up he wants to be a ninja
programmer trash truck driver spy
literally my daughter is two now she is
joy incarnate and an unstoppable force
of nature when things don't go her way
my demon is always with me I will never
be rid of it but now I know it I
medicate it
there's always there I will never be rid
of it I work I build I create there's
six of us now and I no longer work alone
but I'm Austan lonely but we thrive we
create and build together we have a
vision
we are strong the lever we're building
is taking shape we can make a difference
we can build something new we can build
something better but there's still work
to be done we work we build we create
remote work has been harder than I ever
expected it to be but I have never felt
so empowered as I do being part of this
community if you take anything away from
this it's that you're not alone and
we're all in this together thank you
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you