Why is Deeper considered a top project in the Substrate Builders Program?

Deeper Network is committed to creating a truly decentralized secure gateway, becoming the entry point for every household to Web3.0. As an important infrastructure for the future of Web3.0, Deeper Network was approved by the Parity Council on November 16, 2020, and became a member of the Substrate Builders Program.

This is an exciting piece of news; the official recognition and the subsequent professional and targeted support undoubtedly boost the further development of Deeper Network.

So what exactly is the Substrate Builders Program? Why are countless high-quality projects and teams eager to apply? And why do we say that Deeper is a leading project within the Substrate Builders Program? Here is a detailed answer to these questions.

Background

1. What is Substrate?

When discussing the Substrate Builders Program, one cannot avoid talking about Substrate. Simply put, Substrate is a completely free and open-source framework that "modularizes" the basic development of blockchain, saving development time for project teams and simplifying the development process.

In the words of Polkadot co-founder Robert Habermeier, "Substrate is a set of libraries for dealing with all the annoying things when writing a blockchain."

We can make a more vivid analogy: if constructing a blockchain is like a Lego puzzle, each different chain represents a different Lego theme, then Substrate is a collection of individual puzzles, providing a foundation for building different themes while reducing the difficulty of creating components from scratch.

At the Web3 Summit held in 2018, Polkadot founder Dr. Gavin was able to develop a brand new blockchain in just 15 minutes using a factory-default Mac computer based on the Substrate framework. Substrate allows teams to focus more on digging into their core issues, providing a certain foundation for the prosperity of blockchain applications.

2. What is the Substrate Builders Program?

Such an efficient and milestone framework, Substrate, was created by the Parity Council, which originated from Gavin Wood and Jutta Steiner's passion and pursuit of technology. They hope to develop innovative technologies that can support better networks and more reliable institutions, and are committed to promoting the arrival of Web3.0.

At the same time, Dr. Gavin also established the Web3 Foundation, focusing on the development, deployment, and maintenance of Web3.0.

It is well known that Polkadot is an open-source project created by the Web3 Foundation and is currently one of the most notable public chains, attracting immense enthusiasm from countless blockchain enthusiasts. Polkadot's interoperability and scalability provide a constructive solution to the dilemmas faced by current DApps.

More and more excellent teams have turned their attention to the Polkadot ecosystem, resulting in countless high-quality projects. Therefore, the Web3 Foundation launched the Grant program to manage and utilize its rich resources by funding high-quality projects, promoting research and development of the underlying technical stack behind decentralized networks.

Currently, the Web3 Foundation has funded over 200 high-quality projects based on the Substrate framework across more than 50 countries, having a long-term positive impact on the Web3.0 ecosystem.

The Parity Council has initiated the Substrate Builders Program for the more outstanding projects among them. They hope to lay a foundation for better networks and promote institutional innovation, preventing technology from being monopolized by a few powerful companies. They believe that community contributors are key to the development of the ecosystem and are committed to building a fairer society.

Thus, they consider that Substrate Builders have built various technical components within the Substrate ecosystem and require more personalized support, which is the original intention of the Substrate Builders Program.

The Substrate Builders Program is ultimately designed into three parts: Chains Track, Application Track, and Infrastructure Track, with joining the Infrastructure Track being particularly challenging.

3. What is the significance of joining the Substrate Builders Program?

Projects that join the Substrate Builders Program can receive support from the Parity Council in multiple dimensions, including technical, community, funding, and business development, gathering the resources of the Parity Council.

Firstly, on the technical level, the Parity Council will provide technical support during working hours for projects that join the Substrate Builders Program and will assign Parity engineers who are proficient in the specific category of the project as technical support, organizing regular check-ins and facilitating communication between the team and other program members.

When the team begins to launch the mainnet, the Parity Council will also develop a more formal and comprehensive launch strategy for the project, conducting audits, high-frequency checks, and release lists in collaboration with major Substrate runtime audit providers.

On the community level, the Parity Council will establish its social media community and help projects that join the Substrate Builders Program connect with the media. Additionally, Parity has introduced some engaging program member meetings to connect core developers and the community.

In terms of funding, while providing funding through the Web3 Foundation, the Parity Council will also connect projects that join the Substrate Builders Program to various fundraising and business development mechanisms, providing sufficient support for the teams.

In terms of business development, teams undoubtedly gain a more streamlined communication channel with the Parity Council and maintain good communication with other projects and teams.

4. What projects have been selected for the Substrate Builders Program?

Joining the Substrate Builders Program is undoubtedly beneficial for teams; however, standing out among numerous projects is not an easy task. As of now, only 70 teams have successfully joined the Substrate Builders Program.

These include some well-known projects, such as the decentralized storage incentive layer protocol Crust, the Polkadot smart wallet parachain MathChain, the cross-chain liquidity protocol HydraDX, the NFT service Unique Network, and the Wasm smart contract platform Patract, among many other star projects that are members of the Substrate Builders Program.

Advantages of Deeper

As one of the early members of the Substrate Builders Program, Deeper has advantages that other projects cannot match.

1. Key Infrastructure

Deeper Network is a critical infrastructure in Web3.0, where the essence of Web3.0 lies in building a decentralized, transparent, and secure ecological network system. The decentralized secure gateway plays a crucial role in achieving this goal.

Deeper Network is the world's first decentralized distributed blockchain network designed to be truly private, secure, and fair. It proposes the concept of DPN, breaking the monopoly and dominance of internet giants over data in the Web 2.0 era, stripping away the value of server existence, allowing users to freely and faithfully choose their information in Web 3.0.

2. Unique Technical Advantages

At the same time, Deeper Network possesses numerous unique technical advantages.

Perhaps the most eye-catching is its flagship product, Deeper Connect, which truly achieves plug-and-play as a hardware facility. Deeper Network's CMO Eric Ma once stated in an interview with Altcoin Buzz that even a grandmother can use Deeper Connect without any barriers. Its IP reuse technology changes the knowledge requirements for end users.

Additionally, to achieve energy and hardware resource savings and further decentralization, Deeper Network has innovated the PoCr consensus mechanism. To protect files on disks, it employs triple encryption technology. Its unique ATOMOS operating system provides corresponding connection guarantees and security protection for each layer of the OSI seven-layer model and has specifically built advanced firewalls.

Numerous unique technologies, such as the HIPE protocol, Trident protocol, adaptive tunneling, and congestion control algorithm TBBR, ultimately form the prototype of Deeper Network.

With a focus on practice and theory, Deeper Network is truly at the forefront of innovation, becoming a pioneer in Web3.0.

3. Deeply Loved by the Community

Due to its unique ecological network position and unique technical advantages, as well as its pragmatic principles, Deeper Network has become one of the most popular projects in the community and won the "Most Popular Project" award at the first official Polkadot Hackathon.

Currently, Deeper Network's overall community has over 50,000 followers, raising over $1.4 million on Indiegogo. Whenever a new batch of Deeper Connect is launched, it is quickly sold out.

Whether in terms of joining time or community response, Deeper Network is undoubtedly a leading project within the Substrate Builders Program.

Conclusion

On Parity's official website, there is a statement: "What if we no longer had to route our interactions through centralized services? What if data breaches were a remnant of an old flawed infrastructure? Each piece of Parity's technology is a step towards a society run on peer-to-peer networks instead of by a handful of corporations."

The Chinese translation of this statement is, "What if we no longer needed to interact through centralized devices? What if old data breaches were a flaw in the infrastructure? Every step we take is a step towards breaking the society based on a few companies, towards a society based on peer-to-peer networks."

What Deeper Network is doing is precisely this, and it continues to strive for it. We have reason to believe that the Substrate Builders Program can help Deeper Network grow, and Deeper Network will also become an important part of the development of Web3.0.