Taming Distrust in the Decentralized Internet with PIXIU
This addresses a critical obstacle for users and developers in the decentralized Internet, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of mutual distrust among nodes in the decentralized Internet, which hinders task completion, by analyzing distrust with a model and proposing the PIXIU framework to mitigate it using trust-λ and decentralized executors.
Decentralized Internet is booming. People are fascinated by its promise that users can truly own their data. However, in a decentralized Internet, completing a task usually involves multiple nodes with mutual distrust. Such distrust might eventually become a major obstacle for the growth of the decentralized Internet. In this paper, we analyze the distrust using a simple model and highlight the properties required to faithfully accomplish one task in a decentralized Internet. We also introduce our draft solution -- PIXIU, a framework to mitigate the distrust among different nodes. In PIXIU, we design and utilize trust-λ and decentralized executor to achieve the above-needed properties.