Monetizing Open Source via the Decentralized Cloud Stack
summary
Fluence presents an open application platform that pairs a distributed compute protocol with a blockchain economic layer to track usage and auto-pay authors and hosts, claiming to grow open source by sharing hosting revenue. It runs an Aquamarine language for composing live apps, uses peer-to-peer hosting to avoid single points of failure, demonstrated a white‑label chat built in ~20–30 minutes, and reports $7M raised and a compute network launched Nov 12 with the payment layer due mid‑2021.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Monetizing open source
- 0:42Open application platform
- 2:05Benefits of open platforms
- 3:09Revenue sharing in open source
- 4:54Key components for solutions
- 6:18Composability in DeFi
- 7:45Building apps with open modules
- 9:52Authors' revenue in ecosystem
- 11:38Scalability with Fluence
- 13:25Security and P2P hosting
- 14:28Authorship vs runtime
- 16:12Bazaar model for open source
- 18:22Forking and innovation
- 20:09Competing with monopolies
- 21:56Hosting monopolies' challenges
- 22:37Fluence's progress
- 23:39Next wave of internet innovation
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