Dash is evolving into a decentralized cloud cryptocurrency

Payments-focused cryptocurrency Dash is starting to release insights into its new platform, which enables data to be stored within the network in the form of decentralized cloud service. Dash Platform will incorporate four features: a Dash Drive, a decentralized API, or DAPI, a username layer, or DPNS, and the Dash platform protocol, or DPP.

In Mason’s words, “Dash Platform is an application development platform that leverages the Dash masternode network and blockchain by transforming the p2p network into a decentralized cloud.” New human-readable usernames, rather than alphanumeric cryptographic addresses, will be supported via the Dash Platform Name Service, or DPNS, layer.

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