Getting rid of the chains of the past is within the cryptosphere's collective capability.  

How? Anchor crypto's  'emerging 'mesh' of  controlled inflation to main street hard stores of value.    

Danger! This post is REALLY LONG, requires concentration and completed largely for my own research reference purposes. 

If you are short on time, then please move on!    

That said, the value shared below could mean the difference between success or failure of your distributed peer to peer

Main St.  Crypto Project. 

       The Meat on the Bone:

Our Future Prosperity based on recognizing Merit   First think of the Digital Interstate as a mesh overlay connecting different crypto projects of main street value,   Where the underlying main street economic goal is to create a world of prosperity    for Each Individual out there, where levels of prosperity are  awarded to the individual on the basis of merit,   AND NOT on the basis of a government fashioned and directed meritocracy.    

Definition Ammunition   Before we dive into the above,   let's get some definitions out there for your consideration for Prosperity, Meritocracy and Merit, so you will understand where I am coming from in describing the follow on recipe to the above:  

Prosperity:  for the Individual  imo they need to see it like a  multi-faceted diamond, its not one dimensional.   and Each person has their own version of that diamond roiling around in their own  mini-reality distortion field.   The definition reads:   prosperity (n.)  

"flourishing or thriving condition, good fortune, wealth, success in anything good or desirable," c. 1200, prosperite, from Old French prosprete (12c., Modern French prospérité) and directly from Latin prosperitatem (nominative prosperitas) "good fortune," from prosperus (see prosper).

  Now in the context of today's mess, here are Some Additional Facets to Prosperity I offer up which you might want to consider in setting your own prosperous goals?  

How about this short list of 'Enough' Facets representing my thoughts of  'Cryptosphere' powered Prosperity :)  

a. Time to do the things that make this world a better place for you, your family and your local community,

b. Enough Disposable Spending power after your family unit of income earners  feed, cloth and house your family to do the items in a. 

c. The Self determined, 'can't take it away from me' right to do both a. and b.   and now for the big one, for those cryptonauts and crypto investors toiling in the Cryptosphere trying to get 'ahead' (what ever that means)     

d. A System of Currency that enables fair, self-service transparent  buying/selling and trading of goods and services,   backed by multiple hard stores of value  designed and produced by Main Street human effort making those products and services,   which automatically generates enough value for those public servants or private foundations manned by human and machines to keep the above system running to serve the vast majority of the people effectively.     Ok the above described Prosperity and Merit model as a possible way forward for the cryptosphere and this world and 'we the people',   is a mouthful, I agree.  ;)    

Now let's tackle Meritocracy, what is it anyway?   The standing definition is, according to a 'first fold' Brave Search Engine SEO first line return:  

meritocracy

/mĕr″ĭ-tŏk′rə-sē/

noun

1. A system in which advancement is based on individual ability or achievement.
2. A group of leaders or officeholders selected on the basis of individual ability or achievement.
3. Leadership by such a group.

From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition   Hmm, who fashioned this definition anyway?    We will never really know, Michael Young claims to have coin it in 1958,  as the origins of the word are (According to Brave) described here  

 If you want to learn more about who Michael Young was go here   The Intro snippet being:   " meritocracy (n.)

coined 1958 by British sociologist Michael Young (1915-2002) and used in title of his book, "The Rise of the Meritocracy"; from merit (n.) + -cracy. Related: Meritocratic.

Young's book imagined an elite that got its position not from ancestry, but from test scores and effort. For him, meritocracy was a negative term; his spoof was a warning about the negative consequences of assigning social status based on formal educational qualifications, and showed how excluding from leadership anyone who couldn't jump through the educational hoops would create a new form of discrimination. And that's exactly what has happened. [Lani Guinier, interview, New York Times, Feb. 7, 2015]

hmm, more on Young's Dystopian Novel describing the 'Rise of the Scientific Model's" influence to 2034 on  Goodreads here

Let's just say Young's 'Rise of the Meritocracy' in 1958 was a 'pseudo' blueprint for today's mess,

Presented as a dark dystopian novel, Rise of the Meritocracy' subtly vilified and distorted the original meanings and understanding of the word merit,

while at the same time, Young's novel(really a labour party junk of propaganda) was being deemed 'brilliant' by the US and UK Mass Media of the day, way back in 1958,

There is no doubt this leftist propaganda novel in retrospect can easily be seen by most readers as being partly responsible for sparking the application of 'meritocracy concept' in various concocted forms,

penned and rapidly adopted by businesses and academia of the day,

to kick off a 'new' era of  meritocracy engineered profit everywhere,

driven by the core principal employed to this day, the 'Scientific Method'.

Now, ignoring the propaganda of the New York Times circa 2015 in the Etomology post above,

conveniently attached to the end of their description of the origin of 'meritocracy' 

scribed up by those 'NYC Northeaster types', who every waking hour,  try to control the narrative in print everywhere as  sponsored/paid for by their Wall Street Gangster Master Class. 

We can deduce quite simply, given our current Marxist controlled Academic institutions handing out 'degrees' in conformance to the many NPCs and now awake folk(some of them in the cryptosphere) to send them on their way,

that one who is actually well researched and awake,  could easily concur that Young was clearly a communist.

A bit of digging on my part into his political career in the UK and voila.. , Labour Party, London School of Economics Grad.

Need I say more, in that the Rothschild Cadre for eons, has controlled both LSE and UK Labour output, forever.

Hmm, no wonder 'we the people' are in a world of hurt today.

We all got duped with the Meritocracy BS!

Imo opinion though, 

we might want to consider ignoring the definition of meritocracy or in fact replace it.

Here is a simple idea,

go back to the source of the original word which has been bashed about ever since:

merit

Building a 'For the People' Digital Interstate for Prosperity, based on Merit

OK definitions and origins of words aside,

let's dive into what the Digital Interstate mesh I am proposing, which we as the cryptonauts of now, must 'drape' over the existing Main Street Economy to resurrect it, locally, 

to both heal it and re-generate it in a form that is more Prosperous based on merit, 'for the people',

a 'crypto mesh' using gold and other hard stores of value as cornerstones designed to resurrect the Main St. economy 'for the people', locally,

an economy embodied in the original American Dream, which some of us once had a glimpse of back then,  or directly benefited from the echoes that American Dream post world war II Boom which occurred in the not so perfect 'Fabulous 50s'.  

The Digital Inter State  Special Sauce: Peer to Peer Settlement, Anywhere. (No banks required)

First, there are many competing crypto projects out there in the Inter-blockchain,   or as #Cosmos likes to call it #IBC space, all of which have some merit, some of which are being developed by NGOs wishing to turn that merit into a meritocracy controlled by them. For me the latter is a 'non starter' as an investor and,

I have one phrase for them:

Hardened libp2p

So what is the definition of libp2p to start?

What is libp2p anyway?

Well libp2p is a code library, developed by Protocol Labs (supposedly spun out by Ycombinator in 2014) created my a few supported by the VCs (and do doubt the three letter agencies) to develop distributed peer to peer applications.

So I asked my trusty Brave Browser AI Assisted function to generate me answer from the original search string

"What is libp2p?"   And here is what,   I as a human got from Brave AI Augmented Search Assistant for the above 'engineered prompt'    from what is essentially an online browser based web TOOL organized to query a useful multi-dimensional mesh of tokenized data structures,   bound to a fancy  web NLP Agent which has  parsed my  alphanumeric string input 'engineered prompt'  and   converted it into an expression of concatenated numeric tokens  which is processed(Expensively) as  a  'multi-loop' query   that  cyclically(at great energy expense) plucks out vectors(pairs and chains) of tokens (representing NLP "Natural Language Phrases" most closely aligned to some matrix multiplication results which satisfies/sort of matches  some highly complex expected  numeric result (prepared from my prompt)  and   then builds those into semantic token strings or chains   which are then converted into words and phrases chained into some recognizable(rules controlled) English phrase, where these phrases are then concatenated(chained together) and then grammatically corrected against a set of rules to be   organized by a 'Grammarly-like"  grammar organization and correction engine to return the following response to my engineered prompt:   What is libp2p?  

"Libp2p is an open-source project for building network applications that are free from runtime and address services. It provides a modular and composable network stack, allowing developers to define the specification, create applications, and craft examples and tutorials to get involved.

Key Features

• Modular design: Libp2p consists of building blocks with well-defined, documented, and tested interfaces, making it swappable and upgradable.
• Composable: Libp2p components can be combined to create customized network stacks for various applications.
• Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking: Libp2p enables direct communication between peers, eliminating the need for centralized servers or intermediaries.
• Cryptographic peer identification: Libp2p uses public key cryptography to establish peer identities, ensuring secure and reliable communication.

Origins and Evolution

Libp2p originated from the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) project, where contributors developed a modular and composable solution for peer-to-peer networking. Although libp2p grew out of IPFS, it is now a standalone project, independent of IPFS, and is used by various projects as their network transport layer.

Use Cases

Libp2p is used by IPFS, as well as other projects, such as decentralized chat applications, which demonstrate ubiquitous peer-to-peer connectivity across multiple programming languages and runtimes. Its modular design makes it suitable for a wide range of applications, from simple file sharing to complex decentralized systems.

Specifications and Implementation

Libp2p specifications are maintained on GitHub, and implementations exist in various programming languages, including Rust, JavaScript, and TypeScript. The project is actively maintained, with ongoing development and community involvement.

Context libp2p.io libp2p - A modular network stack dev.to What is Libp2p? - DEV Community medium.com Understanding IPFS in Depth(5/6): What is Libp2p? | by vasa | Coinmonks | Medium + 3 

  Whoah!!  All terribly complicated eating up gobs of compute time and power then ..,   We ask ourselves (or at least I do) do we trust the sources used by the LLM Large Language Model to construct these responses after many weeks of "Machine Learning'?   Maybe.., maybe not.   Meaning its time to search the real builders of p2plib Protocol Labs and find out more here:   https://protocol.ai/about/

Heady stuff, Protocol Labs has big goals supporting a lot of major distributed projects,  #Celestia being one of them advertised, many of them being crypto,  many of them not, many not being advertised,   

Including one of the one's I follow closely, #Autonomi Network (not shown), the world's oldest IPO striving to become the crowd storage network of choice and the foundation of the new Internet..  

Getting back to #ProtocolLabs   their discovered giant nest of relationships begs the question of any wise investor:   "who are these people anyway and which bags of money are behind them ?"    

FOLLOW THE MONEY!     Looking at Linkedin here is what you find as Protocol Labs leader:

  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbenetcs/  

Ok, Big Silicon Valley, NYC, London fingerprints all over this place called Protocol Labs, complete with 'benevolent spin'    on their website    Yes,

Juan Benet, the CEO of protocol labs  is one of the 'inventors' of IPFS.

That said, the libp2p code is free open source from which libp2p grew out of IPFS.

So libp2p of 'udp firewall punching' fame is indeed a useful tool for cryptonauts seriously looking to build that distributed peer 2 peer mesh of blockchain projects I call the Digital Interstate.

So who are the people behind IPFS ?  YCombinator

Who is behind Ycombinator? 

Y Combinator Management, LLC (YC) is run by startup founders who have built exactly what they wanted when starting and growing a startup. Each founder is assigned a dedicated group partner who has mentored hundreds of YC companies.

Key individuals involved in YC’s leadership and operations:

• Garry Tan: President and CEO of Y Combinator. He was a partner at YC from 2011 to 2015 and built key parts of the YC experience for founders. Garry is also the co-founder of Initialized Capital and Posterous (YC S08), a blog platform acquired by Twitter.
• Michael Seibel: Group Partner and Managing Director, Early Stage at YC. He was the cofounder and CEO of Justin.tv and Socialcam, which sold to Autodesk in 2012 and became Twitch.

YC’s program is designed to teach founders how to market their product, refine their teams and business models, achieve product/market fit, and scale their startups into high-growth businesses. The program ends with “Demo Day”, where startups present their business and technology prototypes to potential investors.

And it goes on and on and on and on... (listen to the lyrics.. ;0  ) 

(like a bad remake of  Steve Perry's 1981  Journey tune 'Don't Stop Believing'  1982 Escape Album )

Let's face it,

Word to the Crypto Wise: Harden your libp2p use, Investors pick projects with Hardened libp2p

Keep in mind, Silicon Valley is behind the VCs that are funding and pushing the use of Protocol Labs,  creating libp2p projects which help them make money and helps governments access your projects if unhardened.

Libp2p for any distributed project of note connecting things over the WAN Internet between different companies or organizations is 'root' MUST USE technology.

So given Silicon Valley owes its existence to the US Military, which funded and help found the original companies, spinning of military technology into the Valley for profit to this day, you can see where I am going with this.

Could it be the three letter agencies know libp2p inside and out?

Duh! Yes.

WISE CRYPTO PROJECTS HARDEN THEIR USE OF libp2p

This means for those  uber WISE crypto projects  forking libp2p (Like Autonomi Network) , 

need to 'hard fork' and tighten up the security of their  code with uncrackable encryption a la Telegram and Autonomi

in order  to eliminate all the cyberattack surfaces, (and keep those three letter agencies out...)

cyberattack surfaces which are likely well understood  by same three letter agencies that do contracted work for governments around the world,

daily looking at crypto projects that incorporate libp2p,

Crypto hardening the use of libp2p: The Main Street Way...

Hardening of libp2p is what is required of any crypto project implementing libp2p, to  really and truly create a NEW Digital Interstate mesh of  inter-blockchain connected crypto projects, each connected and representing hard stores of value supporting truly honest and fair buy/sell and trading of related Main Street products and services,  a connected mesh of crypto projects will create a NEW world of prosperity and merit for we the people, living in a Main Street world.

Just sayin', so

'Don't stop believing'  cryptonauts in that Digital InterState dream, ;)

Main St. needs us cryptonauts to get the above security hardening of libp2p built into our own projects, fast, a la Autonomi Network's whitepaper  discussing the quantum computer assisted hack resistant triple encryption used in that project.

Imo wise Cryptonaut developers will soon find their own projects can and likely should operate on this very NEW distributed Autonomi Network mesh coming their way this fall, if they took the time to read the 'developer hardened' whitepaper and additional time to re-consider their earlier 'libp2p used here' design choices. 

TK over and out.