Massbit is a decentralized blockchain delivery network whose main product is Massbit Route. Massbit has agreed to add Route support for the Fuse Network blockchain.
While few people believe that everything under the Sun must be decentralized, it is indisputable that we cannot speak about a satisfactory degree of blockchain decentralization when most of the interactions people have with blockchains take place via centralized API providers, however convenient it may seem to use them.
The key reason for the current dominance of centralized blockchain access providers is that specific blockchain nodes (usually referred to as ‘validators’) are rewarded for achieving consensus on transactions sent to their respective blockchains and recording them on the immutable ledger or punished for failing to do this properly, there is little incentive for running full nodes that are not validator nodes and publicly offering users remote procedure call (RPC) connections.
Fuse has always been looking for the most promising decentralized blockchain access protocols that could solve this problem, and today we have the pleasure of announcing a partnership with Massbit.
A decentralized global BDN layer
Massbit is building a decentralized, globally distributed blockchain delivery network (BDN) to provide users with streamlined and robust access to blockchain APIs.
The product offering has 4 main components: Massbit Route, Prime, Insights, and multi-chain indexing. Massbit Route is Massbit’s flagship product, and it is currently running on the second testnet iteration.
Massbit Route is a decentralized network of providers, including nodes and gateways, whose task is to connect users to the supported blockchains by routing their RPC connection requests. Those requests are initially sent to gateways which then address them to the relevant node, which transmits requests to its associated node on the relevant supported blockchain.
Massbit aims at achieving significant provider redundancy to ensure that if some providers in a given geographic zone are not available at a given moment to serve a request, it can still be served reliably by other providers.
At the time of writing, the Route network is powered by 1,945 gateways and 2,188 nodes available in all the world regions.
The tech stack is powered by the Massbit chain built on top of the Polkadot-developed Substrate framework. It is a proof of stake network whose primary purpose is to enable and incentivize protocol participants to verify each other.
The Massbit network participants will be rewarded for the correct provision of their services with the upcoming MBT utility token. They will also need to stake MBT to ensure desired performance. A detailed description of MBT’s utility can be found in the Massbit documentation.
How Fuse integrates Massbit
Massbit integrates Fuse Network blockchain on the Massbit Route. This will make it possible to optimize access to the network further.
Once Route’s support for Fuse has been activated, projects and developers on Fuse will be able to boost their applications’ connectivity with Fuse Network. Stay tuned for future updates about this exciting collaboration.
