Developer programs allow projects to further decentralize their utility by allowing people, and even autonomous entities, to build on top of the system in ways the original developers had not imagined. Pareto Network integrations with convenient platforms, customized mobile apps, and more are now possible with a clearly documented API.

Specifically for Pareto Network’s concerns, this API will serve as a reference client for the eventually decentralized self-hosted servers that sentinels can host. The sentinel concept will be expanded upon over time, based on its feasibility and practicality in our system. They are cataloguers, oracles, part of a network.

As this has always been a part of our roadmap we are pleased to launch the Pareto Network API documentation. It can be accessed at:

https://pareto.network/api-docs

We will be continually updating to make this easy to use and help the community grow and create more tools so that they can use their PARETO score more effectively!

Information on the Pareto Network can be valuable enough to upset the social and economic order while protecting the identity of the discloser when following the best practices. Centralized hosting of the information on the Intel project undermines the assurances of the survivability of the information, and a variety of infrastructure improvements are on the roadmap to assist with this.

Intel is uploaded to IPFS, which is a decentralized file system that no one entity controls. Information there is encrypted and sharded — which means broken up into pieces and stored on many people’s computers. The Pareto Network server and database has a catalogue of the intel’s locations on IPFS, and the Ethereum rewards smart contract also has a reference to it.

This brings us to a brief introduction to:

Sentinels

A sentinel will be a redundant host of these catalogues, a mirror which doesn’t host the intel itself, but the references to the IPFS entries. These sync with the other sentinels.

Further on the roadmap is a docker container to accomplish all of this and allow the community to be a part of the Intel network. This will have its own PARETO based incentive model, which most likely will affect the scarcity of the PARETO supply.

Sentinel servers would use the same API for access, and this documentation will be useful for all.

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