Blockmason’s Link is on and ready to revolutionize blockchain accessibility

Blockmason, the creator of Credit Protocol and Lndr, is out again with its next product, Link. After facilitating debts and credit storage, as well as and small loans/ IOUs using blockchain, the company can now make access to and use of smart contracts easy even for those who are not technology-smart.

Blockchain may be the future, but for the time being this future is hard to get into. For developers wishing to incorporate smart contracts, this requires learning new programming languages — such as Solidity, cryptography APIs and more about esoteric decentralized systems. For users the problem is much easier to define — the average user finds blockchain too hard to use. Blockchain is there, it Is gaining popularity and it seems to be the new revolution, like the web was in the 1990s. But still, despite the mass excitement about it, few are those who know how it works, how to make it work and how to use it.

The average user wishing to operate through blockchain technology would face many new and time-consuming things to learn — how to create and use an Ethereum wallet, how to use MetaMask, how to store private keys securely, and so on. The sheer bulk of it can seem too intimidating for a person used to the traditional ways and too busy to delve into new ones. This is where Blockmason’s Link comes in — to provide the link between developer/user and the complexity of blockchain.

Link is actually a layer on top of any smart contract. Link creates a conventional web API interface, so that developers and users who are not familiar with blockchain can have access to this new technology’s benefits.

From a user point of view, the annoying steps of interacting with an application and the application itself interacting with the Ethereum network are handled by Link. Which does not mean these steps are eliminated. All the requisites are there — a transaction is created, signed and sent — only the user does not have to bother with them. The process goes on in the background, within the interface created by Link. In some cases, users may even be interacting with blockchain without realizing they are doing it.

From a developer’s point of view, the process of registering a smart contract with Link to create an app is made as simple as possible. A smart contract is registered by providing its address and ABI. From the ABI, Link generates a set of endpoints. It is up to the developer then to adjust these endpoints, rename the parameters or path. Link will map them to the app function and parameters. The way registered applications are used can be monitored through all necessary documentation, visualizations and logs.

For interaction with the Ethereum network, Link creates Ethereum accounts automatically. Those accounts are permitted to interact with h Ethereum network on behalf of a certain user of a certain DApp. So end users do not have to create those necessary accounts themselves. Blockmason is the only entity that maintains and manages the Ethereum accounts generated within Link, which is done from the point of view of security, reliability and costs optimization.

You can take a look at https://blockmason.io/#1#Link and https://blockmason.link/#about is where interested developers or users could look for more information on Link, the possibilities it opens and the subscription fees and benefits using the utility token BLINK.

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