Ties Database is a system that allows storing complex data, such as media files, in a decentralized, distributed way, yet out of the blockchain. This solution is what dApps industry desperately needs, presumed that it will go further than ICOs and financial transactions. It is believed that dApps had not shown their’s full might yet, remaining more of a practical experiment until now, but now it has changed, thanks to… Crypto-Kitties.

The Crypto-Kitties may look cute and fun, but those little fluffs can tear blockchain apart with a record-breaking 30,000 transactions stuck and waiting to be processed at press time. Reddit users are already pleading to do something about gas limit being worried that Ethereum blockchain may become totally frozen. That sounds like game issue endangering major and serious infrastructure. The question is, how do we save Ethereum?

While Christian Reitwiessner, an Ethereum Foundation engineer says that raising the gas “is the only short-term solution” and “there has to be a point where the cat supply can satisfy the cat demand”, we at Ties believe that the problems lie somewhere outside Ethereum.

The thing is, blockchain was never designed to serve for common use purposes. It is perfectly fit to deal with a financial transaction and things that are technically similar, but using blockchain for apps like social networks would become a major headache: unmodifiable, forever present, data like profile pictures would trash any blockchain in a blink of an eye. Nevertheless, you can’t have truly decentralized apps without decentralized storage.If apps like Ether Delta are where they belong, apps like Crypto Kitties are totally out of place. While there is nothing wrong about those pretty digital felines, mixing them with systems, primarily connected with money is not the best idea.

That is why non-blockchain decentralized, distributed storage would come in handy.Ties Database could solve the problem of separating the information that does not belong in the finance world. Moreover, it will allow storing media information, what is a “must-have” if you want something more complex than a primitive app.

Unless we put entertainment dApps on an alternative way of storage, they will remain at the 90s era. Let us be fair, the thing we like about Crypto kitties is decentralization itself. It is hardly believable that an app like this would go viral unless it utilized blockchain technology. Very soon users will demand something way more sophisticated, and Ethereum will not be able to digest it.