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slingshot

A new blockchain architecture under active development, with a strong focus on scalability, privacy and safety

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
423GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

A new blockchain architecture under active development, with a strong focus on scalability, privacy and safety

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-08-06 22:52:11 UTC to 2022-04-23 11:20:22 UTC.

012019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I was skeptical for many years until it sort of clicked. Blockchain is important because it allows us to solve the issue when a company providing a service goes bankrupt or closes off the service, the service stops being available. This is especially horrible when said service requires a social network to work. We can't just say "let the users run the servers" because most users can't do that, thats why they trust centralised services. We need to split people to two groups of people: people who simply use a service, and people who can sustain a service. I'm seeing a potential future where apps and services are run on separate, individual blockchains. It will work similarly like the Tor network except now the permissionless, decentralised network can hold *state*! I envision a world where people running the network can be incentivised with
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in the service itself, this doesnt have even to be tied to fiat money, like "honor" or "trust". Too bad the current crypto community isn't exploring this much yet, because there's a few cryptographic problems thats yet to be solved, but I see people also trying like this : https://github.com/stellar/slingshot
In Ask HN: Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value in blockchain tech?

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