Interview
An Interview with OceanLab: Why
Waves Needs Infrastructure Built
Around It To Go Mainstream
Being involved in the cryptocurrency
industry for extended periods can at times
blind regular users to realising there are
new investors entering the industry every-
day. The first investors were technological-
ly literate and could foresee the potential
built into the technology. However, we
are now at a stage in the cryptocurrency
movement where we see more and more
new users that are less technologically
literate. This crowd is to be welcomed
with open arms, however, we must as a
community create simple applications
that simplifies blockchain data in order for
these investors to stay within the space.
it. Windows 3.1 could only have thrived
with the creation of third party applica-
tions built around the system.
Bitcoin itself, whilst being the first and
most “vanilla” cryptocurrency, has a vast
range of applications built around its
blockchain. All of the infrastructure and
applications built around Bitcoin are large
contributing factor in maintaining the
price above opposing cryptocurrencies.
With this reasoning, it is essential for rival-
ing cryptocurrencies to do the same. One
clear Bitcoin contender, the Waves block-
chain, is using this very approach. Waves,
with its 16 million dollar backing in fund-
The obvious example of this is way back at ing, are themselves building an infrastruc-
the beginning of the computer age when ture in order to support its goal of hosting
MS-DOS was released. MS-DOS by itself
ICOs. Despite the great work by the Waves
was revolutionary, but by itself it was not team, time and personnel are always lim-
user friendly because of its use of complex ited and it is impeccable for third parties
command lines and unappealing look.
to assist in building around Waves. This is
In this analogy, think of MS-DOS as raw
where Oceanlab, an experienced jack-of-
blockchain data. Along comes Windows
all-trades team comes into play.
3.1, a simple but user friendly interface
built on top of MS-DOS; it’s fair to say that It is no secret amongst Waves circles that
Windows 3.1 played a significant role in
the Oceanlab team, Fabrice Distefano
normalizing the use of computers around (aka Sphearis) and Olivier Saintelet (aka
the world. Windows 3.1 can be thought of Dibatch), are a duo that have the brains,
as all of the cryptocurrency wallets such
knowhow and will to complete the tasks
as the Bitcoin wallet. But Windows 3.1,
at hand. Oceanlab aims to create simple
and the Bitcoin wallet, whilst being impor- and understandable applications built
tant, needed more infrastructure around
around the currently existing Waves infra-
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