A meta-thought came to me this morning, as I woke up, and again contemplated hereunder on my way to my boxing gym.
So, the chainlink network is certainly a decentralized oracle network, or at least it shall be. However, unlike other decentralized nodal networks, in its final form, it is fragmented, siloed, geographically constrained to the industries it shall serve, that is each network of nodes will serve a certain industry and not necessarily cooperate with each other; or not cooperate with each other because they compete with each other to serve the industries requiring data sets to enable certain smart contracts. All diagrammatic figures I’ve seen, imply that the final construct of this decentralized oracle network will be fragmented, with islands of node operators, geographically constrained, partitioned–yet, will be sufficiently redundant to enable the thesis of the chainlink paradigm to proceed.
Yet, I wondered if there was a way to enable a layer 2 chainlink network to enable all of these islands, competing or non-competing with each other, compete vs. non-compete paradigms, that is in this realm, some nodes will cooperate, some nodes will compete with each other, and some nodes serving variant unrelated fields will be benign and simply be in a non-compete mode. That is, in a non-compete mode, they will not be related to each other, and one can divine that perhaps this is how the fragmentation of this chainlink network will play out.
Yet I wondered if there would be a way to enable perhaps by way of a layer 2 Chainlink protocol, to enable these nodes to, well, necessarily and absolutely cooperate with each other to their benefit, even if they are in a compete mode. This would potentially obliterate the mere possibility of a “slash” event.
So the question posed to the computer science community and the cryptographic experts is this…could DECO be implemented as a layer 2 chainlink protocol that could enable competing nodes to cooperate with each other necessarily, deriving value from their furtive communication with each other, verifying each other’s data, and create a totally resilient, anti-fragile cryptographic data verification channel. Could nodes in a compete mode or in non-compete mode…all be brought together as a unitary construct (the same way all of bitcoin is one network; the same way ethereum is one network)_…_could DECO be implemented to bring the evolving fragmented network of chainlink and create a massively distributed decentralized data hyperledger unitary chainlink network—where all verification has occurred; and all data has been secured by all nodes at all times, and enabling those very nodes to not know about each other’s competitive advantages.
Could DECO itself be used to further secure the chainlink decentralized network itself, and in a coup de grace enable en masse cooperation?