(Commonwealth Union)_Anthony Di Iorio, co-founder of Ethereum, Decentral, and Jaxx Liberty, has announced a project that he claims he has envisioned, created and built over a decade. Andiami is a project that combines game theory with cutting-edge hardware to offer blockchain computers to a wider audience.
The multi-year project aims to combat blockchain centralization by allowing crypto consumers to run entire nodes with little to no technical knowledge. A full node is a computer that stores a blockchain network’s whole transactional history.
The project’s estimated completion date is 2025. The first year (2023) focuses on the project’s game theoretical components: The Quest for Liberty, a player kit, and Digital Life Tokens earned in the game. From 2024 to 2025, the spotlight will be on Andiami’s flagship hardware product, ‘The Cube’, a plug-and-play blockchain computer that can operate entire nodes for networks such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Many cryptocurrency consumers are intimidated by the technological requirements for running complete nodes. Di Iorio hopes that The Cube’s plug-and-play simplicity, along with carefully engineered gamification, will make it simple and enjoyable for users to run their chosen network’s entire node, further decentralising blockchain infrastructure.
“The idea is to provide people with the tools they need to take control of their digital life. It begins with you acting as your own server,” Di Iorio said in an interview with CoinDesk. “Anything that involves a third-party trusted mediator between you and your money, or you and your identity, or you and your communications isn’t ideal.”
The Andiami project’s initial phase centred around The Quest for Liberty, a game in which users purchase player kits containing puzzles that can be performed to acquire Digital Life Tokens. According to Di Iorio, player uniforms will cost between $500 and $5,000.
“A lot of things will be determined by demand,” he remarked. “A lot depends on how many people sign up for the waitlist and our financing targets for selling the player kits to ensure we have the finances we need to proceed at various levels.”
Users will need to acquire player kits comprising ‘Non-Fungible Phygitals’ (NFP) – physical things like player cards embedded with NFC (near-field communication) authentication chips to connect the digital and real worlds.
