Blockstack, a New York-based blockchain company, has released a new fastsync feature with Blockstack Core v0.14.1 and announced that Blockstack Core is available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.
In the new fastsync method, new nodes can boot up within minutes instead of days. Also, nodes can quickly fetch the latest state that are signed by current Blockstack developers from a remote node, and use it to sync with the network. This new node runs a background process in order to verify the state independently, the official blog post noted.
According to Amazon, Blockstack is the third blockchain-related offering on their marketplace, in addition to Monax and Manifold Technology. CoinDesk stated.
“Developers will be delighted to hear that the Blockstack listing on AWS Marketplace already has the fastsync feature and there is no need to wait several days to boot a node from the genesis block,” the release stated.
In order to try out the new fastsync feature, users can create a new AWS account, deploy a new VM from the Blockstack listing with at least 20GB of space on the root volume, SSH to the newly deployed node, use fastsync to get the latest state and finally start the node after it is synced.
Blockstack is foreseeing the world where a new decentralized internet replaces the current client/server model; users control their data, apps run client-side and the open Blockstack network replaces server-side functionality.
The company raised $4 million in a new funding round earlier this year in order to contribute more resources to the Blockstack open source community. The funding round was led by Union Square Ventures, with participation from Lux Capital, Naval Ravikant, Digital Currency Group, Compound, Version One, Kal Vepuri and Rising Tide.
