Introduction to Eris

Consensus-Driven Apps in Ethereum

Cayman Nava

Overview

• What is Eris
• Features
• How it Works
• Code
• Get Involved

What is Eris

• Greek goddess of chaos
• Ethereum-based project
• Platform to craft, prototype, test, deploy consensus driven applications
• Entered in Olivier Janssens' 100k bounty for Bitcoin Foundation replacement -- won runner-up

What is Eris - Design

• How do organizations collectively make decisions?
• Can we use the web? But can it be decentralized??
• YES
• Completely serverless -- relies on Ethereum, torrents

What is Eris - Purpose

• The platform to come first
• Eris is currently dual purpose
  • Easily deployable governance mechanism
  • Platform for building other distributed applications
• Note -- currently very new software, tools not fully built out
• Designed for real world use

Features - Out of the Box

• Forums for discussion
• Voting on internal organizational issues
• Community moderation of content
• Community reputation system

Features - Screenshot

How it Works - Architecture

Traditional Web App

Eris Web App

Get Involved

• https://eris.projectdouglas.org/
• https://github.com/project-douglas/eris

Questions

(maybe answers)