Decentralized Marketplaces: Empowering the Bright Future of App Stores

Highlights App stores once seemed like a certainty: tightly curated, company-controlled storefronts operated by companies like Apple and Google that facilitated discovery, payment, and – most importantly – gatekeeping. In the years since that model provided convenience and a degree of platform security, many users have grown accustomed to. But it also focused vast power [...]