something consistently in the back of my mind whenever i’m working on cross-chain swaps / chain abstraction:

does this thing still get the job done once we’re multiplanetary?

blockchains in space are absolutely inevitable, and if what we’re building doesn’t work on mars then GTFO

interesting design problem. what are the broad strokes of what you'd need to make x-planet swaps work?

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

well for one you need to be able to make a credible commitment that lasts long enough for the time it takes for your message to travel to another planet (call it 20 minutes when earth and mars are in conjunction)

and then when the message gets there you need to make the swap w/o waiting for a quote to roundtrip back

I'm picturing data centers stationed midway between planets or even having the "source of truth node" being stationed midway between planets