DTube

Demo

About

The problem it solves • Storing any media on the blockchain is so costly, hence DTube solves this problem by storing IPFS video hashes to the blockchain. • On DTube Nobody can take down your video. • It's green as compared to the energy consumption of centralized servers. • It's ad-free! Now you can watch videos without those annoying ads, this platform treats you as a **"user"** not the **"product"**. ## IPFS links: Adding video to IPFS: https://github.com/AkhileshThite/DTube/blob/83ada70f7d64ddebb445b8b211762f32e17fe52a/src/components/App.js#L81 Displaying video on the front-end: https://github.com/AkhileshThite/DTube/blob/83ada70f7d64ddebb445b8b211762f32e17fe52a/src/components/Main.js#L16 Hosted IPFS link of the DApp: https://ipfs.fleek.co/ipfs/QmYTxfY9jobuRW1d9WcwCvbmgXeJWdCAPQndyx6i6Qi7nZ/ Video examples: https://ipfs.infura.io/ipfs/QmP9FpX6LHGQQgeoJJmR3hGFCvr3qgSEjjwEpRi8MzVnz2 ## Networks: Matic Mumbai Test Network Rinkeby Test Network Ropsten Test Network Goerli Test Network ## Future goals include: • Updating the smart contracts with more features such as adding descriptions & links to the videos. • Improving speed and overall performance with large video files. • Improving overall UI.

How it's made

Challenges we ran into • **"To make the whole platform decentralized"** It was challenging to deploy the whole DTube app to the IPFS. After a lot of experimentation with IPFS, I found that I cannot update/modify the project with the same IPFS hash. After searching online, I landed on **"Fleek" IPFS hosting platform** where you can deploy the project, assign the domain, and update the project by simply connecting the GitHub repository. • **Solidity version issues:** Every version had syntax differences. Everything worked fine on version 0.5.0. • **Matic TestNet error:** **Error:** *** Deployment Failed *** "Migrations" -- only replay-protected (EIP-155) transactions allowed over RPC. **Fix:** Fixed this problem by upgrading @truffle/hdwallet-provider version to **1.4.0.**