# Decentralized App Stores: Shaping Apps distribution future

- Channel: [EthCC](https://streameth.org/ethcc)
- Date: 2024-07-18
- Duration: 31:15
- Topics: decentralized, privacy, app store, developers, blockchain
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/6698f56d237940f4dfeec494

## Description

App Stores have a central place in our digital life, serving as the primary hub for distributing digital services. Their centralisation in the hands of a few major players jeopardizes our freedom. Let’s explore how we can decentralize them… The video features a speaker discussing the future of decentralized app stores and the importance of creating an open ecosystem that values privacy and freedom. The talk delves into the history of operating system distribution platforms, from mainframes to modern app stores, and emphasizes the need for a permissionless distribution system within the web3 ecosystem. The speaker explains how their platform, Metamask, introduced NAPS (community-built applications) to allow developers to enhance the wallet with new features without centralized control. The focus is on creating a permissionless evaluation system where community sentiment, rather than a central authority, determines app trustworthiness. Key capabilities required for this system include permissionless evaluation, registration, and security enforcement. The video also covers identity verification within a peer-to-peer network and the establishment of trust circles through peer trust assertions to evaluate apps' security credibly. Architectural principles such as censorship resistance and leveraging decentralized storage like ceramic network and Verax for storing verifiable credentials are also discussed to ensure data integrity and trust value calculations.