DClaims

• João Santos' M.Sc Thesis
• Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico
• 2017-2018
• Advisors:
  • Nuno Santos
  • David Dias

Project Description

Unreliable and misleading information on the web can have a severe impact on democracies. Web annotations are a way to add information to web pages. DClaims is a censorship-resistant and decentralised web annotations system, built on top of IPFS and Ethereum.

Codebase

• DClaims-Core
• DClaims-News
• DClaims-DataFormat
• DClaims-Publisher

Publications

• Thesis Document: A detailed explanation of the DClaims protocol, implementation and system testing.
• Extended Abstract: A shorter version of the thesis document. Quicker to read, but many interesting details.
• ArXiv Version: Published as an extended version of the one published at SAC2020.

Talks

IPFS Lisbon Meetup Jan 2018 (slides)