A former Synthetix developer named Liam Zebedee has inserted its new way to bypass banned blockchain apps like Tornado Cash.

Zebedee created an app network called Dappnet to allow everyday crypto users to access inaccessible blockchain apps like Tornado Cash. This newly found app would give users access to decentralized applications using a combination of IPFS and ENS.

IPFS is a decentralized domain hosting service. In contrast, ENS (Ethereum Name Service) provides custom names and web domains for crypto addresses.

While most blockchain applications appear to have been decentralized, as long as they are built on centralized Domain Name Services (DNS) servers, legal authorities can remove, censor, capture, and confiscate the front-end of the masses in any moment.

Liam’s recently discovered application network, Dappnet, aims to solve this problem by basically creating a decentralized interface for any blockchain application.

Dappnet is a permissionless app network Built on IPFS and ENS. It works by directing users to an IPFS-hosted version of an application they clicked on on their computer. Liam said;

“For users, that means interfaces can’t be censored. For protocols, that means increased operational freedom, security, and workflows. More generally, this makes the web a hyperstructure.”

Dappnet combines the functionality of ENS and IPFS by running the ENS domain locally on the user’s computer and running an IPFS node in the background, sharing the data on a peer-to-peer basis with other IPFS nodes.

“All this together means that, for the first time, we can have a place on the Internet that no one can take away from us and that does not depend on a single host dictating what is allowed. I think that will have a profound impact on the web.” said Liam on Twitter.

Also, Liam said that there are still some problems with this approach, mainly related to IPFS. According to him, IPFS nodes could be improved if they were lighter and less complicated to implement. He also stated that Dappnet must be universally available; currently, it works for macOS, in Chrome/FF.

Coming back to Tornado Cash, last week legal authorities in the Netherlands rejected the appeal to free Alexei Pertsev, the lead developer of the Tornado Cash protocol. Based on the current state of affairs, Alexei is likely to remain in custody until the end of November before his next hearing.

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