If Ark succeeds and scales... there is a good chance it could make Pkarr obsolete in every way. Oh well!
Discussion
Doesn’t Ark use Lightning as a foundational dependency? If so, using something so extremely complex and fragile as a dependency doesn’t bode well
No, Ark leverages LN for cross servers txns... but at its simplest it is just a tree of transactions where only the root txn is committed to the chain.
Bitcoin is extremely complex as well, yet Ordinals show how popular it is to use consensus data, because there is plenty of indexers.
If we put a Pkarr SignedPacket in an Ark Vtxo, then we should be able to have a very short ID for it, and we can post the (admittedly) large proof on a indexers, and people can have very short names in a sovereign way... and we can build a DHT of these indexers.
I don't think it is a good idea for say... Iroh, but it should work well for humans.
But I need to work on it for few months before saying for sure whether it would scale.