A blockchain for decentralized Git library management launched at DockerCon

Git Open Source Hodler (GOSH), a blockchain for storing and managing source code libraries, was announced at the DockerCon conference. It runs on the Everscale protocol.

“The Git systems available today are not secure and were not originally designed for open source projects. Software management always involves passing code to some centralized party, and until now there has been no way to manage code libraries through the community. GOSH changes this by allowing developers to turn Git repositories into DAOs and build a system of collective consensus,” said EverX CTO Dmitry Goroshevsky, introducing the project.

Any changes to the repository are recorded and stored onchain. As conceived by the creators, this will allow new additions to the code to be tracked and verified instead of relying on social metrics such as “stars” and ratings. All software elements in libraries on the new blockchain can be traced back to the source code.

GOSH has become a member of the Docker Extensions program, and the project has also released the GOSH Docker extension. Thanks to it, developers can confirm that the application container is written using only components from the original smart contracts.

The new blockchain platform is already being used by developers at Amaze and BitRezus.

Earlier, Amaze partnered with Everscale to implement NFT support in its website building platform without having to write code.