By: Geeq  on Jan 5, 2025

Moving into the festive period, we focused on bringing Web2 and Web3 together. The team tested and deployed the Hydrogen Testnet ecosystem. It feels just like Web2—except transactions don’t rely on a centralized third party, your assets remain secure, and you can verify provenance and chain of custody for anything. Best of all, you control what stays and what doesn’t. Here’s how it works:

The Stacks App (Green): Users define unique assets by uploading images, whether created elsewhere or with Web2 tools like AI. The app includes fields for descriptions, titles, and hashtags, all stored as metadata when the asset is tokenized on-chain.
A shared gallery makes it easy to discover and engage with others’ work, demonstrating how seamlessly blockchain can integrate into Web2 apps—whether for sharing, marketplaces, or professional platforms.
Multiple tabs allow Stacks apps to host collections, events, or communities, making them versatile and adaptable.

Wallet (Purple & Yellow) The wallet operates as an app-in-an-app, keeping the user experience seamless. When users choose to tokenize data, the app formats the transaction and sends it to the wallet, which manages their keys.
This happens via an integration (API) between the Stacks App and the wallet. Once confirmed, the wallet signs the transaction and submits it to the blockchain.
An open socket listens to the block explorer to detect when the transaction is validated on-chain, providing real-time feedback to the user. This communication occurs via an API between the wallet and the block explorer.
The wallet tracks coin transactions and assets within user accounts. Designed as a web app, it also includes thumbnails of assets, demonstrating the flexibility of the system.

Block Explorer (Blue) The final piece of the Hydrogen ecosystem, the block explorer, is customized to showcase the sequential build of Stacks. Metadata remains searchable, and users can independently verify assets.
The block explorer runs on a separate site from the Stacks App. No single provider needs to be trusted to keep the data safe.
While the Stacks App looks like a creative platform, it enables validation and synchronization of data through a shared ledger. With Geeq APIs and blockchains, you can customize your own environment, validating and analyzing data with your existing tools.

Now, all that’s left is deciding when to authenticate your assets and use verified data. Try it and help us debug it at stackit.geeq.io!

Thanks for reading. Let’s bring the security, privacy, and ownership of Web3 to Web2!
– The Geeq Team