NilDB activity triggered by Payments of NIL Token?

[atsoc1993]

I've tried to speak to someone about this in the discord but the core development team / DevRel has no presence there. This is something that should be looked into as its optimal for faster trouble-shooting, Q&A, and developer retention.

Nil Network doesn't allow smart contracts, or traditional transactions that most blockchain enthusiasts are familiar with, eg; Asset Transfers, Payments, Application calls.

Are there plans in the future to migrate NIL off of Cosmos onto the NIL network? I would assume someone who would use blockchain for a DB would want to allow these aforementioned types of transactions to occur on the same network.

J.W. mentioned there may be plans for this in the future— I am mostly hoping for an on-chain solution that is decentralized as opposed to a server manually monitoring for transactions on Cosmos to trigger some entry into a DB via NilDB.

My goal is to be able to initiate a payment from user A to platform account B, which will then trigger a DB entry.

Thank you,
— Leo

[oceans404]

Hey Leo! The core dev and DevRel team touchpoints on Discord are our weekly streams, but you're right that we should spend more time in channels too. Thanks for your feedback - I'll pass it along and make sure we're in channels more regularly!

Our current front line and the best place to get longerform technical questions (or questions where you need to be able to format code better) answered is here in Github discussions. It's closer to the code and our team gets notified any time someone creates a new discussion topic.

In terms of using a blockchain with nilDB, I totally agree. Onchain triggers for automating entries (or changing permission for entries) in nilDB sound like a great use case. I wonder if that could be achieved with something like Chainlink Functions?