What is Valiu trying to accomplish with Valor?

[olanod]

Seems cool and all to run code seamlessly in the server and the browser but isn't enough to just compile some Rust code to WASM and integrate it in the app?

[olanod]

The ultimate goal of Valor is to enable Valiu to achieve maximum decentralization and convenience of development to tackle one of our main challenges to solve , we are not censorship resistant, people are not really solving that yet and for us is no joke since our platform gives users a kind of financial freedom that is likely to be subject of censorship in countries like Venezuela where we operate and where we've seen similar products be censored already.

When I say that censorship resistance hasn't been solved I mean that it's a harder problem than what most people would think, writing a "DApp" that talks to a blockchain node with a JSON RPC client and call it a day won't do it, that kind of decentralized application is still an easy target and the kind of system we want to build is more complex than a few smart contracts called from a Dapp.
Valiu is a established product that needs to progressively move to a decentralized architecture. First thing to solve is that our client applications would need to embed a light node for any blockchain related interactions, something that our Substrate based node can do, but also because it's not very efficient to have every piece of logic in an organization living on a blockchain, there will be a significant amount of new an existing off-chain code still hosted on external centralized servers that needs to be ported over time to run on user's(mostly our liquidity providers) devices in a decentralized way. Issue is, we can't jump on this decentralization train right away, there won't be a sudden rewrite of our application to interact with the light node directly and client application developers would rather focus on delivering great user experiences and sticking to the technologies they are used to(high level HTTP APIs) than learn the complexities of decentralized applications.

With Valor we can provide a path of progressive transition to this decentralized vision where existing back-end logic(typically written in JavaScript) is kept in the back-end, migrated step by step to be plugins of this runtime, if plugins are developed in a browser compatible way as it is recommended, we can later move any API seamlessly to run in the client side unchanged without the front-end code even realizing anything changed.
Ideally, just to keep things smoother, most future plugins of the Valiu Liquidity Network API are developed with Rust but while the language gains more momentum and becomes easier for newcomers, there will always be the convenience of JavaScript to test new ideas or run small scripts.