We're pretty heads down working on #verse at the moment. I think it's awesome there are other iOS projects. Most of the ssb part of what we're doing is being released here: https://github.com/cryptoscope/ssb

Right now the way verse works is the gosbot provides a http end point and the swift front end calls it, pulls out the data, and puts in a sqlite db... Our plan is to try having both gosbot writing to and the verse swift code reading from the same sqlite.

I think the ssb-patchql stuff is super interesting, although i don't personally like doing react and graphql, but i know it's a really good model for pushing the queries out to the client. We should think about the privacy / data protection / security implications of multiple clients being able to do queries on a user's db. For now it's not a big deal, but what happens when zynga does scuttlebutt words with friends.

On another note we're ready for alpha testing #verse. I gave out some invites at #data-terra-nemo and would be happy to bring on some folks here if they have iOS devices and will help us test. We locked this alpha version to a different cap / network because we didn't want to break things with our tests.