The Internet started as a peer-to-peer network, but over time it has become fragile and overly centralized. This shift has led to serious issues: misinformation is rampant, privacy and security are compromised, and half the world remains poorly connected.
Big tech companies now dominate the Internet, tracking our activities and influencing our decisions, consolidating control in ways that don’t serve everyone equally.
Therefore we believe the Internet needs a fresh start – one that addresses these challenges with a focus on authenticity, equality, and sustainability.
For years, we’ve dedicated ourselves to this vision. Over the past decade, we’ve tackled complex challenges in areas such as data storage, secure overlay networking, and autonomous cloud security, to bring this vision to life. And today, we have a fully operational product (version 3 of the grid) thanks to our wonderful community of farmers, users, and partners.
But we won’t stop here.
Web4 is the natural progression of the Internet – and the decentralized cloud was the base layer to create Web4. As far as we know, we are the world’s first project approaching a fully functional Web4 infrastructure that places priority on both the planet and people.
An updated threefold.io and version 4 docs are now live. We invite you to dive in and provide feedback here in the comments of this post.
And on 12.12.24, we will bring forward several announcements detailing our roadmap to Web4, a Web4 Phone, a Web4 Router, and a Web4 Node.
The world needs an infrastructure like ThreeFold and the time is now to take the next steps forward to realize this vision. We invite you to stay tuned for more and thank you for being a part of this journey.