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# Awesome Decentralized Web [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)
A curated list about the decentralized web technologies.
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### Blockchain infrastructure
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* [Backfeed ](http://backfeed.cc/ ) - a technology to enable decentralized and user-owned governance and reputation management for a community.
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* [Blockstack ](https://blockstack.org/ ) - Blockstack is a new fully decentralized internet that comes with a full stack of open-source developer tools to build and bootstrap decentralized applications and protocol ecosystems.
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* [Curated list of Blockchain and Crytocurrency Resources in general ](https://github.com/McFrankline/Blockchain-stuff )
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* [Ethereum ](https://ethereum.org/ ) - "a distributed answer to HTTP POST" - it's a blockcahin-based platform for decentralized app development.
* [Namecoin ](https://namecoin.info/ ) - a replacement for the existing domain name system that registers identities on a blockchain, rather than a centralized DNS authority.
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* [OpenTimeStamps ](https://opentimestamps.org/ ) - OpenTimestamps aims to be a standard format for blockchain timestamping.
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* [Zcash ](https://z.cash/ ) - a cryptocurrency built for total privacy. Zcash encrypts transactions so that they can be validated while still private.
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### Communication
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* [BitMessage ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmessage ) - anonymous encrypted message broadcasting.
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* [Interledger ](https://interledger.org/ ) - it interconnects disparate cryptocurrencies and financial systems.
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* [LevelNews ](https://levelnews.org/ ) - a leftist news aggregator designed for an open web, and dedicated to journalism without censorship.
* [Matrix ](https://matrix.org/ ) - an open standard for decentralised persistent communication over IP. Matrix wants to connect together all the various communication services and make them interoperate.
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* [Ricochet ](https://ricochet.im/ ) - completely anonymous and potentially metadata-free chat
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* [Solid ](https://solid.mit.edu/ ) - a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles.
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### Cryptocurrencies
* [Bitcoin ](https://bitcoin.org ) - It is the first decentralized digital currency, as the system works without a central bank or single administrator.
* [Ethereum ](https://ethereum.org ) - Blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It provides a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine
* [Monero ](https://getmonero.org/ ) - Aims to improve on existing cryptocurrency design by obscuring sender, recipient and amount of every transaction.
* [Zcash ](https://z.cash/ ) - Open, permissionless cryptocurrency that can fully protect the privacy of transactions using zero-knowledge cryptography.
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### Databases
* [BigchainDB ](https://www.bigchaindb.com/ ) - a scalable database that layers blockchain technology over decentralized data.
* [IPDB ](https://ipdb.foundation/ ) - a federated database network built on BigchainDB and IPFS. It is maintained by a network of caretakers around the world, at least half of which are nonprofits.
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### Data Storage and Sharing
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* [BitTorrent ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent ) - Protocol for distributed file sharing.
* [CacheP2P ](http://www.cachep2p.com/ ) - a distributed caching platform.
* [Cryptosphere ](https://cryptosphere.io/ ) - an open-source P2P web application platform for decentralized, privacy-preserving software.
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* [Dat Protocol ](https://datproject.org/ ) - Versioned, encrypted, peer-to-peer protocol for distributed file sharing.
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* [Filecoin ](https://filecoin.io/ ) - a decentralized storage network based on IPFS, powered by a blockchain and a native token.
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* [IPFS ](https://ipfs.io/ ) - or InterPlanetary File System, is a distributed file storage system that aims to replace HTTP.
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* [OnionShare ](https://onionshare.org/ ) - hosts the selected files as a hidden service on the user's computer
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* [ORC ](https://orc.network/ ) - the Onion Router Cloud, a distributed, anonymous, object storage platform owned and operated by all of us.
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* [Rotonde ](http://wiki.xxiivv.com/#rotonde ) - commonly agreed upon specifications of a JSON object shared between members of the network.
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* [Tahoe-LAFS ](https://www.tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs ) - a private, encrypted file storage system that decentralizes data across multiple servers.
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* [Sia ](http://sia.tech/ ) - a decentralized private cloud.
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* [Storj ](https://storj.io/ ) - a blockchain-based, end-to-end encrypted, distributed object storage.
* [Swarm ](https://github.com/ethersphere/swarm ) - a distributed storage platform and content distribution service of the ethereum stack.
* [WebTorrent ](https://webtorrent.io/ ) - an in-browser torrenting that works without requiring users to install anything extra.
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* [Wikipediap2p ](https://www.wikipediap2p.org/ ) - a p2p version of wikipedia.
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### Decentralized web
* [Freenet ](https://freenetproject.org/ )- a network aimed at activists and people living in repressive regimes. It uses a web of trust in high security mode, which allows users on the network to be effectively undetectable.
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* [I2P ](https://geti2p.net/ ) - Anonymous network with hidden services.
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* [MaidSafe ](http://maidsafe.net/ ) - a soon-to-be-released decentralized internet and app infrastructure which rewards users for participating in the network.
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* [Mysterium Network ](https://mysterium.network/ ) - Open Sourced Network allowing anyone to rent their unused Network traffic, while providing a secure connection for those in need.
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* [Samizdat ](http://samizdat.childrenofmay.org/ ) - Samizdat is a platform for the self-hosted, peer-to-peer, cryptographically-secured internet.
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* [Steemit ](https://steemit.com/ ) - Blogging and social networking website on top of a blockchain database.
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* [Tor ](https://www.torproject.org/ ) - Anonymous network proxy.
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* [ZeroNet ](https://zeronet.io/ ) - a peer-to-peer web built on the Bitcoin blockchain for addressing, and identity and Namecoin for .bit domains.
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### Marketplaces
* [OpenBazaar ](https://openbazaar.org/ ) - Marketplace, with store fronts and moderators.
### Microblogging
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* [Dat Medium ](https://github.com/kewitz/dat-medium ) - Dat Medium is markdown blog system for Beaker inspired by Medium.
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* [diaspora* ](https://diasporafoundation.org/ ) - Decentralized and federated social media platform.
* [Friendica ](http://friendi.ca/ ) - Decentralized and federated social media platform.
* [Hubzilla ](https://project.hubzilla.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project ) - Decentralized and federated social media platform.
* [Mastodon ](https://mastodon.social ) - Decentralized alternative to twitter, with servers federation.
* [Socialhome ](https://socialhome.network/ ) - Decentralized and federated profile builder with social networking features.
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* [Tahrir ](http://tahrirproject.org/ ) - looks and feels like twitter but encrypted and anonymized and decentralized and only you hold the keys.
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* [trsst ](http://www.trsst.com/ ) - looks and feels like twitter but encrypted and anonymized and decentralized and only you hold the keys.
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* [Twister ](http://twister.net.co/ ) - a fully decentralized P2P microblogging platform leveraging the free software implementations of Bitcoin and BitTorrent protocols.
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### Misc
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* [Beaker ](https://beakerbrowser.com/ ) - Beaker is a peer-to-peer Web browser, made for users to run applications independently of hosts.
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* [Bit451 ](https://github.com/Bit451/Bit451 ) - Decentralized / distributed anonymous p2p media network. YouTube meets BitTorrent meets Bitcoin.
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* [bitnation.co ](https://bitnation.co ) - the World’ s First Virtual Nation – A Blockchain Jurisdiction.
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* [ferment ](https://github.com/mmckegg/ferment ) - Peer-to-peer audio publishing and streaming application.
* [git-ssb ](https://github.com/clehner/git-ssb ) - Decentralized git repo hosting and issue tracking on secure-scuttlebutt.
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* [instant.io ](https://instant.io/ ) - Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent.
* [IPWB ](https://github.com/oduwsdl/ipwb ) - an interplanetary wayback machine.
* [magic-wormhole ](https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole ) - Get things from one computer to another, safely.
* [Mediachain ](http://www.mediachain.io/ ) - a media library built on IPFS that makes it easy to publish, track, and discover creative work.
* [Onename ](https://onename.com/ ) - a global database for people, companies, websites and more.
* [StrongLink ](https://github.com/btrask/stronglink ) - a searchable, syncable, content-addressable notetaking system
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* [WebRTC ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC ) - W3C drafted standard for browser-to-browser data transfer.
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## Credits:
- [Decentralized Web Summit ](http://www.decentralizedweb.net/ )
- [Mouse Reeve ](https://blog.mousereeve.com/technologies-of-the-decentralized-web-summit/ )
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## License
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