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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.
### Blockchain infrastructure
* [Backfeed](http://backfeed.cc/) - a technology to enable decentralized and user-owned governance and reputation management for a community.
* [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.
* [Curated list of Blockchain and Crytocurrency Resources in general](https://github.com/McFrankline/Blockchain-stuff)
* [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.
* [OpenTimeStamps](https://opentimestamps.org/) - OpenTimestamps aims to be a standard format for blockchain timestamping.
* [Zcash](https://z.cash/) - a cryptocurrency built for total privacy. Zcash encrypts transactions so that they can be validated while still private.
### Communication
* [BitMessage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmessage) - anonymous encrypted message broadcasting.
* [Interledger](https://interledger.org/) - it interconnects disparate cryptocurrencies and financial systems.
* [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.
* [Ricochet](https://ricochet.im/) - completely anonymous and potentially metadata-free chat
* [Solid](https://solid.mit.edu/) - a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles.
### 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.
### 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.
### Data Storage and Sharing
* [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.
* [Dat Protocol](https://datproject.org/) - Versioned, encrypted, peer-to-peer protocol for distributed file sharing.
* [Filecoin](https://filecoin.io/) - a decentralized storage network based on IPFS, powered by a blockchain and a native token.
* [IPFS](https://ipfs.io/) - or InterPlanetary File System, is a distributed file storage system that aims to replace HTTP.
* [OnionShare](https://onionshare.org/) - hosts the selected files as a hidden service on the user's computer
* [ORC](https://orc.network/) - the Onion Router Cloud, a distributed, anonymous, object storage platform owned and operated by all of us.
* [Rotonde](http://wiki.xxiivv.com/#rotonde) - commonly agreed upon specifications of a JSON object shared between members of the network.
* [Tahoe-LAFS](https://www.tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs) - a private, encrypted file storage system that decentralizes data across multiple servers.
* [Sia](http://sia.tech/) - a decentralized private cloud.
* [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.
* [Wikipediap2p](https://www.wikipediap2p.org/) - a p2p version of wikipedia.
### Decentralized web
* [Beaker](https://beakerbrowser.com/) - Beaker is a peer-to-peer Web browser, made for users to run applications independently of hosts.
* [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.
* [I2P](https://geti2p.net/) - Anonymous network with hidden services.
* [MaidSafe](http://maidsafe.net/) - a soon-to-be-released decentralized internet and app infrastructure which rewards users for participating in the network.
* [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.
* [Samizdat](http://samizdat.childrenofmay.org/) - Samizdat is a platform for the self-hosted, peer-to-peer, cryptographically-secured internet.
* [Steemit](https://steemit.com/) - Blogging and social networking website on top of a blockchain database.
* [Tor](https://www.torproject.org/) - Anonymous network proxy.
* [ZeroNet](https://zeronet.io/) - a peer-to-peer web built on the Bitcoin blockchain for addressing, and identity and Namecoin for .bit domains.
### Marketplaces
* [OpenBazaar](https://openbazaar.org/) - Marketplace, with store fronts and moderators.
### Microblogging
* [Dat Medium](https://github.com/kewitz/dat-medium) - Dat Medium is markdown blog system for Beaker inspired by Medium.
* [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.
* [Tahrir](http://tahrirproject.org/) - looks and feels like twitter but encrypted and anonymized and decentralized and only you hold the keys.
* [trsst](http://www.trsst.com/) - looks and feels like twitter but encrypted and anonymized and decentralized and only you hold the keys.
* [Twister](http://twister.net.co/) - a fully decentralized P2P microblogging platform leveraging the free software implementations of Bitcoin and BitTorrent protocols.
### Misc
* [Bit451](https://github.com/Bit451/Bit451) - Decentralized / distributed anonymous p2p media network. YouTube meets BitTorrent meets Bitcoin.
* [bitnation.co](https://bitnation.co) - the Worlds First Virtual Nation A Blockchain Jurisdiction.
* [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.
* [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.
* [PeerTube](https://framagit.org/chocobozzz/PeerTube) - Decentralized video streaming platform using ActivityPub and WebTorrent.
* [StrongLink](https://github.com/btrask/stronglink) - a searchable, syncable, content-addressable notetaking system
* [WebRTC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC) - W3C drafted standard for browser-to-browser data transfer.
## Credits:
- [Decentralized Web Summit](http://www.decentralizedweb.net/)
- [Mouse Reeve](https://blog.mousereeve.com/technologies-of-the-decentralized-web-summit/)
## License
[![CC4](https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)