Awesome Decentralized Web

A curated list about the decentralized web technologies.

Blockchain infrastructure

• Backfeed - a technology to enable decentralized and user-owned governance and reputation management for a community.
• Blockstack - 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
• Ethereum - "a distributed answer to HTTP POST" - it's a blockcahin-based platform for decentralized app development.
• Namecoin - a replacement for the existing domain name system that registers identities on a blockchain, rather than a centralized DNS authority.
• OpenTimeStamps - OpenTimestamps aims to be a standard format for blockchain timestamping.
• Zcash - a cryptocurrency built for total privacy. Zcash encrypts transactions so that they can be validated while still private.

Communication

• BitMessage - anonymous encrypted message broadcasting.
• Interledger - it interconnects disparate cryptocurrencies and financial systems.
• LevelNews - a leftist news aggregator designed for an open web, and dedicated to journalism without censorship.
• Matrix - an open standard for decentralised persistent communication over IP. Matrix wants to connect together all the various communication services and make them interoperate.
• Ricochet - completely anonymous and potentially metadata-free chat
• Solid - a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles.

Cryptocurrencies

• Bitcoin - It is the first decentralized digital currency, as the system works without a central bank or single administrator.
• Ethereum - Blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It provides a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine
• Monero - Aims to improve on existing cryptocurrency design by obscuring sender, recipient and amount of every transaction.
• Zcash - Open, permissionless cryptocurrency that can fully protect the privacy of transactions using zero-knowledge cryptography.

Databases

• BigchainDB - a scalable database that layers blockchain technology over decentralized data.
• IPDB - 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 - Protocol for distributed file sharing.
• CacheP2P - a distributed caching platform.
• Cryptosphere - an open-source P2P web application platform for decentralized, privacy-preserving software.
• Dat Protocol - Versioned, encrypted, peer-to-peer protocol for distributed file sharing.
• Filecoin - a decentralized storage network based on IPFS, powered by a blockchain and a native token.
• IPFS - or InterPlanetary File System, is a distributed file storage system that aims to replace HTTP.
• OnionShare - hosts the selected files as a hidden service on the user's computer
• ORC - the Onion Router Cloud, a distributed, anonymous, object storage platform owned and operated by all of us.
• Rotonde - commonly agreed upon specifications of a JSON object shared between members of the network.
• Tahoe-LAFS - a private, encrypted file storage system that decentralizes data across multiple servers.
• Sia - a decentralized private cloud.
• Storj - a blockchain-based, end-to-end encrypted, distributed object storage.
• Swarm - a distributed storage platform and content distribution service of the ethereum stack.
• WebTorrent - an in-browser torrenting that works without requiring users to install anything extra.
• Wikipediap2p - a p2p version of wikipedia.

Decentralized web

• Beaker - Beaker is a peer-to-peer Web browser, made for users to run applications independently of hosts.
• Freenet- 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 - Anonymous network with hidden services.
• MaidSafe - a soon-to-be-released decentralized internet and app infrastructure which rewards users for participating in the network.
• Mysterium Network - Open Sourced Network allowing anyone to rent their unused Network traffic, while providing a secure connection for those in need.
• Samizdat - Samizdat is a platform for the self-hosted, peer-to-peer, cryptographically-secured internet.
• Steemit - Blogging and social networking website on top of a blockchain database.
• Tor - Anonymous network proxy.
• ZeroNet - a peer-to-peer web built on the Bitcoin blockchain for addressing, and identity and Namecoin for .bit domains.

Marketplaces

• OpenBazaar - Marketplace, with store fronts and moderators.

Microblogging

• Dat Medium - Dat Medium is markdown blog system for Beaker inspired by Medium.
• diaspora* - Decentralized and federated social media platform.
• Friendica - Decentralized and federated social media platform.
• Hubzilla - Decentralized and federated social media platform.
• Mastodon - Decentralized alternative to twitter, with servers federation.
• Socialhome - Decentralized and federated profile builder with social networking features.
• Tahrir - looks and feels like twitter but encrypted and anonymized and decentralized and only you hold the keys.
• trsst - looks and feels like twitter but encrypted and anonymized and decentralized and only you hold the keys.
• Twister - a fully decentralized P2P microblogging platform leveraging the free software implementations of Bitcoin and BitTorrent protocols.

Misc

• Bit451 - Decentralized / distributed anonymous p2p media network. YouTube meets BitTorrent meets Bitcoin.
• bitnation.co - the World’s First Virtual Nation – A Blockchain Jurisdiction.
• ferment - Peer-to-peer audio publishing and streaming application.
• git-ssb - Decentralized git repo hosting and issue tracking on secure-scuttlebutt.
• instant.io - Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent.
• IPWB - an interplanetary wayback machine.
• magic-wormhole - Get things from one computer to another, safely.
• Mediachain - a media library built on IPFS that makes it easy to publish, track, and discover creative work.
• Onename - a global database for people, companies, websites and more.
• StrongLink - a searchable, syncable, content-addressable notetaking system
• WebRTC - W3C drafted standard for browser-to-browser data transfer.

Credits:

• Decentralized Web Summit
• Mouse Reeve

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