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# Awesome Decentralized Web [](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)
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A curated list about the decentralized technologies and tools to develop decentralized applications.
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Thanks to the [Decentralized Web Summit](https://www.decentralizedweb.net/) for the inspiration.
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Projects inactive for a while are marked as **discontinued!**.
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## Protocols and Technologies
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*Tools for building a decentralized web.*
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### Communication
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* [ForgeFed](https://github.com/forgefed/forgefed) - a decentralized federation protocol provides a server to server API for pull request, forking and subscription.
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* [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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* [Scuttlebutt](https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/) - a decent(ralised), offline-friendly secure gossip protocol.
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### Data
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* [BitTorrent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent) - protocol for distributed file sharing.
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* [Earthstar](https://github.com/earthstar-project/earthstar) - An offline-first, distributed, syncable, embedded document database for use in p2p software.
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* [Hypercore Protocol](https://hypercore-protocol.org/) - a fast, scalable, and secure peer-to-peer protocol for everyone (evoution of the [Dat Protocol](https://datproject.org))
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* [Holochain](https://github.com/holochain/holochain) - a peer-to-peer protocol for data sharing and integrity, backed by authoritative hashchains for data provenance.
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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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### Web
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* [ActivityPub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/) - open, decentralized social networking protocol based on Pump.io's ActivityPump protocol.
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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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* [Interledger](https://interledger.org/) - it interconnects disparate cryptocurrencies and financial systems.
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* [libdweb](https://github.com/mozilla/libdweb) - a community effort to implement experimental APIs enabling dweb protocols in Firefox.
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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. `Whitepaper`
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* [remoteStorage](https://remotestorage.io/) - An open protocol for decoupling data from apps.
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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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* [Webnative](https://fission.codes/) - JavaScript library that decouples user data from apps and hosts it on IPFS.
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* [WebRTC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC) - W3C drafted standard for browser-to-browser data transfer.
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## Applications
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*Things built with decentralized protocols and technologies.*
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### Collaboration
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* [Backfeed](http://backfeed.cc/) - a technology to enable decentralized and user-owned governance and reputation management for a community. **Discontinued!**
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* [bitnation.co](https://bitnation.co) - the World’s First Virtual Nation – A Blockchain Jurisdiction.
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* [git-ssb](https://github.com/clehner/git-ssb) - Decentralized git repo hosting and issue tracking on secure-scuttlebutt.
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* [PeerPad](https://peerpad.net) - a realtime P2P collaborative editing tool, powered by IPFS and CRDTs.
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* [Radicle](https://radicle.xyz/) - secure peer-to-peer code collaboration without intermediaries.
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### Communication
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* [BitMessage](https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page) - anonymous encrypted message broadcasting.
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* [Berty](https://github.com/berty/berty) - anonymous, secure, peer-to-peer protocol that doesn't need an internet connection to function.
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* [disaster.radio](https://disaster.radio) - a disaster-resilient communications network powered by the sun.
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* [LevelNews](https://levelnews.org/) - a leftist news aggregator designed for an open web, and dedicated to journalism without censorship.
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* [LibreMesh](https://libremesh.org/) - a modular framework for creating OpenWrt/LEDE-based firmwares for wireless mesh nodes.
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* [Mobilizon](https://joinmobilizon.org/) - a federated tool that helps you find, create and organise events.
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* [Retroshare](https://retroshare.cc/) - establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services: forums, channels, chat, mail
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* [Ricochet](https://ricochet.im/) - completely anonymous and potentially metadata-free chat **Discontinued!**
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### Databases
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* [BigchainDB](https://www.bigchaindb.com/) - a scalable database that layers blockchain technology over decentralized data.
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* [Dat Base](https://datbase.org) - future-friendly apps for your research data pipeline.
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* [GUN](https://www.gun.eco) - a small, easy, and fast data sync and storage system that runs everywhere JavaScript does.
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* [IPDB](https://ipdb.io/) - 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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* [OrbitDB](https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db) - p2p database engine on top of IPFS.
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* [AvionDB](https://github.com/dappkit/aviondb) - mongodb-like database on top of OrbitDB.
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### Data Storage and Sharing
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* [Arweave](https://www.arweave.org/) - A Protocol for Economically SustainableInformation Permanence.
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* [CacheP2P](https://github.com/guerrerocarlos/CacheP2P) - a distributed caching platform. **Discontinued!**
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* [Cryptosphere](https://cryptosphere.io/) - an open-source P2P web application platform for decentralized, privacy-preserving software. **Discontinued!**
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* [Filecoin](https://filecoin.io/) - a decentralized storage network based on IPFS, powered by a blockchain and a native token. `Whitepaper`
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* [instant.io](https://instant.io/) - streaming file transfer over WebTorrent.
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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://orcproject.github.io/) - the Onion Router Cloud, a distributed, anonymous, object storage platform owned and operated by all of us. **Discontinued!**
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* [Peergos](https://peergos.org/) - end-to-end encrypted, peer-to-peer file storage, sharing and communication network.
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* [Perkeep](https://perkeep.org/) - set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data.
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* [Rotonde](https://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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* [Tribler](https://www.tribler.org) - Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery.
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* [Sia](https://sia.tech/) - a decentralized private cloud. `Whitepaper`
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* [Storj](https://storj.io/) - a blockchain-based, end-to-end encrypted, distributed object storage. `Whitepaper`
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* [Swarm](https://github.com/ethersphere/swarm) - a distributed storage platform and content distribution service of the ethereum stack.
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* [WebTorrent](https://webtorrent.io/) - an in-browser torrenting that works without requiring users to install anything extra.
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* [Wikipediap2p](https://guerrerocarlos.github.io/WikiP2P.org/) - a p2p version of wikipedia. **Discontinued!**
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### Media
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* [Bit451](https://github.com/Bit451/Bit451) - decentralized / distributed anonymous p2p media network. YouTube meets BitTorrent meets Bitcoin. **Discontinued!**
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* [DTube](https://d.tube/) - decentralized video platform, built on top of the STEEM Blockchain and the IPFS peer-to-peer network.
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* [ferment](https://github.com/fermentation/ferment) - Peer-to-peer audio publishing and streaming application.
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* [Mediachain](http://www.mediachain.io/) - a media library built on IPFS that makes it easy to publish, track, and discover creative work.
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* [Mediagoblin](https://mediagoblin.org/) - a free software media publishing platform alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud.
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* [PeerTube](https://framagit.org/chocobozzz/PeerTube) - Decentralized federated video streaming platform using P2P, ActivityPub and WebTorrent.
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* [Funkwhale](https://funkwhale.audio/) - Funkwhale is a community-driven project that lets you listen and share music and audio within a decentralized, open network.
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### Microblogging and Social Network
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* [Dat Medium](https://github.com/kewitz/dat-medium) - Dat Medium is markdown blog system for Beaker inspired by Medium. **Discontinued!**
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* [diaspora*](https://diasporafoundation.org/) - decentralized and federated social media platform.
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* [Friendica](https://friendi.ca/) - decentralized and federated social media platform.
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* [Hubzilla](https://zotlabs.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project) - decentralized and federated social media platform.
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* [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social) - decentralized alternative to twitter, with servers federation.
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* [Patchwork](https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork) - a decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt.
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* [Manyverse](https://www.manyver.se/) - An iOS and Android mobile app for the decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt
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* [Pleroma](https://pleroma.social/) - a federated social networking platform.
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* [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. **Discontinued!**
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* [trsst](https://github.com/TrsstProject/trsst) - looks and feels like twitter but encrypted and anonymized and decentralized and only you hold the keys. **Discontinued!**
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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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### Miscellaneous
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* [Jolocom](https://jolocom.com/) - a decentralised digital identity for everyone.
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* [magic-wormhole](https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole) - get things from one computer to another, safely.
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* [OpenTimeStamps](https://opentimestamps.org/) - OpenTimestamps aims to be a standard format for blockchain timestamping.
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* [StrongLink](https://github.com/btrask/stronglink) - a searchable, syncable, content-addressable notetaking system **Discontinued!**
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* [Dark Crystal](https://darkcrystal.pw/) - set of protocols, libraries, techniques and guidelines for secure management of sensitive data such as cryptographic keys.
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### Web
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* [Agregore](https://agregore.mauve.moe/) - A minimal web browser for the distributed web. Supports IPFS, Hypercore Protocol + more.
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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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* [Cactus Comments](https://cactus.chat/) - Cactus Comments is a federated comment system for the open web built on Matrix.
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* [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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* [GNUnet](https://gnunet.org/) - GNUnet is a new network protocol stack for building secure, distributed, and privacy-preserving applications. With strong roots in academic research, our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack.
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* [Handshake](https://handshake.org/) - decentralized certificate authority and naming.
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* [I2P](https://geti2p.net/) - anonymous network with hidden services.
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* [IPWB](https://github.com/oduwsdl/ipwb) - an interplanetary wayback machine.
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* [Loki](https://loki.network/) - Loki creates privacy tools that enable untraceable, secure transactions and anonymous communication.
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* [MaidSafe](https://maidsafe.net/) - a soon-to-be-released decentralized internet and app infrastructure which rewards users for participating in the network.
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* [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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* [Onename](https://onename.com/) - domain registar for Blockstack.
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* [OpenBazaar](https://openbazaar.org/) - marketplace, with store fronts and moderators.
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* [Samizdat](http://samizdat.childrenofmay.org/) - Samizdat is a platform for the self-hosted, peer-to-peer, cryptographically-secured internet. **Discontinued!**
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* [Shift](https://www.shiftnrg.org) - Decentralized hosting infrastructure for dApps.
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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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* [yacy](https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server) - Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance.
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* [ZeroNet](https://zeronet.io/) - a peer-to-peer web built on the Bitcoin cryptography for addressing, and identity and Namecoin for .bit domains.
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* [ArcBlock](https://www.arcblock.io/) - a decentralized platform to build, run and deploy DApps, blockchains and websites on any infrastructure with integrated decentralized identity and multi-chain support.
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## Other Related Lists
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* [Awesome-cryptocurrencies](https://github.com/kasketis/awesome-cryptocurrencies) - a curated list of crypto-"currencies".
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* [Awesome-decentralized-id](https://github.com/infominer33/awesome-decentralized-id) - Resources for creating a Decentralized, Vendor Agnostic, Self Sovereign Identity System for people organizations and things.
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* [Curated list of blockchain and crytocurrency resources in general](https://github.com/McFrankline/Blockchain-stuff)
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## Contributors
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- [Contributors](https://github.com/gdamdam/awesome-decentralized-web/graphs/contributors)
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## License
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[](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
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