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Awesome Decentralized Web

A curated list about the decentralized technologies and tools to develop decentralized applications.
Thanks to the Decentralized Web Summit for the inspiration.

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Protocols and Technologies

Tools for building a decentralized web.

Communication

• AT Protocol - AT Protocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol)
• ForgeFed - a decentralized federation protocol provides a server to server API for pull request, forking and subscription.
• Matrix - an open standard for decentralised persistent communication over IP. Matrix wants to connect together all the various communication services and make them interoperate.
• Nostr - A decentralized social network with a chance of working. A simple, open protocol that enables a truly censorship-resistant and global social network.
• Scuttlebutt - a decent(ralised), offline-friendly secure gossip protocol.

Data

• BitTorrent - protocol for distributed file sharing.
• Earthstar - An offline-first, distributed, syncable, embedded document database for use in p2p software.
• Hypercore Protocol - a fast, scalable, and secure peer-to-peer protocol for everyone (evoution of the Dat Protocol)
• Holochain - a peer-to-peer protocol for data sharing and integrity, backed by authoritative hashchains for data provenance.
• IPFS - or InterPlanetary File System, is a distributed file storage system that aims to replace HTTP.

Web

• ActivityPub - open, decentralized social networking protocol based on Pump.io's ActivityPump protocol.
• 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.
• libdweb - a community effort to implement experimental APIs enabling dweb protocols in Firefox.
• Mysterium Network - open sourced network allowing anyone to rent their unused Network traffic, while providing a secure connection for those in need. Whitepaper
• remoteStorage - An open protocol for decoupling data from apps.
• Solid - a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles.
• Webnative - JavaScript library that decouples user data from apps and hosts it on IPFS.
• WebRTC - W3C drafted standard for browser-to-browser data transfer.

Applications

Things built with decentralized protocols and technologies.

Collaboration

• Backfeed - a technology to enable decentralized and user-owned governance and reputation management for a community. Discontinued!
• bitnation.co - the World’s First Virtual Nation – A Blockchain Jurisdiction.
• git-ssb - Decentralized git repo hosting and issue tracking on secure-scuttlebutt.
• PeerPad - a realtime P2P collaborative editing tool, powered by IPFS and CRDTs.
• Radicle - secure peer-to-peer code collaboration without intermediaries.
• Pijul - Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system.
• Darcs - free and open source X-platform VCS system.

Communication

• BitMessage - anonymous encrypted message broadcasting.
• Berty - anonymous, secure, peer-to-peer protocol that doesn't need an internet connection to function.
• disaster.radio - a disaster-resilient communications network powered by the sun.
• LevelNews - a leftist news aggregator designed for an open web, and dedicated to journalism without censorship. Discontinued!
• LibreMesh - a modular framework for creating OpenWrt/LEDE-based firmwares for wireless mesh nodes.
• Mobilizon - a federated tool that helps you find, create and organise events.
• Retroshare - establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services: forums, channels, chat, mail
• Ricochet - completely anonymous and potentially metadata-free chat Discontinued!
• Ricochet Refresh - new updated version of Ricochet
• Librem - Librem One is a growing bundle of ethical services.
• Jami - Distributed p2p communication(text, voice and video) free and open-source software.

Databases

• BigchainDB - a scalable database that layers blockchain technology over decentralized data.
• Dat Base - future-friendly apps for your research data pipeline.
• GUN - a small, easy, and fast data sync and storage system that runs everywhere JavaScript does.
• 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.
• OrbitDB - p2p database engine on top of IPFS.
• AvionDB - mongodb-like database on top of OrbitDB.

Data Storage and Sharing

• Arweave - A Protocol for Economically SustainableInformation Permanence.
• CacheP2P - a distributed caching platform. Discontinued!
• Cryptosphere - an open-source P2P web application platform for decentralized, privacy-preserving software. Discontinued!
• Decentralized Web Nodes - a mesh-like datastore construction that supports sync, built in permissions, and dynamic interactions between other nodes.
• Encrypted Data Vaults - a privacy-respecting mechanism for storing, indexing, and retrieving encrypted data at a storage provider.
• instant.io - streaming file transfer over WebTorrent.
• m-ld - Library enabling consistent, zero latency read and write of shared information, using RDF (JSON-LD) and CRDTs.
• 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. Discontinued!
• Peergos - end-to-end encrypted, peer-to-peer file storage, sharing and communication network.
• Perkeep - set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data.
• 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.
• Tribler - Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery.
• Sia - a decentralized private cloud. Whitepaper
• Storj - a blockchain-based, end-to-end encrypted, distributed object storage. Whitepaper
• 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. Discontinued!

Media

• Bit451 - decentralized / distributed anonymous p2p media network. YouTube meets BitTorrent meets Bitcoin. Discontinued!
• DTube - decentralized video platform, built on top of the STEEM Blockchain and the IPFS peer-to-peer network.
• ferment - Peer-to-peer audio publishing and streaming application.
• Mediachain - a media library built on IPFS that makes it easy to publish, track, and discover creative work.
• Mediagoblin - a free software media publishing platform alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud.
• PeerTube - Decentralized federated video streaming platform using P2P, ActivityPub and WebTorrent.
• Funkwhale - Funkwhale is a community-driven project that lets you listen and share music and audio within a decentralized, open network.

Microblogging and Social Network

• Dat Medium - Dat Medium is markdown blog system for Beaker inspired by Medium. Discontinued!
• 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.
• Patchwork - a decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt.
• Manyverse - An iOS and Android mobile app for the decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt
• Pleroma - a federated social networking platform.
• 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. Discontinued!
• trsst - looks and feels like twitter but encrypted and anonymized and decentralized and only you hold the keys. Discontinued!
• Twister - a fully decentralized P2P microblogging platform leveraging the free software implementations of Bitcoin and BitTorrent protocols.

Miscellaneous

• Jolocom - a decentralised digital identity for everyone.
• magic-wormhole - get things from one computer to another, safely.
• OpenTimeStamps - OpenTimestamps aims to be a standard format for blockchain timestamping.
• StrongLink - a searchable, syncable, content-addressable notetaking system Discontinued!
• Dark Crystal - set of protocols, libraries, techniques and guidelines for secure management of sensitive data such as cryptographic keys.

Web

• Agregore - A minimal web browser for the distributed web. Supports IPFS, Hypercore Protocol + more.
• Beaker - Beaker is a peer-to-peer Web browser, made for users to run applications independently of hosts.
• Cactus Comments - Cactus Comments is a federated comment system for the open web built on Matrix.
• 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.
• GNUnet - 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.
• Handshake - decentralized certificate authority and naming.
• I2P - anonymous network with hidden services.
• IPWB - an interplanetary wayback machine.
• Loki - Loki creates privacy tools that enable untraceable, secure transactions and anonymous communication.
• MaidSafe - a soon-to-be-released decentralized internet and app infrastructure which rewards users for participating in the network.
• Namecoin - a replacement for the existing domain name system that registers identities on a blockchain, rather than a centralized DNS authority.
• Onename - domain registar for Blockstack.
• OpenBazaar - marketplace, with store fronts and moderators.
• Samizdat - Samizdat is a platform for the self-hosted, peer-to-peer, cryptographically-secured internet. Discontinued!
• Shift - Decentralized hosting infrastructure for dApps.
• Steemit - blogging and social networking website on top of a blockchain database.
• Tor - anonymous network proxy.
• yacy - Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance.
• ZeroNet - a peer-to-peer web built on the Bitcoin cryptography for addressing, and identity and Namecoin for .bit domains.
• ArcBlock - 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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• Awesome-decentralized-id - Resources for creating a Decentralized, Vendor Agnostic, Self Sovereign Identity System for people organizations and things.

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