"We designed Status Network so developers can ship games, seamless social experiences, and DeFi protocols without forcing users to preload gas or builders to manage paymaster contracts."
Today's internet infrastructure runs on fiber-optic cables, data centres, and cloud services operated by giants like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta. These systems deliver fast connectivity and seamless experiences, but they also centralize control in just a few hands.
Threads now provides its users with the opportunity to connect with the wider open social web, enabling interaction with posts from federated platforms like Mastodon.
Sia’s Supreme Privacy framework aims to revolutionize cloud data access by ensuring that user data is encrypted, sharded, and stored exclusively for personal use.
They represent a change in how we approach decentralisation and convert real-world physical networks into new investment opportunities in industries such as energy, real estate, communications, etc.
Without principled political renewal stemming from a self-sovereign political philosophy, we should expect increased surveillance and control alongside the normalization of war.