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## **INTER-CONNECTING HUMANITY**

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Expand the ThreeFold Grid – an open source peer-to-peer Internet infrastructure powered by the ThreeFold Blockchain and owned by humanity.


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## SCALED BY PEOPLE <br> TO THE EDGE

The People’s Internet is formed by Farmers, independent people that connect 3Nodes to the ThreeFold Grid anywhere electricity and network is present. Together, they form a globally distributed Internet infrastructure and earn income in the form of TFT.

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## THE LAYER-0 FOR DECENTRALIZATION

Any current or future technology, including blockchain, metaverses and web 3.0, can be hosted natively on the ThreeFold Grid via smart contracts with minimum migration, as the infrastructure is compatible with most open source tools and protocols.

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## A NEW INTERNET BLUEPRINT

All our code is made open source to energize open collaboration and promote universal access to a peer-to-peer Internet owned by all of us. More than just an Internet infrastructure, the ThreeFold Grid holds the potential to decentralize everything.


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## **INTRODUCING ZERO-OS**

A decentralized autonomous OS designed to dedicate hardware capacity to the People’s Internet via the ThreeFold Blockchain. Zero-OS can be booted on most modern computers to host anything that runs on Linux in a decentralized way.


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## A DECENTRALIZED INTERNET ECONOMY

TFT is the official medium of exchange for Internet capacity on the ThreeFold Grid. The utility token allows users to reserve Internet capacity via the ThreeFold Blockchain and rewards farmers for their contribution to the network.

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