---
title: Most secure & decentralized money blockchain.
tags: planned, grid
countries: 
team: 
rank: 1
excerpt: DigiByte is a rapidly growing open-source blockchain created in late 2013 and released in early 2014. After 6 years of forward-thinking development, DigiByte has become one of the safest, fastest, longest and most decentralized UTXO blockchain in existence. Thousands of volunteers from all over the world have contributed to DigiByte in countless ways for years to make it what it is today. It is a truly grassroots movement to protect and promote the true principles of decentralization and empower DigiByte and its community to establish and maintain a sustainable decentralized world. Planet first!
created: 2019-03-20
image: ./digibyte.png
image_caption: digibyte
author: kristine_vilnite
---


# DigiByte Foundation

## About

The Digibyte Foundation's vision is to empower a sustainable decentralized world. The core values of the Digibyte community are decentralization, inclusiveness, permissionless, integrity, transparency - openness, consensus, thought leadership. We aim to stimulate global adoption of our blockchain and similar technologies that fulfil the core principles of decentralization in general. Decentralization needs to happen to see a better redistribution of opportunities, growth and value within our global society.

## Mission

DigiByte is more than a faster digital currency; it is an innovative blockchain that can be used for digital assets, smart contracts, decentralized applications and secure authentication.

## Impact

Thousands of volunteers from all over the world have contributed to DigiByte in countless ways for years to make it what it is today. DigiByte is a collective movement to protect and promote the true principles of decentralization and empower communities to establish and maintain a sustainable decentralized world. The DigiByte Foundation aims to initiate and promote projects and community initiatives, but also promote the DigiByte ecosystem and further development by supporting creators, developers and marketers, with a focus on outreach, awareness, education, adoption.

## Powered by ThreeFold

The DigiByte network runs on a mix of servers managed by DigiByte volunteers and virtual machines or containers in commercial cloud provider environments.  This is decentralized to a degree but can be more decentralized if the DigiByte blockchain nodes can run on ThreeFold Grid nodes truly decentralized, energy-efficient and everywhere. 

## Join saving our planet!

ThreeFold's technology helps the DigiByte software to use less underlying capacity for processing and that networking enhances time to reach consensus.

## Support this project

Digibyte Foundation is included in ThreeFold’s [Token Distribution Event (TDE)](https://wiki.threefold.io/#/tdeoverview)</a> for the impact it brings to our planet, humanity and the ThreeFold Grid.
The ThreeFold Token (TFT) represents a unit of capacity on the new Internet and is created only when new capacity is added to the ThreeFold Grid.
Each project on the TDE benefits from TFT fund allocations. You can buy TFT's and support Digibyte Foundation, and the growth of a new Conscious Internet.


### Roadmap

```python

[milestone]
name = "Go to market integration for TF Token"
#date format: Q YYYY
date = "Q3 2020"
funding_required_tft = "1,000,000"
funding_required_usd = ""
description = "Onboarding token for ThreeFold Grid and go to market partner, integration in TF Wallet."

```

### data

```python

[links]
linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/company/digibyte-payment-network/"
websites = ["https://digibyte.io/"]
wiki = ""
video = "https://player.vimeo.com/video/413179934"

[info]
name = "DigiByte Foundation"
rank = 4
mission = "An innovative blockchain that is a truly grassroots movement, protecting and promoting the true principles of decentralization."
description = "DigiByte is a rapidly growing open-source blockchain created in late 2013 and released in early 2014. After 6 years of forward-thinking development, DigiByte has become one of the safest, fastest, longest and most decentralized UTXO blockchain in existence. Thousands of volunteers from all over the world have contributed to DigiByte in countless ways for years to make it what it is today. It is a truly grassroots movement to protect and promote the true principles of decentralization and empower DigiByte and its community to establish and maintain a sustainable decentralized world. Planet first!"
team = ["Hans Koning", "Rudy Bouwman", "Rutger Krijnen"]
countries = ["Global"]
cities = ["Global"]

[ecosystem]
# can be chosen from: experience, solution, farmer, infrastructure
categories = ["solution"]
# can be chosen from: tftgranted (receiving TFT Grant)
badges = ["tftgranted"]

```
