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The ThreeFold Foundation is a not-for-profit organization based in Ghent, Belgium that oversees the research and development centers in Belgium, Switzerland, Egypt and the UAE as well as teams in India, Brazil, and the United States. 
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The Foundation's mission is to build, expand and empower a new Internet infrastructure owned by humanity. 
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Our team consists of some of the world's best Internet and Cloud experts and technology visionaries, and after many successful exits with some of the world's top Tech companies, they realized that the only way to have a truly sovereign, secure, and energy-efficient Internet, was to start from scratch. 
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ThreeFold is committed to making all it's peer-to-peer technologies open-source and is committed to build the Internet humanity deserves. 
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[Learn More](https://library.threefold.me/info/threefold#/tfgrid/grid/threefold__grid_home)