remove unused folder

fix typo

.github/workflows/tf_update_dev.yml

@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-name: www2.threefold_io
-on: 
-  push:
-    branches: [ development ]
-
-jobs:
-  job_one:
-    name: Deploy
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-    - name: pushing latest change on www2.threefold.io
-      uses: appleboy/ssh-action@master
-      with:
-        host: dev.threefold.io
-        username: webuser
-        key: ${{ secrets.TF_SECRET }}
-        port: 34022
-        script: |
-          cd websites/www2/www_threefold_io/
-          git log -1
-          git fetch
-          git reset --hard origin/development
-          sed -i "s/https:\/\/www.threefold.io/https:\/\/dev.threefold.io/g" config.toml
-          ./build.sh

.github/workflows/tf_update_prod.yml

@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-name: www.threefold_io
-on: 
-  push:
-    branches: [ master ]
-
-jobs:
-  job_one:
-    name: Deploy
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-    - name: pushing latest change on www.threefold.io
-      uses: appleboy/ssh-action@master
-      with:
-        host: www.threefold.io
-        username: root
-        key: ${{ secrets.TF_SECRET }}
-        port: 22
-        script: |
-          cd /opt/www_threefold_io/
-          git log -1
-          git fetch
-          git reset --hard origin/master
-          sed -i "s/https:\/\/dev.threefold.io/https:\/\/www.threefold.io/g" config.toml
-          ./build.sh

.github/workflows/update_www3.yml

@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-name: www3.threefold_io
-on: 
-  push:
-    branches: [ 3.10.0 ]
-
-jobs:
-  deploy:
-    name: Deploy
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-    - name: pushing latest change on www3.threefold.io
-      uses: appleboy/ssh-action@master
-      with:
-        host: www3.threefold.io
-        username: webuser
-        key: ${{ secrets.TF_SECRET }}
-        port: 34022
-        script: |
-          cd websites/www3/www_threefold_io/
-          git log -1
-          git restore .
-          git pull
-          sed -i "s/https:\/\/www.threefold.io/https:\/\/www3.threefold.io/g" config.toml
-          bash build.sh
-          
-  wait:
-    needs: deploy
-    name: Wait for Website Update
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-    - name: Wait Period
-      id: wait-deploy
-      run: |
-        echo "Sleeping for 30"
-        sleep 30
-        
-  checklinks:
-    needs: wait
-    name: Check for Broken Links
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Check for Broken Links
-        id: link-report
-        uses: docker://ghcr.io/threefoldfoundation/website-link-checker:latest
-        with:
-          args: 'https://www3.threefold.io -w 404'

README.md

@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ Production: [www.threefold.io](https://www.threefold.io) (master branch)
 
 Staging: www2.threefold.io (development branch)
 
-Last Updated: May 2023
+Last Updated: September 2024
 
 ## Administrators
+
 [ThreeFold's Web Admins](https://github.com/orgs/threefoldfoundation/teams/team_web_admin)
 
 ## Contribution Procedure
@@ -47,15 +48,22 @@ To do that, the following prerequisites are needed:
 
 Then clone the repository recursively to also pull in contents of `threefold_data`:
 
-```
+```bash
-git clone --recursive https://github.com/threefoldfoundation/www_threefold_io.git
+#if you don't have hero installed yet, run the following commands
-```
+curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freeflowuniverse/crystallib/development/scripts/install_hero.sh > /tmp/hero_install.sh
+bash /tmp/hero_install.sh
 
-Now run `build.sh` to download Tailwind, build the CSS, and also build the site with Zola:
+#install zola & tailwind
+hero installers -n zola
+
+#get this repo be careful --pr will remove all local changes (pull reset), -b development means we are on the development branch
+hero git pull -u https://github.com/threefoldfoundation/www_threefold_io -b development -pr
+
+#cd to the directory
+eval $(hero git cd -u https://github.com/threefoldfoundation/www_threefold_io)
 
-```
-cd www_threefold_io
 bash build.sh
+
 ```
 
 Finally, start a browsable local copy of the site that will respond to changes in the source files like this:
@@ -66,4 +74,16 @@ zola serve
 
 Zola will display a local address such as `http://127.0.0.1:1111` which you can click or copy and paste into your browser to view the site on your own machine.
 
-That's it—have fun!
+That's it—have fun!
+
+
+# Guidelines for Editing Blog, News, and Team Images
+
+### General:
+Ensure all images are optimized to be less than 1MB for faster loading and better performance.
+
+### Blog & News:
+Use a resolution of **1200 x 600** pixels or maintain the same aspect ratio to fit seamlessly with placeholders.
+
+### Team:
+Keep images square with a resolution of **640 x 640** pixels for consistent appearance.

archive/action/index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+---
+title: "Take actions"
+description: "Take actions and become a part of a pioneering Web4 movement with ThreeFold on 12.12.2024" # quotation marks to allow colons where used
+template: "page.html"
+insert_anchor_links: "left"
+extra:
+ author: ThreeFold
+ imgPath: tf.png
+---
+
+<!-- section 1 (header) -->
+
+{{ hero_video(
+    title="Building A New Internet For Everyone",
+    subtitle="Unleashing the Power of Decentralized Networks",
+    description_1="The internet is a trillion-dollar industry, and we believe it should be built and owned by everyone—an internet created by all, for all",
+    description_2="Let’s make this vision a reality.",
+    video_link="https://www.youtube.com/embed/64mbEewI0Ag?si=I0m_ShxlTUk3mok-",
+    button1_text="Take Action",
+    button1_link="/signup"
+) }}
+
+
+
+<!--section 2 (Portfolio)-->
+
+<div class="lg:py-24 py-12 mx-auto max-w-7xl lg:px-8">
+
+<div class="text-center">
+
+  ## What It Enables
+
+</div>
+<dl class="pt-8 grid max-w-xl grid-cols-1 gap-x-8 gap-y-8 lg:max-w-none lg:grid-cols-3">
+
+{{ portfolio(
+  title="Communicate securely",
+  description="Experience end-to-end encrypted communication in the shortest possible path, ensuring messages remain private and unalterable—even during disasters."
+)}}
+
+{{ portfolio(
+  title="Store effortlessly",
+  description="Securely share and store information with ease, with geo-aware capabilities that optimize data location and access. Scale seamlessly from personal use to billions of users."
+
+)}}
+
+{{ portfolio(
+  title="Restore authenticity",
+  description="Determine which information can be trusted, bringing clarity and confidence back to the digital space"
+)}}
+
+{{ portfolio(
+  title="Unlock limitless insights",
+  description="Discover, analyze, and find information with no boundaries, aided by a powerful personal AI assistant."
+)}}
+
+{{ portfolio(
+  title="Streamline your interactions",
+  description="Keep track of all your connections and simplify your life with an AI that optimizes your daily tasks and interactions."
+)}}
+
+{{ portfolio(
+  title="Take control of your digital presence",
+  description="Own and manage your data, identity, and interactions across platforms, ensuring transparency and sovereignty in the digital world."
+)}}
+
+</dl>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<!--section 3 (img_features)-->
+
+<div class="lg:py-24 py-12 mx-auto max-w-7xl lg:px-8">
+
+<div class="max-w-4xl">
+
+## Take Action Now
+
+Discover the key products that bring us closer to our vision of the new internet, laying the foundation for a more open, autonomous, and interconnected digital future.
+
+</div>
+
+{{ img_features(
+  image_src="/images/web4_tools3.png",
+  image_alt="TF_products ",
+
+  title_1="3NODE",
+  description_1="The backbone of storage and infrastructure, providing compute and data resources. Order today.
+",
+  button_text_1="Learn More",
+  button_link_1="https://docs.threefold.io/docs/components/3node/",
+
+  title_2="3Phone",
+  description_2="Secure smartphone that comes with built-indecentralized apps that seamlessly integrate with the ThreeFold Grid.",
+  button_text_2="Learn More",
+  button_link_2="https://docs.threefold.io/docs/components/3phone/",
+
+  title_4="3Router",
+  description_4="Smart routers ensure shortest-path connections between nodes and phones with end-to-end encryption. Unlocked after 10,000 pre-orders.",
+  button_text_4="Learn More",
+  button_link_4="https://docs.threefold.io/docs/components/3router/"
+
+)}}
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<!-- section 4 Cta -->
+
+{{ cta(
+    title_1="Building a",
+    title_2="New Internet,",
+    title_3="Together",  
+    button_text_1="Participate",
+    button_link_1="/signup",
+    button_text_2="Stay Updated",
+    button_link_2="https://t.me/threefoldnews",
+    button_text_3="Chat",
+    button_link_3="https://t.me/threefold"
+) }}
+
+
+
+
+
+

archive/partners/btc_alpha/index.md

@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
----
-id: btc_alpha
-title: BTC-Alpha
-description: BTC-Alpha is a digital asset trading platform providing advanced financial services to traders worldwide since 2016.
-template: partnerPage.html
-taxonomies:
-  partners-category: []
-  tags: [blockchain]
-data: 2020-04-20
-extra: 
-    countries: []
-    cities: []
-    rank: 5
-    imgPath: images/btc_alpha.png
-    image_caption: btc_alpha
-    partner_logo: images/btc_alphaLogo.png
-    members: []
-    websites: https://btc-alpha.com/en/
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: ''
----
-
-<br/>
-
-![btc_alpha](images/btc_alpha2.png)
-
-<br/>
-
-## About
-
-BTC-Alpha is a digital asset trading platform providing advanced financial services to traders worldwide since 2016. Our platform is a reliable, secure and stable environment for crypto trading with low commission fee and 24/7 customer support.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-Our team is focused on providing the best customer experience and ceaseless product improving and developing. There are 98 coins and 188 currency pairs presented on the BTC-Alpha.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-BTC-Alpha is one of the top world secure crypto exchange.
-According to latest General Exchange Security Rating, provided by ICOrating, BTC-Alpha was ranked #14 out of 221 studied crypto exchanges with “A” rating.
-
-## BTC-Alpha and ThreeFold
-
-The ThreeFold Token (TFT) is listed [on BTC-Alpha](https://btc-alpha.com/en/coin/TFT).
-
-<!-- ## Support this project
-
-## TFGrid Solution
-
-### Roadmap -->

archive/partners/cloud_28/index.md

@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
----
-id: cloud_28
-title: Cloud 28+
-description: Cloud 28+ is the world's largest independent community promoting cloud service and knowledge sharing.
-template: partnerPage.html
-taxonomies:
-  partners-category: []
-  tags: [technology]
-extra:
-    countries: []
-    cities: []
-    rank: 3
-    imgPath: images/cloud28plus.png
-    image_caption: cloud_28
-    partner_logo: images/cloud_28Logo.png
-    members: []
-    websites: https://cloud28plus.com
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: ''
----
-
-<br/>
-
-![cloud](images/cloud_28_2.png)
-
-<br/>
-
-## About
-
-Cloud 28+ is the world's largest independent community promoting cloud service and knowledge sharing. It serves end customers, cloud service providers, solution providers, ISVs, systems integrators, distributors, and government entities dedicated to accelerating enterprise cloud adoption.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-Cloud28+ supports the expansion of the Threefold Grid by proposing ThreeFold solutions within their communities.
-
-<!-- ## Support this project
-
-## TFGrid Solution
-
-### Roadmap -->

archive/partners/codescalers/index.md

@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
----
-id: codescalers
-title: CodeScalers
-description: CodeScalers mission is to develop promising technology for start-up companies in cloud computing and datacenters.
-template: partnerPage.html
-taxonomies:
-  partners-category: []
-  tags: []
-extra:
-    countries: [Egypt]
-    cities: [Cairo]
-    rank: 4
-    imgPath: images/codescalers.png
-    image_caption: codescalers
-    partner_logo: images/codescalersLogo.png
-    category: []
-    members: []
-    websites: https://codescalers.com/
-    tags: []
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: ''
----
-
-<br/>
-
-![codescalers](images/codescalers2.jpg)
-
-<br/>
-
-## About
-
-CodeScalers’ mission is to develop promising technology for start-up companies in cloud computing and data centers. Our customers are high tech startups that have found with CodeScalers a pool of talent that extends their R&D organisations. Our offices are in Dubai and Cairo.
-
-<!-- ## Mission
-
-## Impact
-
-## Powered by ThreeFold
-
-## Join saving our planet! -->
-
-<!-- ## Support this project
-
-## TFGrid Solution
-
-### Roadmap -->
-
-
-

archive/partners/covidfighters/index.md

@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
----
-id: covidfighters
-title: COVID Fighters
-description: Re-gaining social life and staying healthy with COVID testing solution on Crystal Twin.
-template: partnerPage.html
-taxonomies:
-  partners-category: []
-  tags: [experience, impact]
-extra:
-    countries: [Austria]
-    cities: [Vienna]
-    rank: 5
-    imgPath: images/covidfighters.png
-    image_caption: covid_fighters
-    partner_logo: images/covidfightersLogo.png
-    members: [boris_fahrnberger]
-    websites: https://www.artichoke-computing.com/
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/covidfighters/
----
-
-<br/>
-
-![covid](images/covidfighters2.png)
-
-<br/>
-
-## About
-
-COVID Fighters have built a technology consortium to test COVID 19 from a mobile unit to test whether or not a test subject is infected and contagious. The actual test takes only a few hours and the mobile unit can be deployed in a matter of days.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-Various types of people (that need to be tested) can be tested easily and frequently and have their contamination state verified and stored in a way that is easily auditable. The process is end-to-end and involves remote medical specialists to assist and advise. COVID Fighters are putting this consortium together to make the world a safer place for people and economies to maintain their 'normal’.
-
-<BR>
-
-<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/412336565" width="800" height="450" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen></iframe>
-
-<BR>
-
-## Mission
-
-To bring the highest standards of safety during Covid 19 while empowering people to maintain their ‘normal lives’ during such situations.
-
-## Impact
-
-By bringing the necessary solutions for mass testing and auditing, Covid Fighters can prevent the further spread of viruses such as Covid 19 while enabling individuals, businesses and economies to maintain their 'usual' ongoing activities. Considering how Covid Impacted our world, such solutions are of upmost importance to protect our poeple and economies.
-
-<br/>
-
-![covidfighters](images/covidfighters_action.jpg)
-
-<br/>
-
-## Powered by ThreeFold
-
-Covid Fighters applications will run on the ThreeFold Grid. ThreeFold may also potentially provide 3bot technology to ensure privacy and security around people's data.
-
-## Join saving our planet!
-
-Providing the necessary technology, logistics and solutions to maintain a safe environment for societies while eradicating pandemics and other similar threats.
-
-<!-- ## TFGrid Solution
-
-### Roadmap
- -->
-

archive/partners/crystal_language/index.md

@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
----
-id: crystal_language
-title: Crystal Programming Language
-description: A programming language for programmer and the computer - the best of both worlds.
-template: partnerPage.html
-taxonomies:
-  partners-category: []
-  tags: [technology]
-extra:
-  countries: [Argentina]
-  cities: [Buenos Aires]
-  rank: 4
-  imgPath: images/crystallang.png
-  image_caption: crystal_language
-  partner_logo: images/crystal_languageLogo.png
-  members: [juan_wajnerman, brian_j_cardiff]
-  websites: https://crystal-lang.org/
-  private: 0
-  linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/crystal-language/about/
----
-
-<br/>
-
-![crystal_language](images/crystallanguage2.png)
-
-<br/>
-
-## About
-
-It started out, like many things at [Manas.Tech](https://manas.tech/), as an experiment. Easy-to-write languages used to mean that you had to sacrifice speed. And getting fast meant enduring difficult syntax. So it began with asking ourselves: “What if we didn’t have to choose one or the other”, “what if we could compile Ruby?”. It turned out that it worked, so we decided to turn that experiment into an actual project and give it our best shot. It is our pride and joy: time and time again, we find that it is delightful to write code in Crystal, and that it outperforms everything else out there.
-
-<BR>
-
-<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/444820297" width="800" height="450" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen></iframe>
-
-<BR>
-
-## Mission
-
-Easy to write languages used to mean that you had to sacrifice speed. And getting fast meant enduring difficult syntax. Crystal means no longer having to choose: a programming language that adjusts to the needs of the programmer and the computer: easy to learn and code, but very performant and typesafe. The best of both worlds.
-
-## Impact
-
-Crystal is easy to write, which makes it easy to learn: that gives developers a short ramp-up time, and beginners can get things running in a very short time. Crystal is also super fast: it is used by scientists to run genome sequencing faster than ever before, and that helps save lives, save resources and, being so user-friendly, it saves them time in costly and tedious maintenance.
-
-## Powered by ThreeFold
-
-Crystal is a project of Manas.Tech, built along the years with the support of the community and Manas’ own: we match the contributions of the community to double every dollar’s impact. But it means that a great deal of effort goes, not only into developing the language, but also into trying to get funding. ThreeFold’s contribution allows our team to focus on doing what we do best, and enables us to dedicate more full-time engineers to accelerate Crystal’s development.
-
-## Join saving our planet!
-
-You can join our mission to build better technology for the future, by becoming a direct sponsor of Crystal.
-
-<!-- ## Support this project
-
-Crystal Programming Language is included in ThreeFold’s [Token Distribution Event (TDE)](https://library.threefold.me/info/tfgrid/#/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 Crystal Programming Language, and the growth of a new Conscious Internet.
-
-
-## TFGrid Solution
-
-### Roadmap
-
-- Q1 2021
-  - Serverless Functions/Actors based on Crystal Lang on top of TFGrid
-- Q2 2021
-  - Crystal Twin Core v2.0 -->

archive/partners/crystal_twin/index.md

@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
----
-id: crystal_twin
-title: Crystal Twin
-description: Your digital twin serving as a gateway to the new digital world of peer-to-peer experiences.
-template: partnerPage.html
-taxonomies:
-  partners-category: []
-  tags: []
-extra:
-  countries: [Global]
-  cities: [Global]
-  rank: 5
-  imgPath: images/crystaltwin.png
-  image_caption: crystal_twin
-  partner_logo: images/crystal_twinLogo.png
-  members: [brooks_cole, sacha_obeegadoo]
-  websites:
-  private: 0
-  linkedin: ""
----
-
-<br/>
-
-![crystaltwin](images/crystaltwin2.png)
-
-<br/>
-
-## About
-
-_Crystal Twin_ is your digital twin, a beautiful light being that is always connected with you, 24h per day, 7 days per week. A digital avatar of your being that sets you free, independently capable, grows into anything as required in the new Crystal Universe, a fully decentralized, peer-to-peer ecosystem that upholds their human counterpart’s digital privacy and freedom. Every Crystal Twin can interact and learn from each other in the Crystal Universe and they realize they need their peers to become stronger together.
-
-<BR>
-
-<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/412762729" width="800" height="450" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen></iframe>
-
-<BR>
-
-## Mission
-
-Our mission is to shape a conscious digital world together. The world where all individuals, across regions have equal chances to learn, partake, and succeed. A world where freedom and liberalism are at the center. We are building a world where we live sustainably and where we think circularly. The priority is to ensure the best environment possible for us and all living species of this plant. Creating circular economies that use resources consciously, and where that which has true value becomes the center. Future economies will be digital and promote sustainability.
-
-## Impact
-
-Today's economies are successful when depleting our planet's resources. This is a flawed approach to value creation. Crystal Twin will connect you to new sustainable digital economies that help drive success through green initiatives and value exchanges that live through Crystal experiences, minimizing carbon footprint, using resources consciously and creating a world where we live sustainably and through digital economies that promotes sustainability.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-While Crystal Twin may seem like a technological solution, its roots and goals are strongly humanitarian. Every person who signs up for Crystal Twin makes a significant impact. The P2P infrastructure is up to 10x more efficient and sustainable and ensures that data privacy and security is preserved. The internet cost is less than half a dollar a month per user, greatly increasing access to underserved communities.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-Additionally, the Crystal Universe ecosystem is creating a number of P2P experiences and solutions such as videoconferencing, file storage and social networking that will impact both the effectiveness and security of online communication.
-
-## Powered by ThreeFold
-
-Crystal Twin is built by Crystal Company, and lives on Threefold grid, serving as your digital self to the new digital world - the Crystal Universe - a new internet and peer-to-peer experiences. Developers, creators, and users can create their own experiences within the Crystal Universe, functionalities and features within the Threefold Grid’s peer-to-peer ecosystem.
-
-## Join saving our planet!
-
-While 3bot may seem like a technological solution, its roots and goals are strongly humanitarian. Every person who signs up for 3bot makes a significant impact. The P2P infrastructure is up to 10x more efficient and sustainable and ensures that data privacy and security is preserved. The internet cost is less than half a dollar a month per user, greatly increasing access to underserved communities. Additionally, the 3bot ecosystem is creating a number of P2P experiences and solutions such as videoconferencing, file storage and social networking that will impact both the effectiveness and security of online communication.
-
-<!-- ## Support this project
-
-Crystal Twin is included in ThreeFold’s [Token Distribution Event (TDE)](https://library.threefold.me/info/tfgrid/#/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 Crystal Twin, and the growth of a new Conscious Internet.
-
-## TFGrid Solution
-
-### Roadmap
-
-- Q1 2021
-  - Crystal Twin's Public Release v.1
-- Q1 2021
-  - Crystal Twin Promotion / Expansion Phase
-- Q2 2021
-  - Crystal Twin Rebranding / Public Release v.2 -->

archive/partners/cultivo/index.md

@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
----
-id: cultivo
-title: Cultivo
-description: A digital alliance to protect our tropical rainforest and empower its inhabitants.
-template: partnerPage.html
-taxonomies:
-  partners-category: []
-  tags: []
-extra:
-    countries: []
-    cities: []
-    rank: 4
-    imgPath: images/placeholder.jpg
-    image_caption: cultivo
-    partner_logo: images/cultivoLogo.png
-    members: []
-    websites: https://cultivo.earth
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: ""
----
-
-## About
-
-In the tropical rainforest of southern Costa Rica, Cultivo is an organization that carries out and promotes reforestation and organic food forest farming, using regenerative methods and practices in close harmony with the natural environment while providing sustainable livelihoods and access to responsible digital technologies for farmers and rural communities.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-To achieve its mission and objectives, Cultivo:
-<br/>
-<br/>
-- Regrows forests and farms by promoting the practices of regenerative, food forest farming in harmony with the tropical rainforest and its natural wildlife.
-- Establishes land buffers between organic farmers and industrial mono-crop farming.
-- Invests in research and education to build local capacity and promote knowledge sharing.
-- Provides a digital platform that enables farmers to tokenize land and product
-
-## Mission
-
-Empowering farmers with digital technologies to regrow our natural environment through the use of ThreeFold digital technology. Cultivo is able to focus its attention on what matters most: Forests-Farmers-Food
-
-## Impact
-
-Cultivo provides sustainable economic opportunities for farmers and their families by empowering them to become part of a digital economy that drives fair and organic cultivation, alleviating the destruction of our rainforests and natural environment.
-
-## Powered by ThreeFold
-
-Cultivo’s Objectives with ThreeFold:
-<br/>
-<br/>
-1. Alleviate the destruction of our rainforests and natural environment.
-2. Lessen the technological divide to allow farmers to become part of the digital economy.
-3. Provide sustainable economic opportunities for farmers and their families.
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-title: DigitalEnergy
-description: DigitalEnergy is a large ThreeFold farmer with a datacenter based in Moscow, Russia. 
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-    members: []
-    websites: https://digitalenergy.online/
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-## About
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-DigitalEnergy is a large ThreeFold farmer with a data center based in Moscow, Russia. 
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-title: FreeFlow Nation
-description: FreeFlow Nation is a complementary digital nation which flows freely across physical borders, and which welcomes everyone as a digital citizen.
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-    members: []
-    websites: https://freeflownation.org
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: ''
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-## About
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-FreeFlow Nation is a complementary digital nation which flows freely across physical borders, and which welcomes everyone as a digital citizen. FreeFlow Nation is building a framework for a better way forward for humanity and our planet.  Let's reduce dependencies on – and eliminate barriers created by – flawed and biased centralized systems, and put people back in control of their lives.
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-FreeFlow Nation aims to empower billions of people with sustainable access to complementary education, internet, and currencies (banking) for less than $1 per month. ThreeFold is part of the FreeFlow Nation.
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-id: incubaid
-title: Incubaid
-description: 
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-  tags: []
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-    countries: [Belgium]
-    cities: [Ghent]
-    rank: 5
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-    image_caption: Incubaid
-    partner_logo: images/incubaidLogo.png
-    members: []
-    websites: https://btc-alpha.com/en/
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: ''
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-id: jimber
-title: Jimber
-description: Jimber is an Enterprise Security Solution provider. Using the ThreeFold Grid for enterprise security gateway solutions.
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-    cities: []
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-    partner_logo: images/jimberLogo.png
-    members: [jonas_delrue,ivan_coene,ken_de_moor,tobias_chielens]
-    websites: https://jimber.org
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jimber/
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-## About
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-Jimber is an Enterprise Security Solution provider. Using the ThreeFold Grid for enterprise security gateway solutions, it aims to empower applications and solutions that are fully secure for both consumers and businesses.
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-Jimber is currently involved in 3Bot technology development as well as some experiences (autonomous and decentralized applications) that will live on the ThreeFold Grid, and accessible by 3Bot.
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-title: Liquid
-description: Liquid is the world’s most comprehensive and secure trading platform.
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-    members: []
-    websites: https://www.liquid.com
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/liquidglobal/
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-![liquid](images/liquid2.png)
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-## About
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-Liquid is the world’s most comprehensive and secure trading platform. Buy and sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and many other cryptocurrencies with fiat or crypto.
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-## Liquid and ThreeFold
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-The ThreeFold Token (TFT) [has been listed](https://app.liquid.com/exchange/TFTBTC) on the Liquid exchange as from May 2020.
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-id: neo
-title: NEO
-description: Scalable, fast, and ultra-secure blockchain driven by a global community of developers.
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-  tags: [blockchain]
-extra:
-    countries: [Global]
-    cities: []
-    rank: 3
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-    image_caption: neo
-    partner_logo: images/neoLogo.png
-    members: [denis_suslov]
-    websites: https://neo.org/
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/neo-blockchain/
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-![neo](images/neo2.jpeg)
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-## About
-[NEO](https://neo.org/) is a scalable, fast, and ultra-secure blockchain driven by a global community of developers and node operators.
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-- It utilizes blockchain technology and digital identities to digitize and automate the management of assets using smart contracts.
-- Using a distributed network, it aims to create a smart economy by building infrastructures of the next-gen Internet and creating a solid foundation for mass blockchain adoption.
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-## Mission
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-Solving IT decentralization and cloud computing efficiency for NEO dApp developers and node operators!
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-## NEO and ThreeFold
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-ThreeFold and NEO came together to solve one major problem, which is IT decentralization for dApp developers, and particularly for developers and enterprises looking into building decentralized applications on top of the NEO Blockchain.
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-- Through our collaboration, ThreeFold is empowering NEO dApp developers with peer-to-peer cloud capacity for decentralized storage, compute, and networking to further cost-efficiently decentralize their IT infrastructure – escaping the monopolies of centralized cloud providers, without compromising on security and efficiency.
-- With the ThreeFold P2P Cloud as a decentralized IT infrastructure, NEO dApp developers have the ability to build highly-scalable and decentralized, cloud-native, and blockchain-based applications using the open-source frameworks and tools they need (Docker, Kubernetes clusters, S3 storage, Database clusters, etc) and with an autonomous IT workload execution through ThreeFold’s Smart contract for IT.

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-title: Polygon
-description: Protocol and framework for building Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks.
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-  tags: [blockchain]
-extra:
-  countries: [Global]
-  cities: [Global]
-  rank: 3
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-  image_caption: Polygon
-  partner_logo: images/polygonLogo.png
-  category: []
-  members: [anurag_arjun, arjun_kalsy]
-  websites: https://polygon.technology/
-  private: 0
-  linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/matic-network/
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-![polygon](images/polygon2.png)
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-## About
-
-[Polygon](https://polygon.technology/) (Previously Matic Network) is the first well-structured, easy-to-use platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. Its core component is Polygon SDK, a modular, flexible framework that supports building multiple types of decentralized applications.
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-Polygon is one of the go-to solutions for developers building dApps on Ethereum, as it effectively transforms Ethereum into a full-fledged multi-chain system (aka Internet of Blockchains). Using Polygon, one can create Optimistic Rollup chains, ZK Rollup chains, standalone chains, or any other kind of infrastructure required by the developer. 
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-With Polygon, new features are being built around the existing proven technology to expand the ability to cater to diverse needs from the developer ecosystem. Polygon will continue to develop the core technology so that it can scale to a larger ecosystem. The $MATIC token is playing an increasingly important role, securing the system and enabling governance.
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-## Polygon and ThreeFold
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-Polygon and ThreeFold joined forces to provide key benefits in successfully running a Polygon validator node and other related IT workloads, as well as providing decentralized cloud infrastructure for dApps powered by Polygon, which are primarily the ease-of-deployment, customization, privacy, and monitoring.
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-By leveraging the ThreeFold P2P Cloud and its developer tools (the Edge Virtual Data Center, 3Bot Virtual Admin, the quantum safe filesystem) the Polygon community – developers and non-developers – receive the following benefits:
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-- They can easily get started and run their own validators nodes for their staking directly from the web, and in just a few clicks.
-- Polygon dApp developers can leverage ThreeFold's P2P infrastructure (compute and storage) to totally decentralize their IT infrastructure, and not rely on centralized cloud providers
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-Together we will expand Polygon's community-led Blockchain across the geographical edges, while creating a more inclusive and cost-effective participation model for anybody on earth to be involved in the growing Polygon ecosystem.
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-  - 1-click Matic validator node deployment
--Q1 2021 
-   - Matic’s ETH  SideChain integration  with the ThreeFold grid and 3BOT:  Build autonomous Ethereum dApps on Matic, powered by ThreeFold’s P2P cloud
-Q2 2021
-   - Additional 1-click storage and compute solutions for the Matic community
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-id: safe_city
-title: Safe City
-description: Safe City is a technology partner, with a core focus on deploying digital technologies within the UAE.
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-  tags: [technology]
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-    countries: []
-    cities: []
-    rank: 5
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-    image_caption: safe_city
-    partner_logo: images/safe_cityLogo.png
-    members: [ali_omari]
-    websites: https://www.safecity.com
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/safecitygroup/
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-![safe_city](images/safe_city2.png)
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-## About
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-Safe City is a technology partner, with a core focus on deploying digital technologies within the UAE. They are currently working on deploying autonomous driving cars, advanced police vehicle integrations and secure data center facilities across the UAE. SafeCity would will implement TF Platform to scale smart city features to bridge Capacity, IOT, security and safety in their ongoing projects.
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-title: SelfKey
-description: SelfKey is a fast-growing blockchain startup developing digital identity solutions.
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-    members: []
-    websites: https://selfkey.org
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: ''
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-![selfkey](images/selfkey2.jpg)
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-## About
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-SelfKey is a fast-growing blockchain startup developing digital identity solutions that empowers individuals and corporations to truly own, control, and manage their identity data. They provide non-custodial wallets whereby you are in full control of your data, documents and digital assets. 
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-Currently, ThreeFold and SelfKey are exploring various use cases including potential KYC for ThreeFold Farmers and more.
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-id: sequoyah
-title: Sequoyah
-description: Build a decentralized banking system where by each user will have access to multiple digital and market assets at the palm of their hand.
-template: partnerPage.html
-taxonomies:
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-  tags: [technology]
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-    countries: [Denmark]
-    cities: [Copenhagen]
-    rank: 4
-    imgPath: images/sequoyah.png
-    image_caption: sequoyah
-    partner_logo: images/sequoyahLogo.png
-    members: [dennis_lindberg]
-    websites: https://sequoyah.dk/
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: ''
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-![sequoyah](images/sequoyah2.png)
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-## About
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-Sequoyah is the leading provider of diamonds, alloys and prefabricated alloys to jewelers and designers in Denmark and Scandinavia.
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-## Mission
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-Ecologically sound, conflict-free sources for diamonds and alloys, and provide a safe haven for their customers' data - the gold of the internet.
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-## Impact
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-A partnership with TF Tech to build a decentralized banking system where by each user will have access to multiple digital and market assets at the palm of their hand.
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-## Powered by ThreeFold
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-In partnership with ThreeFold, Sequoyah will build on top of the ThreeFold Grid to secure both the identity of their customers and their digital assets. ThreeFold represents a gateway to to both fiat & cryptocurrencies and Sequoyah plans to create a token that is fully backed by gold and that is exchangeable over the counter with other cryptocurrencies.

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-title: SKALE
-description: Run your dApps in a decentralized modular cloud built for real-world needs and configured for your requirements.
-template: partnerPage.html
-taxonomies:
-  partners-category: []
-  tags: [blockchain]
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-    countries: [USA]
-    cities: [San Francisco]
-    rank: 3
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-    image_caption: skale_labs
-    partner_logo: images/skale_labsLogo.png
-    members: [christine_renee_perry]
-    websites: https://skale.network/
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/skale-labs/
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-![skale](images/skale_labs2.png)
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-## About
-
-[SKALE](https://skale.network/) is an elastic blockchain network that gives developers the ability to easily provision highly configurable fully decentralized chains that are instantly compatible with Ethereum.
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-- SKALE chains can execute sub-second block times, run up to 2,000 tps per chain, and run full-state smart contracts in addition to decentralized storage, execute Rollups, and machine learning in EVM.
-- The SKALE Network is an open-source project with many contributors including SKALE Labs.
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-## Powered by ThreeFold
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-The SKALE and ThreeFold collaboration focuses on solving scalability and decentralization limitations faced by Ethereum and blockchain developers. The effort empowers the SKALE developer community, and Web3 developers, with the ThreeFold Peer-to-Peer Cloud, enabling them to:
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-- Build highly scalable dApps on Ethereum using SKALE’s elastic Blockchain network
-- Completely decentralize their IT infrastructure using ThreeFold’s P2P compute, storage, and networking capacities, providing far more affordability, privacy, and decentralization through its native cloud automation and Smart Contract for IT
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-title: Stellar
-description: Stellar is an open-source network for currencies and payments.
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-    countries: []
-    cities: []
-    rank: 3
-    imgPath: images/stellar.png
-    image_caption: stellar
-    partner_logo: images/stellarLogo.png
-    members: []
-    websites: https://www.stellar.org
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stellar-development-foundation/
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-![stellar](images/stellar2.jpg)
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-<br/>
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-## About
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-Stellar is an open-source network for currencies and payments. Stellar makes it possible to create, send and trade digital representations of all forms of money—dollars, pesos, bitcoin, pretty much anything. It’s designed so all the world’s financial systems can work together on a single network.
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-TFT lives on the Stellar Blockchain. TFT holders benefit from a big ecosystem of proven wallets and mediums of exchange. Stellar's mission to promote financial inclusion is completely aligned with the ThreeFold's vision  for an inclusive Internet.
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-title: ThreeFold Chapters
-description: Chapters are independent groups of people and organizations who are representing and promoting the ThreeFold Movement.
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-  tags: []
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-    countries: []
-    cities: []
-    rank: 5
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-    category: []
-    members: []
-    websites: 
-    tags: []
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-    linkedin: ''
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-# ThreeFold Chapters
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-Chapters are independent groups of people and organizations who are representing and promoting the ThreeFold Foundation, Ecosystem & Technology to the general public and assist newcomers to onboard within the TF ecosystem. Chapters themselves may also be engaged in farming, product development and investment within the ThreeFold Ecosystem. In order to start a TF Chapter one needs to become a TF Ambassador. 
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-If you feel inspired to create your own chapter, please connect with the TF Ambassador Admin Team to get started! ([Owen Kemp](http://t.me/OwenKemp), [Gregor Sideris](http://t.me/Gregsideris), [Simin Gerards](http://t.me/simings), Nisha Grimes or [Olivia Jurado](http://t.me/juradoo))
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-#### Cherry Chapter, Vienna 
-Vienna based farm. A company established similar to agricultural cooperative consisting of so far 17 members paying membership fee which is used to purchase farming equipment. Can scale infinitely. Onboarding of  small investors via a registered cooperative
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-<br/>
-Coordinator: Wolfgang Wittmer
-
-[ Cherry Chapter on FreeFlow Pages](https://freeflowpages.com/s/vienna-cherry-chapter/space/space/home )
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-#### Lisbon In Tech, Portugal  
-Attracts developers to use the TF Grid and design relevant solutions to the local communities
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-Coordinators: Stela Suils Cuesta & Osama Shihab Fitoria
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-[Connect via Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/Lisbon-in-Tech/)
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-#### Team Orange, Netherlands
-Tokenizing prize money at Golf Club; offering info sessions at Club House; installing wallets with members
-
-Coordinators: Rob Tol & Oscar Landman
-
-[Team Oragne on FreeFlow Pages](https://freeflowpages.com/s/team-orange/)  
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-
-#### DaVinci Chapter, Belgium 
-Education on blockchain and crypto to youth groups.
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-Coordinators: Gert De Spiegeleer
-
-
-#### ThreeFold Americas Chapter  
-TFAmericas is a chapter to include all the Americas and in it there are subchapters from different regions/areas in the Americas. TF AMericas will be used as a section of information on activities/events etc happening in the Americas. This may include cross references to the TFYouthGroup or the TFLove initiatives in the Americas. Subchapter in Reno, NV wants to assist TFTech and TF Foundation to pursue government contracts to put capacity in rural areas, on tribal lands, in community colleges and to engage in projects with the University of Nevada innovation centers (public). To engage in community meetings to begin TF farming and other use cases for industry, for individuals and small businesses. ThreeFold KMC would be a subchapter of the Americas Chapter. The description of that subchapter is below. 
-
-Coordinator: Jennifer Long
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-[Americas Chapter FreeFlowPages](https://freeflowpages.com/s/tf-americas/ ) 
-
-#### ThreeFold KCM Chapter, USA
-Community engagement and TF Farming opportunities in the Kansas City Metro area.
-
-Coordinator: Michael Gaffney 
-
-
-#### TF Youth Chapter, Ibiza
-Creates partnerships and projects that promote TF among youth communities, and aims to make youth engagement programs a primary social impact activity related to TF.
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-Coordinators: Isabelle Peeters 
-
-[ Youth Chapter on FreeFlowPages](https://freeflowpages.com/s/tf-youth-chapter/)
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-#### TF Istanbul Chapter, Turkey
-Aims to serve ThreeFold in grid expansion, fundraising, strategic business development, networking, PR and Marketing activities via utilizing the favourable demographics and the technological hub and ecosystem dynamics in Turkey and in the surrounding geography. 
-
-Coordinators: Simin Gerards
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-#### ThreeFold Talks, UAE
-A meetup style forum for free flow discussion, talks and community engagement. Focused on topics such as innovation, collaboration, decentralization, social impact, tech for good, digital currency, sharing economy, circular economy, green tech, blockchain, Dapps (decentralized applications), sustainability and ThreeFold technologies. Based in Dubai, UAE - sponsored by Mazraa. 
-
-Coordinators: Olivia Jurado & Adnan Fatayerji 
-
-[TF Talks on FreeFlow Pages](https://freeflowpages.com/s/threefold-talks/)
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-
-#### ThreeFold CIS Chapter, Ukraine
-Representative chapter based in Ukraine for Russian speaking community to assist Russian speaking farmers, token users, projects to join ThreeFold ecosystem. 
-
-Coordinator: Valentin Korobko
-
-[CIS Chapter on FreeFlowPages](https://freeflowpages.com/s/threefold-sng-tf-cis-chapter/)
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-#### Co:Inpetto, Belgium & Netherlands 
-Co:Inpetto connects projects to the TF Grid.
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-Coordinator: Lieve Vereycken 
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-[Co:Inpetto FreeFlowPages](https://freeflowpages.com/s/coinpetto/)

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-title: ThreeFold Foundation
-description: The ThreeFold Foundation along with its partners is growing the ThreeFold Grid and a new peer-to-peer internet.
-template: partnerPage.html
-taxonomies:
-  partners-category: [aci]
-  tags: [impact, community, farming]
-extra:
-  countries: [UAE, Switzerland, Belgium]
-  cities: [Dubai, Lugano, Ghent]
-  rank: 1
-  imgPath: images/threefold_foundation.png
-  image_caption: threefold_foundation
-  partner_logo: images/threefold_foundationLogo.png
-  members: [kristof_de_spiegeleer, roel_van_sabben, kristine_vilnite, sam_taggart, sacha_obegadoo, adnan_fatayerji, karoline_zizka, maximilian_rang]
-  websites: https://www.threefold.io
-  private: 0
-  linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/threefold-foundation/
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-<br/>
-
-![threefold_foundation](images/threefold_foundation2.png)
-
-<br/>
-
-## About
-
-Today's internet is fundamentally broken. Less than 60% of the world has access, it is being fragmented into pieces, its users (and their data) are exploited by big corporations, and it consumes up to 10% of the world's energy. It is powered by large, centralized data centers which benefit specific geographic regions and leave the rest behind. The ThreeFold Grid is the answer. "Nodes" distributed around the world and owned by independent ThreeFold Farmers create the physical infrastructure that empowers a new, democratized, peer-to-peer internet based on our values of equality (access), autonomy (digital sovereignty), and sustainability (for our planet).
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-<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/412749710" width="800" height="450" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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-## Mission
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-Growing a green and responsible peer-to-peer Internet that is available everywhere and owned by everyone – across geographical and cultural borders, empowering people to be digitally independent and providing equal chances to learn, partake and succeed.
-
-## Impact
-
-ThreeFold's Grid will help to give data sovereignty back to people and countries, give access to information, knowledge, communication and financial tools and more, to billions of people in countries lacking in internet infrastructure and help dramatically reduce the footprint of our current internet by using smaller and more efficient mini data nodes.
-
-## Powered by ThreeFold
-
-The ThreeFold Grid provides a global mesh network to run and store our internet applications and services. It is the fundamental backbone of a new internet that empowers our planet and humanity.
-
-## Join saving our planet
- 
-The world needs a new, more responsible internet – one that is more accessible, empowers its users, and minimizes energy consumption. If not us, who? If not now, when?
-
-<!-- ## Support this project
-
-TF Foundation is included in ThreeFold’s [Token Distribution Event (TDE)](https://library.threefold.me/info/tfgrid/#/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 TF Foundation, and the growth of a new Conscious Internet. -->
-
-<!-- ## TFGrid Solution
-
-### Roadmap
-
-- Q3 2020
-  - Promotion Phase I
-- Q3 2020
-  - TF Grid Enhancements
-- Q4 2020
-  - TF Grid user interface
-- Q1 2021
-  - Promotion Phase II
- -->

archive/partners/threefold_grid/index.md

@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
----
-id: threefold_grid
-title: ThreeFold Grid
-description: The ThreeFold Grid is built by independent people that together create a pool of connected compute and storage capacity.
-template: partnerPage.html
-taxonomies:
-  partners-category: []
-  tags: []
-extra:
-    countries: []
-    cities: []
-    rank: 5
-    imgPath: images/placeholder.jpg
-    image_caption: threefold_grid
-    partner_logo: images/logo_threefold_grid.png
-    members: []
-    websites: https://threefold.tech/
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: ''
----
-
-# The ThreeFold Grid
-
-## About
-
-The ThreeFold Grid is built by independent people that together create a pool of connected compute and storage capacity. This is a tokenomy where compute hardware mints a stable currency (the TF Token) which is used to rent capacity on the grid to run current and future IT workloads.  The currency should be a stable currency and ThreeFold hopes it will be a currency that us used in local economies for many other value transaction ad well.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-This WIKI presents the basic information required to participate in the ThreeFold Grid.  There are a number of different ways to use the technology:
-<br/>
-<br/>
-
-- **as a farmer minting ThreeFold tokens**: farmers investment in hardware to build and operate the internet capacity pool.  Farmers purchase and operate compute and storage hardware that they list on the TF Grid by downloading and installing ThreeFold software.  A farmer mints the ThreeFold token(s).  Farmers come in many different size and shapes.  Farmers can be individuals that have a spare computer or some spare cash.  Farmers can also be companies that actively go out and find people to invest in there business of building farming sites and mint Threefold tokens.  An example of with a company is [Green Edge Cloud](https://www.greenedgecloud.com/)
-- **as a developer using the TF grid to create and run IT workloads by using Farmers capacity**:
-these are people that build services and applications on the TF Grid.
-- **as a customer is using applications and services developed by developers on Farmers capacity**:  
-customers use applications on the TF Grid and consume TF Grid resources for which they pay in TF tokens.
-
-<!-- 
-## Mission
-
-## Impact
-
-## Powered by ThreeFold
-
-## Join saving our planet!
-
-## Support this project
-
-## TFGrid Solution
-
-### Roadmap -->

archive/partners/threefold_love/index.md

@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
----
-id: threefold_love
-title: ThreeFold Love
-description: A tokenized initiative promoting the TF Token Economy while supporting the growth of worthy causes and projects.
-template: partnerPage.html
-taxonomies:
-  partners-category: []
-  tags: []
-date: 2020-04-20
-extra:
-    countries: []
-    cities: []
-    rank: 5
-    imgPath: images/placeholder.jpg
-    image_caption: threefold_love
-    partner_logo: images/logo_threefold_love.png
-    members: [olivia_jurado]
-    websites: https://www.threefold.love/
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: ''
----
-
-# ThreeFold Love
-
-## About
-
-A tokenized initiative promoting the TF Token Economy while supporting the growth of worthy causes and projects.  
-<br/>
-<br/>
-
-- TF Love Stories, ThreeFold Love Farm, Love Nodes
-- Public & TF Community Engagement 
-- Empowering women and marginalized communities by guiding them into the digital economy
-- Alternative fundraising methods for grassroots projects
-- Digital Platform (coming soon)
-- Connect with us and share your love stories with us on FFP, Instagram [@threefold.love](https://www.instagram.com/threefold.love/), Twitter [@love_threefold](https://twitter.com/love_threefold) & FB
-<br/>
-<br/>
-Purchase TF Love branded fair trade merchandise and TF Love swag (stickers, pins, t-shirts, caps etc.) that directly support the causes we partner with. [ TFTs Accepted :) ]
-
-## Mission
-
-ThreeFold Love is a people-centered movement behind the technology, working on the ground to activate and engage communities around the world to come together to become more responsible digital citizens and inviting nonprofits, grassroots organizations and the rapid expanding global conscious community into the fold.
-
-<!-- ## Impact
-
-## Powered by ThreeFold
-
-## Join saving our planet!
-
-## Support this project
-
-## TFGrid Solution
-
-### Roadmap
-
- -->
-

archive/partners/threefold_tech/index.md

@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
----
-id: threefold_tech
-title: ThreeFold Tech
-description: Powering the Information Technology workloads of tomorrow.
-template: partnerPage.html
-taxonomies:
-  partners-category: []
-  tags: [technology, infrastructure]
-extra:
-    countries: [Belgium]
-    cities: [Lochristi]
-    rank: 1
-    imgPath: images/threefold_tech.png
-    image_caption: threefold tech
-    partner_logo: images/threefold_techLogo.jpg
-    members: [kristof_de_spiegeleer, christopher_hutton, andreas_hartl, roel_van_sabben, sabrina_sadik, owen_kemp]
-    websites: https://threefold.tech/
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/threefold-tech/
----
-
-<br/>
-
-![threefold_tech](images/threefold_tech2.png)
-
-<br/>
-
-## About
-
-ThreeFold Tech is a company based on 15+ years of tech experience. (Established in Belgium.) Their Autonomous IT technology is positioned to disrupt IT infrastructure across sectors – internet, banking, telco, etc.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-ThreeFold Technology empowers a grid of IT capacity, which today is 10x bigger than all other blockchain players combined. More than $15MM USD has been spent creating this technology.
-
-## Mission
-
-Empowering data privacy and sovereignty through decentralized Web 3.0 infrastructure. The cure to the cyber pandemic.
-
-## Impact
-
-- Better security
-- More uptime
-- Greater efficiencies 
-- Endless scalability
-
-## Powered by ThreeFold
-
-ThreeFold Foundation is focused on democratizing internet compute and storage capacity to enable a responsible Internet for all. This is the primary reference of ThreeFold Tech. TFTech software empowers people to create neutral, green and private capacity across the globe that’s blockchain-driven and 100% decentralized. This “hyper-distributed” network enables developers from all over the world to bring to life decentralized applications and solutions, and digital service/application providers to host their applications closer to end users.
-
-<!-- # Support this project
-
-Make a wise investment.
-Make a positive impact.
-
-Become a TF Tech investor https://www.threefold.tech/investors.html -->
-<!-- 
-## TFGrid Solution
-
-### Roadmap
-
- -->

archive/partners/veda/index.md

@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
----
-id: veda
-title: Veda
-description: Discover ancient Egypt and feel its special energies.
-template: partnerPage.html
-taxonomies:
-  partners-category: [aci]
-  tags: [community, experience]
-extra:
-    countries: [Egypt]
-    cities: [Nile]
-    rank: 1
-    imgPath: images/veda.png
-    image_caption: veda
-    partner_logo: images/vedaLogo.png
-    members: [isabelle_peeters]
-    websites: https://www.veda-egypt.com
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: ''
----
-
-<br/>
-
-![veda](images/veda2.jpg)
-
-<br/>
-
-## About
-
-VEDA offers unique, authentic, and private cruises with organic food, green energy, and a warm-hearted crew. There is no other experience like us on the Nile.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-From time to time, ThreeFold gathers on the Nile on VEDA boats with partners and investors to share, connect, and build.
-
-<!-- ## Impact
-
-## Powered by ThreeFold
-
-## Join saving our planet!
-
-## Support this project
-
-## TFGrid Solution
-
-### Roadmap
- -->
-
-

archive/partners/waykichain/index.md

@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
----
-id: waykichain
-title: Waykichain
-description: Community driven Blockchain for DeFi and financial dApps.
-template: partnerPage.html
-taxonomies:
-  partners-category: []
-  tags: [blockchain]
-extra:
-    countries: [Hong Kong]
-    cities: []
-    rank: 3
-    imgPath: images/waykichain.png
-    image_caption: waykichain
-    partner_logo: images/waykichainLogo.png
-    members: [richard_chen]
-    websites: https://www.waykichain.com/
-    private: 0
-    linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/waykichain%E7%BB%B4%E5%9F%BA%E9%93%BE/
----
-
-<br/>
-
-![waykichain](images/waykichain2.png)
-
-<br/>
-
-## About 
-
-[WaykiChain](https://www.waykichain.com/) is a prominent blockchain platform based in China with a global community.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-It is a DPoS (Delegated Proof of Stake) public blockchain that is highly scalable and with high-performance transaction processing capabilities (TPS 3300) and an efficient consensus mechanism.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-WaykiChain has a variety of product lines, with the WaykiChain core wallet, the WaykiTimes and their DeFi-vertical technologies that are built within the core layer of blockchain, i.e. the crypto-asset backed stablecoin technology as well as its built-in decentralized exchange.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-Waykichain’s blockchain enables developers to build performing dApps on top of it using its developer tools, and has throughout these 3 years, built an extended ecosystem of Dapps.
-
-## WaykiChain and ThreeFold
-
-ThreeFold and WaykiChain found clear alignment on decentralizing the Internet for people and businesses and share the same core values that encompass their respective visions.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-By using The ThreeFold P2P cloud and the 3Bot, The WaykiChain community of developers, non-developers, and node operators are enabled to deploy and maintain their WaykiChain nodes and any of their IT workloads in just a few clicks directly from the browser or from a local machine.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-ThreeFold's compute, storage, and networking capacities empower them to decentralize their cloud-computing infrastructures, with far more affordability and distribution compared to centralized cloud-providers, and with native cloud automation via ThreeFold’s Smart contract for IT.
-
-<!-- ## TFGrid Solution
-
-### Roadmap -->
-
-

build.sh

@@ -1,32 +1,34 @@
 echo "Starting build..."
 
+SOURCE=${BASH_SOURCE[0]}
+DIR_OF_THIS_SCRIPT="$( dirname "$SOURCE" )"
+ABS_DIR_OF_SCRIPT="$( realpath $DIR_OF_THIS_SCRIPT )"
+
 # TODO: Check if current version is latest to avoid redundant installation
 if [[ -f "tailwindcss" ]]
 then
-    echo "Tailwind installed"
+    rm tailwindcss
-else
-    # rm tailwindcss
-    # checks os and architecture for correct release
-    # https://stackoverflow.com/a/8597411 
-    echo "Installing & building tailwind..."
-    ASSET="tailwindcss"
-
-    if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "linux-gnu"* ]]; then
-        ASSET="$ASSET-linux"
-    elif [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
-        ASSET="$ASSET-macos"
-    fi
-    if [[ "$(uname -m)" == "x86_64"* ]]; then
-        ASSET="$ASSET-x64"
-    elif [[ "$(uname -m)" == "arm64"* ]]; then
-        ASSET="$ASSET-arm64"
-    fi
-
-    curl -sLO "https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/releases/latest/download/${ASSET}"
-    chmod +x $ASSET
-    mv $ASSET tailwindcss
 fi
 
+# checks os and architecture for correct release
+# https://stackoverflow.com/a/8597411 
+echo "Installing & building tailwind..."
+ASSET="tailwindcss"
+
+if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "linux-gnu"* ]]; then
+    ASSET="$ASSET-linux"
+elif [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
+    ASSET="$ASSET-macos"
+fi
+if [[ "$(uname -m)" == "x86_64"* ]]; then
+    ASSET="$ASSET-x64"
+elif [[ "$(uname -m)" == "arm64"* ]]; then
+    ASSET="$ASSET-arm64"
+fi
+
+curl -sLO "https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/releases/download/v3.4.17/${ASSET}"
+chmod +x $ASSET
+mv $ASSET tailwindcss
 
 
 # initialized and configures tailwind if not configured
@@ -41,6 +43,4 @@ fi
 echo "Compiling tailwindcss and building zola project..."
 rm -rf public static/css
 ./tailwindcss -i css/index.css -o ./static/css/index.css --minify
-zola build
+zola --root $ABS_DIR_OF_SCRIPT build
-
-

config.toml

@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ external_links_no_referrer = true
 # For example, `...` into `…`, `"quote"` into `“curly”` etc
 smart_punctuation = true
 
+[build]
+not_found = "404.md"
+
 [[taxonomies]]
 name = "categories"
 feed = true
@@ -83,13 +86,13 @@ paginate_path = "tags"
 
 [[taxonomies]]
 name = "people"
-feed = true
+feed = false
 paginate_by = 9
 paginate_path = "people"
 
 [[taxonomies]]
 name = "memberships"
-feed = true
+feed = false
 paginate_by = 8
 paginate_path = "people/memberships"
 

content/404.md

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+title: "404"
+description: ""
+insert_anchor_links: "left"
+template: "404.html"
+
+---
+

content/_index.md

@@ -1,204 +1,12 @@
 ---
-title: "Home"
+title: "ThreeFold"
-description: "ThreeFold is the world’s first system enabling anyone to become a cloud and internet service provider." # quotation marks to allow colons where used
+description: "TF offers a secure, sovereign infrastructure layer for the Internet, delivering unparalleled scalability, incorruptible and permanent data storage, AI and Web2/Web3/Edge compatibility, and 100% uptime for a resilient digital future." # quotation marks to allow colons where used
-date: 2018-09-14T21:00:00-05:00
+#date: 2018-09-14T21:00:00-05:00
-updated: 2021-02-20T14:40:00-06:00
+#updated: 2021-02-20T14:40:00-06:00
 draft: false
 extra:
-  author: Your name here
+  author: ThreeFold
-  imgPath: home/header_new.jpeg
+  imgPath: home/tf.png
 ---
 
 
-<!-- section 1 (header) -->
-
-{% row(style="center") %}
-
-<br/>
-<br/>
-
-![Image](images/black_threefold_header.png#mx-auto#medium)
-
-<br/>
-
-## The (Re)Birth of **the Internet.**
-
-ThreeFold is a peer-to-peer open-source Internet platform that connects users directly with <br> local Internet capacity provided by farmers. No intermediaries such as centralized servers.
-
-{% end %}
-
-{% row(style="center narrow") %}
-
-<button>[Build](/build)</button>
-
-|||
-
-<button>[Farm](/farm)</button>
-
-|||
-
-<button>[Main Chat](https://t.me/threefold)</button>
-
-|||
-
-<button>[Get TFT](https://manual.grid.tf/threefold_token/buy_sell_tft/buy_sell_tft.html)</button>
-
-{% end %}
-
-<!-- section 2 (Map) -->
-
-
-{% grid_stats() %}
-
-### The ThreeFold Grid v3.7.0
-
-## **Live and Operational**
-
-{% end %}
-
-
-<!-- section 3 (EXPAND) -->
-
-{% row(style="center narrow") %}
-
-## Together **We Build.**
-
-The future is about decentralization, participation, and working together to achieve our goals. As a decentralized movement, we encourage the community to get involved. This new Internet can only succeed if we find ways to collaborate where we together pull this Internet concept forward. Below, please find some of the ways you can join us in building a better Internet.
-
-{% end %}
-
-{% row(style="center narrow") %}
-
-![Image](images/become_farmer_new.jpg#mx-auto)
-
-<br>
-
-### Farm Local Internet Capacity **and Earn TFT**
-
-By connecting hardware at your home or office – or anywhere you'd like – you provide Internet capacity for the people around you and earn a new digital currency, TFT.
-
-{% end %}
-
-{% row(style="center narrow") %}
-
-<button>[Buy a 3Node](http://marketplace.3node.global/)</button>
-
-|||
-
-<button>[Build a 3Node](https://library.threefold.me/info/threefold#/tfgrid/farming/threefold__diy_guide)</button>
-
-|||
-
-<button>[Farmers Chat](https://t.me/threefoldfarmers)</button>
-
-{% end %}
-
-{% row(style="center narrow") %}
-
-![Image](images/network_new.jpg#mx-auto)
-
-<br>
-
-### Build On Top of a **Decentralized Infrastructure**
-
-True digital sovereignty for open-source builders. The ThreeFold Grid provides limitless possibilities, and brings a playground of industry-compatible easy-to-deploy solutions for developers.
-
-{% end %}
-
-{% row(style="center narrow") %}
-
-<button>[Deploy on ThreeFold](https://dashboard.grid.tf/)</button>
-
-|||
-
-<button>[The Manual](https://manual.grid.tf/)</button>
-
-|||
-
-<button>[Builders Chat](https://t.me/threefoldtesting)</button>
-
-{% end %}
-
-<!-- section 4 (FEATURED STORIES) -->
-
-{% featured_stories() %}
-
-## Featured Stories
-
-{% end %}
-
-<!-- section 5 (THE TEAM) -->
-
-{% team_sec() %}
-
-## **The Team**
-
-{% end %}
-
-<!-- section 6 (PARTNERS) -->
-
-{% row(style="center margin") %}
-
-## Believers and Collaborators <br> **In a Better Internet**
-
-We are truly proud to be trusted by some of the biggest names in the industry.
-
-![Image](images/ourpartners.png#mx-auto)
-
-<button>[Check All Partners](partners)</button>
-
-{% end %}
-
-<br>
-
-<br>
-
-<!-- section 7 (IN THE NEWS) -->
-
-{% row(style="center") %}
-
-## **In the News**
-
-{% end %}
-
-{% row(style="center between") %}
-
-[![forbes](images/forbes.png#mx-auto)](https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/06/20/largest-distributed-peer-to-peer-grid-on-the-planet-laying-foundation-for-a-decentralized-internet/?fbclid=IwAR1WKCpqLcWPRWg5bPD6RCQE5JJjRPt6ey5vbEnu3db2FvJnp6-YKeVZNW8#79aa340e6798)
-
-|||
-
-[![cointelegraph](images/cointelegraph.png#mx-auto)](https://cointelegraph.com/news/peer-to-peer-internet-has-lofty-goal-to-bring-true-decentralization)
-
-|||
-
-[![yahoo_news](images/yahoo_news.png#mx-auto)](https://news.yahoo.com/news/threefold-set-disrupt-status-quo-051457787.html?guccounter=1)
-
-{% end %}
-
-{% row(style="center between") %}
-
-[![hackernoon](images/hackernoon.png#mx-auto)](https://hackernoon.com/is-it-possible-to-create-a-decentralized-internet-this-startup-and-its-farmers-think-so-ey2e3ycf)
-
-|||
-
-[![smartereum](images/smartereum.png#mx-auto)](https://smartereum.com/189750/threefold-is-audaciously-building-a-new-decentralized-internet/)
-
-|||
-
-[![tga_daily](images/tga_daily.png#mx-auto)](https://tgdaily.com/web/6-dfinity-threefold-are-leading-an-internet-decentralization-revolution/)
-
-{% end %}
-
-{% row(style="center between") %}
-
-[![cointelegraph](images/cointelegraph.png#mx-auto)](https://cointelegraph-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/cointelegraph.com/news/is-a-new-decentralized-internet-or-web-3-0-possible/amp)
-
-|||
-
-[![banklesstimes](images/banklesstimes.png#mx-auto)](https://www.banklesstimes.com/2021/06/14/threefolds-green-technology-strategy-to-a-fairer-more-sustainable-world/)
-
-|||
-
-[![grit_daily](images/grit_daily.png#mx-auto)](https://gritdaily.com/belarus-governments-control-internet/)
-
-{% end %}

content/about/index.md

@@ -1,143 +1,209 @@
 ---
-title: "About"
+title: "about"
-description: "About a decade ago, a group of passionate Internet & Cloud veterans came together to build a system." # quotation marks to allow colons where used
+description: "Our mission is to empower individuals and organizations with secure, private, and autonomous access to computing resources, ensuring fair cloud access for everyone." # quotation marks to allow colons where used
 template: "page.html"
 insert_anchor_links: "left"
 extra:
-  author: Your name here
+ author: ThreeFold
-  imgPath: about/people.png
+ imgPath: tf.png
 ---
 
 <!-- section 1 (header) -->
 
+ <div class="px-4 mt-12 lg:py-24 py-12 lg:px-8">
+ <div class="mx-auto max-w-5xl text-center fade-in">
 
-<div class="container mx-auto">
+# The Internet Needs an Upgrade
 
-{% row(style="header") %}
+The Internet brings the world together, yet much of it is now concentrated in the hands of a few powerful corporations. This wasn't its original intent. The Internet was envisioned as a decentralized, open space. A tool for freedom, collaboration, and equal access for all.
-
-![Image](people.png#mx-auto)
-
-|||
-
-## Founded by <span class="blue">**Internet 1.0 Pioneers**</span>
-
-About a decade ago, a group of passionate Internet & cloud veterans came together to build a system which can grow to a scalable, safe, compatible, and co-owned IT infrastructure.
-
-{% end %}
-
-
-
-
-<!-- section 2  -->
-
-{% row( style="center narrow mtop") %}
-
-## **Our Why**
-
-Pioneering a new digital era, ThreeFold empowers communities to reclaim digital sovereignty and promote collective prosperity online.
-
-{% end %}
-
-{% row( style="center semiNarrow") %}
-
-<div class="shadow-md border-solid border-2 border-gray-100 rounded-md p-2 lg:p-4 my-0 lg:my-4">
-
-![Image](nations.png#mx-auto)
 
 <br>
 
-#### **Empower Nations**
+**ThreeFold has invented a new Data, Network, and Cloud system as an engine for the new Internet.**
 
-Most countries only rely on cable networks, meaning they lack control over their own digital infrastructure.
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ 
+<!----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
 
+<!-- section 2 (reason) -->
 
-</div>
+{{ description_blockquote(
+    title="The Reason Behind It All",
 
-|||
+    description_1="The Internet started as a peer-to-peer network, but over time it has become fragile and overly centralized. This shift has led to serious issues: data centers are extremely expensive to build and maintain, privacy and security are compromised, misinformation is rampant, and half the world remains poorly connected.",
 
-<div class="shadow-md border-solid border-2 border-gray-100 rounded-md p-2 lg:p-4 my-0 lg:my-4">
+    description_2="Big tech companies now dominate the Internet, tracking our activities and influencing our decisions, consolidating control in ways that don't serve everyone equally.",
 
-![Image](own.png#mx-auto)
+    description_3="For +30 years, we’ve dedicated ourselves to this vision, and ThreeFold is the culmination of that journey. Today, we have a fully operational product (V3) and a thriving community of farmers, users, and partners.",
+
+    description_4="Therefore we believe the Internet needs a fresh start—one that addresses these challenges with a focus on authenticity, equality, and sustainability for everyone."  
+) }}
+
+<!----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
+
+<!-- section 3 (AI) -->
+
+ <div class="px-4 mt-12 lg:py-24 py-12 lg:px-8">
+ <div class="mx-auto max-w-4xl text-center fade-in">
+
+## AI needs to be decentralized
+
+We are at the dawn of AI, a transformative force that will redefine how we live, work, and interact with technology. AI presents an incredible opportunity for humanity, however, as AI systems become more powerful, their control sits in the hands of a few corporations, raising serious concerns around privacy, bias, accessibility, and so on.
 
 <br>
 
-#### **Own Your Data**
+Further, centralized cloud providers are bottlenecks, as AI compute demand is outpacing supply and training AI models is too expensive.
-
-Today, most of the cloud is owned and operated by few major companies taking all the profits and control of Internet.
-
-</div>
-
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-<div class="shadow-md border-solid border-2 border-gray-100 rounded-md p-2 lg:p-4 my-0 lg:my-4">
-
-![Image](human_right.png#mx-auto)
 
 <br>
 
-#### **A Basic Human Right**
+We must not repeat mistakes of the past. Without decentralization, AI will remain controlled by a few corporations—limiting accessibility, innovation, and independence. To ensure AI benefits everyone, we must advocate for decentralized, open-source AI models that are transparent, ethical, and community-driven. And this can only happen on an infrastructure like ThreeFold.
 
-Billions of people are being left behind due to the IT landscape’s centralized infrastructure.
+ </div>
+ </div>
 
-</div>
+<!----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
 
-|||
+ <!-- section 4 (web4) -->
 
-<div class="shadow-md border-solid border-2 border-gray-100 rounded-md p-2 lg:p-4 my-0 lg:my-4">
+ <div class="px-4 lg:px-8 lg:py-24 py-12">
+ <div class="mx-auto max-w-7xl fade-in">
 
-![Image](greener.png#mx-auto)
+## The Vision for a New Internet
+
+<div class="max-w-3xl">
+
+Unlike traditional internet infrastructure, which relies on centralized data centers and corporate control, ThreeFold is built on a global mesh of independent cloud providers—individuals and organizations who contribute data, cloud and network power directly to the ecosystem.
 
 <br>
 
-#### **A Greener Planet Earth**
+This makes ThreeFold uniquely decentralized at the physical layer, eliminating single points of failure and gatekeepers. It’s a truly neutral and scalable foundation that puts privacy, resilience, and digital sovereignty at the core of the internet.
 
-Current IT infrastructures consume far too much energy. It's time we do something about it.
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+<!----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
+
+<!-- section 5 (timeline) -->
+
+ <div class="px-4 mt-12 lg:py-24 py-12 lg:px-8">
+ <div class="mx-auto max-w-3xl text-center fade-in">
+
+## ThreeFold’s Journey
+
+Over the past decades, we’ve tackled complex challenges in areas such as data storage, secure overlay networking, and autonomous cloud security. With significant experience in Internet and Cloud and a strong vision for the future, these pivotal milestones have shaped our growth and drive us towards a better digital future.
+
+ </div>
+
+ {{ timeline(
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+  title_1="Creation of Core Technology",
+  point_1_1="Open Source Development.",
+  point_1_2="Built decentralized, autonomous, edge internet technology.",
+  point_1_3="Self-funded and private investment from founders, community, and TF Tech investors.",
+
+  subtitle_2="Phase II",
+  title_2="Global Proof Of Concept.",
+  point_2_1="Open Source Development.",
+  point_2_2="50+ Countries.",
+  point_2_3="50,000+ Cores.",
+  point_2_4="25,000,000 GB of Storage.",
+  point_2_5="Thousands of enthusiasts actively engage with and contribute to the evolution of the ThreeFold Network.",
+  point_2_6="Decentralized reliable compute, network and storage layer for Web 2-3.",
+  point_2_7="Commitments from wonderful projects to build on top of us.",
+
+  subtitle_3="Current Phase – 2025",
+  title_3="Decentralized AI and Cloud",
+  point_3_1="Introduce 3Phone & 3Router.",
+  point_3_2="Introduce decentralized AI infrastructure and capabilities.",
+  point_3_3="Expand the network considerably.",
+  point_3_4="Build a network of commercial farmers for optimal performance and uptime.",
+  point_3_5="Expand the network considerably.",
+  point_3_6="Build a network of commercial farmers for optimal performance and uptime.",
+
+  subtitle_4="The Result",
+  title_4="Autonomy for All",
+  point_4_1="An upgraded Internet for Billions.",
+  point_4_2="A planet-and-people-first hybrid of Humans and machines delivers on the promise of Augmented Collective Intelligence."
+
+ ) }}
+
+ </div>
+
+<!----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
+
+<!-- section 6 (Values) -->
+
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+  title_1="Open Source.",
+  title_2="Authenticity.",
+  title_3="Simplicity."
+
+) }}
+
+<!----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
+
+<!-- section 7 (Team) -->
+
+<div class="lg:py-24 py-12 text-center">
+
+{{ text_center(
+    title="Founded by Internet 1.0 Pioneers and All of You",
+    description_1="The founders have been working in Internet technology since its early days when it operated as a decentralized, peer-to-peer network. ThreeFold is an open-source movement driven by a dedicated team and a vibrant community of contributors helping to bring our shared vision to life.",
+    description_2="The project is supported by over 50 full-time active developers.",
+    button_text_1="Meet the Team",
+    button_link_1="/people"
+
+) }}
 
 </div>
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-
 </div>
 
+<!----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
 
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+<!-- section 8 Cta -->
 
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+{{ cta(
-
+    title_1="Building a",
-<div class="container mx-auto">
+    title_2="New Internet,",
-
+    title_3="Together",  
-{% row( style="centerItem center semiNarrow margin") %}
+    button_text_1="Participate",
+    button_link_1="/signup",
+    button_text_2="Stay Updated",
+    button_link_2="https://t.me/threefoldnews"
+) }}
+
+
+  <style>
+    /* Define the fade-in animation */
+    @keyframes fadeIn {
+      0% {
+        opacity: 0;
+      }
+      100% {
+        opacity: 1;
+      }
+    }
+  
+    /* Apply the fade-in animation to elements with the 'fade-in' class */
+    .fade-in {
+      animation: fadeIn 4s ease-in-out forwards; /* Adjust the duration (2s) to make it slower or faster */
+    }
+  
+    /* Optional: Delay the animation for a more staggered effect */
+    h1, h2 {
+      animation-delay: 0.5s; /* Delay for header */
+    }
+  
+    p {
+      animation-delay: 1s; /* Delay for paragraphs */
+    }
+  </style>
 
 
-## **Our Mission**
-
-![Image](mission.png#mx-auto)
-
-<br>
-
-#### To Empower Human Potential
-
-The world needs a safe infrastructure to deploy cutting edge technology, where everyone can take part. We exist to make cloud capacity available everywhere on Earth, to help others host and create new digital experiences and to enable true decentralization.
-
-|||
-
-## **Our Vision**
-
-![Image](vision.png#mx-auto)
-
-<br>
-
-#### A Better Digital World
-
-We believe in an Internet where everyone can communicate freely, exchange fairly, access educational information, and own their own data. Our digital experiences should not addict nor manipulate, rather empower.
 
 
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content/blog/3_step_rollout/index.md

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+---
+id: 3_step_rollout
+title: The Three Step Rollout to a Sovereign Agentic Cloud
+image_caption: technology
+description: "ThreeFold is enabling a Sovereign Agentic Cloud through three architectural layers: Cloud, Network, and Agents – a new generation of cloud and AI infrastructure."
+date: 2025-10-17
+taxonomies:
+  people: [raj_mitra]
+  tags: [tech,grid,community]
+  categories: [tech,grid,cloud]
+extra:
+    imgPath: 3_step_rollout.png
+    isFeatured: true
+---
+
+The internet is evolving once again – but this time, not through the types of platforms or services that defined past waves. What we’re witnessing is the emergence of an **agentic internet**, where autonomous digital agents will become the foundation of online life.
+
+</br>
+
+This evolution could unfold in one of two directions:
+
+- **Centralized**, where a handful of corporations and governments control the agents, their data, and the infrastructure they run on
+- **Decentralized**, where individuals and communities own their agents, data, and digital environments, creating a more open, sovereign web.
+
+</br>
+
+At ThreeFold, we believe the decentralized path requires a new kind of digital foundation – one we call the **Sovereign Agentic Cloud**.
+
+</br>
+
+This is not just another version of the internet, it’s the necessary foundation for a decentralized digital ecosystem built for the future: a new generation of cloud and AI infrastructure that is faster, greener, smarter, private, and secure.
+
+</br>
+
+Our rollout to this future is unfolding now in three phases:
+
+- The Cloud: Live
+- The Network: Live
+- The Agents: January 2026
+
+</br>
+
+Each layer builds on the one before it, sequentially creating the architecture for a truly sovereign agentic cloud.
+
+</br>
+
+The **Cloud** lays the groundwork with decentralized compute and storage – the base layer of an independent digital life that expands as new capacity comes online across the grid.
+
+</br>
+
+But capacity alone means little without coordination. That’s where the **Network** comes in, connecting distributed nodes into an intelligent mesh where data, models, and services can move freely.
+
+</br>
+
+With computation and connectivity in place, the system becomes ready for cognition – the **Agents**. These self-owned AI agents emerge as the logical extension of the architecture, using the Cloud for processing and the Network for communication. Together, they form the first generation of decentralized, autonomous intelligence.
+
+### **The Cloud**
+The Cloud forms the foundation, a 100% Kubernetes-compatible compute and storage layer that operates as a global, distributed cloud.
+
+</br>
+
+Built on top of the ThreeFold Grid, it draws from independent capacity providers around the world. Each contributes compute, storage, and network resources, forming a resilient, peer-to-peer infrastructure that’s already live today.
+
+</br>
+
+This layer makes decentralized Kubernetes real and accessible. Developers can spin up clusters directly across the grid using familiar declarative workflows, autoscaling, monitoring, and logging tools – all without reliance on centralized cloud vendors.
+
+</br>
+
+The result is a production-grade environment that offers the usability of conventional clouds combined with the sovereignty, security, and resilience of decentralization. Developers gain the freedom to deploy applications anywhere, anytime, without gatekeepers.
+
+</br>
+
+While ThreeFold’s community-driven open-source cloud has been live for years with [builders already commercializing its resources](/blog/tf-decentralized-cloud-new/), this new Kubernetes-based solution marks a major evolution: simplified, commercial-ready, and purpose-built to host the next generation of autonomous agents. It’s the necessary foundation for the sovereign agentic cloud.
+
+<br/>
+
+Stay tuned this month for the release of the Kubernetes Cloud.
+
+### **The Network**
+The next step extends this foundation into a living, intelligent network layer.
+
+</br>
+
+This step introduces a full suite of decentralized network services – including VPN, DNS, CDN, and LLM gateways – all designed to make the underlying grid fully reachable, programmable, and autonomous.
+
+</br>
+
+These gateways transform ordinary grid nodes into public-facing endpoints, solving one of the hardest problems in decentralized hosting: achieving global accessibility while providing greater independence from scarce IPv4 addresses and centralized ISPs.
+
+</br>
+
+Traffic moves dynamically across the mesh. Every connection is encrypted end-to-end. And instead of relying on fixed routes or central ISPs, the network forms a peer-to-peer overlay that automatically discovers and maintains the most efficient path between nodes. 
+
+</br>
+
+When a node or connection goes down, the network self-heals, rerouting traffic in real time to maintain uptime. This allows workloads running anywhere on the grid, even on devices without public IPs, to communicate securely and act as if they were hosted in a single, unified data center. 
+
+</br>
+
+What sets this network apart is not just its autonomy, but its evolutionary behavior. As the grid grows, it adapts, reconfiguring routes, optimizing performance, and expanding reach.
+
+</br>
+
+Parts of the network are already operational, with ongoing developments making it ever more powerful, efficient, and resource-rich.
+
+### **The Agents**
+The final phase brings the architecture to life: the Agent Layer, the cognitive and operational tier of the Sovereign Agentic Cloud.
+
+</br>
+
+Within this layer, every person can have one or more Personal Agents – intelligent digital counterparts that manage tasks, workflows, and communication while maintaining full sovereignty over data and identity.
+
+</br>
+
+These personal agents can coordinate networks of "Worker Agents," each capable of handling specialized functions such as research, coding, analysis, or transactions.
+
+</br>
+
+Supporting them is a secure foundation of semantic search, private active memory, and long-term, zero-knowledge storage, allowing agents to learn, reason, and operate within encrypted, self-contained sandboxes. 
+
+#### Agent Layer Evolution: From AGI to ACI
+While much of the world is racing toward AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) – massive centralized systems aiming to replicate human cognition – we’re charting a different course.
+
+</br>
+
+Today’s AI giants control nearly all of the compute, data, and infrastructure required to train and deploy large models. This concentration of power brings enormous risks such as surveillance-driven data collection, bias embedded at scale, and energy consumption rivaling entire nations.
+
+</br>
+
+ThreeFold’s approach is rooted in Augmented Collective Intelligence (ACI). Not a machine trying to mimic humans, but a system that grows through shared human experience while protecting each individual’s privacy.
+
+</br>
+
+There’s no hidden monetization model, no surveillance layer, no opaque black box where your information disappears. Each agent learns locally, contributes globally, and respects the sovereignty of its user. It’s a model of intelligence that grows organically, not hierarchically.
+
+### **Building The Vision**
+That is the vision of what we call the Sovereign Agentic Cloud: a fully decentralized ecosystem where the Cloud provides resilient compute and storage, the Network connects nodes into an intelligent, self-healing mesh, and the Agent layer brings autonomous, personal intelligence to life. Together these layers form a self-sovereign foundation for the next generation of digital life.
+
+</br>
+
+Development toward this vision is well underway, with the Cloud and Network systems already live and evolving, and agents coming in Q1 2026. Stay tuned via our [news channel](https://t.me/threefoldnews) and [chat](https://t.me/threefold) as the rollout unfolds.

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 ---
-title: "Blog"
+title: "ThreeFold Blog"
 paginate_by: 9
-
+description: "Dive in to read more of our stories, our past, our present, and our future. We envision a global, community-driven network of interconnected servers and nodes—the grid—that democratizes computing power and storage."
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content/blog/a_better_understanding_of_wealth/index.md

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----
-id: a_better_understanding_of_wealth
-title: A Better Understanding of Wealth
-image_caption: a better understanding of wealth
-description: Wealth is more than the accumulation of money and resources.
-date: 2021-01-27
-taxonomies:
-    people: [alexandre_hannelas]
-    tags: [why,digital_twin]
-    categories: [twin]
-extra:
-    imgPath: a_better_understanding_of_wealth.jpg
----
-
-# A better understanding of wealth 
-
-<br>
-
-Wealth is more than the accumulation of money and resources. It can be generated in ways other than through conventional financial means. The financial justice warrior, Bernard Liataer, highlighted that to capture the wealth of our societies, our culture and our environments, we have to pay heed to the notion of wealth as well-being.
-
-<br>
-
-But how do we obtain that well-being? We all know the answer to this question – we have a sense of well-being when all of our needs are met. It is not just the basic needs of food, clothing and shelter but also the need to be a creative participant in our community, have a voice in our own destiny, and pursue our own spiritual development unhindered by social sanction. Developing real wealth implies making choices that enable all members of the community to attain well-being. Achieving sustainable wealth implies meeting the present's needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
-
-<br>
-
-Digital Twin has been created while taking into consideration the different types of community capital that need to be achieved to create real wealth: 
-
-<br>
-
-1. Natural Capital - It includes the community environment that produces more assets. Our today's economies failed to measure, understand and account for the true value of nature's riches - clean air and water, soil and pollination for food, the social, intrinsic and spiritual values of natural beauty. Digital Twin will be the tool for us to place a proper value on Natural capital finally. 
-
-<br>
-
-2. Technological Capital – It includes how we harness our intellectual resources to create tools, systems, machines, arts, skills, and materials designed to improve our lives. This is what Digital Twin is all about - providing the required technology to enhance our lives and those of our communities' members through collective efforts and intelligence. Digital Twin is only the foundation for this future global well-being. People will support education and creativity throughout the world and give access to material information required to create additional innovative technologies.
-
-<br>
-
-3. Social Capital – It recognizes the economic importance of all the ways we are connected: the relationships, our networks and values we share and the cooperative systems, and all its different components we use for interacting. Nowadays, our social capital is threatened through the repetitive act of violence, betrayal of trust, exclusion or less sharing and caring towards our fellow humans. Digital Twin has been created to encourage the easy sharing and exchange of resources and cooperate with each other on a platform.
-
-<br>
-
-4. Historical and Cultural Capital – Through history, we have learned, and now we are transmitting our cultural understanding and recommendation about the economic and financial system to others through an open-source, public and transparent peer-to-peer exchange protocol.
-
-<br>
-
-5. Human Capital – It includes all capabilities that people have to learn, invent, create, work, care for each other, and contribute to the community. This is the reason why Digital Twin has been created - A project to benefit us all.
-<br>
-
-6. Financial Capital – It is the creation of real wealth through the availability of liquidity resources through a multi-currency system and Savings & Investments made by individuals and institutions. By strengthening and increasing this type of capital, our peer-to-peer platform believes that it is the obvious path to a successful economic development.
-
-<br>
-
-All of these forms of capital produce the critical flows of assets through the economic system. Capital is the foundation, the reproductive system, the greenhouse that grows a healthy economy. This has been one of the fundamental beliefs of Digital Twin - For the well-being of worldwide communities. 
-
-

content/blog/a_different_approach_to_blockchain/index.md

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----
-id: a_different_approach_to_blockchain
-title: Not your average blockchain project
-image_caption: a different approach to blockchain
-description: Sometimes we're compared to blockchain projects. We love the blockchain but that's just not who we are.
-date: 2021-04-20
-taxonomies:
-    people: [sacha_obeegadoo]
-    tags: [digital_twin,data,why]
-    categories: []
-extra:
-    imgPath: a_different_approach_to_blockchain.png
----
-
-<br/>
-
-Sometimes we're compared to blockchain projects. We love blockchains and have many partners there – CasperLabs, DigiByte, Polygon, and Dash, to name a few – but that's just not what we are. Here's a few ways we are different than the "typical" blockchain project.
-
-## ThreeFold is actually much more than a blockchain 
-
-ThreeFold is not actually even a blockchain project, rather it uses blockchain technology by combining it with other cutting-edge solutions. It's way more that just a blockchain alternative to a public cloud. <!--  -->ThreeFold started everything from scratch – built a super-lightweight and shell-less operating system, and a fully autonomous (self-driving and self-healing) architecture to enable a true peer-to-peer infrastructure.  With zero intermediaries on the ThreeFold Grid,  that leads to high efficiency and minimum complexity.<!--  -->
-<br/>
-<br/>
-The blockchain database (BCDB) acts as a registry for the workloads on the Threefold Grid. Workloads can only be accessed and managed with the private key of the data owner. The BCDB can prove to any party that their workloads are executed exactly as intended and that their data is untouched.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-In most distributed systems, data is stored multiple times to guarantee redundancy. This leads to a lot of unnecessary overhead and is also not the most secure mechanism. ThreeFold uses a dispersed storage algorithm to store the workloads on the ThreeFold Grid. <!--  -->The dispersed storage algorithm breaks data into shards and stores them on different nodes.<!--  --> This enables two things – first, performance efficiency (no need for consensus to run compute and storage) and second, energy efficiency (as there’s no more need for data duplication).
-<br/>
-<br/>
-
-*As mentioned up top, we have many partners in the space and we are working with them to bring true decentralization to their blockchains.*
-
-## ThreeFold had no ICO nor IEO. It pre-farmed its tokens
-
-ThreeFold didn’t have an ICO or IEO. ICOs and IEOs are fundraising schemes for blockchains to sell tokens to investors either directly (ICO) or through regulated exchanges (IEO). Instead, ThreeFold pre-farmed (ThreeFold’s sustainable alternative to mining) its tokens prior to going to the market and listed them on several exchanges, public and decentralized.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-This allowed ThreeFold to incentivize its early contributors, while also securing the ongoing development of the project until the launch of the Threefold Grid 2.0 in April 2020. Pre-mining is also an organic approach to the market, in line with ThreeFold’s values and vision of delivering products over using hype.
-
-## Product over Hype
-
-In some cases, ICOs and IEOs were surrounded with hype. It is always very hard to judge the ability of a project to deliver its promises through a white paper.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-Instead of fundraising with a white paper, the technological development remained the primary focus. For 4 years, ThreeFold developed the whole technology stack, starting with an operating-system built from scratch to the autonomous smart contract and virtual system administrator technology that enables a fully-autonomous peer-to-peer Cloud. 
-<br/>
-<br/>
-In 2020, ThreeFold held the public launch of the ThreeFold Token on Liquid Exchange. At that time, the ThreeFold Grid was already live in its 2nd version.
-<br/>
-<br/>
-Today, you can go through the whole Threefold Universe and find ready-to-use products. You can participate in growing the world’s most advanced peer-to-peer Internet infrastructure, or use the peer-to-peer compute and storage capacity available on the P2P Cloud.

content/blog/a_million_nodes/index.md

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+---
+id: a_million_nodes
+title: A Million ThreeFold Nodes
+image_caption: technology
+description: A digital world with millions of interconnected nodes could change everything – from how our data is owned and used to how we develop AI. Explore a future where control is decentralized, empowering individuals and communities.
+date: 2025-05-02
+taxonomies:
+  people: [sam_taggart]
+  tags: [tech,grid,community]
+  categories: [tech,grid,community]
+extra:
+    imgPath: a_million_nodes.png
+    isFeatured: true
+---
+
+Imagine a digital world where control isn't dictated by centralized entities but by the collective power of a million interconnected nodes. This vision is more than just a technological advancement – it embodies a paradigm shift towards re-decentralizing the Internet and putting control back into the hands of its users, as it was originally intended to be.
+
+</br>
+
+Today's digital landscape is dominated by a few powerful entities that maintain control through centralized servers, proprietary algorithms, and restrictive data policies. These corporations often collect vast amounts of personal information, limit access to services, and dictate the terms of interaction.
+
+</br>
+
+Further, the majority of the data centers which house and power our digital lives are located in a handful of countries, keeping data, money, jobs, and other benefits inside of these nations and leaving developing regions behind. This leads to slower speeds, higher costs, lower levels of security, and numerous other disadvantages.
+
+</br>
+
+Democratizing digital infrastructure empowers individuals, communities, and organizations to participate in a shared ecosystem, where data ownership and governance are decentralized. People can interact directly with each other, exchanging information and value without intermediaries.
+
+</br>
+
+This foundation also enables a new era of decentralized artificial intelligence – where AI is trained, run, and improved across a global network, transparently, and inclusively.
+
+#### From a Global Perspective
+
+ThreeFold envisions a new internet, an alternative to the internet of today. To make this a reality, the ThreeFold Grid needs to reach a million (or millions of) nodes. A world with a million nodes ...
+
+</br>
+
+- Ensures that connectivity is no longer monopolized by a few large corporations. The Internet is more resilient to large-scale outages, cyber-attacks, and natural disasters. 
+- Empowers people and organizations with control over their data. We are less vulnerable to data breaches and misuse of our data. 
+- Lays the groundwork for decentralized AI, where algorithms are built on ethical, diverse data sets and innovation is open 
+- Democratizes access to computational resources. Lower costs and scalable infrastructure fosters a global environment of innovation and drives economic growth and opportunity. 
+- Means efficient and optimized energy usage, reducing the need for power-hungry data centers, and supporting global efforts to minimize negative impact on our planet. 
+- Bridges the digital divide by introducing reliable Internet access to developing and remote regions, empowering them with access to crucial knowledge and information.
+- Promotes global collaboration, creating a rich environment for cultural exchange and collective problem-solving at scale to tackle the world’s greatest challenges.
+- Preserves cultural heritage, enabling communities from around the world to store their stories, information, and knowledge on infrastructure owned by them.
+
+</br>
+
+A world with a million nodes would reshape industries, facilitate global collaboration, and lay the foundation for a more resilient, inclusive, and sustainable digital future.
+
+</br>
+
+![Image](./a_million_nodes_1.png)
+
+</br>
+
+Let us explore, through the power of story, how this can come alive.
+
+#### Tanzania
+
+Salma, a young entrepreneur coming from an agricultural background in Arusha, runs a small but growing tech company developing mobile apps for local farmers. Her apps collect data from IoT sensors in the fields, helping farmers monitor soil moisture and temperature, optimize water usage, and predict crop yields. Powered by decentralized AI models trained on local data, the insights become increasingly accurate and tailored to the region’s unique conditions.
+
+</br>
+
+The apps run smoothly on locally-deployed decentralized infrastructure – the data processing happens seamlessly on the nearest nodes, ensuring low latency and quick insights for farmers. Further, farmers can be assured of 100% data ownership and sovereignty.
+
+</br>
+
+The farmers form a local cooperative to share data and knowledge. The decentralized cloud ensures that the data remains secure and private, allowing collective insights to be shared in a trusted way. A peer-to-peer marketplace enables farmers to sell their crops directly to purchasers, meaning they can now receive fair value for their work.
+
+#### United States
+
+Emma and Will live in a rural community in central Oklahoma, where tornadoes are a regular occurrence during certain times of the year. Emma is an elementary school teacher and Will works construction. Through a federal assistance program, the community has recently integrated its own decentralized cloud network.
+
+</br>
+
+Emma uses the network to access online resources and collaborate with educators globally. The local clinic offers telehealth services, so the community can access secure and private healthcare without the need to travel long distances.
+
+</br>
+
+Residents use a secure app for community discussions, support networks, local governance decisions, and safety alerts. Sensors across the community monitor weather conditions, while AI models trained on local weather patterns improve the accuracy of predictions, helping residents prepare and respond faster. Data is processed locally on the network, providing early warnings of severe weather events. Alerts are sent directly to residents’ devices. When disaster does strike, part of the decentralized network is able to stay online, supporting rapid communication and coordination and facilitating access to critical information.
+
+#### India
+
+Amit, a software developer based in Bangalore, is working on a new AI-driven application. His development environment is hosted on the decentralized cloud, giving him immense computational power at his fingertips. Training his AI models is faster and more efficient, utilizing powerful GPUs located close to him, increasing performance and lowering costs.
+
+</br>
+
+No longer dependent on centralized cloud, Amit appreciates he can now handle large-scale computations without high costs and the environmental impact associated with traditional data centers.
+
+</br>
+
+Amit not only accelerates his AI model training but also develops a mindset of innovation without boundaries. Empowered by seamless scalability and reduced operational costs, Amit channels his energy into refining algorithms that promise to redefine healthcare diagnostics. This newfound agility allows him to iterate rapidly, collaborate globally, and pioneer solutions that bridge the gap between technology and societal impact.
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+In São Paulo, Rosina leads a team of environmental scientists focused on preserving the Amazon rainforest. Their research involves extensive data collection from remote sensors scattered across vast and often inaccessible regions of the rainforest. The data, including temperature, humidity, and biodiversity indicators, is crucial for monitoring climate change impacts and guiding conservation efforts.
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+Decentralized nodes located strategically across the rainforest process sensor data in real-time. Data collected from the rainforest remains secure and under local ownership. Local indigenous communities, equipped with smartphones, actively participate in data collection and monitoring (and use the decentralized network for the preservation of local culture). The insights derived from the program drive the training of decentralized AI algorithms, contributing to global climate research and advocacy efforts.
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+#### A World with a Million Nodes is Possible
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+This vision of a world with a million nodes connected to the ThreeFold Grid shows how technology can bridge gaps, enhance security, and foster innovation on a global scale. Each node plays a crucial role in building a resilient, inclusive, and efficient digital infrastructure for everyone, everywhere.
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+From AI development to sustainable farming, digital education to climate science and disaster response, decentralized infrastructure is transforming how people connect and create.
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+For years, the ThreeFold team and community have been quietly building the foundation. The technology is proven. The network is live. And the world needs what we have been building.
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+The grid today is a clear collective demonstration that all of this is possible. Scaling to a million nodes is an ambitious goal – but it’s also an invitation. An invitation to co-create a digital world where power is distributed, opportunity is shared, and progress belongs to everyone.
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+This is more than infrastructure. It’s a movement. One node at a time, we’re building the Internet – and the intelligence – that the world truly needs.