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title: "ThreeFold"
description: "ThreeFold is a fully operational, decentralized internet infrastructure – deployed locally, scalable globally, and owned and powered by the people." 
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   ### Three Inventions at the Core of Our System

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    title_1="Powered by",
    title_2="A Global Community",
    description_1="ThreeFold’s groundbreaking technology enables anyone – individuals, organizations, and communities – to deploy their own Internet infrastructure.",
    description_2="Today, our proof-of-concept network is live and operational worldwide, running on version 3.17 technology.",
    subtext="As we expand, we may need millions of nodes to support this growing ecosystem to build a truly decentralized and resilient infrastructure",
    button_text="Explore Grid Capacity",
    button_link="https://dashboard.grid.tf/#/tf-grid/node-statistics/"

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  ## How It Works

At the base, nodes form the physical foundation. These are distributed computers that provide processing power, storage, and networking capabilities. Together, they create a global, community-powered infrastructure.

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Anyone can deploy nodes from their home or office and take part in hosting a decentralized alternative to corporate-owned data centers. Rewards are based on utilization, with 80% of earnings going to the hoster and 20% going to the ThreeFold Treasury.

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    description="The capacity of the node gets verified, registered and secured on the ThreeFold Blockchain. Hosters can then list their resources on the ThreeFold Marketplace, making them available directly to users."    
) }}

{{ farm_steps(
    title="3. EARN REWARDS",
    description="Hosters earn rewards when their resources are used through the Marketplace, enabling a fair and transparent peer-to-peer economy."    
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{{ text_center(
    title="Anything That Runs on Linux Can Run on ThreeFold",
    description_1="The new internet infrastructure can be used by any Web2, Web3, AI, or Edge IT workload – enabling a world of possibilities." 

) }}


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    image_src="/images/tft_logo.png",
    image_alt="TF logo",
    title="ThreeFold Cloud",
    subtitle="Open-Source Cloud",
    description="ThreeFold is open for developers and system administrators. Deploy virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes clusters, web gateways, and more on top of a best-effort decentralized open source cloud.",
    button_link="https://manual.grid.tf/",
    button_text="Manual",
    image_src_right="/images/app.png",
    image_alt_right="App screenshot"


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## Join the Movement to Build a New Internet

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There are many ways to be part of our mission to create a more open, autonomous, and interconnected digital world. Hosting is just one aspect of our ecosystem.
<br>
Explore all the products that are driving this transformation.

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    card_link="https://mycelium.threefold.io/"
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    card_link="https://www.aibox.threefold.io/"
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{{ image_card(
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    card_link="https://docs.threefold.io/docs/components/3phone/"
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{{ image_card(
    image_src="/images/3router.png",
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    tooltip="Smart routers ensure shortest-path connections between nodes and phones with end-to-end encryption.",
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    card_link="https://docs.threefold.io/docs/components/3router"
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        <a href="/signup" target="_black" class="fade-in rounded-2xl bg-white px-4 py-2 text-sm font-semibold text-black shadow-sm hover:bg-green hover:text-gray-800 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2">Join ThreeFold’s Ecosystem</a>
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## More Resilient, More Powerful, <br> More Diverse With You

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## Frequently Asked Questions

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    id_accordion="accordion1"
    question="Is this a separate new Internet?",
    description="No, ThreeFold is a complementary Internet and works alongside the current Internet. It allows you to continue accessing and interacting with the current Internet."
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{{ accordion(
    id_accordion="accordion2"
    question="Why do we need a new Internet?",
    description="The Internet used to be a peer to peer network, but has become fragile and too centralized. There are so many problems with the current Internet, such as authenticity, privacy, security, and sustainability that we believe a fundamental new approach is needed."
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    id_accordion="accordion3"
    question="How can I participate?",
    description="You can participate by becoming a hoster, a user, a partner or by developing apps. Provide capacity to the ThreeFold Grid, Use capacity, build solutions, develop applications, and many more."
) }}

{{ accordion(
    id_accordion="accordion4"
    question="How can I get V4 nodes?",
    description="Our partners are selling V4 nodes with a new reward scheme and ready to grow to millions of nodes.",
    link="https://docs.threefold.io/docs/become-a-farmer/get_started/",
    text_link="Click here to get V4 nodes."
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{{ accordion(
    id_accordion="accordion5"
    question="What can I do with the ThreeFold Grid?",
    description="ThreeFold grid can be used to host any web2, web3 and future workload. For more details see ",
    link="https://docs.threefold.io/docs/category/how-to-use/",
    text_link="our docs."

) }}

{{ accordion(
    id_accordion="accordion6"
    question="How secure and private is my data?",
    description="ThreeFold is designed to be secure and private by default. We use end-to-end encryption to protect your data and ensure that only you have access to your data."
    )
    }}

{{ accordion(
    id_accordion="accordion7"
    question="Who should use the ThreeFold Grid ?",
    description="Individuals, businesses, and organizations who want to be autonomous and have full control over their data and applications. Security is a very big problem today, Technology as used by ThreeFold has the potential to resolve this if used properly. We are building a channel of solution providers and integrators who want to build on top of ThreeFold."
    )
    }}

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    title_3="Together",  
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    button_link_1="/signup",
    button_text_2="Stay Updated",
    button_link_2="https://t.me/threefoldnews",
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