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description: "A global movement together building an open-source, community-driven, decentralized Internet – from the ground up." # quotation marks to allow colons where used
date: 2018-09-14T21:00:00-05:00
updated: 2021-02-20T14:40:00-06:00
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## Decentralized Internet Infrastructure

ThreeFold is a globally-distributed grid of storage, compute, and network capacity, acting as “no middleman” Internet resources between independent capacity providers and users. Founded by Internet 1.0 Pioneers and supported by a global community.

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<button>[Build](/build)</button>
<button>[Farm](/farm)</button>
<button>[Main Chat](https://t.me/threefold)</button>
<button>[Our Forum](https://forum.threefold.io)</button>

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*Learn about what's coming [in 2024](/next).*

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### The ThreeFold Grid

## **Live and Operational**

#### Mainnet: 3.11 | Testnet: 3.12 | Devnet 3.13

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## The **Layer Zero** for a New Digital Era

ThreeFold is an end-to-end autonomous cloud platform designed to deliver ultra secure, scalable, green, deterministic IT workload deployments close to the edge. Our unique technology provides unparalleled  sovereignty, scalability and efficiency features that emerging IT workloads require, and that traditional cloud infrastructures cannot deliver.

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## Experience the Benefits <br> of **ThreeFold**

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### **Edge Capacity**

Achieve low latencies and bandwidth efficiency by reserving capacity locally.

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### **Secure**

Open-source system built from the ground-up for a fully transparent and auditable stack.

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### **Scalable**

An autonomous infrastructure that grows naturally with demand, where and when it is needed.

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### **Efficient**

A carefully designed collection of lightweight components that minimize overheads.

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## Together **We Build.** Start **Your Journey.**

The future is about 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. 

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### Farm Local Internet Capacity **and Earn For It**

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By connecting hardware at your home or office – or anywhere you'd like – you provide Internet capacity <br> for the people around you and earn a digital currency called TFT.

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*About TFT, we utilize a token as a mechanism for creating and using IT (Internet) capacity, which is essential for enabling our digital lives. For us the token is not an individual product, rather a way to exchange value within the ThreeFold ecosystem.*


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<button>[Buy a 3Node](http://marketplace.3node.global/)</button>
<button>[Build a 3Node](https://manual.grid.tf/farmers/3node_building/3node_building.html)</button>
<button>[Learn](https://manual.grid.tf/intro/grid3_howitworks.html)</button>
<button>[Farmers Chat](https://t.me/threefoldfarmers)</button>

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### Build On Top of a **Decentralized Infrastructure**

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True digital sovereignty for open-source builders. The ThreeFold Grid provides limitless possibilities, <br> and brings a playground of industry-compatible easy-to-deploy solutions for developers.

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<button>[Dashboard](https://dashboard.grid.tf/)</button>
<button>[Playground](https://playground.grid.tf)</button>
<button>[Manual](https://manual.grid.tf/)</button>
<button>[Grid Chat](https://t.me/threefoldtesting)</button>

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### Join the **Community.** Grow **the Movement.**

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If you believe what we believe, then believe us, there is room for you in this movement. Join the community. Ask questions. <br> Bring suggestions – this is *our* project. Tell a friend. Tell many friends! Together we build.

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<button>[Main Chat](https://t.me/threefold)</button>
<button>[Our Forum](https://threefold.io)</button>
<button>[Twitter](https://twitter.com/threefold_io)</button>
<button>[More Resources](/community)</button>

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## **Meet the Team**

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