www_threefold_io/content/home/index.md

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# ThreeFold 
## Enabling the Next-Gen Internet

Join a global community pioneering the decentralized, autonomous, and sustainable Internet. <br>
We empower individuals and communities to regain control of their digital lives and shape their own digital future.

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### The ThreeFold Grid v3.9.0

## **Live and Operational**


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## Why __ThreeFold__

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ThreeFold’s unique infrastructure can operate without centralized authority or server, empowering people and communities to build and store applications on a decentralized network owned and operated by its participants.  ThreeFold is open-source, nobody owns or controls the ThreeFold Grid and everyone can take part. Through many of its unique properties, ThreeFold fosters the security, trust and freedom that are often missing in today’s internet.

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## Experience the Benefits
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### **Autonomous**

Build secure applications with predeterministic smart contracts and access unparalleled self-driving and self-healing features.


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### **Self-Sovereign**

Take control of your digital future with ThreeFold's self-sovereign technology, using cryptography to ensure you own and control your data.

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### **Affordable**

Through it’s decentralized infrastructure that eliminates the need for expensive data centers and intermediaries, ThreeFold has incredibly low fees.

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### **Sustainable**

Unique infrastructure design provides direct access with low latency, enabling real-time applications and services.


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### **Ultra-Scalable**

Designed to make distributing, managing and monitoring secure and efficient deployments over thousands of computers as easy as one.


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### **Decentralized**

Enabled by thousands of nodes that operate independently of each other, ensuring data remains secure and censorship resistant at all times.


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## Limitless Possibilities


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## Our Impacts

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At ThreeFold, we believe that sustainability is a fundamental part of the internet's future. That's why we're committed to fighting climate change by building the most energy-efficient internet infrastructure in the world. We also prioritize equality, diversity, and inclusion in our culture and vision of an internet for everyone, everywhere.

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## Become the Catalyst for a Change

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### Expand

Achieve low latencies and bandwidth efficiency by reserving capacity locally.

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### Innovate

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

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### Connect

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

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## The Future Will be Built
## By All of Us

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## Join the Internet Revolution

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<button>[Twitter](partners)</button>
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<button>[Blog](partners)</button>
<button>[Forum](partners)</button>

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## **The Team**

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## Believers and Collaborators <br> **In a Better Internet**

We are truly proud to be trusted by some of the biggest names in the industry.

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## **In the News**

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[![forbes](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)

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[![cointelegraph](cointelegraph.png#mx-auto)](https://cointelegraph.com/news/peer-to-peer-internet-has-lofty-goal-to-bring-true-decentralization)

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[![yahoo_news](yahoo_news.png#mx-auto)](https://news.yahoo.com/news/threefold-set-disrupt-status-quo-051457787.html?guccounter=1)

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[![hackernoon](hackernoon.png#mx-auto)](https://hackernoon.com/is-it-possible-to-create-a-decentralized-internet-this-startup-and-its-farmers-think-so-ey2e3ycf)

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[![smartereum](smartereum.png#mx-auto)](https://smartereum.com/189750/threefold-is-audaciously-building-a-new-decentralized-internet/)

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[![tga_daily](tga_daily.png#mx-auto)](https://tgdaily.com/web/6-dfinity-threefold-are-leading-an-internet-decentralization-revolution/)

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[![cointelegraph](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)

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[![banklesstimes](banklesstimes.png#mx-auto)](https://www.banklesstimes.com/2021/06/14/threefolds-green-technology-strategy-to-a-fairer-more-sustainable-world/)

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[![grit_daily](grit_daily.png#mx-auto)](https://gritdaily.com/belarus-governments-control-internet/)

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