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title: 'Intro'
description: 'Explain the concepts of our "Universe"'
sidebar_position: 1
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MycoVerse is our implementation of Web4

- **MycoVerse** = the universe in which our decentalized sovereign apps exist.
- **MycoWizard** = our personal AI assistent who deploys, monitors and manages our applications inside the MycoVerse.
- **Mycelium** = our network which connects any app to any participant in the MycoVerse.
- **FungiStor** = the content delivery & storage system, data can never be lost and distributed freely.
- **MycoSphere** = a group of people collaborating, communicating together, serves as a circle of trust.
- **MycoApp** = an application as deployed in a MycoSphere as part of the MycoVerse
- **MycoNaut** = the person being active inside the MycoVerse and part of one or more MycoSpheres
- **MycoGuardian** = one or more persons guard the well working of a MycoSphere.

### The Concept

- A MYcoSphere 
- All MycoNauts & MycoApps communicate over the secure Mycelium Network
- All MycoApps are self healing.
  - Data from a MycoApp cannot be lost.
- MycoGuardian = MycoSphere administrators 
  - manage the MycoApps
  - certain actions might require consensus between the MycoGuardians before they can be executed
  - can see all monitoring information, and as such the health of a MycoSphere and its MycoApps

```mermaid
graph TD
  subgraph MycoVerse ["MycoVerse (Decentralized Universe)"]
    direction TB
    MycoSphere["MycoSphere (Circle of Trust)"]
    MycoNaut["MycoNaut (Active Participants)"]
    MycoApp["MycoApp (Applications)"]
    MycoGuardian["MycoGuardian (Sphere Administrators)"]
    MycoWizard["MycoWizard (Personal AI Assistant)"]
    FungiStor["FungiStor (Content Delivery & Storage)"]
    Mycelium["Mycelium (Secure Network)"]
  end

  %% Connections
  MycoSphere -->|Collaborates with| MycoNaut
  MycoSphere -->|Contains| MycoApp
  MycoSphere -->|Managed by| MycoGuardian
  MycoApp -->|Self-Healing| FungiStor
  MycoApp -->|Communicates over| Mycelium
  MycoNaut -->|Interacts via| MycoApp
  MycoGuardian -->|Monitors & Manages| MycoSphere
  MycoGuardian -->|Consensus Actions| MycoSphere
  MycoWizard -->|Deploys & Manages| MycoApp
  MycoWizard -->|Supports| MycoNaut

```

### Financials

- BTC is the native currency of our MycoVerse.
- BTC seamless maps into INCA to empower the underlying utility based transactions the resources used inside the ThreeFold Grid.
- BTC can be swapped to INCA using atomic swapps and managed by the MycoWizard


### Requirements

1. **Decentralized**: No single authority controls the network, enhancing security, censorship resistance, and user autonomy.
2. **Safe**: We should not have to worry about our safety.
3. **Peer-to-Peer**: Infrastructure is distributed across nodes contributed by individuals or organizations, removing dependency on centralized data centers.
4. **Incentivized**: Participants are rewarded for contributing resources (bandwidth, storage, computing) to the network, fostering growth and sustainability.
5. **Interoperable**: Open protocols and standards ensure that different networks and systems can work seamlessly together.