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# Introduction

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***ThreeFold is laying the foundation for Web4, the next generation of the Internet.***

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**Imagine a system which...**

- [x] Scales to a planetary level
- [x] Is compatible with AI, Cloud, Web2, Web3 and Edge IT workloads
- [x] Has the potential to recover from unforeseen events
- [x] Provides 100% uptime
- [x] Allows any machine and human to communicate over the shortest path

**This dream has come true.**

The fourth generation of ThreeFold is a decentralized and self-healing ecosystem for unbreakable data, peer-to-peer network, and autonomous cloud. ThreeFold V4 is laying the foundation for Web4.

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***ThreeFold is the only system in the world capable of delivering self-healing data, network and cloud at a planetary scale.***

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## A Complete Ecosystem

ThreeFold's Web4 is composed of revolutionary tools providing a truly decentralized Internet:

- Secure phones
  - Smartphone built-in with decentralized apps
- Genie AI
  - An AI -driven virtual assistant directly on your secure phone
- Decentralized nodes
  - The backbone of the Web4 cloud offering compute and data resources
- Encrypted routers
  - Routers always finding the shortest path, linking the nodes and phones together

![](./img/web4_overview.png)

Those products redefine digital autonomy in a concrete and practical manner.

Read forward to learn more about this innovative system and how you can build it with us.