# Mycelium: Our Planetary Network

![alt text](img/mycelium.png)

The planetary network called Mycelium is an overlay network which lives on top of the existing Internet or other peer-to-peer networks created. 

In the Mycelium network, everyone is connected to everyone. End-to-end encryption between users of an app and the app runs behind the network wall.

!!wiki.include page:'tech:mycelium0.md'

> [read more about the shortest path routing](tf9_products:shortest_path_routing.md)