info_tfgrid/collections/tfgrid_org/positioning/who_are_we.md

Who is behind the project ?

who created the project

A group of passionate people who want to build a new foundational layer for an better working internet, more like the Internet was originally intended.

The project was started by some Internet & Cloud veterans who now want to handover to a much more decentralized environment.

More than 1000 farmers...

the project mission

• we help others to create...
• enable everyone to build on top of TFGrid who needs cloud capacity (network, gpu, cpu, storage, ...)

the project purpose

• deliver a new infrastructure layer to build a new internet on top off
• this infra layer is sovereign, more scalable, peer2peer, co-owned, ...
• project delivers network, compute, storage constructs to work with anyone who needs it for their own usecases
• see tech high level description

who can benefit from TFGrid capabilities most?

• developers for CI/CD
• countries to deploy their own internet
• DePIN movement
• Social Media Apps
• ...

what has project achieved

• grid
• country
• community
• ...

how biased is the project

• not biased, we are tech platform
• keep values simple but very strong
• project intent is to clearly want to explain what the capabilities are of our tech and let everone decide for themselves what to do with it

Messaging

• project is here to make it easy for everyone to play their role (see above)
• project believe very much in an internet where everyone can communicate freely, owns their own data, ...
• project wants to help others to really become decentralized (which is not the case today)
• project wants to help governments to have their own Internet
• project wants to help datacenter providers to build datacenters in other ways

the participants

Farmers

• connect computers to our new internet
• means provide GPU, Storage and Compute capacity and make it available over Mycelium to all participants

Network Bridgers

• make bridge between old and new internet
• provide bandwidth to Mycelium (the new Internet Network)

Guardians

• Protect the network
• Provide governance
• Keep all relevant services up and running to allow the TFGrid to function

Farming Pools

• Help farmers to be more effective
• Training & Support
• Improve uptime and provide authenticity

DePIN Flow Provider

• project are looking for a party (company, project, community) who wants to launch us into the DePIN world
• promote our project, explain tokens, integrate with exchanges
• integrate with rest of DePIN ecosystem
• organize community growth
• organize grants towards rest of community
• basically grown value for full ecosystem and let it "FLOW"

TF Coop

• our governance layer (DAO tooling can be extended)
• Cooperative we are all part off.
• The Coop directors build an organization to streamline our expansion
• Give everyone a voice and env to operate from

TFNode Suppliers

• Build & Sell TFNode's to our participants.
• Minimal service/support needs to be delivered

Service / Solution Providers

• They create & provide solutions and/or services on top of TFGrid
• Customers of these solutions pay in INCA (providing value to our mutual credit currency)
• Each solution has T&C
• Each solution needs to be supported

Technology providers

• create opensource technology as can be used in the TFGrid
• grants might be available to reward Technology Providers
• TFTech (will get new name) is example of Technology Provider

Digital Sovereign Zone's

• project integrate with sovereign zones to provide end2end sovereign regulated sandbox environments using tech, finance and legal solutions.