info_tfgrid/collections/tfgrid3/who_are_we.md
2024-03-21 11:36:08 +02:00

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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.