The Internet today has major problems: it’s less reliable than we think, lacks privacy and security, leaves 50% of the world poorly connected, and allows big tech to monitor and influence us. Ultimately, it enables the powerful to become even more powerful.
Web4 is the next generation of the Internet. ThreeFold has been working on it for +10 years, with over $50 million in investment and more than 50,000 active virtual CPUs.
Web4 represents the natural evolution of the Internet, where humans and artificial intelligence collaborate to develop a new paradigm focused on Augmented Collective Intelligence[^1] aimed at advancing planetary well-being while making sure everyone has equal chances.
* Communicate, end-to-end encrypted across any link or medium, automatically finding the shortest path, even in disaster scenarios, ensuring messages remain private and unalterable.
* Securely share and store information with ease, scaling from one person to billions.
* Participate in private secure online meetings (video, voice, etc.).
* Publish content under a unique, decentralized domain name.
* Restore authenticity and determine which information can be trusted.
* Discover, analyze & find information with the help of a personal AI assistant
* Keep track of all interactions with your friends and leverage a personal AI to simplify your life.
* Develop apps for your community up to 10x faster than traditional systems.
* Pay a lot less than what you would do with existing systems.
ThreeFold envisions a complete Internet infrastructure to allow Web4 to come alive.
At launch, we will reveal the ThreeFold V4 roadmap to Web4. We provide below a glimpse of what is to come.
The ThreeFold Web4 Internet infrastructure will consist of a completely sustainable, peer-to-peer, encrypted and data sovereign network of nodes, routers and phones.
To develop Web4, ThreeFold V4 will establish a development platform for Web4. This will be pretty exciting for those who want to dive into the tech stack we've built over the years.
To sustain this whole web4 ecosystem, ThreeFold V4 will be rooted in a Web4 digital currency focused on community growth and expansion.
To our knowledge, we are the world’s first project approaching a fully functional Web4 infrastructure that places priority on both the planet and people. Over the past decade, we’ve tackled complex challenges in areas such as data storage, secure overlay networking, and autonomous cloud security to bring this vision to life.
* This team, with 6 M&A exits to date, have established +5 world records and have in an opensource, transparent movement demonstrated that an autonomous cloud can be created
(now comprising +55,000 vcpu’s across 60 countries). To learn more about the ThreeFold technology, read the [ThreeFold Tech ebook](https://threefold.info/tech).
* The DEPIN movement (Decentralized Physical infrastructure), in which we are a participant, is a promising movement but is still in its infancy, it might be a good way to expand faster and provide liquidity and an ecosystem for the participants.
The base layer network of capacity is active, the technology is working in generation 3. Read the [ThreeFold V3 Manual](https://manual.grid.tf/) to learn more about the ThreeFold Grid, active in +50 countries.
Our Web4 launch is the next phase in the evolution of ThreeFold, born from a $50 million USD investment by its founders and community. We are now ready to take the project to the next level.
Our team has built some of the world’s most advanced Internet and cloud technologies that were later acquired by some of the biggest names in the space for a cumulative +USD 600 million and +44% IRR for our investors.
At ThreeFold, we believe that the Internet represents an amazing opportunity that brings hope for humanity. We envision a world where we can all own our AI, data and Internet. This world is within reach and we are building it as we speak. We invite everyone to join the ThreeFold ecoystem and to collaborate as they feel inspired.
