Mission
Substratum is creating an open-source foundation for a decentralized web which will provide unrestricted access to content and sharing of information for users across the globe.
Our mission is to bring forth the free and fair internet of the future by combining proven technological building blocks with emergent technologies in an innovative and holistic way to help solve many of the problems that plague the modern internet.
The Substratum Network
The Substratum Network is an open-source network that allows anyone to allocate spare computing resources to make the internet a free and fair place for the entire world. It is a worldwide collection of nodes that securely delivers content without the need of a VPN or Tor.
Because there’s no single authority delivering or monitoring content, censorship and geo-restricted sites won’t be an issue on Substratum Network. It doesn’t matter where you live or what content you’re accessing, everyone in the world sees the exact same content.
The concept for the Substratum network first originated as a closed system that would only provide content within its private network. By leveraging computer resources and decentralizing content it would enable several hosts to render sites across several hosts. What became difficult was the time and scale it would take to move so much content into this private network. On inception the network would not even provide 1% of the world’s website content. The alternate solution was to find a way to provide content in a way that could still travel peer to peer, would be secure, and would allow access to all the internet has to offer.
Substratum Network whitepaper
