Holochain

The corporatization of the web in the past two decades has shown that the best attempts to connect humans on their own terms can be thwarted. We think it is not necessary to strip users of their privacy, autonomy, and dignity. The information economy thrives when everyone who generates information can also steward that information. We can end the monopolistic hold of our information on centralized servers by creating a web that builds user autonomy directly into its architecture and protocols. We’ve combined some of the best of blockchains and bittorrent to power a flexible platform scalable enough to run Facebook. At root, information is about people who inform and thus transform one another. Data is about remembering our lived and shared experiences. Distributing the storage of data may sound abstract, but we think it can shift how humans coordinate. With the power of digital connection under user control, we connect more wisely and turn the Internet into a means of complementing and supporting life offline. We are building the Holo ecosystem to harmonize with the shift from simply using applications towards participating in them.