Transport Agnostic

Works on any medium that can move bytes — from 500 bps LoRa radio to 10 Gbps fiber. A single node can bridge between multiple transports simultaneously.

Partition Tolerant

Network fragmentation is expected operation, not an error. A village on LoRa is a partition. A country with internet cut is a partition. Every layer converges correctly when partitions heal.

Capability Marketplace

Every resource — bandwidth, compute, storage, connectivity — is discoverable, negotiable, verifiable, and payable. Hardware determines capability; the market determines role.

Free Local, Paid Routed

Direct neighbors communicate for free. You pay only when your packets traverse other people's infrastructure. Micropayments flow through bilateral payment channels.

No Trusted Infrastructure

No certificate authorities, no DNS, no central servers. Identity is a cryptographic keypair. Security is structural — Ed25519 signing, X25519 key exchange, ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption.

$30 to $500+

From a solar-powered ESP32 relay to a GPU inference node, every device participates at whatever level its hardware allows. Nothing is required except a keypair.