biton: Re-build the Internet, together!
The Internet potluck
Connect directly with your friends and explore a network of communities from around the world.
Locally sourced ingredients
A community kitchen for collectively creating content and services.
A taste of privacy
Fence off nosy neighbors and data‑greedy bullies.
Gourmet cryptography
Carefully crafted recipes to secure your communications.
Homemade trust
Replace central authorities with bottom-up trust models.
Mix and bake biton applications
A network stack with plug-and-play features for developers.
# The juicy details
biton is a peer-to-peer network built around swarms — groups of peers that store encrypted files and relay requests through one another. biton swarms interconnect in a global network that provides plausible deniability, meaning that adversaries cannot be sure about who originally made a request. In this way, biton can be used for evading information controls and for building community networks around local data and services.
Is biton anonymous? — NOT YET!
If you need to hide your identity, biton is not ready for that just yet. In the meantime, take a look at Tor (opens new window) and I2P (opens new window) for browsing anonymous services, or at Freenet (opens new window) for anonymous publishing.
# Come along and BYOb (*Bring Your Own biton)
Grow the network stronger by running a relay (opens new window), contributing to the project, building biton applications (opens new window), and volunteering to your local community kitchen.