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For the past 5 years or so I&#x27;ve been working on a ground-up redesign of Freenet, my peer-to-peer project from the early 2000s (now renamed Hyphanet).The new Freenet has been up and running since December along with some early applications like River[1], our decentralized group chat and Delta - a decentralized CMS. Users have already started to build their own apps on Freenet including games, and we have some interesting apps in development like Atlas, a search&#x2F;recommendation engine.Architecturally, this new Freenet is a global, decentralized key-value store where keys are webassembly contracts which define what values (aka &quot;state&quot;) are valid for that key, how or when the values can be mutated, and how the state can be efficiently synchronized between peers.We&#x27;ve developed a unique (AFAIK) solution to the consistency problem, every contract must define a &quot;merge&quot; operation for the contract&#x27;s associated state. This operation must be commutative, meaning that you can merge multiple states in any order and you&#x27;ll get the same end result.This approach allows state updates to spread through the network like a virus[2], which typically achieves consistent global state in a few seconds or less.Like the world wide web, Freenet applications can be downloaded from the network itself and run in a web browser - similar to single-page apps on the normal web. However, rather than connecting back to an API running in a datacenter, the webapp connects locally to the Freenet peer and interacts with Freenet contracts and delegates over a local websocket connection.If you&#x27;d like to try Freenet we have convenient installers for the major desktop OSs but not yet mobile, and you can be chatting with other users on River within seconds[3]. Happy to answer any questions, you&#x27;re also welcome to read our FAQ[4], or watch a talk I gave back in March[5].[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;freenet&#x2F;river" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;freenet&#x2F;river</a>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freenet.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;news&#x2F;summary-delta-sync&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freenet.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;news&#x2F;summary-delta-sync&#x2F;</a>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freenet.org&#x2F;quickstart&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freenet.org&#x2F;quickstart&#x2F;</a>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freenet.org&#x2F;faq&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freenet.org&#x2F;faq&#x2F;</a>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;3SxNBz1VTE0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;3SxNBz1VTE0</a>

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