Long overdue, but I’m happy to present the latest update for Skynet’s roadmap. Our recent chaos has caused us to reconsider what technology decisions are acceptable, and what it takes to build a robust platform that meets user expectations for decentralization. Fluid Skynet Portals It has become clear to us that we cannot…

Just as everyone is getting used to the new world of web3, it’s time to introduce a new technology: web5. It’s confusing and unfortunate, but it’s the name that’s been chosen and it has a real vision behind it that’s worth paying attention to. Web3 is a catch-all term for…

I’ve spent the past two years of my life trying to stand up a platform where people can share data. Our team is frustrated by the current state of the internet, where data lives in silos and user activities are strictly locked to a single platform. We’re trying to build…

Today we are announcing two portals for Skynet: skynetfree and skynetpro. This is in addition to siasky, our original portal, which will continue running as best as we can keep it alive. The key factors that distinguish each are: Siasky: open access. Anyone can upload or download without an account …

This post is a response to the well-worded, thorough, and unexpectedly polite blog post by Moxie Marlinspike: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html Taken at face value, I can understand why someone who is newer to web3 and the goals of decentralization would walk away feeling like it’s not on a trajectory to save us…

In a world of increasingly uncertain regulatory turbulence, many web3 apps have migrated either their frontends or even their whole application to IPFS. This provides users with better overall control over their experience. When using traditional centralized frontends like https://app.aave.com/, users are trusting the developers to serve the correct frontend…

Defi has a dirty secret. While the smart contracts themselves are fully decentralized, developer teams still have substantial control over the user through their control of the frontend. We’re excited to be announcing Homescreen, a new application on Skynet that allows users to fully decentralize their web3 frontends. If you…

Starting with the already-released MetaMask 10.0.0, Skynet can be used to host webpages over ENS. When visiting these Skynet pages using MetaMask, the pages will automatically load. For an example of this, check out https://skynetlabs.eth/. If you don’t have MetaMask, Cloudflare has added Skynet support to their eth.link …

OnlyFans announced yesterday that they would be banning pornographic content from their platform. This move was predictable — they are following in the footsteps of Tumblr and Patreon, and many others: Build a platform that bootstraps using adult content, begin to migrate into non-adult content as a primary source of…