https://github.com/freenet/freenet-core
Declare your digital independence
https://github.com/freenet/freenet-core
cryptography decentralized distributed-hash-table freenet p2p privacy rust
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Declare your digital independence
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/freenet/freenet-core
- Owner: freenet
- License: other
- Created: 2021-07-16T13:19:06.000Z (about 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2026-07-28T23:07:40.000Z (11 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-07-28T23:11:21.850Z (11 days ago)
- Topics: cryptography, decentralized, distributed-hash-table, freenet, p2p, privacy, rust
- Language: Rust
- Homepage: https://freenet.org/
- Size: 181 MB
- Stars: 2,956
- Watchers: 46
- Forks: 165
- Open Issues: 249
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE.md
- Agents: AGENTS.md
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README
This is the freenet-core repository. To learn more about Freenet please visit our website
at [freenet.org](https://freenet.org/).
# Decentralize Everything
Freenet is the internet as it should be—fully decentralized, designed to put you back in control. Imagine a global shared
computer where you can communicate and collaborate freely, without reliance on big tech. Freenet lets you regain your
digital independence.
Freenet is a peer-to-peer network that transforms users’ computers into a resilient, distributed platform on which anyone
can build decentralized services. Every peer contributes to a fault-tolerant collective, ensuring services are always
available and robust.
Today’s web is a series of siloed services, but every system built on Freenet is fully interoperable by default. Freenet
apps can be built with popular web frameworks, accessed through any browser just like the web.
## Whitepaper
For an architectural overview — covering the contract model (idempotent commutative
monoids on application state), summary/delta synchronization, small-world adaptive
routing, and the delegate model for private state — see the
[Freenet whitepaper](https://freenet.org/whitepaper/).
Source: [github.com/freenet/paper-1](https://github.com/freenet/paper-1).
## Build Instructions
Before installing anything you need to run the following in the repository,
or the commands will fail:
```bash
$ git submodule update --init --recursive
```
To install the Freenet core:
```bash
$ cargo install --path crates/core
```
Or for the fdev utility:
```bash
$ cargo install --path crates/fdev
```
## Contributing
We welcome contributions, but **feature PRs opened without a prior approved
issue will be auto-closed** — reviewer attention is our scarcest resource.
Bug fixes and non-overreaching performance improvements are accepted without
prior discussion; anything that adds or changes behavior needs an issue and a
maintainer's sign-off first.
Read [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) before opening a PR.