Empowering equality, autonomy and sustainability with game-changing technology built with a collaborative ecosystem. Live and distributed in 21 countries and expanding. Our mission at the ThreeFold Foundation (“TFF”) is to empower the internet of tomorrow by building a new internet that is neutral, decentralized, and environmentally sustainable. Leveraging blockchain technology, we are building an ecosystem of IT infrastructure that will bring significantly more IT capacity online to match the exponential growth in demand (from IoT, Machine Learning, AI) for compute and storage needs. By using a “hyper-distributed” network architecture that incentivizes "Farmers"​ to plug-in efficient computing and storage devices around the world to the ThreeFold Grid ("TF Grid"​), we can enable digital service/application providers anywhere to host their applications closer to end users (also called edge computing). This model consumes up to 10 times less power, is independent of any government or corporation, and leads to significantly greater performance at a lower price point.

Main sectors: IT & Telecommunications

Main applications: Economic Development; Cybersecurity (Critical Infrastructure); General Infrastructure; Internet of Things

Established in: 2015

URL: http://threefold.io/

Organisation: ThreeFold Foundation

Organisation type: Organizations (not companies) – Foundation

Founders: Kristof De Spiegeleer; Adnan Fatayerji

Partners: Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Kleos; Solidaridad; Jimber; 
Our City App; Flowgen; Take Action Global 

Country: Belgium; Spain; Switzerland; United Arab Emirates

City: Ghent; Ibiza; Dubai

Stage of project: Live

Geographical reach: International

DLT / Blockchain: Public – Stellar

Other technologies: AI / Machine Learning / Deep Learning

Whitepaper: http://whitepaper.threefold.io/

Github: https://github.com/threefoldtech; http://github.com/threefoldfoundation

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This project is part of the #DLT4Good Scanning. ‘#DLT4Good: Co-creating a European Ecosystem of Distributed Ledger Technologies for Social and Public Good’ is a forward-looking science for policy project supported by the European Parliament, and coordinated by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in cooperation with the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG CONNECT). Learn more about #DLT4Good.