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Silent Mode

A development department for the decentralized web. We build the names, the hosting, and the clients that reach them — everything you need to run a site nobody can seize, and everything you need to visit one.

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This page is ordinary web infrastructure. silentmode.st runs on nginx, a rented server, an ICANN domain, and a Let's Encrypt certificate — because the point of this page is to talk about the alternative web, and the widest audience needs no install to read it.

The project's own demonstration lives at silentmode.bch — same project, hosted with the tools it describes. No host, no registrar, no DNS, no certificate authority. Any resolver installed? Try it natively: https://silentmode.bch/

Ways in — pick one

Three paths to open a name registered on the Bitcoin Cash chain, from "nothing installed" to "full browser." The tools hub explains each in depth.

live

Relay no install

Read any .bch name through navigate.st over ordinary HTTPS. Works on any device, in any browser, without downloads.

alpha

Theseus Navigator browser

A desktop browser that speaks .bch and other BNS TLDs natively — provenance badge on every page, secret-free.

Download for Windows →

alpha

Ariadne Resolver system-wide

A small background service that teaches your whole computer to open BNS names in every browser. Windows now; other platforms next.

Download →

alpha

Ariadne for Android phone

Resolve .bch names on the phone itself. Tabs, tap-to-verify provenance badge, no account.

Download APK →

Names & hosting

Own a name on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain — permanent, no renewal, no registrar who can take it back. Attach a website you host anywhere: inside the blockchain transaction, on the Sia storage network, or on a server you already run.

live

Register a name

Search availability, mint the name certificate to your own wallet, done. Fractions of a cent, no monthly bill.

Search a name →

alpha

Point it at content

Three storage backends — inline on chain (tiny pages), Sia network (full sites, encrypted & sharded across strangers), or your own server.

designed

Hosting pact Argo

The incentive layer nobody pays for today: independent hosts pooling to keep your site up, paid by a covenant on chain. Designed; not built.

Coming next

Two products moving from design into build. Both use BNS names as the root of identity, so nothing about them depends on ICANN, app stores, or accounts.

designed

App store

An app-store-shaped listing where the entries themselves live on chain and the reviews are signed endorsements you filter by who you trust. No gatekeeper approves what ships.

How it will work →

designed

Hermes — messenger

End-to-end encrypted DMs over Nostr, addressed by your .bch name instead of a public-key string. Same wallet is your identity — no email, no phone number, no company.

Read the design →

Verify everything, trust nothing. Every download published here is fingerprinted with SHA-256; the canonical list is at /releases/. Alpha software on a test network — expect it to change, and check hashes before you install.