A development department for the decentralized web. We build names, hosting, apps, search, messaging, 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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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.
https://silentmode.bch/
Five products, each named for a figure whose role matches its function. Each solves one part of the "how do we run a web without gatekeepers" problem, and all five interoperate around one thing: a name on the Bitcoin Cash chain.
The clients that read the chain and load the pages. Desktop browser (Theseus), system-wide resolver (Ariadne for Windows), Firefox extension, phone app.
Domain names on Bitcoin Cash — permanent, no renewal, no registrar. Register a name in one transaction, hold it in your wallet, point it at any content on any network.
Home for apps and programs published on chain, hosted on Sia. Categories, signed endorsements, verified installs. Anyone can publish; nobody can gatekeep.
A search engine for the decentralized web. No central crawler to trust, no authority to rank, no advertiser to serve. Ranking by trust list, not algorithm.
End-to-end encrypted messaging over Nostr, addressed by your BNS name instead of a public-key string. Same wallet is your identity — no email, no phone number, no company.
The incentive layer nobody pays for today. Independent hosts pooling to keep your site up, paid by a covenant on chain. The piece that turns "you can host it" into "someone will keep hosting it."
Everything above depends on one thing: a name registered on the Bitcoin Cash chain, held in a wallet you control. That name is your address on Prometheus, your identity on Hermes, your ranking signal on Helios, and the URL Tools resolve. Register once; use it everywhere. Nobody issues it, nobody revokes it, and no service you use here needs an account.