A home for apps, programs, dApps, and libraries — listed on the Bitcoin Cash chain, hosted on Sia, endorsed by signature. Anyone can publish. Nobody can gatekeep. Named for the one who gave fire to humans and did not ask the gods first.
On a conventional store, one company decides which shelf an app belongs on. Here the publisher labels their own listing, and your trust list decides whether to show it. The categories below are the initial shape; a new one gets proposed by publishing a listing against it.
Messengers, voice, boards, group chats. Clients that route through peers rather than someone else's server.
0 listingsTor and mix-net tooling, key and vault managers, disk crypto. The things a conventional store delists first when a government writes.
0 listingsBCH wallets, cross-chain bridges, point-of-sale terminals. The chain publishes the listing and the chain settles the payment.
0 listingsStandalone titles, on-chain leaderboards, in-app purchases that reach the publisher instead of a 30% toll.
0 listingsSDKs, libraries, indexers, faucets, protocol utilities. The pieces other apps on this list are built out of.
0 listingsReaders, players, one-file blogs, podcast hosts. Clients that find their audience without going through an aggregator.
0 listingsFile tools, format converters, backup, calculators. The small sharp things that solve one problem and do not ask for an account first.
0 listingsAnything that does not fit above. New categories are proposed in-band — any listing can declare one and clients will offer to add it.
0 listingsAPS1 record
to Bitcoin Cash — same protocol shape as a BNS name registration, different
prefix. The payload is a hash pointing at a full manifest stored on Sia:
name, description, category, icon, version, download URL, binary SHA-256, and
signing-cert fingerprint. Nobody approves the record; the transaction is the
publish.alice.bch,
vouch for this app." Your client shows the endorsements from names on trust
lists you subscribe to — a security researcher's, a friend's, your own. A
one-star review from a bot you don't follow simply doesn't render. Curated
registries and formal reputation come later; permissionless comes first.Every publisher needs a name to sign as. Any BNS name works — the same one you'd register at Sirius. Fractions of a cent, no monthly bill.
Upload the app binary + manifest to a Sia bucket you control. Silent Mode's own gateway can host on your behalf if you don't want to run a Sia daemon.
One transaction: APS1 record with the manifest hash,
signed by your name's key. From that moment on, anyone can find your app by
browsing the category, and the client can install it verifiably.
An update is another signed record referencing the same app id. Clients pull updates the same way they installed the app — verify against the chain, then install. Nobody can push a hostile update without your key.
Prometheus does not decide what is on it. Malware can be published — as it can on any store. Trust lists and endorsements are what filter your view. If nobody you trust endorses it, your client says so.
Content that is illegal in your jurisdiction is your responsibility to avoid, same as any other permissionless network. Silent Mode operates infrastructure; it does not decide what runs on it.
Sia hosting is inexpensive but not free — publishers pay for the bytes their apps take. There is no advertising model, no data harvesting, no subscription. Storage is the only cost, and it is small.
APS1) exists on paper — see
_coordination/sessions/mobile-resolver.md. The browsing UI,
publish flow, and trust-list plumbing are next. This page will look the same when
Prometheus is live; the "0 listings" counters just start counting up.