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Browsers held a stale shared.css (no Cache-Control on .css, weeks-old Last-Modified → long heuristic freshness), so the .brand .logo rule added on 2026-09-07 never applied for returning visitors and the brand wrapped onto its own nav row on every page except Hephaestus. All 13 pages now link shared.css?v=YYYYMMDD; bump it on every shared.css change (GOTCHAS).
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<title>Silent Mode — decentralized web infrastructure</title>
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<meta name="description" content="Silent Mode is a development department for the decentralized web. Names on the Bitcoin Cash chain (Sirius), apps on Sia (Prometheus), search without a gatekeeper (Helios), messaging by name (Hermes), a code forge that signs you in with a wallet (Hephaestus), and the clients that reach them all.">
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<meta property="og:type" content="website">
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<meta property="og:site_name" content="Silent Mode">
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<meta property="og:title" content="Silent Mode — decentralized web infrastructure">
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<meta property="og:description" content="Silent Mode is a development department for the decentralized web. Names on the Bitcoin Cash chain (Sirius), apps on Sia (Prometheus), search without a gatekeeper (Helios), messaging by name (Hermes), a code forge that signs you in with a wallet (Hephaestus), and the clients that reach them all.">
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<meta property="og:url" content="https://silentmode.st/">
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<a class="brand" href="/"><svg class="logo" viewBox="0 0 32 20" aria-hidden="true"><rect class="l1" x="1.5" y="3.5" width="17" height="13" rx="6.5" ry="6.5" fill="none" stroke-width="2.6"/><rect class="l2" x="13.5" y="3.5" width="17" height="13" rx="6.5" ry="6.5" fill="none" stroke-width="2.6"/></svg>Silent <span class="g">Mode</span></a>
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<a href="tools/">Theseus</a>
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<a href="prometheus/">Prometheus</a>
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<a href="sirius/">Sirius</a>
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<a href="hephaestus/">Hephaestus</a>
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<a href="helios/">Helios</a>
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<a href="hermes/">Hermes</a>
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<div class="mark"><svg viewBox="0 0 260 90" aria-hidden="true"><rect class="l1" x="9" y="9" width="150" height="72" rx="36" ry="36" fill="none" stroke-width="16"/><rect class="l2" x="101" y="9" width="150" height="72" rx="36" ry="36" fill="none" stroke-width="16"/></svg></div>
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<h1>Silent <span class="g">Mode</span></h1>
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<p class="tag">A development department for the decentralized web. We build names,
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hosting, apps, search, messaging, and the clients that reach them — everything you
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need to run a site nobody can seize, and everything you need to visit one.</p>
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<div class="cta">
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<a class="btn acid" href="tools/#theseus">Download the browser</a>
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<a class="btn ghost" href="tools/">See all tools</a>
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<a class="btn ghost" href="https://navigate.st/bns/silentmode.bch">See our .bch demo</a>
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<p style="margin:1.4rem 0 0;color:var(--dim);font-size:13px">
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New to any of this? <a href="choose/" style="color:var(--mut)">Start with the choice →</a>
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</header>
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<figure class="shot" style="max-width:980px;margin:2.2rem auto 0;padding:0 1.2rem">
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<img src="tools/img/theseus-hello-bch.png" width="1424" height="888" alt="Theseus Navigator showing https://hello.bch with the BCDN badge in the address bar — the page loaded with no DNS lookup and no registrar." loading="eager">
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<figcaption>Theseus opening <code class="inline">hello.bch</code>: the name was read from the Bitcoin Cash chain, the page from the network — no DNS was asked, no registrar consulted.</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<div class="wrap">
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<!-- ============ .st vs .bch — the split ============ -->
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<div class="note" style="margin-top:1.6rem;font-size:14.5px;border-left-color:var(--sia)">
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<b>This page is ordinary web infrastructure.</b> <code class="inline">silentmode.st</code>
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runs on nginx, a rented server, an ICANN domain, and a Let's Encrypt certificate — because
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the point of this page is to <i>talk about</i> the alternative web, and the widest
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audience needs no install to read it.
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<br><br>
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The project's own demonstration lives at <b><a href="https://navigate.st/bns/silentmode.bch">silentmode.bch</a></b>
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— same project, hosted <i>with</i> the tools it describes. No centralized host, no registrar
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entity, no DNS, no certificate authority.
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<span style="display:block;color:var(--dim);font-size:12.5px;margin-top:.6rem">
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Any resolver installed? Try it natively: <a href="https://silentmode.bch/"><code class="inline">https://silentmode.bch/</code></a>
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</span>
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</div>
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<!-- ============ THE FIVE PRODUCTS ============ -->
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<section class="plain">
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<h2>What we build</h2>
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<p class="lede">Seven pieces, each named for a figure whose role matches its function.
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Each solves one part of the "how do we run a web without gatekeepers" problem, and
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all of them interoperate around one thing: a name on the Bitcoin Cash chain.</p>
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<div class="grid">
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<div class="card">
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<span class="pill p-alpha">alpha</span>
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<h3>Theseus <span class="src s-chain">browsers & resolvers</span></h3>
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<p>Two flagship browsers, one brand across platforms — Ariadne resolver built in.
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Also: the public relay (no install), the Firefox extension, and a standalone
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Ariadne Resolver for system-wide BNS in every browser.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:.8rem"><a href="tools/">See all tools →</a></p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<span class="pill p-live">live</span>
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<h3>Sirius <span class="src s-chain">names</span></h3>
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<p>Domain names on Bitcoin Cash — permanent, no renewal, no registrar. Register a
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name in one transaction, hold it in your wallet, point it at any content on any
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network.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:.8rem"><a href="sirius/">Register a name →</a></p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<span class="pill p-live">live</span>
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<h3>Hephaestus <span class="src s-sia">code</span></h3>
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<p>A code forge you sign into with a Bitcoin Cash wallet. Forgejo UI, repos on the
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host, LFS/releases/packages on Sia. No email, no password reset, no middleman.
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Live at <a href="https://code.silentmode.st/">code.silentmode.st</a>.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:.8rem"><a href="hephaestus/">See Hephaestus →</a></p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<span class="pill p-designed">designed</span>
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<h3>Prometheus <span class="src s-sia">apps</span></h3>
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<p>Home for apps and programs published on chain, hosted on Sia. Categories,
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signed endorsements, verified installs. Anyone can publish; nobody can gatekeep.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:.8rem"><a href="prometheus/">Browse Prometheus →</a></p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<span class="pill p-designed">designed</span>
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<h3>Helios <span class="src s-srv">search</span></h3>
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<p>A search engine for the decentralized web. No central crawler to trust, no
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authority to rank, no advertiser to serve. Ranking by trust list, not algorithm.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:.8rem"><a href="helios/">How it will work →</a></p>
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</div>
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<span class="pill p-designed">designed</span>
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<h3>Hermes <span class="src s-tor">messages</span></h3>
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<p>End-to-end encrypted messaging over Nostr, addressed by your BNS name instead
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of a public-key string. Same wallet is your identity — no email, no phone number,
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no company.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:.8rem"><a href="hermes/">Read the design →</a></p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<span class="pill p-designed">designed</span>
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<h3>Argo <span class="src s-sia">hosting pact</span></h3>
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<p>The incentive layer nobody pays for today. Independent hosts pooling to keep
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your site up, paid by a covenant on chain. The piece that turns "you can host
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it" into "someone will keep hosting it."</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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</section>
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<!-- ============ THE COMMON THREAD ============ -->
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<h2>One thread through all of them</h2>
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<p class="lede">Everything above depends on one thing: a name registered on the
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Bitcoin Cash chain, held in a wallet you control. That name is your address on
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Prometheus, your identity on Hermes, your ranking signal on Helios, and the URL
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Tools resolve. Register once; use it everywhere. Nobody issues it, nobody revokes
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it, and no service you use here needs an account.</p>
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<div class="cta" style="justify-content:flex-start">
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<a class="btn acid" href="sirius/">Register a name at Sirius →</a>
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</div>
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</section>
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<div class="note"><b>Verify everything, trust nothing.</b> Every download published here is
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fingerprinted with SHA-256; the canonical list is at <a href="releases/">/releases/</a>.
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Alpha software on a test network — expect it to change, and check hashes before you
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install.</div>
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<footer>
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<div>Silent Mode — a Deviant project.</div>
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<div class="fine">A development department for the decentralized web. Nothing here is a
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service, product guarantee, or investment. Verify against the chain; trust nothing
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that cannot be checked.</div>
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</footer>
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