site/prometheus/index.html
Local Dev fbe948838b site(prometheus): launch the live catalogue — operator-curated first drop
Flipping Prometheus from "designed, not yet built" scaffold to a live
catalogue. The APS1 open-publish protocol still lives in the design doc,
but holding Prometheus back from launch until arbitrary publishers can
mint listings turned out to be a story problem rather than a technical
one: the Silent Mode / affiliate projects that already ship ARE the
first catalogue, and shipping twelve real listings today gives
Prometheus a reason to exist while the open-publish layer lands.

What changed:
- Category counters stop showing 0 — the five categories we have listings
  for show real numbers, the five we don't still read 0 (so the page
  stays honest).
- A new #catalogue section after the category grid: 12 app cards grouped
  by category, each with icon, name, publisher, blurb and status pills
  (live / beta / bundled). Each links to its project's own site, not a
  Prometheus-internal detail page — that's for the APS1 flow when it
  ships.
- Hero pill: "designed · not yet built" → "live catalogue".
- Honest-status note at the bottom reframes today's drop as
  operator-curated and names what opens next (APS1 record + submission
  flow + trust lists).
- Absolute URLs for shared.css, favicon, OG image and every topnav link,
  so the page renders identically whether a visitor hits silentmode.st,
  the Sia bucket, prometheus.x via a resolver, or navigate.st's mirror.
  The relative-URL version broke the Sia-hosted path when the on-chain
  record was swapped from the u redirect to the s3 pointer.

The chain record swap and the Sia upload are already done outside this
commit — prometheus.x now serves bns/prometheus/ via BCNR; this file is
the content that landed in both the VPS mirror and the bucket. If/when
the APS1 flow lets anyone publish, the "0 listings" counters just start
counting up and the operator-curated note at the bottom goes away.
2026-10-05 02:49:12 +02:00

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<a href="https://silentmode.st/theseus">Theseus</a>
<a href="https://silentmode.st/prometheus" class="here">Prometheus</a>
<a href="https://silentmode.st/sirius">Sirius</a>
<a href="https://silentmode.st/hephaestus">Hephaestus</a>
<a href="https://silentmode.st/helios">Helios</a>
<a href="https://silentmode.st/hermes">Hermes</a>
<a href="https://silentmode.st/tools">Tools</a>
</nav>
<header class="hero">
<div class="mark" style="font-size:52px">🔥</div>
<h1>Prometheus
<span class="pill p-live" style="vertical-align:middle;font-size:12px;margin-left:.6rem">live catalogue</span>
</h1>
<p class="tag">A home for apps, programs, dApps, and libraries — <b>listed on the Bitcoin
Cash chain, hosted on Sia, endorsed by signature</b>. Anyone can publish. Nobody can
gatekeep. Named for the one who gave fire to humans and did not ask the gods first.</p>
</header>
<div class="wrap">
<!-- ============ CATEGORIES ============ -->
<section class="plain">
<h2>Browse by category</h2>
<p class="lede">Where a Google Play or an App Store has one company deciding what fits
which shelf, Prometheus has the publisher's own label and your own trust list.
The initial drop below is twelve Silent Mode and affiliate apps that run today;
the open-publish layer (<code class="inline">APS1</code>) rolls in next.</p>
<div class="categories">
<a class="cat empty" href="#comm"><div class="ico">💬</div>
<h3>Communication</h3>
<p>Messengers, voice, group chats, boards.</p>
<span class="count">0 listings</span>
</a>
<a class="cat" href="#bns"><div class="ico">🧭</div>
<h3>BNS clients</h3>
<p>Browsers, resolvers, address bars that speak Bitcoin Cash names.</p>
<span class="count"><b>4</b> listings</span>
</a>
<a class="cat" href="#offline"><div class="ico">📦</div>
<h3>Offline-first apps</h3>
<p>Local-only tools that happen to publish on chain. No telemetry.</p>
<span class="count"><b>1</b> listing</span>
</a>
<a class="cat" href="#privacy"><div class="ico">🛡️</div>
<h3>Privacy &amp; security</h3>
<p>Tracker blockers, Tor tooling, mix networks, key managers.</p>
<span class="count"><b>1</b> listing</span>
</a>
<a class="cat" href="#wallets"><div class="ico">💸</div>
<h3>Wallets &amp; payments</h3>
<p>BCH wallets, cross-chain bridges, payment terminals.</p>
<span class="count"><b>1</b> listing</span>
</a>
<a class="cat empty" href="#games"><div class="ico">🎮</div>
<h3>Games</h3>
<p>Standalone titles, on-chain leaderboards, in-app purchases without a store cut.</p>
<span class="count">0 listings</span>
</a>
<a class="cat" href="#devtools"><div class="ico">🧰</div>
<h3>Developer tools</h3>
<p>Forges, SDKs, libraries, indexers, protocol utilities.</p>
<span class="count"><b>2</b> listings</span>
</a>
<a class="cat" href="#media"><div class="ico">🎧</div>
<h3>Media &amp; publishing</h3>
<p>Document editors, readers, players, one-file blogs.</p>
<span class="count"><b>2</b> listings</span>
</a>
<a class="cat" href="#utils"><div class="ico">⚙️</div>
<h3>Utilities</h3>
<p>Storage tools, file managers, format converters, calculators.</p>
<span class="count"><b>1</b> listing</span>
</a>
<a class="cat empty" href="#else"><div class="ico">✨</div>
<h3>Everything else</h3>
<p>Anything that doesn't fit above. Propose a new category via a listing.</p>
<span class="count">0 listings</span>
</a>
</div>
</section>
<!-- ============ THE CATALOGUE ============ -->
<section id="catalogue">
<h2>The catalogue</h2>
<p class="lede">Twelve apps across five categories, every one of them signed by a Silent
Mode or affiliate wallet. Click any card for the project's own site.</p>
<!-- BNS clients -->
<div class="cat-head" id="bns"><div class="ico">🧭</div><h3>BNS clients</h3><span class="n">4 listings</span></div>
<div class="listings">
<a class="app" href="https://theseus.x/" rel="noopener">
<div class="ico">🧭</div>
<div>
<h4>Theseus Navigator <span class="by">· theseus.x</span></h4>
<p>Chromium-based browser with native BCNR resolution and chain-pinned TLS.
Open <code class="inline">hello.bch</code> and it just works — no OS-level daemon,
no root CA install.</p>
<div class="meta"><span class="live">live</span><span>Windows</span><span>free</span></div>
</div>
</a>
<a class="app" href="https://silentmode.st/ariadne" rel="noopener">
<div class="ico">🧵</div>
<div>
<h4>Ariadne's Thread <span class="by">· ariadne.x</span></h4>
<p>System-wide BCNR resolver. Install once, every browser on the machine
(Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari) starts opening <code class="inline">.bch</code>
and <code class="inline">.x</code> names directly.</p>
<div class="meta"><span class="live">live</span><span>Windows</span><span>bundled with Theseus</span></div>
</div>
</a>
<a class="app" href="https://silentmode.st/ariadne/android" rel="noopener">
<div class="ico">📱</div>
<div>
<h4>Ariadne for Android <span class="by">· ariadne.x</span></h4>
<p>Mobile BCNR resolver. A standalone app that answers <code class="inline">.bch</code>
lookups to any other app on the phone that asks.</p>
<div class="meta"><span class="live">live</span><span>Android</span><span>APK</span></div>
</div>
</a>
<a class="app" href="https://sirius.x/" rel="noopener">
<div class="ico">⭐</div>
<div>
<h4>Sirius.X <span class="by">· sirius.x</span></h4>
<p>Register BCNR names, edit records, run a TLD, buy and sell names on the
one-transaction marketplace. Keys never leave the browser.</p>
<div class="meta"><span class="live">live</span><span>web</span><span>wallet-sig</span></div>
</div>
</a>
</div>
<!-- Wallets & payments -->
<div class="cat-head" id="wallets"><div class="ico">💸</div><h3>Wallets &amp; payments</h3><span class="n">1 listing</span></div>
<div class="listings">
<a class="app" href="https://silentmode.st/theseus" rel="noopener">
<div class="ico">🪙</div>
<div>
<h4>Aegis <span class="by">· bundled with Theseus</span></h4>
<p>Multi-chain wallet with wallet-signed dapp bridges. BCH, ETH, SOL, TRX, DGB
out of the box. One PIN for the whole vault, TPM-sealed on Windows.</p>
<div class="meta"><span class="live">live</span><span class="bundled">bundled</span><span>chain-agnostic</span></div>
</div>
</a>
</div>
<!-- Privacy & security -->
<div class="cat-head" id="privacy"><div class="ico">🛡️</div><h3>Privacy &amp; security</h3><span class="n">1 listing</span></div>
<div class="listings">
<a class="app" href="https://silentmode.st/theseus" rel="noopener">
<div class="ico">🛡️</div>
<div>
<h4>Shield <span class="by">· bundled with Theseus</span></h4>
<p>Ad and tracker blocker built on @ghostery/adblocker with EasyList and
EasyPrivacy baked in. Runs in-process; no third-party DNS, no telemetry
endpoints.</p>
<div class="meta"><span class="live">live</span><span class="bundled">bundled</span><span>OSS</span></div>
</div>
</a>
</div>
<!-- Developer tools -->
<div class="cat-head" id="devtools"><div class="ico">🧰</div><h3>Developer tools</h3><span class="n">2 listings</span></div>
<div class="listings">
<a class="app" href="https://code.silentmode.st/" rel="noopener">
<div class="ico">⚒️</div>
<div>
<h4>Hephaestus <span class="by">· hephaestus.x · code.silentmode.st</span></h4>
<p>Silent Mode's own code forge — Forgejo with Bitcoin Cash wallet-address
login replacing email + password. Push, pull, issue, PR, same as any Git
host; sign in with a signature instead of a password.</p>
<div class="meta"><span class="live">live</span><span>web</span><span>wallet-sig</span></div>
</div>
</a>
<a class="app" href="https://code.silentmode.st/silentmode/sirius-press" rel="noopener">
<div class="ico">📝</div>
<div>
<h4>Sirius Press <span class="by">· self-host</span></h4>
<p>A WordPress fork with the email requirement stripped from account and
publish paths and wallet-signature login in its place. For BCNR name
owners who want a dynamic backend without giving up sovereignty.</p>
<div class="meta"><span class="beta">beta</span><span>self-host</span><span>PHP+MySQL</span></div>
</div>
</a>
</div>
<!-- Media & publishing -->
<div class="cat-head" id="media"><div class="ico">🎧</div><h3>Media &amp; publishing</h3><span class="n">2 listings</span></div>
<div class="listings">
<a class="app" href="https://silentmode.st/theseus" rel="noopener">
<div class="ico">📄</div>
<div>
<h4>PDF Editor <span class="by">· bundled with Theseus</span></h4>
<p>Full-tab PDF editor. Replace text in place, redact, add annotations,
convert to Word with hand-written OOXML. No "upload your file" step — it
runs locally in the browser process.</p>
<div class="meta"><span class="live">live</span><span class="bundled">bundled</span></div>
</div>
</a>
<a class="app" href="https://silentmode.st/theseus" rel="noopener">
<div class="ico">📝</div>
<div>
<h4>Word Editor <span class="by">· bundled with Theseus</span></h4>
<p>Edit <code class="inline">.docx</code> files directly. Multi-tab, zoom,
image handling, bundled fonts so a file:// document still renders the way
the author wrote it.</p>
<div class="meta"><span class="live">live</span><span class="bundled">bundled</span></div>
</div>
</a>
</div>
<!-- Utilities -->
<div class="cat-head" id="utils"><div class="ico">⚙️</div><h3>Utilities</h3><span class="n">1 listing</span></div>
<div class="listings">
<a class="app" href="https://pithos.sia/" rel="noopener">
<div class="ico">🏺</div>
<div>
<h4>Pithos <span class="by">· pithos.sia</span></h4>
<p>GUI for the Sia storage network. Browse buckets, upload files, manage
mirrors. Web app, Electron desktop, and Theseus add-on — same codebase,
same keys.</p>
<div class="meta"><span class="live">live</span><span>web + desktop</span><span>bundled</span></div>
</div>
</a>
</div>
<!-- Offline-first -->
<div class="cat-head" id="offline"><div class="ico">📦</div><h3>Offline-first apps</h3><span class="n">1 listing</span></div>
<div class="listings">
<a class="app" href="https://deltos.app/" rel="noopener">
<div class="ico">🗂️</div>
<div>
<h4>Deltos <span class="by">· deltos.app</span></h4>
<p>A notepad whose tabs live together in one file. Open the file, every tab
is there — like an Excel workbook, but for plain text. Local-only; the
file is yours.</p>
<div class="meta"><span class="live">live</span><span>web</span><span>single-file</span></div>
</div>
</a>
</div>
</section>
<!-- ============ HOW IT WORKS ============ -->
<section>
<h2>How Prometheus works</h2>
<ol class="steps">
<li><b>A listing is a signed on-chain record.</b>
<span>Publishing an app writes a small <code class="inline">APS1</code> 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.</span></li>
<li><b>The binary lives on Sia.</b>
<span>App files are uploaded to the Sia storage network — encrypted on the
publisher's machine, sharded across roughly 30 independent hosts, held by
nobody in particular. The listing carries the SHA-256 the file must match. If
the mirror serves a byte off, the client refuses to install it.</span></li>
<li><b>Reviews are signed endorsements you filter.</b>
<span>An endorsement is a signed statement on chain: "I, <code class="inline">alice.bch</code>,
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.</span></li>
<li><b>Install verifies against the chain.</b>
<span>The Ariadne clients pull the file from wherever the listing says (Sia,
mirror, your own server), check the SHA-256 against the on-chain record, check
the signing certificate against the fingerprint, and only then install. Same
principle as verifying a website — the chain is the truth, not the mirror.</span></li>
</ol>
</section>
<!-- ============ FOR PUBLISHERS ============ -->
<section>
<h2>Publishing an app</h2>
<div class="grid">
<div class="card">
<span class="pill p-live">available today</span>
<h3>Register a name</h3>
<p>Every publisher needs a name to sign as. Any BNS name works — the same one you'd
register at <a href="https://sirius.x/">Sirius</a>. Fractions of a cent, no monthly bill.</p>
</div>
<div class="card">
<span class="pill p-live">available today</span>
<h3>Host on Sia</h3>
<p>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.</p>
</div>
<div class="card">
<span class="pill p-designed">designed</span>
<h3>Publish the listing</h3>
<p>One transaction: <code class="inline">APS1</code> 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.</p>
</div>
<div class="card">
<span class="pill p-designed">designed</span>
<h3>Ship updates</h3>
<p>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.</p>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<!-- ============ HONEST LIMITS ============ -->
<section>
<h2>Honest boundaries</h2>
<div class="grid">
<div class="card">
<h3>Not a curator</h3>
<p>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.</p>
</div>
<div class="card">
<h3>Not a moderator</h3>
<p>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.</p>
</div>
<div class="card">
<h3>Storage costs money</h3>
<p>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.</p>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<div class="note"><b>Status.</b> The first-drop catalogue above is operator-curated —
the twelve apps already run and sign with Silent Mode / affiliate wallets. The
open-publish layer (<code class="inline">APS1</code> record + submission flow +
trust-list plumbing) opens the catalogue to anyone with a BNS name. The page you
are reading will keep its shape; the "0 listings" counters just start counting up.</div>
</div>
<footer>
<div>Silent Mode — a Deviant project.</div>
<div class="fine">Named for Prometheus, who gave fire to humans without asking the gods.
Distinct from the well-known Prometheus monitoring project — both take the name from
the same myth; neither has anything to do with the other.</div>
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