site/index.html
Local Dev 3e87ab3f81 site audit: home, Ariadne page, Hermes downloads, releases/dl consolidation
Home: Prometheus and Hermes are live, not "designed"; new Ariadne and
Pithos cards; VPN, Bergamot and Mirrors linked; the page no longer claims
to run on nginx or to list "seven pieces".

/ariadne: new Silent Mode-headered page for the resolver family — Android
browser (APK, hash, signing key), standalone Windows resolver, how a lookup
resolves — linking out to the sovereign ariadne.x. "Ariadne" tab added to
every page's top nav; VPN and Bergamot navs normalised to the site-root
scheme while there.

Hermes: Download section (Windows installer + MSI, Android APK with hashes
from the manifest, web messenger), mobile and Windows marked live, hero
image path fixed; the brand-kit page's links were relative to a URL that
no longer has a trailing slash and the folder had never been deployed.

Releases/dl: the live dl manifest had been overwritten from a stale base
and was serving 0.3.106 to updaters while 0.3.110 was on the host; merged
(union) and reshipped. Manifest gains hermes-android/hermes-desktop; keep
policy aligned between the page (releases-page.mjs) and the VPS
(dl-vps-archive.sh, new, all products) so the page never links a build the
host no longer has. dl.silentmode.st/ now serves a generated index with
absolute links; dl-latest.sh tracked in-repo and extended with Hermes rows.
scripts/site-linkcheck.mjs resolves links the way the slash-less URLs do.
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<title>Silent Mode — decentralized web infrastructure</title>
<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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<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>
<a href="theseus">Theseus</a>
<a href="prometheus">Prometheus</a>
<a href="sirius">Sirius</a>
<a href="hephaestus">Hephaestus</a>
<a href="helios">Helios</a>
<a href="hermes">Hermes</a>
<a href="tools">Tools</a>
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<h1>Silent <span class="g">Mode</span></h1>
<p class="tag">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.</p>
<div class="cta">
<a class="btn acid" href="theseus#download">Download the browser</a>
<a class="btn ghost" href="tools">See all tools</a>
<a class="btn ghost" href="https://navigate.st/bns/silentmode.bch">See our .bch demo</a>
</div>
<p style="margin:1.4rem 0 0;color:var(--dim);font-size:13px">
New to any of this? <a href="choose" style="color:var(--mut)">Start with the choice →</a>
</p>
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<figure class="shot" style="max-width:980px;margin:2.2rem auto 0;padding:0 1.2rem">
<img src="theseus/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">
<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>
</figure>
<div class="wrap">
<!-- ============ .st vs .bch — the split ============ -->
<div class="note" style="margin-top:1.6rem;font-size:14.5px;border-left-color:var(--sia)">
<b>This page is ordinary web infrastructure.</b> <code class="inline">silentmode.st</code>
runs on an ordinary web server, a rented machine, an ICANN domain, and a Let's Encrypt certificate — because
the point of this page is to <i>talk about</i> the alternative web, and the widest
audience needs no install to read it.
<br><br>
The project's own demonstration lives at <b><a href="https://navigate.st/bns/silentmode.bch">silentmode.bch</a></b>
— same project, hosted <i>with</i> the tools it describes. No centralized host, no registrar
entity, no DNS, no certificate authority.
<span style="display:block;color:var(--dim);font-size:12.5px;margin-top:.6rem">
Any resolver installed? Try it natively: <a href="https://silentmode.bch/"><code class="inline">https://silentmode.bch/</code></a>
</span>
</div>
<!-- ============ THE FIVE PRODUCTS ============ -->
<section class="plain">
<h2>What we build</h2>
<p class="lede">Each piece is named for a figure whose role matches its function, and each solves one part of the "how do we run a web without gatekeepers" problem, and
all of them interoperate around one thing: a name on the Bitcoin Cash chain.</p>
<div class="grid">
<div class="card">
<span class="pill p-alpha">alpha</span>
<h3>Theseus <span class="src s-chain">browsers &amp; resolvers</span></h3>
<p>Two flagship browsers, one brand across platforms — Ariadne resolver built in.
Also: the public relay (no install), the Firefox extension, and a standalone
Ariadne Resolver for system-wide BNS in every browser.</p>
<p style="margin-top:.8rem"><a href="theseus">Download Theseus →</a></p>
</div>
<div class="card">
<span class="pill p-live">live</span>
<h3>Ariadne <span class="src s-chain">mobile &amp; resolver</span></h3>
<p>The mobile browser for Android that resolves names on the phone itself, with
Ariadne's Thread to make every app on the device name-aware. The same resolver
ships standalone for Windows and inside every Theseus install.</p>
<p style="margin-top:.8rem"><a href="ariadne">Get Ariadne →</a></p>
</div>
<div class="card">
<span class="pill p-live">live</span>
<h3>Sirius <span class="src s-chain">names</span></h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p style="margin-top:.8rem"><a href="sirius">Register a name →</a></p>
</div>
<div class="card">
<span class="pill p-live">live</span>
<h3>Hephaestus <span class="src s-sia">code</span></h3>
<p>A code forge you sign into with a Bitcoin Cash wallet. Forgejo UI, repos on the
host, LFS/releases/packages on Sia. No email, no password reset, no middleman.
Live at <a href="https://code.silentmode.st/">code.silentmode.st</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-top:.8rem"><a href="hephaestus">See Hephaestus →</a></p>
</div>
<div class="card">
<span class="pill p-live">live</span>
<h3>Prometheus <span class="src s-sia">apps</span></h3>
<p>The app directory at prometheus.x. Publishers sign a listing with their name's key,
Prometheus scans the binary and attaches a signed report, and every download is
verified. Anyone can publish; nobody can gatekeep.</p>
<p style="margin-top:.8rem"><a href="prometheus">Browse Prometheus →</a></p>
</div>
<div class="card">
<span class="pill p-designed">designed</span>
<h3>Helios <span class="src s-srv">search</span></h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p style="margin-top:.8rem"><a href="helios">How it will work →</a></p>
</div>
<div class="card">
<span class="pill p-live">live</span>
<h3>Hermes <span class="src s-tor">messages</span></h3>
<p>End-to-end encrypted messaging over Nostr, addressed by your on-chain registered
name instead of a public-key string. In Theseus, on the web at hermes.x, and as
apps for Windows and Android. No email, no phone number, no company.</p>
<p style="margin-top:.8rem"><a href="hermes">Get Hermes →</a></p>
</div>
<div class="card">
<span class="pill p-live">live</span>
<h3>Pithos <span class="src s-sia">storage</span></h3>
<p>Decentralized cloud storage you own: a desktop app, a web client and a Theseus
add-on for Sia buckets, encrypted on your device before anything leaves it. Bring
your own storage account or use the hosted option.</p>
<p style="margin-top:.8rem"><a href="/pithos/">See Pithos →</a></p>
</div>
<div class="card">
<span class="pill p-designed">designed</span>
<h3>Argo <span class="src s-sia">hosting pact</span></h3>
<p>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."</p>
</div>
</div>
<p style="color:var(--dim);font-size:13.5px;margin:1.2rem 0 0">Also shipped inside Theseus:
a one-click <a href="vpn">VPN</a>, on-device page translation with
<a href="bergamot">Bergamot</a>, and <a href="mirrors">reverse-proxy mirrors</a> for
sites that block unfamiliar browsers.</p>
</section>
<!-- ============ THE COMMON THREAD ============ -->
<section>
<h2>One thread through all of them</h2>
<p class="lede">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
Theseus and Ariadne resolve. Register once; use it everywhere. Nobody issues it, nobody revokes
it, and no service you use here needs an account.</p>
<div class="cta" style="justify-content:flex-start">
<a class="btn acid" href="sirius">Register a name at Sirius →</a>
</div>
</section>
<div class="note"><b>Verify everything, trust nothing.</b> Every download published here is
fingerprinted with SHA-256; the canonical list is at <a href="releases">/releases/</a>.
Alpha software on a test network — expect it to change, and check hashes before you
install.</div>
</div>
<footer>
<div>Silent Mode — a Deviant project.</div>
<div class="fine">A development department for the decentralized web. Nothing here is a
service, product guarantee, or investment. Verify against the chain; trust nothing
that cannot be checked.</div>
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