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The eight category cards now say why that shelf is different on Prometheus than on a store, instead of just naming things that go in it. The lede loses the "Google Play or an App Store" rhetorical setup for a shorter claim about where the curation actually lives. content/publish.html is new — a full step-by-step for a publisher: what you need before you start, the walkthrough from name to listing to update to withdrawal, a note on endorsements, and what each piece costs. The front page's Publishing section gets a "Full walkthrough →" link into it. README spells out that content/ is the source of truth and that a new file still needs a wp-admin page to render. site/prometheus/index.html (the ICANN mirror teaser) gets the same category copy so the two surfaces do not disagree.
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<title>Prometheus — apps and programs on the decentralized web — Silent Mode</title>
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<meta name="description" content="Prometheus is a home for apps, programs, and dApps published on the Bitcoin Cash chain. Listings live on chain, binaries live on Sia, endorsements are signed. Anyone can publish; nobody can gatekeep.">
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<meta property="og:description" content="Prometheus is a home for apps, programs, and dApps published on the Bitcoin Cash chain. Listings live on chain, binaries live on Sia, endorsements are signed. Anyone can publish; nobody can gatekeep.">
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/* Category grid — visually distinct from the homepage's tool cards so the two
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don't blur together. Prometheus is a shop; the homepage is a foyer. */
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.categories{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(auto-fit,minmax(220px,1fr));gap:14px;margin-top:1rem}
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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="theseus">Theseus</a>
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<a href="prometheus" class="here">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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<a href="tools">Tools</a>
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<div class="mark" style="font-size:52px">🔥</div>
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<h1>Prometheus
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<span class="pill p-designed" style="vertical-align:middle;font-size:12px;margin-left:.6rem">designed · not yet built</span>
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</h1>
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<p class="tag">A home for apps, programs, dApps, and libraries — <b>listed on the Bitcoin
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Cash chain, hosted on Sia, endorsed by signature</b>. Anyone can publish. Nobody can
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gatekeep. Named for the one who gave fire to humans and did not ask the gods first.</p>
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</header>
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<div class="wrap">
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<!-- ============ CATEGORIES ============ -->
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<section class="plain">
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<h2>Browse by category</h2>
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<p class="lede">On a conventional store, one company decides which shelf an app belongs
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on. Here the publisher labels their own listing, and your trust list decides whether
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to show it. The categories below are the initial shape; a new one gets proposed by
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publishing a listing against it.</p>
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<div class="categories">
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<a class="cat empty" href="#soon"><div class="ico">💬</div>
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<h3>Communication</h3>
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<p>Messengers, voice, boards, group chats. Clients that route through peers rather
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than someone else's server.</p>
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<span class="count">0 listings</span>
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</a>
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<a class="cat empty" href="#soon"><div class="ico">🛡️</div>
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<h3>Privacy & security</h3>
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<p>Tor and mix-net tooling, key and vault managers, disk crypto. The things a
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conventional store delists first when a government writes.</p>
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<span class="count">0 listings</span>
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</a>
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<a class="cat empty" href="#soon"><div class="ico">💸</div>
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<h3>Wallets & payments</h3>
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<p>BCH wallets, cross-chain bridges, point-of-sale terminals. The chain publishes
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the listing and the chain settles the payment.</p>
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<span class="count">0 listings</span>
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</a>
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<a class="cat empty" href="#soon"><div class="ico">🎮</div>
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<h3>Games</h3>
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<p>Standalone titles, on-chain leaderboards, in-app purchases that reach the
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publisher instead of a 30% toll.</p>
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<span class="count">0 listings</span>
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</a>
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<a class="cat empty" href="#soon"><div class="ico">🧰</div>
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<h3>Developer tools</h3>
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<p>SDKs, libraries, indexers, faucets, protocol utilities. The pieces other apps
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on this list are built out of.</p>
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<span class="count">0 listings</span>
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</a>
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<a class="cat empty" href="#soon"><div class="ico">🎧</div>
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<h3>Media & publishing</h3>
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<p>Readers, players, one-file blogs, podcast hosts. Clients that find their
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audience without going through an aggregator.</p>
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<span class="count">0 listings</span>
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</a>
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<a class="cat empty" href="#soon"><div class="ico">⚙️</div>
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<h3>Utilities</h3>
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<p>File tools, format converters, backup, calculators. The small sharp things that
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solve one problem and do not ask for an account first.</p>
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<span class="count">0 listings</span>
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</a>
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<a class="cat empty" href="#soon"><div class="ico">✨</div>
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<h3>Everything else</h3>
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<p>Anything that does not fit above. New categories are proposed in-band — any
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listing can declare one and clients will offer to add it.</p>
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<span class="count">0 listings</span>
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</a>
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</div>
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<div class="banner" id="soon">
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<h3>No live listings yet.</h3>
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<p>The listing protocol (<code class="inline">APS1</code> record on chain) and the
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submission flow are next. In the meantime, <a href="tools">Silent Mode's own
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clients</a> are the working proof that a chain-hosted download flow can be verified
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end-to-end.</p>
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</div>
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</section>
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<!-- ============ HOW IT WORKS ============ -->
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<section>
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<h2>How Prometheus works</h2>
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<ol class="steps">
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<li><b>A listing is a signed on-chain record.</b>
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<span>Publishing an app writes a small <code class="inline">APS1</code> record
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to Bitcoin Cash — same protocol shape as a BNS name registration, different
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prefix. The payload is a hash pointing at a full manifest stored on Sia:
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name, description, category, icon, version, download URL, binary SHA-256, and
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signing-cert fingerprint. Nobody approves the record; the transaction is the
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publish.</span></li>
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<li><b>The binary lives on Sia.</b>
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<span>App files are uploaded to the Sia storage network — encrypted on the
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publisher's machine, sharded across roughly 30 independent hosts, held by
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nobody in particular. The listing carries the SHA-256 the file must match. If
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the mirror serves a byte off, the client refuses to install it.</span></li>
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<li><b>Reviews are signed endorsements you filter.</b>
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<span>An endorsement is a signed statement on chain: "I, <code class="inline">alice.bch</code>,
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vouch for this app." Your client shows the endorsements from names on trust
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lists you subscribe to — a security researcher's, a friend's, your own. A
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one-star review from a bot you don't follow simply doesn't render. Curated
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registries and formal reputation come later; permissionless comes first.</span></li>
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<li><b>Install verifies against the chain.</b>
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<span>The Ariadne clients pull the file from wherever the listing says (Sia,
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mirror, your own server), check the SHA-256 against the on-chain record, check
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the signing certificate against the fingerprint, and only then install. Same
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principle as verifying a website — the chain is the truth, not the mirror.</span></li>
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</ol>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Publishing an app</h2>
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<div class="grid">
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<div class="card">
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<span class="pill p-live">available today</span>
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<h3>Register a name</h3>
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<p>Every publisher needs a name to sign as. Any BNS name works — the same one you'd
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register at <a href="sirius">Sirius</a>. Fractions of a cent, no monthly bill.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<span class="pill p-live">available today</span>
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<h3>Host on Sia</h3>
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<p>Upload the app binary + manifest to a Sia bucket you control. Silent Mode's own
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gateway can host on your behalf if you don't want to run a Sia daemon.</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>Publish the listing</h3>
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<p>One transaction: <code class="inline">APS1</code> record with the manifest hash,
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signed by your name's key. From that moment on, anyone can find your app by
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browsing the category, and the client can install it verifiably.</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>Ship updates</h3>
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<p>An update is another signed record referencing the same app id. Clients pull
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updates the same way they installed the app — verify against the chain, then
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install. Nobody can push a hostile update without your key.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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</section>
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<!-- ============ HONEST LIMITS ============ -->
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<section>
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<h2>Honest boundaries</h2>
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<div class="grid">
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<div class="card">
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<h3>Not a curator</h3>
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<p>Prometheus does not decide what is on it. Malware can be published — as it can
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on any store. Trust lists and endorsements are what filter your view. If nobody
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you trust endorses it, your client says so.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<h3>Not a moderator</h3>
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<p>Content that is illegal in your jurisdiction is your responsibility to avoid,
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same as any other permissionless network. Silent Mode operates infrastructure;
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it does not decide what runs on it.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<h3>Storage costs money</h3>
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<p>Sia hosting is inexpensive but not free — publishers pay for the bytes their
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apps take. There is no advertising model, no data harvesting, no subscription.
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Storage is the only cost, and it is small.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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</section>
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<div class="note warn"><b>Status: designed, not yet built.</b> The listing protocol
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(<code class="inline">APS1</code>) exists on paper — see
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<code class="inline">_coordination/sessions/mobile-resolver.md</code>. The browsing UI,
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publish flow, and trust-list plumbing are next. This page will look the same when
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Prometheus is live; the "0 listings" counters just start counting up.</div>
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<footer>
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<div>Silent Mode — a Deviant project.</div>
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<div class="fine">Named for Prometheus, who gave fire to humans without asking the gods.
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Distinct from the well-known Prometheus monitoring project — both take the name from
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the same myth; neither has anything to do with the other.</div>
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