We’re thrilled to announce the public pre-alpha of Earendil, the first ever communication plus payment network that is at once anonymous, decentralized, and unstoppable by ISP-level censorship.
As a general-purpose transport layer, Earendil can be transparently integrated into any application that needs decentralized, secure, and ban-resistant communications — for instance, apps that need reliable connectivity across national censorship systems like the GFW.
Earendil and similar protocols will enable a new generation of secure and interoperable apps empowering entirely new levels of human autonomy and coordination. This is the Mel vision – an expansive ecosystem of post-blockchain decentralized apps secured invisibly by the Mel blockchain through composable protocols like Earendil.
The pre-alpha does not yet have Mel-based incentives or payment channel features, but it already has a full implementation of basic Tor-like anonymous communication. With the pre-alpha, you can:
- Run relays to contribute to the network
- Anonymously host websites within the Earendil network (similar to Tor Onion Services)
- Anonymously browse the ordinary Internet
- Proxy the ordinary Internet for people in countries with internet censorship
We invite you and your friends to test out Earendil, try to break it, and report any bugs to our Discord!