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### Blockchain infrastructure
* [Backfeed](http://backfeed.cc/) - a technology to enable decentralized and user-owned governance and reputation management for a community.
* [Blockstack](https://blockstack.org/) - Blockstack is a new fully decentralized internet that comes with a full stack of open-source developer tools to build and bootstrap decentralized applications and protocol ecosystems.
* [Curated list of Blockchain and Crytocurrency Resources in general](https://github.com/McFrankline/Blockchain-stuff)
* [Ethereum](https://ethereum.org/) - "a distributed answer to HTTP POST" - it's a blockcahin-based platform for decentralized app development.
* [Namecoin](https://namecoin.info/) - a replacement for the existing domain name system that registers identities on a blockchain, rather than a centralized DNS authority.
* [OpenTimeStamps](https://opentimestamps.org/) - OpenTimestamps aims to be a standard format for blockchain timestamping.
* [Zcash](https://z.cash/) - a cryptocurrency built for total privacy. Zcash encrypts transactions so that they can be validated while still private.
### Communication
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* [LevelNews](https://levelnews.org/) - a leftist news aggregator designed for an open web, and dedicated to journalism without censorship.
* [Matrix](https://matrix.org/) - an open standard for decentralised persistent communication over IP. Matrix wants to connect together all the various communication services and make them interoperate.
* [Ricochet](https://ricochet.im/) - completely anonymous and potentially metadata-free chat
* [Solid](https://solid.mit.edu/) - a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles.
### Cryptocurrencies
* [Bitcoin](https://bitcoin.org) - It is the first decentralized digital currency, as the system works without a central bank or single administrator.
* [Ethereum](https://ethereum.org) - Blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It provides a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine
* [Monero](https://getmonero.org/) - Aims to improve on existing cryptocurrency design by obscuring sender, recipient and amount of every transaction.
* [Zcash](https://z.cash/) - Open, permissionless cryptocurrency that can fully protect the privacy of transactions using zero-knowledge cryptography.
* [Zcash](https://z.cash/) - a cryptocurrency built for total privacy. Zcash encrypts transactions so that they can be validated while still private.
* [awesome-cryptocurrencies](https://github.com/kasketis/awesome-cryptocurrencies) - A curated list of cryptocurrencies.
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### Decentralized web
* [Beaker](https://beakerbrowser.com/) - Beaker is a peer-to-peer Web browser, made for users to run applications independently of hosts.
* [Blockstack](https://blockstack.org/) - Blockstack is a new fully decentralized internet that comes with a full stack of open-source developer tools to build and bootstrap decentralized applications and protocol ecosystems.
* [Freenet](https://freenetproject.org/)- a network aimed at activists and people living in repressive regimes. It uses a web of trust in high security mode, which allows users on the network to be effectively undetectable.
* [I2P](https://geti2p.net/) - Anonymous network with hidden services.
* [MaidSafe](http://maidsafe.net/) - a soon-to-be-released decentralized internet and app infrastructure which rewards users for participating in the network.
* [Mysterium Network](https://mysterium.network/) - Open Sourced Network allowing anyone to rent their unused Network traffic, while providing a secure connection for those in need.
* [Namecoin](https://namecoin.info/) - a replacement for the existing domain name system that registers identities on a blockchain, rather than a centralized DNS authority.
* [Samizdat](http://samizdat.childrenofmay.org/) - Samizdat is a platform for the self-hosted, peer-to-peer, cryptographically-secured internet.
* [Solid](https://solid.mit.edu/) - a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles.
* [Steemit](https://steemit.com/) - Blogging and social networking website on top of a blockchain database.