I’m excited to announce the first technical preview of Dappnet, a bulletproof platform for hosting decentralized frontends.

Dappnet makes it possible to publish content that cannot be censored. Users can access it easily as simply as typing 1inch.eth inside their browser. Domains are resolved using ENS, and content is served using IPFS, a P2P network.

Today we are releasing 3 things:

1. The Dappnet client for macOS, which works with Chrome, Brave and Firefox.

2. Full open-sourcing of the entire project.

3. Documentation on Dappnet and how to deploy to it.

Welcome to the Alpha.

Dappnet Alpha gives you decentralized access to 5 popular DeFi dapps - 1inch, Curve, Compound, ENS domains, and Kwenta + the ability to access any website deployed to .eth, in browser. No more .eth.limo. Native support in your browser.

What you should expect: websites on .eth may download slowly - they are coming from a P2P network! We are improving the UX day-in day-out. Occasionally you need to do a force refresh because there are some lingering issues.

Dappnet is in alpha. Websites may not download perfectly yet, and the client may be slow on multiple concurrent downloads. But we’re making a big step forward today - in that frontends are never going to get successfully censored, ever again.

Install.

Follow the instructions here:

Learn about the technical architecture:

Deploy your own .eth websites:

Contribute.

We have a Discord server.

Hack on the official client:

We are looking for Windows devs who can help make an official Ballmer port

Experiment.

Learn about the ideas we want to build out:

Final bit - some thanks!

There were a bunch of people who helped out, who I want to give thanks for:

• @M2K for setting up our Discord.

• The early beta testers in Discord.

• @saeta-eth who ported the Chrome extension to Manifest v3, allowing us to publish to the Chrome web store.

• @jorropo.eth, IPFS core dev, for helping solve the issues around IPFS resource consumption.

• Gregoire le Jeune, Preston Byrne, Caitlin + the Paradigm Legal team for providing us with sage legal advice.

• @0xAdam for connecting us with a top-notch video producer, and personally helping to fund the video himself.

• Izzy and the Lido DAO, who gave us some small grants for our work on Dappnet and eth-verifiable-rpc.

• Everyone who bought the original Dappnet: Intent To Build NFT, who helped fund this work.