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**Decentralized Infrastructure Technology for Everyone, Everywhere**
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Mycelium is a comprehensive DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure) system designed to scale to planetary level, capable of providing resilient services with end-to-end encryption, and enabling any machine and human to communicate efficiently over optimal paths.
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Mycelium is Compatible with Kubernetes, Docker, VMs, Web2, Web3 – and building towards Web4.
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## Terminology Clarification
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- **Mycelium Tech**: The core technology stack (ZOS, QSS, Mycelium Network)
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- **ThreeFold Grid**: The decentralized infrastructure offering built on Mycelium Tech
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- **GeoMind**: The commercial tech company operating tier-S/H datacenters with Mycelium
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## Why Decentralized Infrastructure Matters
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Traditional internet infrastructure is burdened with inefficiencies, risks, and growing dependency on centralization.
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### **The Challenges We Face**
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- **Centralization Risks**: Digital infrastructure is controlled by a few corporations, compromising autonomy and creating single points of failure.
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- **Economic Inefficiency**: Current infrastructure models extract value from local economies, funneling resources to centralized providers.
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- **Outdated Protocols**: TCP/IP, the internet's core protocol, was never designed for modern needs like dynamic networks, security, and session management.
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- **Geographic Inefficiency**: Over 70% of the world relies on distant infrastructure, making access expensive, unreliable, and dependent on fragile global systems.
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- **Limited Access**: Over 50% of the world lacks decent internet access, widening opportunity gaps.
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Mycelium addresses these challenges through a complete, integrated technology stack designed from first principles.
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## What Mycelium Provides
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Mycelium is unique in its ability to deliver an integrated platform covering all three fundamental layers of internet infrastructure:
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### **Compute Layer** - ZOS
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- Autonomous, stateless operating system
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- MyImage architecture (up to 100x faster deployment)
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- Deterministic, cryptographically verified deployment
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- Supports Kubernetes, containers, VMs, and Linux workloads
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- Self-healing with no manual maintenance required
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### **Storage Layer** - Quantum Safe Storage (QSS)
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- Mathematical encoding with forward error correction
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- 20% overhead vs 400% for traditional replication
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- Zero-knowledge design: storage nodes can't access data
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- Petabyte-to-zetabyte scalability
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- Self-healing bitrot protection
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### **Network Layer** - Mycelium Network
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- End-to-end encrypted IPv6 overlay
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- Shortest-path optimization
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- Multi-protocol support (TCP, QUIC, UDP, satellite, wireless)
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- Peer-to-peer architecture with no central points of failure
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- Distributed secure name services
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## Key Differentiators
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| Feature | Mycelium | Traditional Cloud |
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| ------------------------ | -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
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| **Architecture** | Distributed peer-to-peer, no central control | Centralized control planes |
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| **Deployment** | Stateless network boot, zero-install | Local image installation |
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| **Storage Efficiency** | 20% overhead | 300-400% overhead |
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| **Security** | End-to-end encrypted, zero-knowledge design | Perimeter-based, trust intermediaries |
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| **Energy** | Up to 10x more efficient | Higher consumption |
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| **Autonomy** | Self-healing, autonomous agents | Requires active management |
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| **Geographic Awareness** | Shortest path routing, location-aware | Static routing, no geographic optimization |
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## Current Status
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- **Deployed**: 20+ countries, 30,000+ vCPU
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- **Proof of Concept**: Technology validated in production
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- **Commercialization**: Beginning phase with enterprise roadmap
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## Technology Maturity
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- **All our core cloud technology**: Production
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- **Quantum Safe Storage**: Production (6+ years)
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- **Mycelium Network**: Beta
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- **Deterministic Deployment**: OEM only
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- **FungiStor**: H1 2026
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Mycelium represents not just an upgrade to existing infrastructure, but a fundamental rethinking of how internet infrastructure should be built—distributed, autonomous, secure, and efficient.% |