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Theme fund: NGI Zero Core
Start: 2025-01
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Reticulum Network Stack

Networking stack for building local and wide-area networks even with extremely low bandwidth

Reticulum is a cryptography-based networking stack that offers end-to-end connectivity and encryption, and a privacy-oriented base-layer protocol. It aims to allow anyone to operate their own sovereign communication networks, and to cover large areas with independent, interconnectable and autonomous networks without kill-switches and external control.

Reticulum is a completely decentralised networking stack, and it enables the construction of both small and large-scale networks, without any need for hierarchical or beaureucratic structures to control or manage them, while ensuring individuals and communities full sovereignty over their own network segments, addresses and applications. It allows creating truly decentralised applications and services, that can continue to operate even in adverse conditions, and with extremely limited bandwidth and resources.

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This project was funded through the NGI0 Core Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101092990.