Open Garden

Open Garden is changing the way people connect to the Internet by empowering millions to sell their unused broadband and mobile bandwidth for cryptocurrency, while creating a secure and encrypted Internet that is faster and more affordable for everyone. Our mesh networking protocols have already proven effective in our award-winning FireChat app, which has been used for direct peer-to-peer messaging (no Internet connection required) during festivals like Burning Man, pro-democracy protests in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and after several natural disasters took down telecommunications infrastructure around the globe. We believe that by connecting the world’s 5 billion mobile devices on a decentralized peer-to-peer network, people have the power to render spying ISPs, price-gouging telecoms and government controlled firewalls obsolete. It’s time to recapture the promise of an open and independent Internet for all of us. The Open Garden peer-to-peer mesh network protocol enables millions of people to join together and provide decentralized Internet access for all. We’ve built the complete protocol into our Open Garden smartphone apps, and we plan to open source the protocol for others to build into their own apps and hardware. Open Garden eclipses old school ISPs by allowing anyone to securely share their excess fixed broadband or mobile bandwidth and earn our cryptocurrency, OG Token. Control how much bandwidth and data to offer to the network. You set the speed limit, and the overall data limit. Set the price others pay for your surplus bandwidth. Our decentralized protocol offers censorship-resistant security and VPN encryption that takes control back from unscrupulous ISPs, government agencies and hostile regimes to restore net neutrality. When people build the Internet themselves, no evil empire can control it.