The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Web

The Impervious Browser will doubtless be publicly launched April 7th, accurate thru the Bitcoin 2022 Conference, in Miami.

• Zoom, with out Zoom.
• Google Scientific doctors, with out Google.
• Medium, with out Medium.
• WhatsApp, with out WhatsApp.
• Funds, with out banks.
• Identity, with out the teach.
• All with out centralized intermediaries and constructed into the Impervious Browser.

In August 2021, Impervious launched a bundle of APIs constructed on the Bitcoin Lightning Community, which created a programmatic layer for Bitcoin – (i.e. “Layer 3”). The Impervious APIs allow any utility or service to circulation cryptographically accurate, censorship and surveillance resistant recordsdata transmission channels.

Following an alive to reception of the Impervious APIs, we fused all of our Save-to-Save (“P2P”) capabilities collectively into one with out complications consumable orderly utility – the Impervious Browser.

Making a Novel P2P Web Accepted: Circumventing Intermediaries and Digital Gatekeepers

Impervious is constructing the tools and infrastructure for the P2P web. By interlacing Lightning, Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), a DIDComm system, WebRTC, IPFS and extra into a neatly-known utility, the Impervious Browser is able to give a total suite of easy to make use of P2P capabilities.

An Overview:

Stable P2P Messaging: WhatsApp, with out WhatsApp

• Cryptographically accurate, power and ephemeral messaging
• Decentralized, accurate-time P2P dialog between browsers and DIDs
• Stable dialog between friends and gaze groups
• No third-celebration intermediaries to gape, take, or censor messages
• All inbound and outbound messages are cryptographically signed and verified by respective parties for authenticated message integrity
• Stable P2P file switch without lengthen by process of WebRTC or encrypted third celebration relay

Stable P2P Audio and Video Calls: Zoom, with out Zoom

• Save-to-Save WebRTC recordsdata channels with out third celebration intermediaries – supporting audio, video, messaging, and accurate-time recordsdata transmission
• Team video and audio Calls (i.e. Google Hangouts or Zoom)
• Ephemeral Chat (dialog most efficient lives till the waste of the name)
• On hand usage of recordsdata channels for extra accurate-time dialog (ex. file transfers and video games)

Decentralized and Native Storage

• Files can also additionally be encrypted and kept within the community in both the browser and designated encrypted system database
• Files can also additionally be revealed to an nameless, publicly accessible, decentralized recordsdata store (IPFS)
• IPFS is managed automatically and absolutely constructed-in into the underlying Impervious Daemon
• Files revealed to IPFS can also additionally be universally accessed by process of IPNS and a power link (such as DNS)
• In-constructed IPFS pinning products and services permits for power file availability, even when a user’s IPFS node is offline, with out requiring IPFS node management
• File management by process of the Impervious Browser – bookmark, alter access and endpoints
• IPFS nodes can also additionally be federated to a relied on enviornment

Staunch-Time P2P Collaborative Workspaces: Google Scientific doctors, with out Google

• Staunch-time, Save-to-Save collaborative workspaces for file advent, improving and publishing
• Invent, collaborate and share paperwork without lengthen from within the Impervious Browser – a Google Scientific doctors-esque trip
• Withhold watch over and address access (i.e. read/write privileges) for all collaborative paperwork
• Part the file privately amongst licensed friends, with out unauthorized users or third parties paying attention to the recordsdata existence
• Submit encrypted paperwork to IPFS, readable most efficient by process of licensed friends
• Submit unencrypted paperwork to IPFS, to generate publicly accessible order
• Be notified and pull offline file adjustments by process of no longer mandatory DIDComm relay

Newsletters, Subscriptions and Sing Narrate Monetization: Medium, with out Medium

• Self-host and aid newsletters, blogs and subscriptions – all with out counting on intermediaries
• Store order within the community, put up to IPFS (or an endpoint of your alternative), generate universally accessible endpoints by process of IPNS (such as DNS), design order discoverable by process of Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and receive payments for subscriptions over the Lightning Community
• Possess your recordsdata and authentic order
• Upload order (audio, video, file, etc.) by process of the Impervious Browser and distribute to an endpoint of your alternative
• Submit and monetize top class order
• Invent, pay, and take a look at Lightning Invoices
• Ship and receive Lightning Keysend Funds
• Invent pay-to-play hyperlinks, prompting friends to meet a key replace or Lightning Invoice to explore top class order
• Port present audiences to bolster subscription order revenue resiliency
• Offer items and products and services by process of hyperlinks associated with a decentralized identity

Decentralized Identity (DIDs) Withhold watch over and Administration: Identity, with out the Convey

• Correct cryptographic ownership of a decentralized user identity (DID)
• Invent non-public identities to be shared privately amongst friends
• Generate decentralized identities by process of ION (a globally accessible, public, Decentralized Identifier network that runs on top of the Bitcoin blockchain) – without lengthen from the Impervious Browser
• Published identities can also additionally be stumbled on and fetched by diverse friends
• Published identities cannot be deleted or modified by any actor diverse than its owner
• Published identities produce no longer want to beget PII, taking into tale nameless interchangeable identities (such as aliases)
• Invent one-time, single use identities to be traded for key replace, with slight time cost messaging, payment, or enviornment of skills applications
• Tackle non-public and public identities for seamless in-app profile switching and compartmentalization
• Spend your DID for password-less authentication and one-click on user registration
• Spend DIDs to spoil excessive fidelity, authenticated, and encrypted messages between friends with out third parties or middleware

Decentralized Verbal replace (DIDComm)

• Tackle and alter diverse dialog points of contact within your decentralized identity (DID) by process of DIDComm
• Allow dialog points of contact to be publicly discoverable or remain non-public and exclusively accessible by process of relied on friends
• Verbal replace between DIDs (by process of DIDComm) is transport agnostic, making diverse channels available for friends to receive order or recordsdata
• Invent backup dialog channels to design obvious that alternative fall-aid points of contact
• List extra than one areas for hosted recordsdata within a decentralized identity to be universally discoverable and resilient
• Invent recordsdata redundancy – present rather just a few kinds and paths to order to bolster recordsdata accessibility and resiliency
• Search and retrieve order from gaze identities to join with friends, creators, and manufacturers
• Hosted recordsdata can embrace any arbitrary file form (ex. applications, web sites, neighborhood recordsdata, or public keys)

Impervious is constructing the tools and infrastructure for the P2P web. By interlacing Lightning, Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), a DIDComm system, WebRTC, IPFS and extra into a neatly-known utility, the Impervious Browser is able to give a total suite of easy to make use of P2P capabilities.

Next Week: We are going to be publishing a comprehensive technical proposal, titled – How Decentralized Identifiers (“DIDs”) Can Be Leveraged by the Bitcoin Lightning Community

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