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🔗What is a Digital Twin?

In the current Internet system, each of us exists many times, each application provider owns our data while offering functionality they own. We become the user. We become the product. Instead, what if we were at the center of our digital lives?

The Web4 Digital Twin architecture does just that: it puts us at the center of our digital experience. Indeed, Digital Twin is a user-centric technological platform to build efficient, sovereign and secure digital experiences. Digital Twin technology empowers people and businesses to exchange information and value without any intermediaries, while making applications more scalable, efficient and secure than on any other web paradigm such as Web2, Web3 or Web5. Digital Twins require a decentralized Internet infrastructure and run perfectly on top of the ThreeFold Grid.

🔗Your Digital Twin is a mirror of yourself!

Your Digital Twin runs on a location of your choice, which becomes your personal Internet Gateway. Each Twin is owned by only one owner, who in the end is more like the human mirror to the Twin. The Twin has lots of capabilities and is available for its “human mirror” 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Experiences are being built which use the capabilities of the Twin. A Twin owns your data and your identity, all stored in such a way it can never be corrupted or lost. Thus, you own your data, your identity and your digital skills for all your life.

🔗Your Digital Twin has Capabilities

Twins are powerful and have many capabilities which are used when they enter an experience. Here are the capabilities of the Digital Twin:

• Communicate
  • Chat, video conference, send messages to anyone.
• Create
  • Create content, any content (metaverse, video, websites, ...)
• Share and Promote
  • Share your creations to the rest of the world
  • Promote your products and services
  • Share your knowledge and help others to grow
• Discover and Learn
  • Find information, alternative indexing engine (neutral)
  • Know what is truthful and what is not (proof of authenticity)
  • Learn and become smarter
• Economy
  • Manage my digital wealth (digital currencies)
  • Exchange anything for anything else (money for tokens, services, products)
  • Buy/Sell goods and services
• Collaborate
  • How can I collaborate on documents, images, videos, code, ...
  • How can I manage a project, plan events, define deadlines
• Organize
  • Manage your agenda and time
  • Organize your digital content so you can find it back, and it's nicely organized
  • Manage your circles (groups of people)
• Protect
  • Make sure that only the right people have access to your digital assets
  • What happens if you die, make sure your loved ones can inherit your digital assets
  • Make sure your digital life is secure (give access to your assets to your circles)
  • Give proof of authenticity to assets and information from others
• Develop and Expand
  • Code and extend the Twin (improve Twin capabilities for yourself and others)
  • Create your own experiences

The Twin has basic capabilities listed above which are strongly version controlled, but contributions from the global community are more than welcomed. The idea is to create a system which is simply good enough for any possible experience.

This is a very different paradigm compared to current web or mobile applications where capabilities are owned by the provider of the application. Besides, rather than survival of the fittest, we believe in a system of collaboration, where we invite everyone to make the system better so it fits us all. We don't need three chat systems, we need one which is usable by thousands of experiences.

Developers can create experiences re-using the open source capabilities the Twin offers, also eliminating the need to reinvent features.

🔗Note on Connection & Security

As a “user”, you can use any browser to access experiences built on top of your Digital Twin. For example, a storage experience that stores data on your Twin or a browser experience that allows you to surf the web from your Twin's node. When you connect to your Twin, our ThreeFold Connect makes sure that the connection is secure. The Twin runs on a node on the ThreeFold Grid, which you are securely connected to. This takes care of a very safe approach and unlimited scalability. We will dive deeper into the Twin’s security and scalability aspects in a future blog!

🔗Digital Twin in a nutshell

Hopefully, by now you will have a better understanding of the Digital Twin concept. Here is a short recap of everything mentioned so far about it:

• You have full control over your own digital life.
• Experiences can be created using standard web & native technologies.
• The Digital Twin delivers the web interface to your (secure) browser.
• No need for information to travel to central data centers, all communication is fast and private between Digital Twins: No more client-server.
• All logic of your digital life is 100% private to you running in your Twin.
• This is super efficient and sustainable, +10x power savings.
• No blockchain required for your digital life = more privacy, performance, green
  • Exception: blockchain is needed for digital currencies and as a phone book for Digital Twin’s identity.

If you would like to see what the current iteration of the Digital Twin looks like, try it out yourself with FreeFlow Twin in its current beta version! Connect with ThreeFold on Twitter, Telegram, LinkedIn, and Reddit to join our community and stay updated about evolutions of the ThreeFold project and Digital Twin.

We have always believed that technology can help some of humanity’s greatest challenges – for example by providing the foundation for an interconnected world that can enable abundance to spread. ThreeFold has focused on developing a more reliable Internet which can meet the demands and challenges of the future. A more sustainable Internet that uses less energy and is offsetting its carbon emissions by supporting tree planting and other impact initiatives. And an Internet that empowers us with digital sovereignty while providing high levels of privacy and security. One that is inclusive by being more affordable and accessible.

Our mission is planet first and people first. 

🔗The planet and people are at the heart of our movement

Without our planet, humanity has no home. Without our planet, we can’t survive. The fate of humanity depends on the planet’s health. We need a healthy planet for humanity to thrive. And our planet needs regenerative solutions at a large scale that combat climate change and the collapse of biodiversity. That includes the Internet and everything that lives on top.

ThreeFold aims to deliver on our promise of providing better solutions for our planet and people through our technology. With this approach, we’re taking action and making productive choices for our planet and humanity. Our journey is shaped by the determination to drive the regeneration of our planet and to enable a better life for people.

“Today billions of people don’t have access to the internet because of their station of birth. On one hand, it is unfair to them, and on the other, the world is losing billions of inventors and talents. Our internet can scale to anywhere electricity and network exist to provide access to the internet, education, and financial inclusion to everyone.” – Kristof de Spiegeleer

Our approach is also based on community and connection. We’re determined to build better, sustainable and inclusive systems for the planet and people – from realizing the Internet of Internets on a global scale to reimagining business, governance, finance, education and more in order to provide better alternatives for people, enterprises and governments. And we are in dialogue and partnership with global leaders who share a similar vision.

Here are three examples of the impact we’re creating together:

• Together with Take Action Global, we’re offsetting the ThreeFold Grid’s emissions three times through planting and protecting trees

• Together with IETSA, we’re making the decentralized Internet more accessible in underserved South African communities while also providing education in blockchain and Web 3.0 technologies

• Together with Solidaridad, we’re working on the Fair Data initiative to enable a fair data economy

🔗Driving change towards the future we want to live in

We strongly believe in the ThreeFold Law which states that any good you do will return to you threefold in this lifetime. By making our technology actionable, we energize a collective approach towards a single mission – empowering humanity while regenerating our planet.

We’re aware that this mission is a big one. We’re aware how aspirational it is. We’re aware that we are not perfect. And we realize that changing the world for the better requires patience and community. We’re in it for the long run and we’re in it together.

“It's an honor every day to wake up and be a part of a global movement of people who are trying to build a better Internet for humanity that can uplift and empower.” – Adnan Fatayerji

ThreeFold is more than a company or a project. ThreeFold is a global movement consisting of like-minded individuals and partners who share these values and vision. A movement united in our shared beliefs in open source, peer-to-peer, equality and inclusion. By coming together to build a better Internet, we can create the foundation for a better world. We’re incredibly proud of the ThreeFold community and ecosystem. This beautiful community consists of open-minded, passionate and determined people from all around the world, just like you. We’re dreamers, creators, builders and change makers.

🔗We are part of the solution

There are many great projects and organizations out there that also follow the planet-first people-first philosophy. Like Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees and thereby positively impacts ecosystems, communities and our planet. Like ShareTheMeal – the world’s first app against global hunger that enables you to ‘share the meal’ with a child in need with one simple tap on your phone. Like Patagonia – a designer of outdoor clothing and sports gear that turned into an environmental activist. And like so many others.

Together, we can achieve the extraordinary. The ThreeFold movement is building our own future through the Internet of Internets – an Internet that will be made up of hundreds, thousands, and ultimately millions, of interconnected local Internets that enables us all to directly connect and exchange without limitations or intermediaries. No matter what you do to support planet-first people-first movements, thank you. In doing so, you’re making a difference. You’re contributing to making the world a better place.

With ThreeFold, anyone anywhere can make a difference. For a better life, for a better future.

If not us, who? If not now, when?

If you’re new to ThreeFold and don’t know you to contribute best, here are a few ways to take action:

• Join this growing movement
• Buy or build a 3Node and be the Internet
• Buy TFT