HISTORY OF DEXNET CREATION

ABOUT THE TEAM

The development team, led by Alexey Kedo, began their collaboration in 2017. Currently, the team comprises over 20 IT specialists from Canada, Turkey, Spain, Ukraine, Germany, England, and Australia. The team includes professionals ranging from Middle+ to Senior and Lead levels, all with relevant higher or related education. Apart from developers, the team consists of business and system analysts, interface designers, developers, DevOps, and testers.

ABOUT THE IDEA

Initially, in 2017, the team's task was to develop a cloud storage system consisting of thousands of user microservers operating without a central coordinating server. Such decentralization could provide the highest level of security, making physical and legal influence on data centers impossible.

The technology of encrypting and segmenting encrypted containers allows for making the internet confidential, where access to private information is only available to the owner who uploaded that information to the cloud. However, with the classical server architecture, network nodes (nodes) can only be managed by a central server, which compromises decentralization. This problem remained unresolved for a long time.

ABOUT REALIZING THE IDEA

In 2022, everything changed with the possibility of connecting nodes to the closed satellite system Swarm by SpaceX. Now, thanks to satellites, data about open ports and assigned IP addresses are transmitted between nodes in fractions of a second, bypassing the public internet.

Connecting DEXNET to satellites not only allows data exchange between nodes but also the transmission of encryption keys and other service information, even when a node is not connected to the internet. SpaceX has created an alternative satellite communication channel with universal coverage. This made it possible to create what was once just a dream — a decentralized internet.