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She’s right, that’s exactly what it does.

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What I say — Every container runs in a kernel sandbox that intercepts all system calls before they reach the host os. What I think my wife hears — We put each person’s stuff in their own locked room, not even the building manager has a key. #depin #web3 #iaas #zerotrust #cloud

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A decentralized cloud where developers use Docker and Kubernetes - the tools they already know - but the infrastructure is actually decentralized and zero-trust.

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The irony of Web3: 80% of decentralized applications run on centralized infrastructure. DeFi protocols on AWS. NFT platforms on Google Cloud. DAOs with governance frontends on Vercel. We're building DC3 to fix this. #depin #web3 #iaas #zerotrust #cloud

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1) Enable my home lab to burst into the cloud 2) A local AI agent that follows me around wherever I go 3) Private video streaming platform

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Stability isn’t boring. It’s what makes real adoption possible. We chose predictability over speculation because we’re building infrastructure, not a trading instrument.

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DC3’s token has a fixed exchange rate to USDC. Users transact in USDC — dollars, not a speculative asset. Conversion to DC3 tokens happens behind the scenes. You never touch a volatile token.

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If you’re a consumer paying for cloud resources, you need predictable costs. No CFO will approve infrastructure spending denominated in a token that moves 20% in a day.

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If you’re a provider renting out compute, you need to predict your revenue. If the token drops 30% overnight, your revenue drops 30%. That’s not a business model — it’s a casino.

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Most DePIN tokens are volatile. Resource pricing swings with the market. This is the fundamental barrier to enterprise adoption. Here’s how DC3 solves it. 🧵 #depin #web3 #iaas #zerotrust #cloud

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Nobody gets a key. Not even us. That’s what we’re building at @dc3net.bsky.social

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That’s zero-trust. It’s not a policy (‘we promise not to look’). It’s architecture (‘we can’t look, even if we wanted to’). The system is designed so that trust is unnecessary.

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Now imagine a different apartment. There is no master key. The landlord physically cannot enter your unit. The lock was designed so that only you have access. Not the building manager. Not the maintenance crew. Nobody.

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Imagine you rent an apartment. Your landlord has a master key. They promise they won’t use it. But they could walk in anytime, go through your stuff, read your diary. That’s how cloud computing works today. AWS has the master key to your servers.

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Craig Thayer @craigthayer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

ELI5: What does ‘zero-trust’ actually mean? I keep seeing this term thrown around. Let me explain it like you’re five. 🧵 #depin #web3 #iaas #zerotrust #cloud

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The identity layer is powered by our blockchain. #depin #identity #blockchain

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Craig Thayer @craigthayer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

We’ve cracked this at @dc3net.bsky.social Real DePin built by a team with deep infra experience. #depin

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Something better is coming. A cloud where nobody has to trust anyone. Where your data is encrypted so that not even the infrastructure provider can read it. Where you deploy with Docker and Kubernetes — the tools you already know. Stay tuned.

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The ‘decentralized’ alternatives aren’t much better. Akash, Flux, IO net — they all require you to trust the person running the server. Your data? They can see it. The architecture allows it.

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66% of companies struggle to secure their cloud environments. Not because security tools don’t exist — because the underlying architecture wasn’t built for it. Security is bolted on, not baked in.

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Need to switch providers? Good luck. Moving from AWS to GCP means rebuilding everything. Different APIs, different tools, different pricing models. You’re locked in. They know it. They price accordingly.

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AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure own 65% of the market. If you build on their infrastructure, they can see your data. All of it. Your files, your code, your customer information. That’s not a bug — it’s their architecture.

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Craig Thayer @craigthayer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The cloud industry is $133 billion. It’s grown 327% in the last decade. And it’s controlled by three companies. Here’s why that’s about to change. 🧵 #depin #web3 #iaas #zerotrust #cloud

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Not our first time. Saw this coming and already solved for it. dc3.network

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Going back to the example, we enforce the communication rules by using 2 namespaces. Deploy A and B to namespace 1 and C and D to namespace 2. Then expose A to C via an inter namespace ingress. This allows C to talk to A, but not B. Achieving the same result as mTLS without having to touch a cert

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In DC3, a namespace is a strong security boundary (encryption & network isolation), but is also light weight and free so you can have as many as you want. The rule with DC3 namespaces: only deploy services that are allowed to communicate with each other in the same namespace.

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Say we have two services and their databases: service A and its database B, and service C and its database D. Only A can connect to B, only C can connect to D, and C is a client of A. Typically they would all be deployed to the same trust domain and rely on convention to restrict communication

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For #1, DC3 handles this natively. Nothing can be deployed to a namespace that hasn’t been validated by the blockchain. Only services you authorize can be deployed to your namespace(s). For #2, let’s walk through an example of how DC3 addresses this using namespaces.

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Definitely a stronger defense in depth posture. But sometimes less is more. mTLS solves a specific problem: preventing unauthorized communication between services. This manifests in two ways: 1) a rouge service in the trusted domain and 2) a trusted service connecting to a service it shouldn’t.

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The Next Generation Public Cloud is coming

The question isn’t whether computing decentralizes. It’s who builds the control plane. We think it should be a protocol, not a company. dc3.network

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That’s exactly what DC3 is: a decentralized control plane for the world’s compute resources. AWS, GCP, Azure, Equinix, home labs — all unified under one protocol. Zero-trust. Provider-agnostic. Docker-native.

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The next 20 years will be decentralized — but not in the way most people think. It won’t be hobbyists running servers in basements. It will be decentralized orchestration of existing cloud and bare-metal resources. Same hardware. Different control plane.

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This worked when the internet was a nice-to-have. But now it’s critical infrastructure. AI models need commodity compute at scale. Web3 needs censorship-resistant hosting. Enterprises need multi-cloud without vendor lock-in. The centralized model can’t deliver all three.

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The current cloud model has a fundamental problem: it consolidates control. Three companies (AWS, Azure, GCP) control 67% of global cloud infrastructure. They set the prices, the rules, and the access policies.

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