Point Network is a collection of software tools allowing you to get access to Web 3.0: a new generation of the internet, which is free of censorship, mass-surveillance, permissionless, open for everyone and privacy-focused.

Point Network decentralized all main components of the modern internet:

• decentralized domains (.point) that cannot be taken away or censored
• decentralized storage (using Arweave's permaweb) on which the website code, posts, images and videos are uploaded and permanently stored in a censorship-resistant way
• decentralized identities are used instead of logins and passwords. You only need one seed phrase to log into all dApps on all chains that Point Network supports

For more information, you can read our litepaper or whitepaper for more technical details.

Click Download Alpha, download Point Browser for your operating system, generate your seed, register your web3 handle, and you're good to go. Many users have found the experience very easy, but should you have any questions, you can always ask in our Telegram group or on Discord.

Unfortunately, almost all apps that currently market themselves as "decentralized" and "web3.0" do not stand up to the scrutiny when you examine them. Most of them have only smart contracts decentralized.

Meanwhile, they still rely on web 2.0 infrastructure for everything else:

• They rely on centralized domains that can be taken away by the U.S. government by any moment, or their DNS provider can get compromised, which has happened before
• They rely on centralized storage and centralized infrastructure to serve their website code, which adds another potential point of failure, censorship and security vulnerabilities (see an example of a DAO that has lost its users $120M because of a centralized UI)
• They rely on browser extensions like Metamask and Phantom, which Google can remove at any point, making 99.9% of users confused about how to access their dApps and even their funds

Despite this, we do not disparage teams and projects and we support their efforts in moving closer to the Holy Grail of Web 3.0. However, we categorize them as "Web 2.5": they're almost there, but they're not ready for the fight with the final boss: a coalition of Big Tech companies and governments when they decide to attack web3. But when those projects do upgrade to an architecture like Point Network, they can finally become completely decentralized and truly unstoppable.

Yes, POINT token is a utility token used on the network to mainly pay for validator fees.

Be very careful buying or selling POINT -- there are many fake listings of POINT out there. Only use the official links from this page.

Point Network launched on September 1, 2022, on its own, L1 (Layer 1) Proof-of-Stake chain called Point Chain, based on Evmos technology (which, in turn, is based on Cosmos, which, in turn, is based on Tendermint), with POINT as its native token.

However, because Point is not just a blockchain, but a whole software suite, we can make it support as many chains as we want. Point Browser is multi-chain by default. This not only means that you would be able to store, receive and send Bitcoin (including via Lightning Network), Ethereum, Solana, and other tokens in your Point Wallet (while using only one seed phrase to get access to all of the wallets), but it means you can access dApps like Uniswap in a decentralized way (their UI would be on Point Chain), but the liquidity and the final transactions would happen on the original chain (Ethereum in Uniswap's example, etc.)

No. Just like Tor Browser uses a Firefox fork internally, and doesn't compete with any of them, but is instead in its own niche and used for a specific purpose: to provide access to Deep Web.

Similarly, Point Browser is also using a Firefox fork internally, and is in its own category: just like you would use Tor Browser to access Deep Web, you would use Point Browser to access web 3.0.

On top of that, Point Browser specifically prohibits any connections to the old internet (you cannot open facebook.com in Point Browser for example, and dApps cannot ping any analytics servers via their IP addresses), making sure that all dApps on Point are sufficiently decentralized, secure and developers cannot cheat by still relying on web2 infrastructure.

If there is any link to the old internet, Point Browser will suggest to open it in your normal legacy browser instead.

Please consult our roadmap website to see what our overall big goal is and where we are in achieving it.