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Long-form posts on the deCDN protocol — what it is, why now, and how the pieces fit together. Published when something's worth saying.
- 10 03 min
Pinned. The Public Testnet Is Live, and It's Open Source
The decdn public testnet is live and the code is open source. Pull an open model, a dataset, a Linux install image or a 4K film with one command, or run a pilot on your own data.
- #testnet
- #open-source
- #launch
- 09 09 min
Who Actually Needs a Network Like This?
Three things decdn does that a normal CDN cannot: verify every byte as it arrives, take any single vendor out of your pricing and uptime, and pull one download from many machines at once. Each one grounded in a real incident, and an honest list of who it is for.
- #publishers
- #security
- #supply-chain
- #cdn
- 08 06 min
The Flash Crowd Problem
A flash crowd is demand for one object at one moment, at a multiple nobody can size in advance. Why that shape breaks provisioned capacity, what it costs on decdn, and who actually has this problem at a size we can take.
- #cdn
- #flash-crowd
- #economics
- #testnet
- 07 06 min
Show Me the Money: A 100-TB/Month Node, Line by Line
A single decdn node at the 100-TB/month launch-fleet target, walked line by line: $1,024 billed, $355 left in liquid USDC after the FeeRouter split, cache-miss pulls, infrastructure, and gas.
- #operators
- #economics
- #payments
- #usdc
- 06 03 min
The Road to Testnet: decdn in 2026
What decdn has already shipped end-to-end, and the path through a Q3 2026 public testnet and open source to a Q1 2027 mainnet target.
- #roadmap
- #testnet
- #open-source
- #pre-seed
- 05 05 min
Stablecoin Settlement Is Not a Footnote
Every prior decentralized delivery network priced bandwidth in a token whose value could halve overnight. decdn settles delivery in USDC and reserves its native token for alignment — bonding, governance, and buyback-and-burn.
- #payments
- #usdc
- #tokenomics
- #operators
- 04 05 min
We Don't Store. We Serve.
A storage network and a delivery network optimize for opposite invariants. decdn doesn't store — it serves, and leaves origin storage where it already works.
- #delivery
- #storage
- #caching
- #origins
- 03 06 min
The Decentralized-CDN Graveyard
Six decade-spanning attempts at a decentralized CDN. What each got stuck on, and why those blockers are now resolved.
- #history
- #graveyard
- #post-mortems
- 02 06 min
Why Now
Decentralized CDN attempts have been blocked for a decade by missing prerequisites — transport, addressing, settlement, L2s. All four finally landed.
- #prerequisites
- #transport
- #settlement
- #timing
- 01 05 min
What We're Building
What decdn is, who it's for, and what the protocol composes — a plain-English introduction.
- #protocol
- #architecture
- #overview