Overview
What Is Terp Network?
Terp Network is a decentralized operating system for curating trustless, interoperable, and free markets.
Powered by a global market of providers running open source software, competing to curate tooling and services that most align to users, while consequently avoiding traditional censorship methods seen inside existing applications, services, and platforms.
In 60 Seconds
Instead of using software and rails that are governened and controlled by a centralized entity, publishing and accessing content is able to occur with:
- keys you generate and keep safe yourself
- sign and broadcast messages to a network you can run a node yourself
- connect an integrate with 0 vendor lock-in
- get rewarded passively for contributing
Architectural Overview
The nature of the software Terp Network 'speaks', supports a feature-dense ecosystem, that is interoperable with most of the current cryptocurrency ecosytems, extending functions that exists as an option for terpene loving communities to decide how to experiment, customize, and participate.
Open Source Software
Terp Network is Open Source Software (OSS), which means that 100% of the code used is not hidden and public for review, and versions released are able to be verified without the need to trust any single entity. To learn more about OSS and the tradeoffs it can provide, [click here](https://opensource.org/osd).
Formally Verifiable Cryptography
Ensuring integrity & authenticity of data on Terp Network heavily relies on frequent mathematical assertions made by Terp Network software and participants.
Customizable App Layer
Smart contracts create the layer where custom functions can be quickly added and verified by community members. **CosmWasm** contracts are supported on Terp Network, and use Rust as its primary software language.
Multi-Network Support
Confidently perform complex, multi-chain actions via IBC (Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol)
Modular Composability
A lego-block approach to building features and create new functions. Terp Network will continue to evolve its feature set over time