The DIG Network

An open-source, censorship-resistant decentralized CDN, built on the Chia blockchain.

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What is DIG?

DIG turns any content into a permanent, verifiable, globally-served artifact that no single party can censor or silently alter. You publish content into a store; DIG encodes it into immutable, versioned capsules whose Merkle root is anchored on-chain by you, the owner. Anyone, anywhere, can then fetch that content from a network of peers and cryptographically verify — byte for byte — that what they received is exactly what you published.

Stitched together, those peers form a single decentralized CDN (d-CDN): CDN-grade delivery with on-chain content integrity and creator-owned publishing.

The gap it fills

• Centralized CDNs (Cloudflare, CloudFront, Akamai) are fast, but a single point of control — content can be throttled, deplatformed, or served modified, and you must trust the edge.
• IPFS gives content-addressing but no built-in permanence, no economic availability guarantee, and no on-chain proof of the latest authoritative version.

DIG is the first stack to combine CDN-grade delivery + on-chain content integrity + creator-owned publishing + censorship resistance in one system.

How it works

1. Publish a store of content with the digstore CLI (or DIGHub) → immutable .dig capsules (storeId:root).
2. The capsule's Merkle root is anchored on-chain (CHIP-0035 DataLayer), paid for once in $DIG.
3. dig-node peers around the world serve the content, addressable via the chia:// scheme.
4. Clients fetch from any peer and verify against the on-chain root, then decrypt — a trustless read, no intermediary to trust.

With enough peers across legal jurisdictions, the content becomes practically impossible to take down.

The ecosystem

Project	What it is
digstore	The store CLI + the .dig store-format libraries (publish, verify, read).
dig-node	The canonical DIG node — P2P serve/fetch, chain-anchored verification, installs as an OS service.
DIGHub (hub.dig.net)	Publish + manage stores, mint capsules, and register *.on.dig.net sites.
DIG Browser	A browser that resolves chia:// content natively, with per-resource integrity shields.
dig-chrome-extension	Resolve chia:// + a self-custody Chia wallet in any Chromium browser.
dig-sdk + create-dig-app	Build and scaffold DIG-backed apps (npm create dig-app).
explore.dig.net	The curated DIG Network dApp store.
dig-relay	NAT-traversal relay so nodes behind NAT can join the network.

Plus the reusable P2P + on-chain building-block crates (dig-nat, dig-dht, dig-pex, dig-gossip, dig-download, chia-query, dig-keystore, …). Everything is open source.

Get started

• Use it: dig.net
• Build on it: docs.dig.net · npm create dig-app
• Publish content: DIGHub
• Follow along: @digdotnet

💜 Sponsors

The DIG Network is community-powered. ~3 years in the making, funded by self-funding and community sponsorship. Every contribution funds development and keeps the network free and open.

Become a sponsor → — help us reach sustainable, community-driven development.

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Built on Chia · $DIG · chia:// · open source at github.com/DIG-Network