An open-source, censorship-resistant decentralized CDN, built on the Chia blockchain.
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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.
- 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.
- Publish a store of content with the
digstoreCLI (or DIGHub) → immutable.digcapsules (storeId:root). - The capsule's Merkle root is anchored on-chain (CHIP-0035 DataLayer), paid for once in
$DIG. - dig-node peers around the world serve the content, addressable via the
chia://scheme. - 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.
| 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.
- Use it: dig.net
- Build on it: docs.dig.net ·
npm create dig-app - Publish content: DIGHub
- Follow along: @digdotnet
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.
Built on Chia · $DIG · chia:// · open source at github.com/DIG-Network
