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2025
- 2025 - What a year! What a year. In 2025, we shipped 20 releases, more than double last year's 8 all with substantial features and fixes. We did this…
- Decentralization Matters Have you ever invested time and energy into using a digital service and noticed that it gets worse as time goes on? Maybe the…
2024
- Security audit 2024 Thanks to some generous support from NLnet we have had our 2nd security audit. This was done by Radically Open Security. We are…
2023
- Reasons to prefer blake3 over sha256 This post is a copy of tweets by Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn. SHA256 was designed by the NSA. BLAKE (the original) and BLAKE3 were…
2022
- A better web The web as it is today is, by design, ridden with hostility. The problems faced by its users fall into three main categories:…
- Markdown browser We've just released a super cool new feature - a browser for markdown documents within Peergos. This means you can nicely render…
- Release the BATs (block level access control in IPFS) The main valid criticism of private applications built on IPFS is that blocks in IPFS are public. Yes, you can encrypt them, but…
2021
- Encrypted email storage and client We're pleased to announce the latest feature built as part of our NGI grant - an email bridge. The email bridge is a separate…
- Decentralized encrypted chat We're pleased to announce the latest feature built as part of our NGI grant: decentralized encrypted chat. Why build yet another…
- Peergos launches decentralized & encrypted social media We've written before about the problems with existing social media and how we think they should be solved. After a few months hard…
- Private and customizable profiles Our latest feature is another step towards making it easier to connect with your real life friends, family and colleagues on…
- Simple decentralized web hosting on Peergos You already know that Peergos lets you store and share files securely and privately. Now, you can also host your own website on…
- Encrypted shareable calendar We are very pleased to announce the latest Peergos application: a private calendar. The calendar is fully end-to-end encrypted,…
2020
- Fast Encrypted File Search A much requested feature in Peergos has been the ability to search your whole Peergos space for files. This is more difficult than…
- Private Planning Boards in Peergos Working on a new project and need to keep track of multiple tasks or workstreams? Peergos has got you covered! We're excited to…
- How to solve the social dilemma and fix social media {#id.class width=200px width=50%} Still from the Netflix…
- Peergos wins EU Next Generation Internet grant {#id.class width=200px width=50%} Peergos, supported by EU - Next Generation Internet…
- Direct S3 access Peergos uses IPFS to store its data and IPFS supports several kinds of blockstores, from various kinds of local disk based storage…
- Peergos release v0.3.0 Privacy is alive and well at Peergos as we continue on our mission to build the private web where you are in control of your data…
- Keybase has left the building It's a story that most of us have heard before. You found this cool new service, and you sign up and invest time and energy…
- The perfect social network What do most people want in a social network? We all have different ideas, but is it possible to have a set of features that makes…
2019
- Atomic access control At Peergos we care deeply about your privacy, and the core of privacy is access control. Controlling who can see what. We've made…
- Peergos release v0.1.3 We've been hard at work, so hard in fact that we're only now writing another blog post. We've sped everything up, enabled native…
- Applications on Peergos They're here - the first apps for Peergos! The first application we've made available is a read-only viewer for PDF files. This is…
- Fast seeking and encrypted history Another week, another set of cool new Peergos features. We've been hard at work and wanted to tell you about our latest new…
- IPFS Camp, new features At Peergos we care deeply about your privacy and security online. We are super-excited to be building the future of the web where…
- Alpha Release The time you've all been waiting for has arrived... The Peergos alpha is now officially open! You can now have your own private…
- Security Audit Thanks to some very generous support from Protocol Labs we have had our first security audit! We contracted the firm Cure53 to…
- Development update This is our first development update since we started, in July 2013. For most of that period we've been working on Peergos for…