Decentralized Cloud Platform Launches Mainnet in Challenge to 'Big Four' Market Leaders

A cloud platform, with the goal of building a fairer internet, has made its mainnet live - allowing its growing suite of network-ready applications to offer faster and more secure hosting services for websites, APIs, apps and e-commerce stores.

DADI says its peer-to-peer network helps to shift the emphasis of computing power away from large corporations, as its infrastructure is owned by users.

Those who offer spare capacity through their device - be it a DADI Node device or their own games consoles, laptops or any other internet-enabled device - earn residual income through DADI tokens as a result.

According to the company, almost three-quarters of the competitive cloud computing market is now dominated by four tech giants: Google, Microsoft, Amazon and IBM. DADI's goal is to transform the market's landscape entirely - and its other web services are already being used by major brands such as Empire, Kiss, What Car? And Monocle.

A suite of DAppsThe British startup plans to offer a suite of new web services designed to work perfectly with the decentralized network.

'DADI CDN' is already live - the first decentralized application to be operational on DADI's mainnet, with the company describing it as a "Just-in-time asset manipulation and delivery layer designed for faster content distribution."

The third quarter brings Store, which is designed to offer cloud storage facilities for "All types of data" - providing the security, privacy and redundancy that users have come to expect in this tech-aware age.

It is hoped that further DApps will join DADI's marketplace in the future - and the company is encouraging developers with ideas for new applications to contact them.

Blockchain for goodWhile the majority of the network revenues will be given back to the network's contributors directly, DADI's mainnet launch comes as the organization also throws its support behind a new nonprofit that is designed to act as a "Natural extension of its work to democratize the internet." Funded by transaction fees from the DADI network, the DADI Foundation is designed to offer research, educational tools and financial tools to help technology continue to advance human rights around the world.

DADI quickly followed up its mainnet launch by teasing a new 'Founding Node' program - with plans to give away 100 limited edition DADI Node devices in a prize draw taking place in July.