Your Files, Your Bandwidth

No limits, no login, no extra costs, end-to-end encrypted. Saito Fileshare is available for anyone to send and receive arbitrarily large files, completely P2P.

Users of SMS, Discord, Telegram and other messaging apps have undoubtedly felt the frustration of transfer limits. Not to mention the privacy concerns of sending personal or sensitive data across untrusted, privately controlled networks.

With Saito, you no longer have to deal with this. Saito Fileshare is entirely between you and the receiver. Your files and how you share them is your business on your bandwidth.

Learn how to use it here.

How Does P2P File Share Work?

Fileshare is secured atop the Saito Key Exchange Protocol. The shared secret they create serves many functions, including:

1. Users can efficiently send each other data which no node, ISP or other potential attacker can decipher.

2. Users can securely setup a high-throughput, firewall-penetrating connection to each other – just like Saito Talk.

Files are streamed across this direct connection at the whim and total control of the users. When finished, the files can be saved to the device just like any normal file download.

Get Involved

Saito Fileshare is a flexible and open source module and utility. Want to start a P2P cloud, movie rental, video hosting or other Web3 service? Hack up the module code and feel free to reach out to the team for any assistance. We are excited to see its full potential.

Conclusion

Ditch the paid subscriptions, registration requirements, and privacy pitfalls. Use your public key and your bandwidth and take computing back into your control.

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Saito’s P2P platform introduces Gamecast, a feature that combines secure cryptographic gaming with decentralized livestreaming. This feature integrates Saito’s long established Arcade with the recently launched Swarmcasting service.

Saito users are now able to both play and livestream any game on the Saito Arcade – opening the door for all manner of content creation around the arcade. Not only is this an opportunity for Saito regulars to build an audience while using the platform, but an avenue to onboard new users and teach games like Twilight Struggle or the soon to release Here I Stand.

It’s Easy

Gamecasting could hardly be easier. Unlike Twitch or YouTube, where OBS, and an account each have to be meticulously configured, setup and registered. Saito Apps requires no registration, and starting a Gamecast takes just a few clicks.

1 .Start playing any game on The Arcade

2. Game Menu -> Share -> Cast game

Casting recently added YouTube support, so you can amplify your P2P Cast to YouTube and also save that livestream as a video. To see how to simulcast on YouTube and other information about Swarmcasting, consult the wiki page.

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Given the recent uptick in community interest in getting third-party cryptos integrated, we are also pleased to announce the launch of the Saito Listing Program. This is an informal process for developers in other networks interested in getting their tokens usable on Saito. As described on that page, the first step is having a developer reach out so we have a point-of-contact

In other news, we put our swarmcasting technology to use last week by using it to interview Dan Hughes and learn more about Radix and its interesting approach to sharding in our latest Saito Social. You can view the archived recording of the show, which took about an hour, right here on Youtube.

As previously discussed, our goal with the Saito Social is to provide a space for people working on technically-interesting and visionary ideas in the cryptocurrency space and raise the quality of discourse in the space. With this in mind, if you have any topics/guests you think would be suitable for the show, please reach out with suggestions and feedback.

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Traditional Moderation

Decentralized Moderation (DeMod) brings the social dynamics the regulate in-person relationships to Web 3. What does this mean?

On the traditional networks, your exposures and affiliations with others are governed primarily by a platform’s universal moderation policies. This is largely in contrast to how relationships form in real life. In real life, the individual makes their own decisions on who they interact with.

The reason most platforms work this way is because they are responsible for all of the content. They therefore become liable, to varying degrees, for what they decide to show you. They also do it for power: by manipulating which content is amplified or is banished to the shadow realm, big tech controls our perception of the world.

DeMod – Decentralized Moderation

DeMod works on the level of individuals. As a sovereign user, you decide the content policies you want to subscribe, and when you want to subscribe to them; it’s all open source and modifiable on the user-level. Decentralized Moderation is both a requirement and a boon of a true P2P network.

Because messages are sent P2P, rather than client-to-server, there is no central server truly capable of content curation or moderation. This is great for the overall health of free speech on the platform, but also a significant challenge for everyday use in the face of socially destructive content.

Our Saito Node will give users our content policy to filter basic spam, smut and invectives, but won’t enforce it. You can decide in real-time whether you want a civil, or unruly experience, or anything in between.

DeMod takes the shadowy power away from algorithms or manipulative power hiding behind those algorithms. It is a necessary pillar for an internet where people’s choice is restored – you’re seeing it first on Saito. Fully open-source policies and user choice; enjoy the content policies of mainstream platforms with the transparency of a noble instantiation of Web 3. It’s the best of both worlds.

Participate

Though these tools have application beyond social media, we will be rolling them out and adjusting our node’s configuration for Red Square this week. Feedback is always appreciated.

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Saito Summer

Week 3 of Saito Summer brings key updates to our recent launches and introduces a game-changing new feature to expand the reach of Saito.

Reflecting on Saito’s progress in 2024 and throughout Saito Summer, we’ve achieved significant milestones – from Eth integration, to Swarmcast, to today’s upgrades, we’re consistently pushing the boundaries of Web3 technology and progressing our roadmap.

YouTube Integration with Swarmcast

Our latest work on Swarmcast will give users more flexibility and more power with YouTube Amplification. P2P Swarmcasters now have the option to pipe their content into a more traditional YouTube stream, enabling them to reach a wider audience while maintaining the core strengths of our more open platform.

In this setup, YouTube serves as an additional distribution channel, downstream from Swarmcast’s robust peer-to-peer infrastructure. This approach leverages existing platforms as utilities to amplify your decentralized streams, without relying on them. It demonstrates how Swarmcast can use traditional services to extend its reach while keeping control firmly in the hands of creators and preserving the integrity of our open ecosystem.

Roadmap and Tokenomics

The Saito Roadmap and Tokenomics structure has always prioritized organic adoption and price stability. The team is not funded through the printing of tokens, and as recently as September of 2023, we burned 2 billion tokens from the 10 billion total.

As we achieve organic growth the need for outstanding tokens diminishes. Significant progress with node and application stability, and native token transfers in the last year brought much is this growth. These were primary motivators for the burn last autumn.

2024 has brought more progress: increased application adoption, new features, new users and more transaction volume – our work leading up to and during Saito Summer so far has put us ahead of schedule. Yet the market has been slow to recognize just how fast Saito is moving, so our previous commitments to price stability are also in consideration.

With all of the above in mind, we have burned another 1 billion Saito tokens from the total supply. That’s 12.5% less tokens, for a total now of 7 billion Saito tokens.

We will revisit tokenomics in 8 – 12 months based on similar criteria. We hope to see many more new users enjoying Saito L1 by that time!

See our updated tokenomics for more details.

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Swarmcast is a revolutionary peer-to-peer (P2P) livestreaming protocol that empowers users to create live audio and video broadcasts with just consumer hardware, at minimal cost, and without any logins or subscriptions.

Key Features

• One-click livestreaming
• No sign-ups or permissions required
• Fully decentralized
• Comparable functionality to X Spaces, Clubhouse rooms, and Twitch/YouTube livestreams
• Open-source protocol

How It Works

Swarmcast creates a branching network from a source broadcast:

1. The host streams content to a few initial peers
2. These peers pass the content to more peers
3. The process repeats, forming a “swarm” of connected users

This recursive network structure allows for decent scaling without relying on centralized servers or expensive infrastructure.

Current Status

• Beta release
• Performant for streams with 3-4 downstream peers (around 50 audience members)
• Ongoing development to identify and resolve issues at larger scales

The Vision Behind Swarmcast

Inspired by the success of Saito Talk, our P2P video calling module, we adapted its technology to create a massively scalable livestreaming solution. Swarmcast aims to democratize access to high-quality livestreaming capabilities previously limited by centralization and hardware requirements.

Next Steps

1. Refine user experience based on feedback
2. Scale to support thousands of viewers per stream
3. Host public Saito Team discussions using Swarmcast
4. Encourage third-party developers to build on the protocol

Get Involved

• Try Swarmcast now: Start a livestream, host a talk show, or create a P2P radio station
• Developers: Build your own applications using the open-source protocol
• Attend public events hosted on Swarmcast
• Provide feedback on performance, UI/UX, and overall experience

Join us in shaping the future of decentralized livestreaming. Swarmcast puts the power of broadcast in your hands – use it wisely!

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Use Eth Like Never Before

Free and fast Eth token settlement comes to Saito, and its P2P games. Alongside other upgrades like simple wallet backup, the native Ethereum token can now be used for no cost within the Saito Network to pay friends or bet on P2P games in the Saito Arcade. To wager Eth on games outside of Saito, you’ll be stuck with centralized, Web2 services.

True P2P Gaming

The Saito PKI network specializes in providing secure and sprawling P2P infrastructure in pursuit of true Web3. One of the most popular use cases for Saito is trustless P2P gaming. Recent upgrades now allow gamers at Saito.io/arcade to send and receive Eth tokens to other Saito users at no cost and with quick settlement.

Games like Poker, Settlers, Chess and more have integrated Eth settlement, meaning trustless gaming now supports real crypto wagers – despite being true Web3, playing games with real tokens is fast and free with a user experience rivaling centralized, Web2 gaming.

It’s Easy to Start

Getting started on Saito is as easy as navigating to Saito.io/arcade or Saito.io/redsquare – a wallet is automatically generated and saved to the browser and you can start playing P2P games or using P2P communications tools and dApps right away.

We’re also hosting a game night with the founders, team and community members tomorrow, July 7th at 2:00 UTC. If you’d like to try Eth betting and chat with the team, stop by!

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We’re excited to announce the integration of the Ethereum token into The Saito Game Engine through the Mixin Service provided by Saito Nodes. This sophisticated game engine leverages Mental Poker’s commutative cryptographic techniques, initially described by RSA authors to play trustless, 1v1 poker. Saito Game Engine supports trustless, peer-to-peer (P2P) gaming far beyond poker or 1v1 games.

You can try it out on the Arcade.

More info on Eth integration in Saito here.

Elevate Your Gaming Experience

Wagering real crypto on P2P games like Poker, Settlers, and more was a natural evolution of the functionality of Saito. Eth was the first choice for integration into these games. The Saito Arcade leverages Saito Layer-1 as a public key infrastructure (PKI). This ensures secure key exchange and sets up players for secure P2P gaming without needing a central middleman, even for multi-player games.

Profit from Engagement

Saito Nodes benefit from attracting users by offering Web3 services. By offering services like free and instant in-network Ethereum transfers, users get more out of Web3 and nodes can produce more blocks. Similar to how efficient Bitcoin miners earn more rewards, Saito Nodes that attract more users are more profitable.

Seamless Web3 Experience

Easy to use, fast, and true P2P games void of middleman is what Saito provides. Adding similarly easy, fast and cheap settlement of crypto like Ethereum into games only makes Saito Web3 more compelling. Saito offers a true, P2P and Web3 front-end to crypto wallets, dApps and games that is sorely missing from the space.

Get Started with True Web3 Development

Interested in integrating your favorite tokens into trustless games and dApps? Visit our Wiki page or reach out to the team on P2P Social Media Red Square to kick-start your journey into true Web3 application development.

Integrate Eth into real P2P, Web3 applications. Provide a Web3 front-end and take the final step in decentralizing your dApps.

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Multi-Wallet

Saito’s Multi-Wallet is the client interface to facilitate free or massively discounted native crypto transfers, with zero-fee ETH support coming online with the official release this Friday.

Crypto support on the Saito Multi-Wallet, what we’ve been referring to internally as ‘Web3 Crypto,’ is a keystone service Saito Nodes can offer to users. The Saito Wallet experience is so simple and so premium that it feels like Web2, while offering users foundational benefits of real Web3.

Ethereum transfers are feeless and near-instant to reflect the UX of other Saito dApps. Quick and free transfers of ETH come alongside improvements to the wagering system in Saito Arcade Games, which make betting with your opponents seamless.

Regular users will also notice our new and improved key-backup system allowing them to save keys locally or, when paired with a strong password, online – linked to their Web3 account.

Gaming with Crypto

All P2P games on Saito now support wagers with any crypto installed in the wallet. The Ethereum and Saito community can enjoy a true P2P experience playing games like Poker and Settlers for real crypto.

Payments quickly and automatically settle between rounds of play, even between multiple players, fee-free on Saito. Playing P2P games with crypto is a smooth and fun experience that is completely unique to Saito – to get this usability elsewhere, you have to use custodial, Web2 services!

Use it

Holders of native Ethereum are invited, after release, to send some to their Ethereum Wallet on Saito. Transfers within the network are quick and completely free. You can easily send to your contacts, to Red Square users, or wager ETH tokens against other players in the arcade. Here’s a tutorial for after release.

How Web3 Should Work

The Saito Multi-Wallet represents the experience we believe Web3 users deserve: safe, fast, easy and cheap (in this case, free!). Nodes attract users with the service they offer, and more fundamental to Saito design, nodes can decide exactly how their wallet services function.

Third-party networks offering other settlement systems, be they L1s, L2s, are invited to Web3 on Saito. Saito incentives can make offering such services lucrative to nodes providing them. Rather than privatizing transaction networks, nodes can keep them open, decentralized and profitable on Saito.

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The Lay of The Land

End-to-end encryption is a relatively simple and old technology, yet in 2024 there are only a handful of open source applications making it available to the general public, and either come burdened with reliance on trusted-third-party networks or naive, volunteer-operated P2P networks to verify and relay data.

Centralized and naive P2P represent two ends of a compromise between network stability and decentralization, but as argued below, the decentralization of a volunteer-P2P network doesn’t solve the primary security problems associated with centralized networks, and introduces other issues.

The Saito P2P Network gets the stability of a well-funded centralized network with the open qualities desired out of P2P by leveraging an incentivized P2P network. At scale, it allows secure key-exchange without reliance on any trusted-third-party (not even out-of-band) while avoiding the market failures, DoS vectors and funding issues that naive P2P networks face.

This article describes why the encrypted chat linked above, and Saito generally, is more scalable and secure than networks served by private companies, or naive, volunteer-reliant P2P networks. But first it’s useful to explore how we got here:

Trusted Third Parties… why do you need my phone number?

Why exactly do end-to-end encryption applications like Signal require a phone number to access their networks?

There is a practical reason, and there’s a security reason.

The practical reason is DoS: if infinite devices were allowed to join the Signal Network, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks would be trivial as Sybils eat up network resources needed for honest users. A phone number is a filter.

The security reason is identity: phone numbers verify the identify of Signal users so that other users have some assurance they are performing key-exchanges with their intended recipients, not imposters – that assurance is based on trusting Signal as well as the networks which own the phone numbers.

Trusted Networks

An encryption network cannot provide basic service without solutions to both of these problems. Simplicity is an understandable reason why most applications generally make the compromise to direct their users through a centralized network. The big issue in question then is trusting that the Signal Network (to use a specific example) is performing key exchanges without inserting spies in the middle.

Signal does not hide this vulnerability – they encourage users, after performing a key-exchange, to verify, ‘out-of-band’, its authenticity using a Safety Number. Out-of-band implies here: ‘verify through another network,’ like SMS. This effectively outsources key-exchange security to some network(s) outside of Signal; the likelihood of an attacker compromising the exterior network(s) as well as Signal itself is lower, but the effective security is still limited by the trust one can place in out-of-band networks.

Back to Square-One

Security-concerned users are then still faced with the same difficult question that led them to an encrypted chat app in the first place: “what network is secure enough to compare safety numbers (authenticate my key-exchange)?” Of course, the most secure out-of-band network is in-person authentication, where there is negligible risk of a man-in-the-middle attack. This is, to say the least, a major inconvenience.

In person and SIM ID based systems also preclude privacy, as one is necessarily doxxed in the process of setting them up. Saito at scale allows anonymous identities to establish themselves (be it for encrypted chats or otherwise) without a MITM able to covertly sit in between; the secrecy required for such an attack is foiled by robust censorship resistance.

Naive P2P networks likewise fail to avoid out-of-band requirements for security, as they lack strong censorship resistance. And reliance on unpaid volunteers introduces questions as to sustainability and resilience at scale and under adversarial conditions of these networks.

Volunteer-P2P Networks

Networks like Jami and Simplex offer a fully peer-to-peer model with no personal data requirements and no central mediator. These peers are not explicitly incentivized to communicate or to be honest; even if key-exchange is performed through a P2P network, one still must either trust the peers are not malicious or, again, resort to out-of-band authentication in order to verify authenticity.

Simplex, on their homepage, mentions out-of-band security as a feature, and Jami implies it in its instructions to share links to initiate key exchange. In reality, out-of-band key exchange is a requirement, not a feature, for protocols lacking a trustless network secure from censorship, be they P2P or fully centralized.

P2P networks with no, or weak incentive structures are also doomed to collapse at scale as users stop relaying data for free. There is some limit to how much a volunteer P2P network can scale without falling back into closed models; this takes richer and more ambitious P2P applications atop the protocol off the table. This same issue can also rear its head at small scale via dedicated DoS attacks.

Faced with these potential issues, the requirement from more established services like Signal that users present a valid phone number before entering a closed network seem more justified (though distributed network solutions, even if volunteer driven, offer some privacy benefits). If out-of-band authentication is required either way, and a closed network protects against rogue Sybil nodes, DoS attacks and bad incentives, most will end up using and building closed networks.

Saito rebuts this compromise.

Saito – An Incentivized P2P Network

Robust P2P

Saito is a unique P2P model: not only do nodes who faithfully and indiscriminately relay data entitle themselves to fee rewards bundled in the data, but nodes which censor data or otherwise disrupt the network are naturally bypassed thanks to ingenious incentive design: Nodes which fail to cease association with disruptive peer nodes and Sybils earn less than those that cut them out.

To put it simply, propagation is rewarded, censorship punished, and these consequences are meted out without reliance on any corruptible, centralized authorities. The scope of the benefits and how exactly they are achieved are too big a topic for this article, but those curious are invited to start at the Wiki.

Self-funding the P2P network solves the first big problem of an encryption protocol network: the P2P network procures necessary resources at arbitrary scale and naturally punishes DoS attackers. The second problem, enabling trustless and secure key-exchange on a single network, leverages the incentives of the network in a different way.

Native Key-Exchange Security

In addition to self-funding the P2P network, Saito is a probabilistically-finalizing, open consensus mechanism, meaning it grows more and more expensive to censor users, rescind data or monopolize the network as such attacks continue.

These properties, which can summed up as Universal Broadcast, solve the problem of secure key exchange because they can make it impractically expensive to fulfill the censorship step required to MITM attack. Because these messages are universally broadcast, users can always check if someone is attempting to insert themselves between a key exchange or impersonating their target.

This finally offers an avenue to secure key-exchange without trusted-third-parties or out-of-band fall-backs, with the caveat that the security of this network is a function of its fee-throughput. Probabilistic finality should be accounted for in the OpSec of anyone using any consensus network to verify key-exchanges.

Note that the Saito Network is in early stages of growth, which means its ability to offer this feature which prevents the need for out-of-band authentication is still weak.

Big Picture

That being said, Saito makes the entire exchange process, including out-of-band authentication, stone-age-simple. Upon navigating to Saito.io/chat, a key-pair is locally generated. All someone needs to do is click your personal chat link to connect p2p with you and initiate the key exchange. No signups, installs or setup – it happens in a few clicks and seconds.

Even without the massive scale that brings with it massive security, Saito is still a functional and self-sustaining P2P network with a rich, open-source ecosystem and public-key-cryptography built-in. Unlike P2P networks before it, Saito becomes easier to use, more robust, and more decentralized as adoption takes place.

Our vision for Saito is that as usage and the resultant security grows, it will support key-exchanges for the whole globe more securely than any possible out-of-band network. We envision Saito as the de facto key-exchange network for all other protocols offering comparable security to in-person authentication from anywhere in the globe at the touch of a button.

This is a bold statement, but Saito’s consensus security against majority-coalition network operators justifies it. You can read more about that here. We’ve already proven that sustainable P2P networks which place the user as the root of their own security are as easy to use as traditional web apps; see here.

Volunteer-P2P networks such as Simplex and Jami could leave behind their out-of-band requirements, instability and funding issues by integrating Saito as their P2P protocol – we invite anyone interested in digital security as a public-good to contact us and start building.

Get Involved

Saito is built as a P2P PKI network where each user is a node and owns their own key-pair. Features like digital signatures and public-key encryption are built in on the ground floor and serve as primitives for applications which respect user-privacy and autonomy. Because sensitive cryptographic operations are handled either by the consensus mechanism or the client, the burden of application security on developers is largely lifted.

This means that developers interested in building apps which respect the user’s privacy, operate P2P, perform key exchanges or authenticate data of all kinds are no longer required permission from trusted third parties, such as certificate authorities or their derivatives, to do so. Saito offers all these features trustlessly and in an easy to use development kit which can largely abstract away the hardest parts.

Most importantly for developers, the applications give a clear path for monetization without succumbing to centralized models: application hosts earn a large portion of the network fees for being the initial point of broadcast.

A developer who wants to build the next big app does not require the servers, reputation, OpSec or funding of big tech, and can earn money while remaining open source. If building any application that connects people is of interest to you, but you’ve always felt something was in the way, it may have been the security and infrastructure requirements of Web 2.0.

We encourage you to experiment with Saito and leverage our open and secure network; the network itself offers a permissionless way for every user to procure their own security, and the fees earned from broadcasting naturally reward those hosting successful applications. There is no need to obtain permission from a certificate, DNS or any authority to make revenue-generating applications with robust, out-of-the-box security – Saito is a permissionless P2P network designed to scale.

Secure key-exchange is just a building block on Saito – it’s why we made it so easy to implement. How developers compose this ability defines what’s possible on Web 3.

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