Of the decentralized projects I'm aware of, the Althea mesh network is the most promising. It's an incentivized mesh network of COTS routers. They have working prototype hardware and code, and a prototype networks in Clatskanie, Oregon and Medellin, Colombia. The current goal is a layer 2 network, but the long term goal is to have their own decentralized backhaul.
https://althea.org/whitepaper
https://www.reddit.com/r/altheamesh/
https://medium.com/althea-mesh/althea-in-rural-oregon-a16e4e8cc2a7
https://althea.org/medellin
I particularly like the Althea networks decentralized governance model. By design, no single company or organization controls the network.
https://althea.org/whitepaper
https://www.reddit.com/r/altheamesh/
https://medium.com/althea-mesh/althea-in-rural-oregon-a16e4e8cc2a7
https://althea.org/medellin
I particularly like the Althea networks decentralized governance model. By design, no single company or organization controls the network.