Invitation to Build a Community-Owned Internet With Us
Today, Syndicate is launching its official community channels on Telegram and Farcaster—and inviting developers and users to help shape the development of a new community-owned internet.
Today, Syndicate is launching its official community channels on Telegram and Farcaster—and inviting developers and users to help shape the development of a new community-owned internet.
The Internet is Changing
For decades, we've built our digital lives on platforms that hold all the power. Users became products. Creators built communities they couldn't fully own. Developers navigated restrictions and saw the economic upside of their work captured by others. The internet became centralized, extractive, and fundamentally disconnected from those who create its real value.
That era is ending. A growing movement of developers and their communities are creating something new: a community-owned internet. One where the people who build and use it also own, govern, and benefit from it.
Introducing a Community-Owned Internet
A community-owned internet is about real ownership, meaningful control, and infrastructure governed directly by developers and their users—not centralized platforms. It's an internet built by communities, for communities, leveraging the transformative technology of appchains with onchain sequencers.
Appchains are community-specific, programmable blockchains customized precisely to their users' needs, goals, and values. Rather than relying on generic infrastructure owned by third-party validators or platforms, communities use appchains to define their own rules, govern their own networks, and share the economic upside of their participation.
This unlocks a community-owned internet where:
- Ownership belongs directly to the communities creating the value, not external platforms.
- Control is held by those most affected by decisions—users, creators, developers, participants.
- Sovereignty is structurally embedded at the infrastructure level, providing freedom from centralized gatekeepers and intermediaries.
Why Syndicate?
Syndicate provides the infrastructure that makes community-owned appchains possible.
We enable developers to launch fully customizable appchains with their own sequencing logic, governance, permissions, and incentive systems. Syndicate’s infrastructure is designed to be flexible, efficient, and community-first—ensuring the value created by networks flows back to the people driving them.
Why Join Our Community Now
The Syndicate community is where developers, founders and users connect to collaborate on this vision. By joining, you will:
- Access early experiments: Be the first to explore new appchains and prototype products launching on Syndicate.
- Influence what gets built: Shape the infrastructure, governance, and incentives powering new community-owned networks.
- Collaborate directly: Connect with aligned developers, founders, and users reclaiming the internet.
How to Get Involved
We've opened new spaces where you can join our community:
- Telegram → For fast updates, announcements, and immediate opportunities to participate.
- Farcaster → For deeper discussions, coordination, and developer collaboration.
Explore Appchains Powered by Syndicate
Curious what this looks like in practice? You can already explore working appchains built with Syndicate’s infrastructure on our testnet.