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devcon8 / gateway free by design building a browser for permissionless networks

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Gateway-Free by Design: Building a Browser for Permissionless Networks

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Speaker: Meinhard Benn

Type: Talk

Expertise: Some familiarity with the topic

Event: Devcon

Date: Nov 2026

Peer-to-peer protocols remove central servers, but their users still depend on HTTP gateways, DNS, extension stores, and wallet extensions. This talk shares the engineering lessons from shipping Freedom Browser, a working open-source browser with integrated Swarm, IPFS, and Radicle nodes, native Ethereum name resolution, a native wallet, and one-flow peer-to-peer publishing. Using evidence from 7,000+ organic downloads across 139 countries, I will examine node lifecycle and resource constraints, protocol-aware navigation, name-resolution trust boundaries, browser security, and the gap between technical possibility and daily-driver retention. Attendees will leave with a practical model for identifying hidden intermediaries in decentralized applications and designing browser access that remains usable when gateways, stores, or network paths fail.

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