

The first Loki service to be developed and deployed on the Loki network will be a decentralised, end-to-end encrypted private messaging application called Loki Messenger. With SNApps you can build censorship resistant social media platforms, news sites, marketplaces and other communities.

SNApps allow you to host hidden private web applications inside of Lokinet. The network can be used to access internally hosted services called SNApps.

Users can connect to individual Service Nodes and create bidirectional paths for packets to be routed through. The network does not rely on trusted authorities and its state is fully derived from the blockchain. Service Nodes on the Loki network will operate a low latency onion routing protocol, forming a fully decentralised overlay network, called Lokinet. The resulting network provides market-based resistance to Sybil attacks, addressing a range of problems with existing mixnets and privacy-centric services. In return for their services, Loki Service Node operators receive a portion of the block reward from each block. To operate a Service Node, an operator time-locks a significant amount of Loki and provides a minimum level of bandwidth and storage to the network. Loki’s networking functionality and scalability is enabled by a set of incentivized nodes called Service Nodes. The Loki Network token sale ended on 26th of March 2018, with the project raising $9,000,000. Using the decentralized nature of blockchain technology, Loki creates new private and secure methods of interacting with the internet, as well as building privacy-centric applications, such as messaging services, forums, online marketplaces, and social media platforms. Loki is a privacy network which will allow users to transact and communicate privately over the internet, providing a suite of tools to help maintain the maximum amount of anonymity possible while browsing, transacting and communication online.
