The internet once deliberately avoided a single management entity that helped it succeed in no small amount. This approach allowed for rapid and widespread adoption as Internetworking did not require a network to grant control or permission to other entities. It also reflects efforts to ensure that a single technical failure does not have a disproportionate impact.
Centralization has become a fact in Web 2.0 and it has since proven difficult to avoid it. Many online applications and protocols work intensively. However, centralization is carried out against the very nature of the Internet. It is often referred to as a “network of networks” because it is a vast and uneven collection of interconnected systems. These networks agree to promote communication rather than subordinating to other people’s requirements.
The emphasis on action independence is reflected in network design and architecture, like the concept of autonomous systems. Blockchain technology allows for the creation of distributed networks consisting of nodes that receive, store, and transmit data. There are no centralized servers, and as a result, there is no single point of failure. Once one node goes down, the network can continue to operate.
Network power is proportional to the number of participants
Distributed networks confirm that data depends on multiple sources, but none of them are centrally governed. Anyone can participate and contribute to such a network. The more nodes in the network, the more powerful it tends to be. This technology demonstrates considerable promise to achieve decentralization. Datagram is a platform for high-performance applications that enables fast, scalable connectivity, launching Alpha Testnet, allowing users to operate and verify the verifiable tuning layer for interoperability in distributed physical infrastructure networks. Testnets allow participants to manipulate nodes, earn referrals and uptime rewards, and enhance network performance.
Datagram’s infrastructure addresses internet centralization and mounting concerns about vulnerability. Many services rely on non-transparent networks, proprietary clouds, vendor-controlled APIs, and more. Datagrams allow you to host, route, validate, and score workloads across a fragmented depin network with proof-based coordination. Testnet focuses on measurable contributions, transparency, and minimal dependencies on central mediators to support verifiable infrastructure layers.
Anyone can manipulate datagram nodes without blockchain expertise. Participants will automatically check availability and install nodes that report status four times a day. They earn airdrop points for each successful check-in and are converted to $dgram tokens during TGE in the third quarter of 2025. Top contributors are eligible for additional hardware rewards.
Decentralization addresses rarity and encourages competition
If there is only one provider of a service or feature in a jurisdiction or region, that feature or service will be centralized for users there. However, it is now possible to decentralize services that are available only by a limited number of providers or one provider. Locations allow individuals and small operators to provide hardware resources such as computing, storage, wireless connectivity, and sensors. They distribute the physical layer of the Internet across a wide network of participants.
Token incentives, modular architectures, and reputation systems can coordinate and scale reliable contributions from a diverse pool of operators when features require specialized equipment or expertise. It can distribute services that were once hindered by high costs or limited access, reducing single points of failure, and increasing infrastructure resilience and openness.
Internet users benefit from robust competition, especially when they can develop their own applications and services according to interoperable standards. When services or functions become dependent on centralized platforms due to the lack of alternatives, they will inevitably become important facilities that lead to abuse of power. Internet applications and services improve with multiple ways to gain access to them. Intensive services may benefit from the attention required to raise roles, but in the event of failure, the impact of losing availability can be disproportionate.
Access to information from centralized services allows the service to provide, but the service denies such access. According to Timothy John Berners-Lee ir, who invented the Internet, decoupling data storage from services restores control over the user’s data. This means people can use the services they need and store their data in their chosen locations.
The Internet is separated from its conceptual origins, including Google Search, Amazon Web Services, and the social networks of Meta. Decentralization intends to break that monopoly. A distributed network can ensure that a single entity does not control information flow, as opposed to a single server that hosts all data.
An obstacle-filled road to unreliable infrastructure
Network effects that cause centralization may also provide benefits such as improved latency, resilience, and efficiency. The optimal degree of decentralization of a function will vary depending on the particular situation. Delegating its implementation to multiple stakeholders can reduce the risks associated with inevitably centralized functions, thereby facilitating well-thinked and widely agreed decisions. Blockchain distributes mediation and other potentially centralized tasks to members of a vast pool of protocol participants. Typically, transaction ledgers or alternative encryption techniques ensure proper performance of the feature.
Among the drawbacks of distributed consensus protocols is the spread responsibility for operation between several parties, which is difficult to identify. This effectively prevents some kind of centralization, but also makes it impossible to hold someone accountable for the performance of the function. Services in decentralized ecosystems can incorporate third-party SDKs, privileged operations, and other centralized elements or scenarios that run against decentralization principles and can pose security risks.
The risk of persistent centralization should never be underestimated. These include, but are not limited to, authorities’ changes to arbitrary rules, forgery, security vulnerabilities, account freezes, and human error with disastrous consequences. The shift to decentralized internet is aimed at creating a more transparent, private, and secure online experience for all users.