What is the relationship between Radicle and the Radworks ($RAD) token?
Radicle is a true peer-to-peer protocol. It doesn’t use nor depend on any blockchain or cryptocurrency.
Radworks, the organization that has been financing Radicle is organized around the RAD token which is a governance token on Ethereum.
From the FAQ in case it's relevant to anyone
I think the most useful thing for this is hosting repos that suffer from constant DMCA takedowns. Emulators, ad-blockers, site revancers etc.
for sure, this is a very resilient approach that makes it incredibly difficult to take code down
some part of me hopes that microsoft will enshitify github enough to enable decentralization like this like reddit did to enable lemmy adoption and twitter did for discord adoption.
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