Second chance for impact driven projects
AltLife provides a decentralized safety net for critical projects by:
- Protecting Innovative Code: Prevent unilateral removal of open-source projects
- Preserving Digital Sovereignty: Keep projects alive even if centralized platforms block or delete them
- Mitigating Platform Risk: Ensure continuous access to code and sites regardless of geopolitical or corporate pressures
- Enabling Free Expression: Create a resilient hosting environment for projects that might challenge status quo
- Continuous Availability: Store project artifacts permanently on walrus, making takedowns virtually impossible
- Alternate media and website hosting
- Open-source privacy tools
- DeSci - Controversial research platforms
- Academic and scientific repositories at risk of suppression
- Independent journalism platforms
Inspired by real-world scenarios to ensure technological freedom and innovation cannot be arbitrarily silenced.
Decentralized Project Preservation Workflow Technical Architecture:
- GitHub Action Trigger: Custom workflow script initiates backup process
- Backend API:
- Clones repository
- Compresses files using tar.gz
- Decentralized Storage: Stores compressed repo on Walrus
- Blockchain Anchoring:
- Stores blob ID, object ID, and file hash on Starknet
- Mapped against user's wallet address
Key Mechanism: Automated, immutable backup that ensures project code, media and website survival across decentralized infrastructure, making censorship or unilateral takedown practically impossible.
- Install Rust, Sui, Walrus and other dependencies on your system
- Clone/Fork this repo
- Start the go server
- Setup a SSH reverse proxy to open the port over a https URL
- In another repo, create a workflow as shown in the
test.ymlfile:- If the repo is generic codebase, pass type as
generic - If the repo is of a static website with all the html, js and css files, pass
typeasstatic - If the repo is of a react project, pass the
typeasreact
- If the repo is generic codebase, pass type as