PIM is a proximity-first mesh networking daemon. It routes IP traffic hop-by-hop through nearby peers until it reaches a node with internet access. End-to-end encrypted. No central server. No single point of failure.
Originates traffic. Sends and receives packets. Doesn't share its connection.
Forwards mesh frames between peers. Extends reach. May or may not have internet itself.
Has internet. Shares it with the whole mesh via NAT. Any node with a connection can be one.
Bitcoin made money sovereign. ZK made privacy verifiable. AI agents do our work for us. We've reinvented every layer of the digital economy — except the one underneath all of them.
Internet shutdowns are on the rise. States treat connectivity as a lever of control — Iran, Russia, Myanmar, Ethiopia. One order and your network is gone.
Earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes sever undersea cables and destroy base stations — exactly when connectivity matters most.
Billions live without reliable last-mile connectivity. Remote offices, field operations, and emerging markets pay the price every day.
Nodes discover each other automatically — no manual config. All three mechanisms run in parallel and are fully additive. Once a peer is found, the same encrypted TCP session takes over.
Compact UDP advertisement packets on the local network. Any node that hears one initiates a TCP session automatically.
Drives wpa_supplicant's P2P subsystem. Discovers nearby devices, negotiates group
formation — no access point needed.
Uses BlueZ to scan, pair, and establish PAN/NAP links. Learns peer IPs from the PAN neighbor table.
Real-world scenarios where PIM keeps things working when the legacy internet doesn't.
Cell signal saturated. PIM gives the crowd a network of their own — peer to peer, no tower needed.
Pollution, traffic, noise sensors with no 4G contract. Each one hops to the next until a phone or gateway picks the data up.
A single node bridged to a LoRa or HAM radio extends the mesh across kilometers — no telecom tower needed at all.
VPNs need the cloud. Satellite needs sky and money. Mesh apps do text only. PIM is the only stack with full IP routing, proximity discovery across three transports, no central server, and a production-ready Rust daemon.
| capability | traditional vpn | satellite | mesh apps | ▸ pim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| full ip routing | ✓ yes | ✓ yes | ✗ text only | ✓ yes |
| no central server | ✗ needs cloud | ✗ needs satellite | ~ partial | ✓ fully serverless |
| works without infrastructure | ✗ | ✓ expensive | ~ limited range | ✓ |
| proximity-native discovery | ✗ | ✗ | ~ some | ✓ lan · wfd · bt |
| low regulatory footprint | ~ medium | ✗ high | ✓ low | ✓ low |
| production-ready daemon | ✓ | ✓ | ~ partial | ✓ rust · memory-safe |
Today, PIM ships the network layer — the daemon, the discovery, the encrypted mesh. Everything below is what comes next. These features aren't in the current release. They're our roadmap, and what we're raising for.
A library for builders. Write apps that talk peer to peer with one import.
plannedCommunity-built apps that run on the mesh. DAO tools, identity, chat, agents — no cloud needed.
plannedLoRa and HAM bridges to extend the mesh across kilometers. Cities without telecom towers.
plannedOpen source, MIT licensed. Ship code, earn reputation, build the city's own internet.
ongoing