The Impervious Browser will be publicly released April 7th, during the Bitcoin 2022 Conference, in Miami.

• Zoom, without Zoom.
• Google Docs, without Google.
• Medium, without Medium.
• WhatsApp, without WhatsApp.
• Payments, without banks.
• Identity, without the state.
• All without centralized intermediaries and built into the Impervious Browser.

In August 2021, Impervious released a bundle of APIs built on the Bitcoin Lightning Network, which created a programmatic layer for Bitcoin – (i.e. “Layer 3”). The Impervious APIs enable any application or service to stream cryptographically secure, censorship and surveillance resistant data transmission channels.

Following an enthusiastic reception of the Impervious APIs, we fused all of our Peer-to-Peer (“P2P”) capabilities together into one easily consumable super application – the Impervious Browser.

Creating a New P2P Internet Standard: Circumventing Intermediaries and Digital Gatekeepers

Impervious is building the tools and infrastructure for the P2P internet. By interlacing Lightning, Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), a DIDComm system, WebRTC, IPFS and more into a familiar application, the Impervious Browser is able to provide an entire suite of easy to use P2P capabilities.

An Overview:

Secure P2P Messaging: WhatsApp, without WhatsApp

• Cryptographically secure, persistent and ephemeral messaging
• Decentralized, real-time P2P communication between browsers and DIDs
• Secure communication between peers and peer groups
• No third-party intermediaries to survey, capture, or censor messages
• All inbound and outbound messages are cryptographically signed and verified by respective parties for authenticated message integrity
• Secure P2P file transfer directly via WebRTC or encrypted third party relay

Secure P2P Audio and Video Calls: Zoom, without Zoom

• Peer-to-Peer WebRTC data channels without third party intermediaries – supporting audio, video, messaging, and real-time data transmission
• Group video and audio Calls (i.e. Google Hangouts or Zoom)
• Ephemeral Chat (conversation only lives until the end of the call)
• Available usage of data channels for additional real-time communication (ex. file transfers and games)

Decentralized and Local Storage

• Files can be encrypted and stored locally in both the browser and designated encrypted system database
• Files can be published t