Imagine an internet that belongs to the people who inhabit it
The internet today feels a little too much like a shopping mall where every business rents and every person is the product. We need alternative space; digital networks where you can live and work freely.
We imagine a world where technology ensures your data drives value for you, where imagination is the only limit, where your connections stay yours and your digital life remains private.
That's why we're building Tonk — software that runs locally, syncs between peers and belongs entirely to you. It's human-scale software that spreads between people like files, woven through communities like stories and lasts as long as you need them.
And we're building it in the open, together with you. Come build with us.
The team
Tonk is a globally distributed laboratory building primitives for shared knowledge that serve people, not platforms. Our mission is to realize an Internet that belongs to the people who inhabit it. You can listen to this ZK Podcast episode for more about our history and vision.
Meet the team, and read more about our journey on our Updates page, or join our Discord.
Careers
Tonk is a home for highly-motivated, creative people. If:
- You want to solve historic problems at the frontier of AI, distributed systems and cryptography,
- You want to join an engineering team that traverses from research to reality on a daily basis,
- You're thoughtful about technology & our responsibility to leave the world in a better & more beautiful state than we found it,
- You crave that feeling when you're growing uncomfortably fast, alongside a team that challenges & supports you,
- You're hungry for creative ownership, without the burdens of bureaucratic overhead,
Then you should apply.