MaidSafe is developing Safe Network: the world's first autonomous data and communications network that transforms the unused power of billions of everyday devices into the internet's crowdsourced storage layer.

Safe Network represents the next wave of decentralized infrastructure, a highly scalable, non-blockchain approach to data autonomy and a platform on which to build the future of distributed and private edge computing.

At the heart of the network is a groundbreaking real-time payments system and its native currency: the Safe Network Token. MaidSafeCoin serves as a direct proxy for these tokens, redeemable at a 1:1 ratio when the network is about to launch, and is currently in late alpha testing.

Safe Network tokens are more than just a medium of exchange between network supply nodes and users wishing to store data, they can be transferred directly between users or devices in real time, with capacity increasing as the network scales. This, coupled with the data capabilities of the network itself, opens up a series of new application scenarios that are impossible to achieve on the blockchain without the limitations of centralized services.