# $2M prize for Decentralized Web ideas, funded by Mozilla and NSF **URL:** \ **Category:** News\ **Created:** [June 22, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/2m-prize-for-decentralized-web-ideas-funded-by-mozilla-and-nsf/655 "2017-06-22T22:06:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![haniawni](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/haniawni/32/68_2.png) [@haniawni](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/haniawni)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/2m-prize-for-decentralized-web-ideas-funded-by-mozilla-and-nsf/655/2 "2017-06-23T06:37:09Z")
relevant discussion over here in other topic on this; I kinda deep dove and ended up proposing a relatively small addition to libp2p that allows turning e-waste-bound outdated android tech into a public IPFS meshnet. > [@Mozilla + NSF: A $2 Million Prize to Decentralize the Web](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/mozilla-nsf-a-2-million-prize-to-decentralize-the-web/654/6): > > Hey! so I kinda lost today- did none of the work I was supposed to do- but here’s what I found: A) MeshKit/Opengarden stuff and almost everything else is closed-source. HOWEVER, batman-adv is open source, has been part of the [official linux tree since 2.6.33](https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki/Download#batman-adv-in-the-Linux-tree), and: supports connections via Bluetooth or Wifi (of course) has 2 different node runmodes master: integral to the network, higher power draw, constantly talking to each other, propogates data along slave: essentially a leech- only ever… --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/2m-prize-for-decentralized-web-ideas-funded-by-mozilla-and-nsf/655)._