# MATA

> MATA is the Ultimate Digital Freedom Toolkit — a privacy-first platform that gives you back ownership of your finances, identity, passwords, contacts, files, and smart-home data. Everything is encrypted on your devices with keys MATA cannot read.

## Core
- [Eras of Digital Freedom](https://mata.network/digital-freedom/): Five-era roadmap: Foundation of Trust, IAMHUMAN & Your Peers, Home Computer, Your Home Companion, The Shop.
- [Freedom Guide](https://mata.network/freedom-guide/): Practical guide to claiming Digital Freedom — what to own, how to start, how each MATA primitive supports it.
- [Learn](https://mata.network/learn/): Article index covering data ownership, privacy, security primitives, and the eras of Digital Freedom.
- [Wallet & Identity](https://mata.network/wallet-id/): Local bank-account view and device-bound Digital ID — no aggregator, keys you hold.
- [Password Manager](https://mata.network/password-manager/): On-device credential vault. Import from Chrome, Apple Keychain, LastPass, 1Password, or Bitwarden.
- [Integrations](https://mata.network/integrations/): Connect banks, password vaults, contacts, and Sign in with Sovereign ID into MATA.
- [RAG Converter](https://mata.network/rag-converter/): Turn everyday business files into AI-readable chunks and embeddings. Free browser WASM, plus POST /v1/convert for developer pipelines.
- [Dev Tools](https://mata.network/products/): AI skill folders for vibe coders — Building the New Internet and use-protection-please — plus RAG Converter, Sovereign ID, and the Remade with Rust catalog.

## Articles
- [esp32 iroh — The Mesh On The Chip Without AWS IoT](https://mata.network/learn/esp32-iroh.md): esp32 iroh is rusty_esp_iroh: an iroh endpoint on ESP32, Janus ALPNs for rpc/media/telemetry, and a bridge for no_std nodes — no AWS IoT SDK.
- [rusty_esp_audio — I2S And PDM Without ESP-ADF](https://mata.network/learn/rusty-esp-audio-i2s-without-esp-adf.md): rusty_esp_audio remakes ESP-ADF, ESP-GMF, and esp_codec_dev: I2S/PDM capture and playback, a fixed-block pipeline, Opus and FLAC on the chip.
- [rusty_esp_video — An ESP32 Camera That Does Not Phone Home](https://mata.network/learn/rusty-esp-video-camera-without-cloud.md): rusty_esp_video remakes esp_video, esp_h264, and CameraWebServer: MJPEG and H.264 on the chip, RTP and MJPEG-over-HTTP, no vendor camera cloud.
- [Era 2: IAMHUMAN And Your Peers — Devices That Talk Without A Cloud](https://mata.network/learn/era-2-iamhuman-and-your-peers.md): Era 2 is IAMHUMAN and your peers: devices talking offline, in sync, peer-to-peer — a mesh you own, with no cloud sitting between your phone and your life.
- [Why Rust Becomes The Standard For A Memory-Safe Internet](https://mata.network/learn/rust-becomes-the-standard-memory-safe-internet.md): Microsoft and Google still attribute ~70% of CVEs to memory unsafety. Memory-safe Rust is how Rust becomes the standard for shared internet code.
- [Why A Distributed Cloud Needs Memory-Safe Rust](https://mata.network/learn/why-distributed-cloud-needs-memory-safe-rust.md): A distributed cloud runs your code on machines you do not own. Memory-safe Rust is how allocator and codec bugs stop being a mesh-wide outage.
- [Era 3: Home Computer — Bring Your Files Home](https://mata.network/learn/era-3-home-computer-bring-files-home.md): Era 3 is the Home Computer: bring files home, reach them from anywhere, and stop treating Google Drive as if a rented folder were the same as a house.
- [Erasure Coding Keeps A Distributed Cloud Online When Homes Die](https://mata.network/learn/erasure-coding-keeps-distributed-cloud-online.md): Erasure coding keeps a distributed cloud online when homes die: k-of-n Reed-Solomon shards of ciphertext that no hosting home can read at all.
- [rusty_h264 — x264 Remade In Rust For Embedded Encoding](https://mata.network/learn/rusty-h264-x264-remade-in-rust.md): rusty_h264 remakes x264 in Rust for embedded, memory-safe H.264 encode and decode. It is the pixel path inside the remade_ffmpeg_rs media stack.
- [Era 4: Your Home Companion Without Phoning Home To Big Tech](https://mata.network/learn/era-4-home-companion-without-phoning-home.md): Era 4 is the Home Companion: keep the smart home, stop the doorbell and baby monitor from phoning home, and run local AI on hardware you hold.
- [Iroh On ESP32 — A Device Mesh Without A Cloud IoT SDK](https://mata.network/learn/iroh-on-esp32-mesh-without-cloud-iot.md): Iroh on ESP32 builds a device mesh without a cloud IoT SDK: rusty_esp_iroh, Janus ALPN names, and no AWS IoT monthly tax on every flashed chip.
- [remade_ffmpeg_rs — A Pure-Rust Media Pipeline That Replaces FFmpeg](https://mata.network/learn/remade-ffmpeg-rs-pure-rust-media-pipeline.md): remade_ffmpeg_rs is FFmpeg remade in Rust: a memory-safe media pipeline that powers FFAI and MATA Disco Party without a C toolchain on the node.
- [Era 5: The Shop — Own The Marketplace You Buy From](https://mata.network/learn/era-5-the-shop-own-the-marketplace.md): Era 5 is The Shop: commerce without a platform taking the cut and the data — a marketplace you own, on a Home Computer the community can build on.
- [mID On The Chip — Device Identity For The Distributed Cloud](https://mata.network/learn/mid-on-the-chip-device-identity-mesh.md): mID on the chip is device identity: a DID, a key in eFuse or encrypted NVS, signed assertions, and a capability manifest with no vendor cloud.
- [rusty_alloc — A Pure-Rust Allocator That Replaces mimalloc](https://mata.network/learn/rusty-alloc-mimalloc-alternative-in-rust.md): rusty_alloc is a pure-Rust mimalloc alternative: a memory-safe allocator for x86-64, aarch64, wasm, and RISC-V ESP that aborts on double-free.
- [The IAMHUMAN Signature — Prove You Are Human Without Giving Up Your Name](https://mata.network/learn/iamhuman-signature-prove-you-are-human.md): An IAMHUMAN signature lets you sign tweets, listings, and comments: cryptographic proof you are human, a human signature anyone can verify without learning who.
- [Janus — The Hardware Bridge Into The Distributed Cloud](https://mata.network/learn/janus-hardware-bridge-to-distributed-cloud.md): Janus is the hardware bridge into the distributed cloud: ESP32 and Arduino remade so a MATA home computer can speak on the disco mesh today.
- [rusty_zstd — Pure-Rust Zstandard With No C And No Copyleft](https://mata.network/learn/rusty-zstd-pure-rust-zstandard-codec.md): rusty_zstd is Zstandard in Rust: a pure-Rust RFC 8878 compressor with zero deps, no C, no FFI, and no copyleft on the wire format you already use.
- [Capability Tokens — Access Control For A Distributed Cloud](https://mata.network/learn/capability-tokens-distributed-cloud-access.md): Capability tokens are distributed cloud access: scoped mID grants you can revoke, not passwords parked on a server that NIST told you to leave.
- [Own Your Files Without Google Drive](https://mata.network/learn/own-your-files-without-google-drive.md): Own your files the way you own a filing cabinet: local files on a Home Computer, reachable anywhere, with no Drive folder pretending a rental is the same as a house.
- [rusty_xml — libxml2 Remade In Rust, About Twice As Fast](https://mata.network/learn/rusty-xml-libxml2-remade-in-rust.md): rusty_xml is libxml2 remade in Rust: memory-safe XML parse, tree, SAX, reader, writer, XPath, and validation — about twice as fast, and no C.
- [Idle Devices Earn On The Distributed Cloud](https://mata.network/learn/idle-devices-earn-on-distributed-cloud.md): Idle devices earn on the distributed cloud: spare CPU, storage, and bandwidth get paid through the Settlement seam instead of an AWS invoice.
- [Local AI Without Uploading Your Life](https://mata.network/learn/local-ai-without-uploading-your-life.md): Local AI means on-device AI that never uploads the voice note, the scan, or the hallway clip — private AI you can refuse to send to a cloud that trains on your life.
- [rusty_expressions — Oniguruma Remade In Rust, About 3× Faster](https://mata.network/learn/rusty-expressions-oniguruma-without-c.md): rusty_expressions is Oniguruma remade in Rust: memory-safe regex about 3× faster than libonig, no_std+alloc, wasm32-ready, and no C toolchain.
- [Kairos — FreeRTOS Remade In Rust, Kernel And All](https://mata.network/learn/kairos-freertos-remade-in-rust.md): Kairos is FreeRTOS remade in Rust: rusty_rtos kernel, core, ports, heap, and C ABI so C demos relink — a memory-safe RTOS without the C kernel.
- [No Egress Bill — The Economics Of A Distributed Cloud](https://mata.network/learn/no-egress-bill-distributed-cloud-economics.md): No egress bill: distributed cloud economics pay contributors when bytes move, instead of taxing every byte that escapes a vendor cloud region.
- [Why Digital Freedom Needs Rust](https://mata.network/learn/why-digital-freedom-needs-rust.md): Digital Freedom needs Rust because you cannot own a vault built on memory-unsafe C. Trust, Security, and Incentive die if the code under the keys can still smash the stack.
- [Diana — YOLO26 Object Detection In Pure Rust](https://mata.network/learn/diana-yolo-object-detection-in-rust.md): Diana is YOLO in Rust: YOLO26 on Candle from real Ultralytics, 3.71× less CPU, a third the memory, ByteTrack, WASM — the ffai-diana crate in FFAI.
- [Starfire And Comet — Self-Hosted Game Streaming Without A Cloud](https://mata.network/learn/starfire-comet-self-hosted-game-stream.md): Starfire is self-hosted game streaming without a cloud: a Sunshine-compatible client, Comet as the Windows host, remade_ffmpeg_rs underneath.
- [Stop Renting Your Own Photos](https://mata.network/learn/stop-renting-your-own-photos.md): Stop renting your own photos from iCloud and Google Photos. Keep a photo library you own on a Home Computer, synced across devices you hold, not a gallery you lease.
- [Carmenta — OCR In Pure Rust Without Tesseract Or Python](https://mata.network/learn/carmenta-ocr-without-tesseract-python.md): Carmenta is OCR in pure Rust without Tesseract or Python: documents, screens, and a change-gated LIVE frame reader — the ffai-carmenta crate.
- [Digital Freedom For Families](https://mata.network/learn/digital-freedom-for-families.md): Digital Freedom for families is a family vault for household data: kids' photos, shared logins, inheritance — Trust and Incentive at the kitchen table, not a platform memorial.
- [The MATA OEM Sidecar — How Hardware Joins The Disco Party](https://mata.network/learn/mata-oem-sidecar-hardware-joins-disco.md): The OEM sidecar is how hardware joins the Disco Party: one binary on the OS you already ship, with mID, an honest catalog, and optional FFAI.
- [Content-Addressed Storage Without S3](https://mata.network/learn/content-addressed-storage-without-s3.md): Content-addressed storage fetches files by hash, not by a vendor URL. CIDs plus SpaceDB durability and erasure coding replace the S3 bucket.
- [Leave The Cloud. Keep The Apps.](https://mata.network/learn/leave-the-cloud-keep-the-apps.md): Leave the cloud without giving up banking UI or password UX. Keep the apps you already know — migrate without losing tools, on the Freedom Guide path, one pile at a time.
- [rusty_time — chrony Remade In Rust For NTPv4 And NTS](https://mata.network/learn/rusty-time-chrony-ntp-remade-in-rust.md): rusty_time is chrony remade in Rust: a pure-Rust NTPv4 and NTS client and server for Linux, macOS, Windows, and wasm, with no C toolchain required.
- [Hardware You Hold, Keys You Own](https://mata.network/learn/hardware-you-hold-keys-you-own.md): Keys you own live on hardware you hold: wallet and mID on a phone chip, device-bound keys in eFuse and NVS on home boards — Security you can put in a pocket.
- [Rust Edge Nodes Make The Disco Party Real](https://mata.network/learn/rust-edge-nodes-make-disco-party-real.md): Rust edge nodes make the Disco Party real: remade Kairos and FreeRTOS plus ESP Janus machines in the mesh, not racks sitting in Virginia now.
- [rusty_png And rusty_jpeg — The Image Stack Remade In Rust](https://mata.network/learn/rusty-png-rusty-jpeg-image-stack-rust.md): rusty_png decodes 2.7–2.9× faster than FFmpeg; rusty_jpeg encodes 1.19× faster at matched size. Memory-safe image codecs, no C, plus rusty_gif.
- [Deputy — Your Rust Dependencies, Owned And Audited](https://mata.network/learn/deputy-rust-dependencies-owned-audited.md): Deputy vaults every Rust dependency in your project, SHA-256-verifies against Cargo.lock, scans RustSec for CVEs, and keeps builds working offline. Snyk plus cargo-vet, but yours.
- [SpaceDB — The Local-First Database That Replaces Firebase And DynamoDB](https://mata.network/learn/spacedb-local-first-database-firebase-alternative.md): SpaceDB is a local-first, CRDT-native, mesh-replicated database — a pure-Rust replacement for Firebase and DynamoDB when your data belongs on user devices, not a cloud.
- [What Is A Distributed Cloud — And Why It Beats AWS And Google Cloud](https://mata.network/learn/what-is-a-distributed-cloud.md): A distributed cloud runs storage, compute, and identity on the devices of the people using it — not in a vendor's data center. Here is what actually changes.
- [Safe Vibe Coding — The MATA Skill Folder](https://mata.network/learn/safe-vibe-coding-mata-skill-folder.md): Vibe coding is here to stay. Left to itself, an AI picks the same C-and-cloud stack every startup has been shipping CVEs on for a decade. Here's the fix.
- [The Argument For Rust On Arduino — Am I Crazy?](https://mata.network/learn/rust-on-arduino-memory-safe-embedded.md): Arduino was never a language — it was a promise. Here's the case for keeping that promise and putting memory-safe embedded Rust underneath it, with receipts.
- [Connect Multiple Banks Into One Private Screen With MATA](https://mata.network/learn/connect-multiple-banks-one-private-screen.md): MATA's multi-bank view pulls every connected account into one local Banking screen — total balance, per-account cards, no aggregator cloud copy.
- [AI On The Edge Made Possible By Remade With Rust](https://mata.network/learn/ai-on-the-edge-remade-with-rust.md): Edge AI only works when codecs, ASR, TTS, OCR, VLM, and YOLO fit on the device. Remade with Rust is how that stack ships without Python or C.
- [Remade With Rust Crates Break 120,000 Downloads](https://mata.network/learn/remade-with-rust-crates-120000-downloads.md): Remade with Rust crates just crossed 120,000 downloads — 124,230 on the counter. rusty_h264, rusty_alloc, and SpaceDB lead the pull.
- [Convert Business Files To AI-Readable RAG Without A Cloud Parser](https://mata.network/learn/convert-business-files-to-ai-readable-rag.md): A RAG converter turns everyday business files into AI-readable chunks and embeddings. Here's how developers deploy it without uploading the corpus.
- [Why A VPN Isn't Enough Without Fingerprint Prevention](https://mata.network/learn/vpn-alone-not-enough-fingerprint-prevention.md): A VPN hides your IP address — but your browser still leaks a fingerprint that identifies you across sites. Here's why VPN alone isn't enough, and how MATA fixes it.
- [Friends Backup: Recover Your Vault Without Giving Anyone The Keys](https://mata.network/learn/friends-backup-recover-your-vault.md): Friends backup splits your master key into four shares. Three people you trust can recover the vault — MATA never holds the keys. Here's how it works.
- [Mercury: A Pure-Rust Whisper You Can Run Without Python](https://mata.network/learn/mercury-pure-rust-whisper-without-python.md): Mercury is a pure-Rust Whisper implementation — no Python runtime, no whisper.cpp FFI. Here's how it compares on accuracy, speed, and what is still experimental.
- [Peer-To-Peer Device Sync: How Your Phone And Laptop Talk Without A MATA Server](https://mata.network/learn/peer-to-peer-device-sync-iroh.md): Cloud sync uploads a copy. Peer-to-peer device sync over Iroh lets your phone and laptop exchange the vault directly — MATA never holds the keys.
- [Rebuilding The Foundation Of The Internet — Why It Matters](https://mata.network/learn/rebuilding-the-foundation-of-the-internet.md): The foundation of the internet is still C and C++ primitives everyone else builds on. Rebuilding that foundation in memory-safe Rust is how a free internet actually holds.
- [Sign In With Sovereign ID — No OAuth Provider, No MAU Fee](https://mata.network/learn/sign-in-with-sovereign-id.md): Sign in with Sovereign ID is a button on your site: the user signs with keys on their device, your backend verifies locally — no Auth0, no JWKS, no per-user tax.
- [The Importance of Remade With Rust](https://mata.network/learn/importance-of-remade-with-rust.md): Remade with Rust is MATA's initiative to rebuild the internet's core primitives in memory-safe Rust — here's why it matters for a free, distributed internet.
- [RagConverter: Private RAG Conversion, Remade With Rust](https://mata.network/learn/ragconverter-private-rag-remade-with-rust.md): RagConverter turns any document into RAG-ready embeddings entirely in your browser — no upload, no cloud, no data broker. Here's how the Remade with Rust stack makes it possible.
- [Getting Paid By Helping MATA Grow](https://mata.network/learn/get-paid-helping-mata-grow.md): MATA's referral program pays 5% for life on every signup through your link, website, or in-product hiring and signing workflows — here's how attribution works.
- [Era 1: Foundation Of Trust — The First Era Of Digital Freedom](https://mata.network/learn/era-1-foundation-of-trust.md): Era 1 of Digital Freedom is the Foundation of Trust: wallet, identity, passwords, and contacts — all encrypted on your devices, no external servers required.
- [The Five Eras Of Digital Freedom Explained](https://mata.network/learn/five-eras-of-digital-freedom-explained.md): The Eras of Digital Freedom are MATA's five-stage roadmap from personal data ownership to a fully self-hosted home — here's what each era unlocks and why the order matters.
- [The MATA Freedom Guide: A Step-By-Step Walkthrough](https://mata.network/learn/freedom-guide-step-by-step-walkthrough.md): The MATA Freedom Guide walks you from account signup to a self-hosted, peer-connected home stack — a Digital Freedom checklist you can do at your own pace.
- [How To Import Contacts And Bring Your Relationships Home](https://mata.network/learn/import-contacts-bring-your-relationships-home.md): Your contact list is a map of every relationship you've ever had. Here's how to import contacts into MATA and own your address book locally — on your hardware, never the cloud.
- [How To Import Passwords From Any Password Manager To MATA](https://mata.network/learn/import-passwords-from-any-password-manager.md): How to import passwords from Chrome, Apple Keychain, LastPass, 1Password, or Bitwarden into MATA — a single CSV export and your credentials are encrypted on-device in seconds.
- [Your Digital Identity: Wallet, DID, And The IAMHUMAN Signature](https://mata.network/learn/own-your-digital-identity-wallet-did-iamhuman.md): Your digital identity is bigger than a login. MATA's wallet, DID, and IAMHUMAN signature put self-sovereign identity in your hands — no platform required.
- [I Check MATA Every Morning To Monitor My Finances](https://mata.network/learn/monitor-all-bank-accounts-one-screen.md): Bringing 10+ bank accounts into one local screen, checking it every morning, and never letting a third party near your financial data. Here's the daily routine that pays off.
- [What Is Digital Freedom? Why Is It Important Right Now?](https://mata.network/learn/what-is-digital-freedom-why-is-it-important.md): Digital Freedom is total ownership of your data — finances, passwords, identity, contacts — accessible anywhere and never sold to data brokers. Here's what it means and how to start.

## Optional
- [Privacy Policy](https://mata.network/privacy-policy/): MATA does not sell user data, holds no encryption keys, and only uses contact information for communication.