Radish alpha

The network is the forge.
These are its anchors.

No central index, no rankings, no algorithm — just code that other peers chose to keep alive. Below are a handful of repositories doing the heaviest lifting on the Radicle network right now: the protocol that defines it, the proposals that govern it, and a sovereign OS that has chosen it as a refuge.

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heartwood

The protocol underneath.
Peer-to-peer Git, written down.

Heartwood is the reference implementation of Radicle — the daemon every node on the network actually runs. It is the specification of replication, the gossip layer, the identity model, and the rules by which patches and issues become canonical. When two strangers' machines agree on the history of a project, this is the code that made them agree.

Rust 5 delegates 3,092 commits
Browse heartwood
RID rad:z3gqcJUoA1n9HaHKufZs5FCSGazv5
z6Mki…2vR9 z6Mko…aJ4P z6Mkq…87Hf z6Mkv…cLp2 z6MkR…dW1n z6Mkn…yT8x z6Mkj…F3qS cloudhead · delegate
5 delegates

rips

The constitution.
Every change to Radicle, debated in the open.

Radicle Improvement Proposals — the way the protocol changes. Every RIP is a Markdown file in this repo; every amendment is a patch; every ratification is a signed delegate vote. There is no foundation, no board, no closed Slack. If you want to argue for a different future, you open a PR against this repository.

Markdown 4 delegates 11 commits
Browse rips
RID rad:z3trNYnLWS11cJWC6BbxDs5niGo82
RIP Title Status
RIP-0001 Repository identifiers (RIDs) Final
RIP-0002 Identity documents & delegates Final
RIP-0003 Gossip protocol v1 Final
RIP-0007 Patch lifecycle & review states Final
RIP-0014 Onion-routed peer discovery Active
RIP-0021 Quorum thresholds for delegates Active
RIP-0033 Storage-efficient ref packing Draft
RIP-0048 Browser-mediated signing (Radish) Draft
11 commits istankovic › rips

HardenedBSD-src

A fortress, mirrored.
Where censorship can't reach the source.

HardenedBSD is a security-enhanced fork of FreeBSD — and in 2025 its maintainers began mirroring the full kernel tree onto Radicle. The choice was deliberate: an operating system whose whole point is resisting attack shouldn't depend on a single host that can be subpoenaed, blocked, or simply unplugged. Replicated across 280+ peers, the tree is now load-bearing for OS sovereignty.

C 599,674 commits 6 delegates
Browse HardenedBSD-src
RID rad:z2HLHXgL1xevBNQsf8BmQW7MpJmtm
~/HardenedBSD-src
$ rad sync --inventory
✓ Announcing inventory to 8 peers..
 
$ git log --oneline -5
a3f1c92 hbsd: PaX ASLR — randomize VDSO base addr
e8b401d kern: SafeStack on amd64 by default
112dffa sys/vm: harden W^X enforcement on stack
7df0b1c Merge upstream FreeBSD 15-CURRENT (r371…)
b04a6ee security/advisories: SA-26:02 published
 
$ rad inspect --identity
rid: rad:z2HLHXgL1xevBNQsf8BmQW7MpJmtm
threshold: 1 of 6
default branch: main
$
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