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## Who is using Radicle currently? How many users does it have?
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As of September 2024, there are around 2000 repositories hosted on the network,
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and a little over 200 nodes online on a weekly basis.
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As of April 2026, the public seed node we operate sees almost 8000 repositories
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and more than 600 nodes online on a weekly basis. This is likely a subset of
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all activity on the network.
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## How many people are working on it?
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## How long have you been working on Radicle?
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The current codebase is a little under 2 years old, but we've been working on
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the problem for over 4 years in total. Previous iterations of Radicle can be
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found online, but are considered deprecated in favor of [Heartwood][heartwood],
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the latest generation of the protocol.
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The current codebase is almost 4 years old, but we've been working on the
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problem for over 6 years in total. Previous iterations of Radicle can be found
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online, but are considered deprecated in favor of [Heartwood][heartwood], the
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latest generation of the protocol.
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[heartwood]: {{ "rad:z3gqcJUoA1n9HaHKufZs5FCSGazv5" | explore }}
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See the [history][history] page.
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# Monetization & Funding
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# Funding
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## What is the monetization strategy for Radicle? Is Radicle free software?
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## How is the Radicle project funded? Is it free software?
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The Radicle protocol and clients are free and open source software licensed
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under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses, and will remain free software for ever.
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The Radicle protocol and clients are free and open source software, licensed
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under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses, and will remain free software forever.
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Radicle is currently funded by Radworks. Radworks intends to offer hosting and retrieval services on top of the Radicle protocol. All of Radworks financials are publicly accessible [here][tally].
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The project is maintainer led and has been funded by grants from
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[Radworks][radworks]. Radworks intends to offer services built on top of
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Radicle, but has no influence over the Radicle project. If you are interested
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in financially contributing to the Radicle project, reach out to
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ops@radicle.xyz.
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## What is the relationship between Radicle and the Radworks (`$RAD`) token?
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Radicle is a true peer-to-peer protocol. It doesn't use nor depend on any
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blockchain or cryptocurrency.
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[Radworks][radworks], the organization that has been financing Radicle is
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organized around the `RAD` token which is a governance token on Ethereum.
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## How much funding has Radicle raised?
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The Radicle team is funded by [Radworks][radworks]. To date, around $7m has
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been granted towards the development of Radicle, by Radworks. Grant proposals
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for the last two years can be found [here][tally].
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Radicle itself is a true peer-to-peer protocol and does not use or depend on
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any blockchain or cryptocurrency.
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# Legal
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