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# Advancing Decentralization

Decentralization is a non-binary and nebulous term in that it means different things to different people. In the blockchain community, decentralization often refers to important properties of infrastructure like transparency, verifiability and its ability to recover from local participant failures. Those properties are important for the Worldcoin project to be a public good. More details on the derivation of important properties of the Worldcoin infrastructure can be found in this [blog post](https://worldcoin.org/blog/foundational-topics/advancing-decentralization).

The following sections outline different areas of the Worldcoin project and how different mechanisms can increase their respective transparency, verifiability and ability to recover from local participant failures. The ideas for optimal mechanisms may evolve over time, and suggestions for improvements are welcome.


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