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Welcome to the Skywire Mainnet wiki!

Organization

• Important: Skywire Mainnet Rules Article
• Skywire Whitelisting System
• Skywire Authentication System

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Setup

Official Skyminer

• Official Skyminer Guide
• Official Skyminer Wiring
• Networking Guide Official Skyminer

Software

• Upgrading Skyminer Visors to Skybian v0.4.1
• Skyimager User Guide
• Short Version: Skywire Mainnet Installation
• Extended Version: Skywire Mainnet Installation

Hypervisor

• Run HypervisorUI on local machine
• Run HypervisorUI on manager board
• Run Skywire Visor on manager board

VPN

• Skywire VPN Client
• Skywire VPN Server

Socks Proxy

• Skywire SOCKS5 Proxy User Guide

Other

• Troubleshooting
• Skywire Mainnet Update FAQ

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Skywire Mainnet Overview

Skywire is a Software Defined Network. It separates the Data Plane from the Control Plane of the network. Skywire currently functions as an overlay network that allows nodes to establish routes to each other by PubKey but it will be able to establish local networks that function independently of the Internet. There are several prototype applications built that use the Skywire network such as Skychat and a SOCKS5 proxy.

Skywire Data Plane

The main software module making up the Skywire network is called the visor. A visor is identified by a unique PubKey. A visor is a gateway to the Skywire network - it can establish transports to other visors, request routes to remote visors or be a hop along a route over the Skywire network. A visor can host apps and exposes an API for applications to use the network.

Skywire Control Plane

The Skywire Control Plane is responsible for establishing routes between Skywire visors. It consists of 3 separate services:

• Transport Discovery
• Route Finder
• Setup Node

Visors request routes from the control plane and the control plane is responsible for determining efficient paths through the network and establishing a route by delivering routing rules to the visors along a route. The control plane, more specifically the transport discovery, maintains an overview over the network topology by storing the transports between visors that currently exist in a given network.