Over 4 billion people live under some form of internet censorship. TLS fingerprinting, DPI, and active probing have turned "encrypted" protocols into transparent ones. When a regime flips a switch, VPNs die within hours.
Cables get cut. Power fails. Mobile towers overload. Natural disasters and wars take entire regions offline. Today's apps assume always-on connectivity and break the instant that assumption breaks.
TCP was designed for links measured in milliseconds. It doesn't work across minutes. Space missions, remote sensing, and disconnected field operations have needed a different kind of networking for decades, and almost nothing commercial has delivered it.
A quantum-safe, delay-tolerant networking protocol. Three families of cryptography (classical, lattice, and code-based) negotiate keys in a single handshake, so if one is broken in ten years, the other two keep the connection safe.
Built on Bundle Protocol v7 (RFC 9171), the same standard NASA uses on the ISS, on the PACE mission, and on Artemis 2. Your data is packaged into bundles that can wait, move, and arrive even when the path disappears for minutes, hours, or days.
An adaptive routing layer that learns what works in each region, under each censorship regime, at each time of day. Every connection makes the network smarter. Every disruption becomes training data.
Censorship events have tripled in five years. Post-quantum cryptography standards were finalized by NIST in 2024. Over 30 countries now run state-level DPI. Mobile-first populations in emerging markets experience 3–5 network disconnects per day. The need is not theoretical. It is measurable, daily, and getting worse.
NASA's DTN moved 34 million bundles on the PACE mission with 100% delivery success. LunaNet Interoperability Specification v5 was published in January 2025. Artemis 2 launched with DTN as part of its baseline comms stack. Commercial LEO constellations are multiplying. The same protocol that keeps a phone online in Tehran can keep a satellite online on the far side of the Moon.
Building in the open. Contact: contact@akca.network