Open decentralized networking is a decades-old dream, the fabric enabling open, uncensored, global communication. Although this dream drove the design of the original Internet (web 1.0), technological, authoritarian and economic forces have combined to substantially centralize today’s communication infrastructure (web 2.0). The advent of blockchains, trust-free platforms driven by tokenized incentive mechanisms (web 3.0), is reawakening the old dream of open networking and is aided by the tailwinds of inexpensive hardware and cloud computing and lightly regulated spectrum. A distinguishing feature of a decentralized network is incentives that reward the level of participation, setting up a “hotspot”, providing backhaul and network connectivity, replacing the traditional centralized reputation of the network. A “network meritocracy”, where anyone can participate in network operation and get rewarded based on their performance, depends crucially on trust-free telemetry, a “pr