# Welcome to the digital space ## Chroom's decentralized real-time network democratizes synchronous communication in cyberspace. Most consumer WebRTC products on the market today face challenges related to user privacy, scalability, and reliability. Cyberinfrastructure and its products are owned by centralized private organizations whose interests are often at odds with those of users and society. These economic protocols make the technology vulnerable to single points of failure and honeypot attacks, incentivize intermediaries to monetize user data, and impose unilateral price controls on infrastructure resources. ## What do we provide? The Chroom network resolves this incentive misalignment through a decentralized and algorithmic prosumer marketplace of real-time data. The Chroom network facilitates democratic node ownership, enabling anyone to operate and supply real-time data, participate in governance, earn rewards, and most crucially, own the means of production in the Chroom network. To improve the accessibility of node ownership, we have enabled delegation to third-party node operators, so that operators without sufficient resources independently may pool in order to participate in suppliership. ## Innovations that make a difference * #### The Chroom protocol is a decentralized Real Time Communication Network operating an algorithmic prosumer marketplace for real-time data, powered by a blockchain and a native protocol token * #### **Clients** - representing the demand side - spend tokens to acquire **Chroom** data to power meetings, audio spaces, and other applications requiring real-time data. * #### **Media Nodes** - representing the supply side - earn tokens by enabling low-latency real-time data to provision the Clients. * #### The **Chroom** Network utilises Proof of Resource to ensure fair compensation for Media Nodes and enforce performance standards by tracking and rewarding nodes based on on-chain Quality of Service data, incentivising high up-time and optimal service quality from node operators. {% hint style="info" %} Dynamic Allocation of Resources the Chroom network enables intelligent allocation of resources by considering client’s geo-location, operational history of the node and its quality of service, and a variety of network cascading strategies {% endhint %} --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://chroom1.gitbook.io/chroom/getting-started/quickstart.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.