[dennismckinnon]

Thelonious is an ethereum derivative designed to be programmable so dapp makers can add in the consensus constraints they want. Maybe they don't want just anyone to mine but instead just trusted operators. Its a smart contract controlled chain so you can do this. We call these "locked down" chains they embrace the idea that some dapp makers might need to have more assurances about control over the database. Thelonious can provide alternative means of consensus for those people.

In addition we have the decerver which in its current iteration is compatible with ethereum thelonious ipfs (a bittorrent+git-like filesystem) and bitcoin. Allowing one platform to use all of these P2P technologies. We don't believe in one chain to rule them all syndrome we feel like all of these technologies can have something to contribute. Once we have incorporated dynamic module loading into the platform all you need is to write the wrapper for your favoured technology and you can start implementing some truely amazing dapps.

I hope this answers your question!

[sgt101]

Could you make the site a bit more accessible to people outside the blockchain community by giving examples of the kind of applications that could be built with these tools?

[compleat-ang]

Thanks for the feedback. Indeed we will be trying to do so over the coming weeks -- especially in the tutorial and blogs sections.

[prestonjbyrne]

tl;dr - you run your own chain and you don't need tokens or mining to represent or secure data.