Mycelix

What is Mycelix and what is it for?

Mycelix is a Holochain application that groups the services a community runs for itself — housing, care, money, identity and governance — into one system instead of many separate platforms. Its maintainers describe it as a pre-alpha research project, and its most developed part is an encrypted messenger called Pulse.

Mycelix is a Holochain application for what its maintainers call decentralized civic infrastructure: the shared services a community administers for itself rather than buys from a company. Those services are arranged into one unified set of roles grouped into domain clusters — commons (property, housing, care, water, food and transport), civic, hearth, finance, governance, identity, personal, attribution and health. The project's own README describes Mycelix as a pre-alpha research project and asks readers not to treat a cluster as ready to build on merely because it compiles or passes tests.

The ambition is a single place where a neighbourhood or cooperative could run the parts of civic life that normally need separate platforms: listing and sharing housing, tracking care and mutual aid, holding identities and credentials, exchanging money or time, and recording proposals, votes and decisions. Rather than a finished product, the repository presents a workspace of clusters at different stages, each built from Holochain zomes — the small units that define what data is valid and how peers may write it.

The cluster furthest along is Pulse, documented in mycelix-workspace/mycelix-pulse, a working-alpha encrypted messenger whose stated milestone is narrow: two people should be able to exchange, verify, recover and reproduce one encrypted message lifecycle without mock behaviour being mistaken for live behaviour. The root README's Maturity Matrix tracks which clusters build, which have multi-agent tests and which have a deployed interface.

From 3 public sources, checked 23 September 2026.