A guerrilla data network hiding in your city. QR codes on lamp posts. USB drives in brick walls. Solar-powered Raspberry Pis in drainage grates. NFC tags on park benches. Find them. Use them. Become the signal.
NeonDrop.cc is an anonymous, decentralized urban data network built on physical infrastructure hidden in public spaces. It's not on the cloud. It's not on any server you don't control. It's in the wall outside your coffee shop.
Participants embed data nodes — USB drives, QR code posters, NFC stickers, solar-powered Raspberry Pi hotspots — anywhere they can reach. Others find them, read from them, write to them, and move the signal forward.
Part ARG. Part art project. Part actual infrastructure. Every drop you find is a breadcrumb in a city-wide puzzle you help build.
read the manifesto →Information wants to be in the wall. The cloud promised freedom and delivered surveillance. We put the data back in the physical world, where it belongs — touched, felt, found.
Anonymous by design, communal by choice. No accounts. No logins. No tracking. You choose how much of yourself to leave behind.
The city is the interface. Every street corner is a node waiting to be activated. Every mundane surface is a canvas for embedded signal.
Decentralization is not a feature. It is the point. Any single drop can go dark. The network persists. The network IS us.
Hardware is the new underground press. A $3 USB drive in a wall reaches more people than a $3,000 ad campaign and respects them more too.
The game and the reality are the same thing. Finding a cache is a mission. Installing one is an act. The ARG layer IS the real network, played by real people.
Leave it better than you found it. Add files. Update the readme. Maintain the hardware. You are infrastructure now.
Make sure your drop is installed and accessible. Include at least one photo (email after submission). Unverified drops may be removed.
We store no identifying info. GPS coords are approximated on the public map to a ~50m radius. Your drop ID is the only handle we have.
No illegal content. Encrypted payloads are fine. Be a decent human being. The network self-governs via community reports.
If your drop is part of an ARG chain, tag it so other agents know. Contact us to register a named ARG campaign.
You're responsible for your drop. Update its status here if it's damaged, removed, or upgraded. Dead drops clutter the map.