Skywire aims to be a community platform that tries to tackle the centralization and scalability issues of the larger cryptocurrencies and also aims to be a decentralized peer to peer network that takes over the role of the internet canceling out the ISPs. Skywire aims to do so with their consensus mechanism Obelisk that is based upon the social network of the linked nodes and with their currency token SkyCoin that runs on the Skywire network.