An open protocol stack where your identity is a keypair you generated, your work is signed by your own keys, and being human is a credential you carry everywhere. No platform in the middle. Ever.
The problem
The internet was built for information, then for attention — never for people and their work.
Every account you've ever had is a row in someone else's table — revocable at any time, for any reason, with no appeal. When the account goes, your history, reputation, and relationships go with it.
Writing, code, research, reputation — scattered across platforms that monetize them and can erase them. Export tools produce dumps nothing else can read. Leaving means starting over.
CAPTCHAs, fingerprinting, dark patterns — because there is no shared answer to "is this a human?" The costs land on real people. The bots get through anyway.
The protocol
Not an app you join — a protocol you run. Six principles, specified in the open, built by consensus.
Generated on your machine from entropy you control. No issuer, no registrar, no fallback email. You cannot be deplatformed from a name you cryptographically own.
Your identity's canonical surface is your personal website — self-hosted or managed, movable with a DNS change. What humans read and what machines verify live on one origin you control.
Every action is a signed, append-only, hash-chained entry. Tamper-evident history with permanent attribution — Git's model, applied to everything you make.
Verification is earned from peers — vouching chains, periodic re-checks, clique-resistant attestations. Defeating it means corrupting a social fabric, not cracking an algorithm.
Anyone may publish anything at any time; no gatekeeper can prevent it. What a claim is worth is computed by every reader from signed evidence — never decreed by a feed.
No ads. No tracking. No data selling. No fees on person-to-person exchange. Free for individuals, forever. The network exists to move value between people, not extract it.
The first application
Signed by the author's keys, chained into their history, anchored for tamper-evidence. Authorship that no platform can revoke and no repost can blur.
A citation either supports or disputes a specific claim — and requires a written rationale. It's signed, public, permanent, and itself citable. Reviews are speech acts, not likes.
Validity is computed locally by every reader from the signed citation graph — weighted by verified humanity, collapsed across coordinated mobs. One human, one voice. No ranking oracle anywhere.
The stack
Every protocol decision is a public document in specs/. Code follows specs. Consensus over velocity.
The pledge
The strongest commitments are the ones you can verify in the source.
Free and open source, forever. Apache-2.0 / MIT. Every line auditable, every protocol decision a public document.
No ads, no tracking, no data selling. Your server is yours. There is no analytics in the protocol because there is no "us" watching.
No fees on person-to-person exchange. The network is infrastructure, like roads and DNS — not a landlord.
No lock-in. Identities are portable keypairs; moving providers is a DNS update, not a re-onboarding.
No hidden algorithms. Ranking and standing policies are published data objects you can inspect, share, or discard.
No requirement to trust us. Verification is cryptographic and local. Trust is earned from peers, never delegated to a company.
Get involved
This is not a startup chasing growth. It is infrastructure being built for people — and it needs its people.