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Long-form articles on how private messaging actually works: the cryptography, the network, the trade-offs, and the parts most projects leave out of the marketing page. Written for people, accurate for engineers.

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IntermediateMessagingBlockchainSecurity

What is DChat? All you need to know about decentralized messaging

An account that is a key pair instead of a phone number, and what that actually changes.

1 Aug 202613 min read
BeginnerProductBlockchain

DChat in plain language

The whitepaper without the cryptography. What it is, how it works, and what it does not do.

21 Jul 202610 min read
AdvancedSecurity

The trust model, stated honestly

What DChat defends against, and the full list of things it does not.

21 Jul 20268 min read
Coming soon BeginnerSecurity

End-to-end encryption, without the marketing

What the phrase guarantees, what it silently does not, and how to read the claim anywhere.

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Coming soon AdvancedBlockchain

Why message content should never touch a blockchain

Permanence is a feature for money and a liability for conversation.

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Coming soon IntermediateSecurityMessaging

Metadata is the message

Encrypted content is the easy half. Who you talked to and when is the half nobody protects.

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