Sealed sender
An ephemeral key, generated fresh for every message and tied to nothing, wraps the whole envelope. A relay forwards your message without ever learning which account sent it.
Read it like a conversation
Every roadmap is a list of promises. Ours is a thread, and the delivery ticks are the status, exactly as they work inside the app.
Two blue ticks · shipped
Two grey ticks · building
One tick · queued
Privacy & protocol
End-to-end encryption
Direct messages, group messages and one-to-one calls sealed on your device with ChaCha20-Poly1305 before they go anywhere.
No identity to collect
No phone number. No email. No password. Your account is a key pair, and your address book never leaves your phone.
Automatic key rotation
Chat keys roll over every 10,000 messages or 30 days, so no single key ever covers your whole history.
Group membership off the ledger
Never written to the chain, so no permanent public record exists of who belongs to which group.
Encrypted multi-device sync
Conversations, contacts and keys move between your own devices without any server holding a readable copy. Rolling out across the last of the clients.
Unlinkable routing tags
The conversation identifier becomes a rotating tag that changes every message and cannot be linked to the one before it.
Optional private routing
Onion routing as a per-conversation switch, so you trade speed for network-level anonymity only where it matters.
Independent security audit
Our full cryptographic specification is already published. External review is next, and we publish the result either way.
The app
Group video calls
Up to 25 people, from a group or straight from a contact picker.
Voice and video calls
One to one, device to device, with no server in the media path.
Screen sharing
Share your screen inside a call.
Push notifications
Messages wake the app even after it has been closed.
Animated stickers
A full animated sticker engine, with packs and reactions.
Live location
Share where you are in real time, for a window you choose.
Payments in the conversation
Send value inside a chat as a payment bubble, not in a separate app.
Web and desktop
The full client in a browser and on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Four languages
English, Arabic, French and Spanish, with full right-to-left layout.
Android 7 and up
Runs on phones going back to Android 7, so nobody is shut out by an older handset.
Channels
Broadcast to an audience that follows you, one to many, with the same encryption and still no phone number behind the account.
Video stickers
Higher fidelity animated stickers with modern video compression.
iOS release
The same client, on the App Store.
Network & economy
Staked relay nodes
Operators stake to run a node, prove uptime to a rotating quorum, and get paid per epoch.
Message mining
Ordinary users earn for messaging activity, gated behind proof of humanity so the pool pays real people.
Non-custodial wallet
Built into the app, secured by the same device-held keys. Nobody else can freeze or move your funds.
Live block explorer
Every block, transaction and node registration, publicly viewable.
Desktop relay nodes
Run a relay from an ordinary computer and earn for carrying traffic, instead of needing a server.
Cross-chain transfers
Move assets between the DChat chain and the wider ecosystem, from the wallet already in your pocket.
DChat is typing...
Not promises yet, just things we keep coming back to: A public feed where creators post and get paid directly, and Games you play inside a chat, with the wallet already there.
Service nodes, not servers
This gets misread constantly, so plainly: DChat is not a company running its servers in several data centres. That is a distributed system, and it still has one operator, one owner, and one entity that can be compelled or shut down.
A DChat relay is a service node. It registers itself on a public blockchain, bonds stake to take part, and proves its uptime to a rotating quorum of other nodes seeded by the block hash, so no node can choose its own verifiers. Registration, stake, rewards and slashing are public on-chain records you can read in the block explorer yourself. Who belongs to the network is decided by stake and protocol rules, not by anyone's deployment list.
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