DeSo is the first layer-1 blockchain built from the ground up to decentralize social media and scale storage-heavy apps to billions of users.
Other chains store small bits of money state. DeSo is engineered for billions of posts, profiles and messages — and the cheap economics to match.
DeFi is crowded. Social is open. 5 billion users sit on rented identities and rented audiences — DeSo gives them ownership.
Every post and profile lives on a public ledger. Apps compete on UX, not on locking your audience inside a private silo.
Finite-state chains are great for trading. Infinite-state DeSo is built for everything social — and it stores it for a fraction of a cent.
Every username, bio and post is a row on the ledger. Yours forever.
Encrypted DMs, reactions, follows — no off-chain database to be deplatformed by.
Mint, transfer, fractionalize — built into the L1, not bolted on.
Programmable money for every creator — issued, traded, redeemed natively.
Tip posts in DESO. Own your username. Take your followers with you to any DeSo client — same identity, different surface.
Raise capital with a token, not a deck. Programmable cap tables, public terms, instant secondary markets.
Swipe-first feed. Own your wallet, your reach, your tips — on iOS and Android, no email signup required.
No CEO can take your post down.
Same handle across every client.
Posts, likes and follows belong to you.
Tips, coins and NFTs in one click.
A JS SDK that feels like Stripe. A cold-start user base of 2M+ wallets. Money-native primitives built into the protocol.
# install $ npm i deso-protocol // mint an NFT — 6 lines import { Deso } from 'deso-protocol'; const deso = new Deso(); await deso.nft.create({ body: 'Genesis drop · 100 editions', imageUrl: 'ipfs://Qm…', editions: 100, royaltyBps: 500, // 5% });
JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go. Skip the Solidity learning curve — call the chain like a REST API.
Ship day-one to 2M+ DeSo wallets. Sign-in with DeSo Identity — no email, no Mailchimp.
Tips, paywalls, creator coins and NFTs are protocol primitives — not third-party plugins.
One-tap onboarding for 2 billion users.
Bridge identity from any EVM chain.
Encrypted DMs with no server.
Keys never touch our servers.
Scoped permissions — sign without prompts.
A non-profit $200M treasury steers protocol grants, public goods and security audits. The codebase is MIT, the validator set is open, and no single team controls the chain.
Princeton CS · ex-Google · ex-Foundry. Bitclout founder. Leading the protocol since genesis.
One sign-up. Two million wallets. A whole protocol built around the idea that social media should belong to the people who use it.