Own it.
No one can take it, fake it, or sell it.
Your account can’t be deplatformed. Your identity can’t be impersonated. Your data and social graph are never sold — not to Big Tech, not to advertisers, not to governments.
We finally have the technology to build things this big without handing our power and resources to a handful of companies. This is social infrastructure people can rely on — without surrendering it to surveillance businesses or the state.
Big things, without big masters
For the first time, the technology exists to run social infrastructure at the scale of a society without concentrating the power and money into a few corporations — or handing a surveillance lever to whoever controls them. Chain Social is built on one principle: the people who use it own it, and no one else can take it, fake it, or sell it.
Can’t take it
No company, government, or moderator can delete you. Content lives on decentralized storage (Walrus); the frontend runs from IPFS; anyone can re-run the backend from the chain. Deplatforming is not a button that exists.
Can’t fake it
A face + government ID becomes one irreversible nullifier. One real human, one account — no bot farms, no AI-slop swarms, no impersonation. The network is people, verifiably.
Can’t sell it
Your data, your social graph, and your earnings are yours by cryptographic design. Friendships are encrypted blobs the server can’t read; the platform takes 0% of your ad revenue. There is no surveillance product because there is nothing to sell.
Not a promise in a pitch deck — an invariant in open-source smart contracts. The independent audit this round funds is how that gets proven, in public.
Built for Sovereign Individuals
Every feature exists to solve a real problem created by centralized platforms. All of it is built and tested today.
Creator Revenue Share
YouTube takes 45%+ but requires 1K subs. Twitter pays almost nothing.
55% of ad revenue goes to creators from day one — no minimum followers, and the platform takes 0% of the ad spend.
Get paid for creating, not for enriching a platform.
Viewers Earn Too
Your attention makes platforms billions. You get $0.
30% of ad revenue goes to the viewers whose attention generated it.
Your attention has real, verifiable value.
Zero Platform Cut on Ads
Every ad network skims a large slice off the top.
Chain Social takes no cut of ad revenue. Its only ad income is the same 0.5% transaction fee that applies to any payment.
The money flows to people, not to the middleman.
Deposit-Backed Token
Most tokens are backed by nothing but speculation.
Every SOCIAL token is backed 1:1 by deposited crypto in a transparent, verifiable on-chain reserve.
Redeem anytime for your pro-rata share of the reserve.
Your Face Is Your Account
Platforms collect, store, and sell your identity documents.
A face + government ID is converted into one irreversible nullifier — that nullifier is your verification, your one-human identity, and your recovery anchor. No documents, images, or ID numbers are ever stored.
One real human, one account — without surveillance.
Recovery Without Seed Phrases
Lose your seed phrase and your account is gone forever.
Re-verify with any accepted government ID — the same face produces the same nullifier and, after a 7-day timelock, transfers your account to a new wallet.
Your face is your backup. Nothing to write down.
Quantum-Resistant Encryption
Today’s encrypted messages can be harvested now and broken later.
Hybrid X25519 + ML-KEM-768 with a per-message forward-secrecy ratchet. The server is a blind relay.
Your private conversations stay private—forever.
Private Friendships
Your social graph is the most valuable thing platforms own.
Friend edges are encrypted with an ECDH shared key. The server stores blobs it cannot decrypt — a breach reveals nothing.
Nobody can reconstruct who you know.
Uncensorable Platform
Big Tech decides what you can say, see, and share.
Content on decentralized Walrus storage; frontend hostable on IPFS; backend anyone can re-run from the chain.
Speak freely without fear of arbitrary deplatforming.
Privacy-Tiered Polls
Online polls are either fully public or trivially ballot-stuffed.
Commit-reveal voting, one-human-one-vote across all your alts, optional per-alt receipts for selective proof, and attestor-signed demographic breakdowns with k-anonymity — finalized with an on-chain Merkle root.
Trustworthy results that never expose who voted how.
Wellbeing by Design
Every other platform is engineered to be maximally addictive.
Reward earnings taper after 10h of daily use and reach zero at 14h. Unclaimed rewards are burned and returned to the reserve.
A platform that doesn’t want to consume your life.
Community Governance
Platforms change the rules without your consent.
One human, one vote (KYC-deduplicated, not token-weighted). Anyone can amend live proposals with new options.
A whale and a first-week user carry equal weight.
Community Impact Fund
“Public good” platforms rarely fund any actual public goods.
10% of all ad revenue flows into a separate on-chain fund the community votes to direct toward research, open source, and charity.
Growth that visibly gives back, transparently.
Built-in Marketplace
Creators need separate platforms to sell products or services.
Integrated marketplace with on-chain escrow, shop collections, and stealth escrow (hashed items, batched timing) for large private purchases.
Monetize directly without third-party dependencies.
Revenue-Share NFTs
Viral content makes platforms money; creators get nothing.
Mint NFTs from posts that carry a % of future revenue (up to 90%, creator keeps ≥10%). Tradeable on the marketplace.
Invest in creators, or monetize your viral moments.
Voice Rooms & Events
Clubhouse is centralized; Twitter Spaces needs platform blessing.
Live audio rooms anyone can create, with listener/speaker roles and real-time tips split between speaker and host.
Host live conversations without permission.
Courses & Certificates
Learning platforms take 30-50% and lock in your content.
Create courses with modules and lessons; learners mint verifiable on-chain completion certificates.
Teach and earn with full ownership.
Pseudonymous Alt Accounts
Separating work, personal, and creative life means juggling burner accounts.
One verified human can run up to 4 accounts. Alt links are never public, yet the underlying human is still unique.
Compartmentalize your identity — without bot farms.
Verification Badges
It’s impossible to tell real, accountable people from bots.
Three independent, voluntary badges: Verified Human, NFC Passport, and Identity Confirmed (display your legal name, toggle anytime).
Build credibility on your terms, not the platform’s.
How Chain Social Compares
Not incremental. A different deal for the people who actually create the value.
| Chain Social | Twitter/X | YouTube | Farcaster | Steemit | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creator share of ad revenue | 55% from day 1, no platform cut | Tiny (requires Blue) | ~55% (1K subs + 4K hrs) | 0% | No ads | Inflationary token |
| Viewer earnings | 30% of ad revenue | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Platform cut of ads | 0% | Most of it | ~45% | All of it | N/A | N/A |
| Token backing | 1:1 reserve, always redeemable | N/A | N/A | N/A | No token | Speculative (crashed 98%) |
| Encrypted DMs | Quantum-resistant (PFS + ML-KEM) | Basic (paid only) | None | Basic | None | None |
| Content ownership | On-chain (user owns) | Platform owns | Platform owns | Platform owns | On-chain | On-chain |
| Governance | 1-human-1-vote + amendments | None | None | None | None | Stake-weighted |
| Revenue-share NFTs | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Founder premine | None | N/A | N/A | N/A | VC-backed | Large premine |
| Wellbeing design | Reward decay after 10h | Addictive by design | Addictive by design | Addictive by design | None | None |
Sources for competitor figures are public; Chain Social’s figures are enforced in open-source smart contracts, not marketing promises.
Where the Money Goes
Every ad dollar, split transparently in open-source contracts. The platform takes none of it.
Ad Revenue Split
The platform’s only ad-related income is the standard 0.5% transaction fee on the payout — never a slice of the advertiser’s spend.
What Creators Can Realistically Earn
Illustrative, assuming 10,000 platform users and a $3 CPM. At 100,000 users these scale roughly 10×. Includes ads, tips, and NFTs.
Protocol Fees
Fees are USD-stable (priced against a basket) and shrink in TOKEN terms as the token appreciates. Earnings come from the treasury — never from minting new tokens, so holders are never diluted.
Deposit-Backed Tokenomics
Every SOCIAL token is backed 1:1 by real assets in an on-chain reserve. No premine. No fiat. No debasement.
Diversified Reserve (Managed by Team)
Users deposit SUI at launch. The management team systematically diversifies the reserve into these assets over time:
USDC, EURC, and similar lose 2-7% purchasing power yearly. They carry counterparty risk and are not truly decentralized. The Chain Social reserve holds only assets that cannot be debased.
How It Works
Tokens are only created from deposits. No tokens exist until users deposit SUI into the reserve. The management team handles reserve diversification into other assets.
Token Utility
Plus: redeem anytime for your pro-rata share of the reserve (2.5% fee).
💎 Value Appreciation via Burns
Every transaction burns tokens. Burns reduce supply while the reserve stays constant, increasing the backing per token.
From Presale to Mainnet
A realistic, honest timeline. Phase 1 is already built and tested.
Core Protocol — BUILT
- ✓ Deposit-backed token with on-chain reserve
- ✓ 23 Move smart contracts · 54K+ lines of code, extensively tested
- ✓ Marketplace with escrow & collections
- ✓ Quantum-resistant E2E messaging
- ✓ Private friendships, communities, groups
- ✓ Courses with on-chain certificates
- ✓ Revenue-share NFTs, creator subscriptions
- ✓ Community governance with amendments
- ✓ Privacy-preserving settlement (Merkle proofs)
Growth
- ○ Independent security audit (funded by this presale)
- ○ Fiat onramp to acquire deposit assets (MoonPay/Transak)
- ○ Multi-asset deposits — wBTC, wETH, tokenized Gold & Silver (no fiat stablecoins, ever)
- ○ DEX integration (Cetus)
- ○ Mobile app (native)
- ○ Pyth oracle for live price feeds
Maturity
- ○ Full decentralization (IPFS frontend)
- ○ Cross-chain bridges
- ○ Advanced governance (quadratic voting)
- ○ Parental accounts (under-18)
- ○ Confidential amounts
This is a working system, not a whitepaper project. Every Phase 1 feature is implemented and tested. A professional audit is planned before mainnet deployment.
Honest Disclosure
We’d rather you understand the risks than discover them later. These are the real ones.
Market risk
At launch the reserve is SUI-only, so SOCIAL’s USD price tracks SUI 1:1 (minus the deflationary effect of burns). A SUI crash flows straight through. Phase 2 diversifies into hard, non-debaseable assets only (BTC, ETH, Gold, Silver, XMR) — no fiat stablecoins, ever — which dampens single-asset crashes.
Early-stage liquidity
While the reserve is small, a single large redemption is a large fraction of the pool. The 2.5% redemption fee is a mild disincentive and remaining holders benefit from the burn, but early users should size positions accordingly.
Smart-contract risk
Software has bugs. An independent professional audit of all 23 Move contracts is exactly what this raise funds. The full report — findings and resolutions — will be published before mainnet. Until then the contracts are open source and extensively tested.
Regulatory uncertainty
The participation round funds the audit and development. A Founding Badge confers identity and community utility only — a founder marker, a sequential account ID, a reserved username, and community-group access — not profit, revenue share, or governance weight, with no premine or token discount. SOCIAL itself is a utility token backed 1:1 by a verifiable reserve. Frameworks vary by jurisdiction; restricted jurisdictions (including US persons) are geoblocked. Not financial advice — consult local counsel.
Identity / face-dedup limits
One human = one nullifier via face matching. Identical twins (~5% false-match) and major facial changes may need manual review; a migration window covers any future biometric model upgrade.
Off-chain settlement trust
Tips and micro-events are batched off-chain then settled on-chain. A dishonest server could in theory misattribute during the window — so every settlement carries an on-chain Merkle root and any user can prove their event was included, with governance recourse.
Do not deposit more than you can afford to lose. SOCIAL tokens are utility tokens backed by a crypto reserve whose value fluctuates. This page is not financial advice.
Founding Badges. Get in while the round is open.
Each round mints a limited set of Founding Badge NFTs at a few levels. Joining also reserves a low, permanent account ID and the username you want — and funds the audit that gets us to mainnet.
Limited in count and time
Every round caps how many badges exist and is only open until a deadline. When it closes, that set is gone for good.
A new range replaces it
After the deadline a fresh round opens with a new range of badge levels. Later rounds never recreate earlier ones.
Earlier = lower ID
Account IDs are assigned strictly in order of registration. The earliest rounds and earliest sign-ups hold the lowest numbers, forever.
This round’s badge levels
Higher levels are scarcer and open more groups. They carry no perks, rewards, votes, or financial upside — only status and group access.
Founding · Level 1
Entry badge for this round. Its group is the round’s general founders group.
Founding · Level 2
Adds the Level 2 group, plus every group below it in this round.
Founding · Level 3
Adds the Level 3 group, plus every group below it in this round.
Illustrative — exact level names, supply caps and pricing are announced when the round opens.
🎟️ What a badge actually unlocks
Two things, and nothing more: a permanent on-chain marker that you were a founder, and access to a few community groups. No special perks, no rewards, no extra votes, no financial upside. Governance stays one verified human, one vote.
- →Your badge opens your level’s group and every level group below it in your round.
- →The lowest level’s group is the general founders group for that whole round.
- →Cross-round groups span every round: All Founders, Mid-tier-and-above Founders, Top Founders, and so on.
Reserve your @username
Pick any available name. Shorter handles are scarcer, so they carry a higher premium.
Indicative bands — exact pricing is announced when the round opens.
🎯 Where the money goes
The independent security audit comes first — the round only makes sense if it raises more than the audit costs. Anything beyond that goes to development, and potentially marketing and infrastructure. We don’t yet know how much will be raised, and we won’t pretend to. No founder allocation. No premine. No bonus tokens.
Contributions accepted in SUI
Reserve assets are hard money — no fiat stablecoins, ever.
This is participation, not a securities offering. A Founding Badge confers identity and community utility only — a permanent founder marker, a sequential account ID, a reserved username, and access to community groups — with no profit, revenue share, governance weight, premine, or token discount. Exact terms and pricing are announced when the round opens; nothing here is an offer or financial advice. Residents of restricted jurisdictions (including US persons) are geoblocked. See the Risk Disclosure above.
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Chain Social is not a traditional startup. There's no VC exit, no founder token allocation, no rent-seeking. The platform succeeds when its users do.
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