Own it.
No one can take it, fake it, or sell it.
A social platform built for the people who use it. Not for billionaires, governments, or advertisers.
Join the Visionary round. Help fund the audit that gets us to mainnet.
Big things,
without big masters.
The technology now exists to run social infrastructure at the scale of a society without handing it to a handful of corporations, or to whoever ends up controlling them. Chain Social is built for the people who use it, structurally accountable to them, and engineered so it can’t be quietly captured.
Honest because it’s right.
Trustworthy because the code keeps it honest.
Can’t take it
No company, government, or moderator can delete you. Content lives on decentralized storage. 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 plus a 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.
Can’t coerce it
No boardroom to bribe. No founder shares to buy. Bot armies can’t swing votes. Lawfare can’t compel rules that don’t exist in the contracts. Elected leadership runs in public, every expense on-chain, every term limited, every seat recallable by community vote.
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 people.
Not for profit.
Every feature below is in the codebase. 284 contract tests pass. An independent audit is the only thing between here and mainnet.
Creator Revenue Share
YouTube takes 45%+ and requires 1K subs to qualify. Twitter pays almost nothing.
55% of ad revenue goes to creators from day one. No minimum followers. 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 plus a government ID becomes 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 it 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. Attestor-signed demographic breakdowns with k-anonymity. Finalized with an on-chain Merkle root.
Results you can trust without exposing 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. No 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 it off anytime.
Build credibility on your terms. Not the platform’s.
A different deal.
Not a polished version of the same system. The money flows to the people who create the value, not the shareholders who skim it.
| Chain Social | Twitter/X | YouTube | Farcaster | Steemit | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| If you only read one row 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 |
Competitor figures are public. Chain Social’s figures are enforced in open-source smart contracts, not in 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
Twitter or YouTube would pay you $0 for the same posts.
Below YouTube’s monetization threshold. Pays nothing there.
YouTube CPM at this scale: ~$200/mo, minus 45%.
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. Holders are never diluted.
Deposit-backed. Deflationary.
No premine. No fiat. No debasement.
Every SOCIAL token is backed 1:1 by real assets in an on-chain reserve — and the token is deflationary by design: only deposits can ever mint (the mint authority is sealed on-chain), while everyday platform activity continuously burns supply, so each remaining token is backed by a growing share of the reserve.
Diversified into hard assets only
Allocation set by community governance once mainnet is live. Users deposit SUI at launch; the reserve diversifies into these assets over time.
USDC, EURC, and similar lose 2–7% purchasing power yearly. They carry counterparty risk and aren’t truly decentralized. The 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 team earns tokens the same way everyone does: deposits, engagement, paid work in public.
Token utility
Plus: redeem anytime for your pro-rata share of the reserve (2.5% fee).
Deflationary by design — value appreciation via burns
Nothing mints except deposits — inflationary minting is structurally impossible. Meanwhile every transaction burns tokens: marketplace fees, withdrawals, membership renewals, unclaimed wellbeing rewards, and 5% of every ad's value. Burns reduce supply while the reserve stays constant, increasing the backing per token.
From round
to mainnet.
A realistic, honest timeline. Phase 1 is already built and tested.
Core protocol — BUILT
- ✓ Deposit-backed token with on-chain reserve
- ✓ 25 Move smart contracts · ~56K lines of code · 284 tests passing, 0 failures
- ✓ 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 round)
- ○ Fiat onramp to acquire deposit assets (MoonPay, Transak)
- ○ Multi-asset deposits: wBTC, wETH, tokenized Gold and 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.
The risks, in plain English.
We’d rather you understand them 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. That dampens single-asset crashes but does not remove them.
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 25 Move contracts is exactly what this round funds. The full report (findings and resolutions) will be published before mainnet. Until then the contracts are open source, with 284 tests passing and zero failures.
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. It carries no profit, revenue share, governance weight, 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 rate) 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. Every settlement carries an on-chain Merkle root so any user can prove their event was included, with governance recourse.
Team continuity
The team is small and anonymous by design, so continuity is engineered rather than assumed: your tokens live in your wallet against an on-chain reserve no operator can spend, redemption works without the team, the contracts are open source and forkable, and the backend is designed to be replaceable by anyone who syncs from the chain. If the team vanished tomorrow, your money and your exit do not.
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.
Get involved.
Help build something that isn’t theirs.
The participation round funds the independent audit that gets us to mainnet. Each round mints a limited set of Founding Badge NFTs at a few levels. Joining reserves a low, permanent account ID and the username you want.
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.
Visionary
Entry badge for the Visionary round. Opens the Visionary group, the round-general group every Visionary holder is in.
Visionary · Level 2
Opens the Visionary 2 group, plus the Visionary group below it.
Visionary · Level 3
Opens the Visionary 3 group, plus Visionary 2 and Visionary below it.
Illustrative. Exact level names, supply caps, and pricing are announced when the round opens.
Join the Visionary round.
Contributions accepted in SUI. Hard money only, no fiat stablecoins, ever.
Limited in count and time
Every round caps how many badges exist and stays open only 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. The earliest rounds and earliest sign-ups hold the lowest numbers, forever.
🎟️ What a badge actually unlocks
Two things. 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 this round.
- →The lowest level’s group (Visionary) is the round-general group. Every badge holder from this round is in it.
- →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, then 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.
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. It carries 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.
A tool for humanity.
Not a founding team.
The founding team is anonymous — on purpose, and permanently. This platform exists to prove that humans can be verified, counted, and heard without revealing who they are. We hold ourselves to the same standard: anonymous persons of Earth, building infrastructure that doesn't need our names to be trustworthy. You shouldn't have to trust people. You can verify structure.
Zero tokens minted to the team at launch. The team earns tokens the same way everyone does: depositing, contributing, getting paid for work in public.
Management spending emits an ExpenseEvent the moment it happens. The treasury is a public ledger you can read at any time, line by line, in real time.
1–9 elected seats, 5-year terms, staggered. The founder’s seat is capped at two terms (10 years) and then leaves like everyone else. No lifetime board members.
Seats are filled by community election and removed by recall vote, and both are enforced by the governance contract itself: once a vote passes, anyone can execute it. Not a promise. A function call.
Governance is KYC-deduplicated, not token-weighted. A whale and a first-week user count the same. Capture-by-balance-sheet is structurally impossible.
Management starts as the operator a young network needs, and hands control away as the system matures: elections and recall are on-chain today; parameters, slashing, and appeals devolve to governance votes; infrastructure devolves to operator pools. What remains is a small, elected, recallable operations core.
Every one of these is encoded in the Move contracts, published in full for public review before the round opens. The independent audit this round funds is how you verify, not how you hope.
Looking for advisors and partners who want to build something that isn’t theirs.
Partner channels open with the round.