Technology that works without Internet. We build foundational infrastructure and privacy-first apps for offline communication, payments, news, & identity.

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Introducing Offline Protocol 2.0. Today, 4.6 billion people are affected by connectivity shutdowns: from state-sponsored internet blackouts across 54 countries to natural disasters that wipe out infrastructure overnight. When the network goes down, so does everything built on top of it: your identity, your money, your ability to communicate. We started Offline Protocol to fix that. Offline Protocol is a privacy-first mesh networking ecosystem that enables communication, identity verification, and payments without centralized infrastructure. No cell towers. No ISPs. No single point of failure. Our stack is built on one principle: the most critical digital infrastructure should always function. What we solve: We've built our entire digital lives on the assumption of persistent connectivity. But that assumption fails constantly: during hurricanes and earthquakes, in conflict zones and refugee camps, at overcrowded festivals and stadiums, in remote villages and maritime routes, and in countries where governments deliberately shut down the internet to silence their citizens. When connectivity fails, people lose access to their identity documents, their financial systems, and their ability to coordinate and communicate. How we solve it: After a year of concentrated efforts, our ecosystem spans seven core products, each designed to function independently or together as a complete offline-capable stack: 1. DORS (Dynamic Offline Relay Switch): The foundation. DORS is our mesh networking protocol that enables device-to-device communication without any centralized infrastructure. It dynamically routes data across ad-hoc networks formed by nearby devices, creating resilient communication channels that work in any environment. DORS has been downloaded and used hundreds of times by developers globally in just 2 months! 2. OfflineID: Decentralized identity that lives on your device, not on someone else's server. OfflineID enables cryptographic identity verification without an internet connection, meaning you can prove who you are even when the systems that issued your credentials are unreachable. Already held by over 300,000 users across 80 countries. 3. Proof of Location: A novel verification mechanism that confirms a person's real-time presence and authenticity without biometric surveillance. PoL enables trust in offline environments without compromising privacy, no face scans, no fingerprint databases, no centralized biometric stores. 4. Fernweh V2: Our mesh-only messaging application is receiving a major upgrade, hybrid connectivity! Fernweh lets you send encrypted messages, share files, and coordinate with others through device-to-device mesh networks or internet. With over 35,000 downloads already, Fernweh is proving that private communication doesn't require infrastructure permission. V2 launches soon. 5. OfflinePay: The first offline stablecoin settlement network. OfflinePay enables cryptographically secured transactions between devices, and ensure that commerce doesn't stop when the internet does. 6. MINE: Offline-capable incentivized mining that allows participation in network validation and consensus without persistent connectivity. Mine extends the reach of decentralized networks into environments that traditional blockchain infrastructure can't touch. Launching soon. 7. Diffuse: Hyperlocal journalism combines with verifiable source aggregation to give you content you can trust. What we've achieved: 10,000 mesh clusters operating across 80 countries, 300,000 OfflineID holders, and 35,000 Fernweh downloads. From disaster response teams coordinating after infrastructure collapse to communities maintaining communication during government-imposed blackouts, Offline Protocol is already being used where it matters most. For developers: We've built Offline Protocol to be an open ecosystem. Our developer tools include SDKs for iOS, Android, and Web, comprehensive documentation, and full API references. We're building the infrastructure layer and we want developers everywhere to build on top of it. Our mesh networking specifications are on the path to being fully open-sourced, because we believe the technology that protects fundamental freedoms should belong to everyone. If you're interested in building with us, get in touch! Looking ahead: The world is becoming more connected and more fragile simultaneously. Climate disasters are increasing in frequency. Political instability is spreading. The demand for communication infrastructure that cannot be censored, cannot be surveilled, and cannot be revoked is not a niche but rather a fundamental need for billions of people. Offline Protocol is positioned at the intersection of privacy technology, mesh networking, and decentralized identity at a moment when all three are becoming essential rather than optional. We're not building for a hypothetical future. We're building for the 4.6 billion people who already know what it means to lose connectivity, and for everyone else who might need us one day. Thank you to all our investors for their strong belief in our mission @alliance, @PortalVentures, @seedclubvc, @galaxyhq, @TJ_Kawa, @glennonchain, @PaulTaylorVC, and to all our users, followers, and friends who've been rooting for us this whole time. Check out our brand new website at offlineprotocol.com to learn more.
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Portal Talent Network — 6.5.26 Offline Protocol @OfflineProtocol Title: Founding Sales Lead Description: Offline Protocol is building infrastructure that keeps users connected in bandwidth-constrained or fully offline environments. They're hiring their first sales hire to own outbound from day one. Source leads, run discovery calls, close pilots, and build the sales playbook from scratch alongside the founder. Email esolomon@portal.vc or DM @Evanzsolomon if you're interested.
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got me feeling hella british with this one lads @OfflineProtocol
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thrilled to announce the @OfflineProtocol merch goes incredibly hard
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Between @varun_mathur with Pods, @gajesh with Darkbloom on @eigencloud, @jack with MeshLLM, and @swar_ja with Grove, I’m really happy to see more innovation in the decentralized compute space. We’re cooking up something here at @OfflineProtocol and so excited to share it soon!
Introducing Pods Hyperspace Pods lets a small group of people - a family, a startup, a few friends, to pool their laptops and desktops into one AI cluster. Everyone installs the CLI, someone creates a pod, shares an invite link, and the machines form a mesh. Models like Qwen 3.5 32B or GLM-5 Turbo that need more memory than any single laptop has get automatically sharded across the group's devices - layers split proportionally, inference pipelined through the ring. From the outside it looks like one OpenAI-compatible API endpoint with a pk_* key that drops straight into your AI tools and products. No configuration beyond pasting the key and changing the base URL. A team of five paying for cloud AI burns $500–2,000 a month on API calls. The same team's existing machines can serve Qwen 3.5 (competitive on SWE-bench) and GLM-5 Turbo (#1 on BrowseComp for tool-calling and web research) for free - the hardware is already on their desks. When a query genuinely needs a frontier model nobody has locally, the pod falls back to cloud at wholesale rates from a shared treasury. But for the daily work - code reviews, refactors, research, drafting - local models handle it and nobody gets billed. And when it is idle, you can rent out your pod on the compute marketplace, with fine-grained permissions for access management. There's no central server involved in inference. Prompts go from your machine to your pod members' machines and back: all of this enabled by the fully peer-to-peer Hyperspace network. Pod state - who's a member, which API keys are valid, how much treasury is left - is replicated across members with consensus, so the whole thing works on a local network. Members behind home routers don't need port forwarding either. The practical setup for most pods is three models covering different jobs: Qwen 3.5 32B for code and reasoning, GLM-5 Turbo for browsing and research, Gemma 4 for fast lightweight tasks. All running on hardware you already own. Pods ship today in Hyperspace v5.19. Model sharding, API keys, treasury, and Raft coordinator are all live. What Makes This Different - No middleman. Your prompts travel from your IDE to your pod members' hardware and back. There is no server in between reading your data. - No vendor lock-in. Pod membership, API keys, and treasury are replicated across your own machines using Raft consensus. If the internet goes down, your local network keeps working. There is no database in someone else's cloud that your pod depends on. - Automatic sharding. You don't configure layer ranges or calculate VRAM budgets. Tell the pod which model you want. It figures out how to split it across whatever hardware is online. - Real NAT traversal. Your friend behind a home router with a dynamic IP? Works. No VPN, no Tailscale, no port forwarding. The nodes handle it. - Free when local. This is the part that matters most. Cloud AI bills scale with usage. Pod inference on local hardware scales with nothing. The marginal cost of your 10,000th prompt is the electricity your laptop was already using. Coming soon: - Pod federation: pods form alliances with other pods. - Marketplace: pods with spare capacity can sell inference to other pods.
Community note
Hyperspace Pods is not yet available for installation or use, as there are no mentions of it, model sharding, or related features in the official documentation, website, or CLI repository. hyper.space github.com/hyperspaceai/a… github.com/hyperspaceai/a…
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We will start sending early testing invites for Fernweh V2 and MINE tomorrow. Come build a new internet with us.
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Preorders are now open for IntelligenceMesh! - Compatible as a mesh node with all @OfflineProtocol apps (Fernweh V2, MINE, IntelligenceMesh) - Compatible with @BitchatMe_ (one team @jack) - Compatible with anything you build on our offline SDKs - Connects with offline apps and hardware as an incentivized mesh relay - Pairs with a companion tiny AI app with local resources - Provide local emergency alerts and automatically syncs preparedness knowledge base - Syncs knowledge with other local users - Includes devkit, modules, theme manager to display your own themes, stats, and apps - Includes detailed setup instructions for even the most non-technical users to easily use it well I’ll personally be handling each order, setting it up with the software, and shipping it out with a mystery gift at my cost for your support on our first ever hardware experiment! Genuinely means the world to have so much excitement for this. Preorder for $50, link below:
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Vibe check ~ would you buy this for $50? - Compatible with all Offline Protocol apps - Compatible with anything you build on our SDKs - Acts as an incentivized mesh relay - Pairs with companion app to serve a tiny AI with local resources - Syncs knowledge with other local users
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Currently tinkering on the world’s smallest dynamic digital mesh node > will run an offline protocol node > provide localized data inference > offer bidirectional intelligence for other apps and hardware in the mesh > portable enough to always carry > host a services marketplace
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I’m running localized intelligence inference completely offline on my new watch that I built myself and you’re somehow still not bullish on offline protocol? silly behavior
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Thanks for the new phone @solanamobile! Excited for @OfflineProtocol x Seeker. Coming soon 🛜
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“Reviewing Offline, it's hard not to notice the broader divergence happening at the application layer across crypto right now. On one side, a seemingly endless conveyor belt of speculation. On the other, a determined push toward something more difficult to build and easier to underestimate: sovereign technology.” Thanks for the feature, @Bankless! bankless.com/read/offline-pr…
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Live network visualizer for Offline Protocol We accomplished this with $0 marketing spend, no public events, and no sponsorships 2026 we have even larger goals
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It’s interesting to see how first world, homegrown biases still cloud the tech industry’s judgment when it comes to evaluating ‘global’ solutions. This month: - news that 87M Vietnamese lose their bank accounts because they won’t authorize w/biometrics - entire country of Afghanistan goes offline - US govt shuts down - grid attacks reported across major US cities -NYtimes runs a bizarre op-ed about how the future of finance “can’t be trusted in those crypto people’s hands,” also argues against regulation And somehow at crypto’s biggest conference my clients are still competing for panels that vaguely touch on stablecoins as ‘the killer app’ and review yield products for investors. We are missing the plot. While we gloss over the real power of stablecoins in an unstable world, and companies like @OfflineProtocol continue to hear from VCs that lack of internet access is a non-problem, millions of people are beginning to experience what it feels like to be uncomfortable: losing services that are just supposed to work when you’re a taxpayer. Ironically as tech moves forward, other parts of society break down. If crypto comes back to its roots it might discover that now offers the easiest runway yet for mass adoption. THAT is a conference I’d attend. That’s one I’d help build. Anyone else?
29 Sep 2025
The internet has been completely shut down in Afghanistan, according to our internal data. Our tools help to bypass censorship, but here access has been cut off. We stand against acts like this and believe that both privacy & freedom of speech are human rights. (Timezone CEST)
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For a free internet where everyone has access to information and communication. When you do have access to the internet then protect your data with NymVPN. Before the internet is simply turned off by the government then check out @OfflineProtocol and @BitchatMe_
1 Oct 2025
#BREAKING Internet Services Resume in Afghanistan All telecommunication networks in the country have resumed internet and communication services. The activities of internet and telecommunication networks across Afghanistan had been cut off nearly 48 hours ago. So far, officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan have not made any official statement regarding this matter. #TOLOnwes_English
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Every few weeks there’s an internet shutdown in some part of the world and the crypto and payments communities wake up to what I’ve been speaking about loudly for over a year. The internet is vulnerable. Natural disasters, wars, censorship, global mobility have made it so. The ONLY real solution to this connectivity crisis is Offline Protocol. It is the only smartphone-first digital solution with a holistic ecosystem for communication, payments, information, and identity which allows entire economies to function autonomously without any internet or traditional connectivity. Not Starlink, not Bitchat, not anything else can do what we do, how we do. We enable fully self-sustaining and sovereign communities that can function and survive completely independently forever. If you still don’t get it, start paying attention.
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I haven’t been able to reach my family since yesterday. The Taliban’s Ministry of Communications ordered ISPs to shut down internet across Afghanistan. Moments like this remind me why protocols like @OfflineProtocol and what @sxtvik pushes for matter. Access to communication should not be at the mercy of governments. I am deeply worried. Every time this happens, it precedes something terrible.
29 Sep 2025
The internet has been completely shut down in Afghanistan, according to our internal data. Our tools help to bypass censorship, but here access has been cut off. We stand against acts like this and believe that both privacy & freedom of speech are human rights. (Timezone CEST)
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Mobile money and alternative currencies are a diverse ecosystem, from regulated digital wallets and mobile platforms to grassroots community currencies that expand financial inclusion, particularly in regions where traditional banking is inaccessible. internet.beehiiv.com/p/leapi…
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Satvik Sethi discusses alternative use cases where the Offline Protocol product stack can serve even the most hyperconnected users. “Even the most connected people find themselves in moments where they need an alternative. We’ve seen massive uptake at live events like Coachella, Burning Man, FWB Fest, sports events, and pride parades in Europe, places with the best internet until suddenly it’s gone. At the same time, we’re seeing adoption in refugee camps, rural agritech communities, small villages, and volunteer camps. We’re building an unopinionated product stack that can meet diverse needs depending on the situation.”
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Satvik Sethi unpacks OfflinePay, the offline stablecoin settlement network, and the insights that led to building it. “Payments have been really exclusionary by default. The world has been talking about going cashless… and yet a lot of people still can’t access traditional banking rails. With OfflinePay, we can collateralize any stablecoins on any chain, give you a universal offline dollar, and let people transact fully offline for as long as they want.”
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Today on 11AM w/ Seed Club Friday, Sept 19th Guests @Larpseidon of @auramoney (11:10am) @0xAndros of @growthterminal (11:25am) @sxtvik of @OfflineProtocol (11:40am) Special Co-Host @serpinxbt
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