In development
Private messaging, kept honest.
Pick a username and start talking. Only the people in a chat can read it, not even us, and witnesses check every key we hand out.
Coming to iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows.
Just a username.
No phone number, no email, no address book, no wallet. Pick a name and you’re in. And nobody lands in your chats uninvited: a first message waits as a request until you accept it.
Groups, without the audience.
Plan the trip, run the team, settle the dinner debate, with replies, reactions and @mentions. We can’t see who’s in your groups, or even what they’re called.
We can’t read a word of it.
Messages are locked on your phone and unlocked on theirs. Flip the switch to see the same chat the way our servers see it.
- We can’t read your messages, your photos, or even your file names.
- We can’t see who sent them.
- We can’t tell “OK” from a full sentence. Messages are padded to standard sizes.
Readable here and on @ada’s phone. Nowhere else.
Gone when you want it gone.
Put a timer on any one-to-one chat. A minute, an hour or a day later, the messages delete themselves.
Know it’s really them.
Every chat has a safety number. Compare it with your friend, in person or somewhere you already trust. If it matches, nobody is sitting in the middle. If their keys ever change, Morse tells you. And when you don’t compare, it still checks every key against a log that witnesses sign.
Launching in stages
Don’t trust us. Make lying expensive.
Every encrypted messenger has a soft spot: the server that tells your phone which key is your friend’s. Hand your phone a fake, and every message still locks perfectly, for the wrong person. So every key we hand out goes into one log, checked in public.
- The log is stamped on Solana as it grows, and your phone checks its copy against that public record.
- A lie proves itself: to show two people different logs, a witness has to sign both.
- Anyone can post that proof on-chain, where code, not Morse, slashes the bond. Part goes to whoever caught it, none of it to us.
Messaging stays free. Extras stay anonymous.
Credits unlock extras. Pay in USDC, SOL or BTC, with no card and no billing name, and each credit is signed blind: when you spend it, our servers can tell it’s genuine but not who bought it.
- Bigger files. Send past the 16 MB limit.
- Longer storage. Messages wait past 30 days for a phone that’s been switched off.
- A price on your inbox. Ask strangers for a little postage before their request reaches you. Spam stops paying.
Run a witness. Get paid to keep us honest.
A witness checks each new version of the key log and signs it only if nothing was rewritten. It runs on a small server and never sees a message, a username or a wallet.
- What you put down. A bond, staked for as long as you witness.
- What you get. A share of credit sales for every version you sign.
- What can cost you. Only signing two versions of the same log. The witness software refuses to, so the real risk is a stolen key.
One token. Two jobs.
The Morse token is the bond witnesses stake, and what credit purchases burn. You never need to hold it: pay for credits in USDC, SOL or BTC and the app swaps for you.
- Never tied to your account. Your wallet and your username never meet.
- Never written per message. Who you talk to, and when, stays off every chain.
- Never needed to chat. Messaging works without buying or holding anything.
How it rolls out
- Public checkpointsEvery version of the key log, posted to a public chain anyone can check.
- Independent witnessesOperators outside Morse sign the log alongside us.
- Anonymous creditsExtras paid in USDC, SOL or BTC, spent without a trace.
- The Morse tokenBonds for witnesses, burned by every credit bought.
Built like the phone network.
Morse is written in Mesh, our own programming language. Its big idea comes from Erlang and Elixir, the technology that keeps phone exchanges and some of the world’s biggest chat apps running.
- Everything at once. Delivering messages, clearing expired ones and waking your phone each run as their own tiny worker, so one slow job never holds up the rest.
- Trouble stays small. Workers share nothing and talk only by passing messages. If one fails the others carry on, and Mesh can start it again on the spot.
- One core, everywhere. Mesh compiles to native code, and the same core runs inside the iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows apps.
Straight answers.
Security and crypto marketing both love absolutes. We’d rather show you where the edges are.
When can I use Morse?
Not yet. Morse is still being built, for iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you when it’s ready. It’s the only place we’ll ever ask for your email: your account itself is just a username.
Do I need a phone number?
No. Your account is a username: 3 to 32 lowercase letters, numbers or underscores. No phone number, no email, and Morse never uploads your contacts.
Do I need crypto to use Morse?
No. Messaging never needs a wallet, credits or the token. Credits are for extras, and you can pay for them in USDC, SOL or BTC without ever holding the token.
Why put any of this on a blockchain?
Because keeping us honest takes two things a public chain does well: a record nobody can quietly edit, and bonds nobody can quietly keep, us included. Only log stamps, bonds, proofs and credit purchases go on-chain. Nothing about a message, a contact or an account ever does.
Your phone doesn’t trust the chain blindly either. The chain can take trust away from a witness that lied, but it can never grant it.
Can strangers message me?
They can ask. They need your exact username, and their first message waits as a request. Accept it to reply, or block them and never hear from them again. They aren’t told.
Can I use it on my phone and my computer?
Yes. You can link up to eight devices to one account. The new device shows a code, and you approve it from a device you already trust.
Could buying credits give me away?
Not to your chats. Credits are signed blind: when you spend one, our servers can check it’s genuine, but can’t match it to the purchase that paid for it.
The purchase itself is as public as any payment on its chain, so anyone can see that a wallet bought Morse credits. If that matters to you, buy in batches from a wallet you don’t mind being seen.
What happens if a witness lies?
The lie proves itself. Signing two different versions of the key log leaves two signatures that can’t both be honest. Anyone can post them on-chain, the witness’s bond is slashed, and part of it goes to whoever caught it.
Your phone doesn’t wait for any of that. It already refuses a key that enough witnesses haven’t vouched for.
Can tokens buy control of Morse?
No. Each app release names the witnesses your phone trusts. The token only decides who can post a bond and whose bond is slashed, so no amount of it changes which keys your phone accepts.
Why a token, and not just dollars?
Bonds start in USDC, and a bond works in any currency. What makes one mean something is that it grows with a witness’s pay, so a lie always costs at least two years of it. The token lets one unit do both jobs, bonds and credits, and ties what witnesses are paid to how much Morse is actually used.
What can’t Morse protect me from?
A phone that’s already compromised, or unlocked in someone else’s hand. The person you’re talking to taking a screenshot or forwarding what you said. And someone who can watch the whole internet can still see when you’re active, and may work out who you talk to from timing alone. Hiding the sender isn’t the same as being anonymous.
What doesn’t Morse do?
There are no voice or video calls, no voice messages, no stickers and no message search. Disappearing messages work in one-to-one chats, not in groups.
Isn’t writing your own programming language risky?
It’s a trade, and we think a good one. Mesh rules out whole families of mistakes before the app is ever built, including code that would log, copy or leak an encryption key. And because a young language can have bugs of its own, every change we make ships with a test that fails without it.
Where can I check all this?
Everything on this page traces back to a working document, not a marketing page.
Start a conversation nobody else is part of.
Morse is in development for iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows. We’ll only use your email to tell you when it’s ready. The app itself never asks for it.
Or run a witness