SOV NETWORKPrivate messages, without handing over your phone number
Most "private" messengers still start by asking for your phone number, which ties every conversation to your real identity and your mobile network. SOV Network asks for no phone number and no email, ever.
What you get
- End-to-end encryption: only the sender and the recipient can read a message.
- Nodes keep no message content. Since node 1.4.81 they refuse plaintext messages outright. If the recipient is offline, the message waits on your device and is sent when they come online, not on a server.
- No phone number, no email. Your account is a SOV ID and a nickname derived from it.
- No bot farms. Every account belongs to one verified human, so spam farms and fake accounts cannot sign up by the thousand.
What a node does keep, stated precisely
For delivery and read receipts, a node keeps a small delivery record: the message ID, the two pseudonymous SOV IDs, the message type and the time. No content, no names, no phone numbers. It deletes itself after 90 days by default, and citizens can vote that down to 7.
"But you scan my palm and face?"
Yes, once, to prove you are one unique person. The scan happens on your own phone, and no photo of your palm or face is ever stored or sent. The phone sends a set of numbers describing the scan, and the node turns it into a protected template and stores only that. What a node operator could learn from those templates today is set out plainly in the biometric explainer and the privacy page.
Ask us anything
Questions and criticism are welcome in public, where anyone can read the answer: SOV Network Q&A. The full design, including what the network does not do yet, is in the whitepaper (section 10 lists the limits in one place).
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