DSNP (Decentralized Social Networking Protocol)
Protocolo Federado
Comunidad
Detalles
Licencia Permissive (Apache-2.0); https://github.com/LibertyDSNP — specification repository; Frequency blockchain implementation open source
Estado de Desarrollo 🟢 Activo
Detalle del Estado de Desarrollo Released / Active (DSNP specification v1.x published at dsnp.org; Frequency blockchain production live; MeWe integration with 500K+ migrated users; ongoing Governance Working Group specification evolution)
Propietario Project Liberty Institute (501c3 non-profit steward); originally co-created by Braxton Woodham and team at Amplica Labs (McCourt Global); Frequency blockchain implementation by Amplica Labs
Órgano de Gobierno Project Liberty Institute (501(c)(3) non-profit steward; Advisor Summit governance process)
País USA (Project Liberty Institute; Amplica Labs / McCourt Global)
Año de Inicio 2020
Stack Language-agnostic specification; Frequency (Substrate/Polkadot L1 blockchain for consensus and state); JavaScript/TypeScript (Frequency SDK, Frequency Access); Parquet (batch announcement format); Protocol Buffers
Financiamiento Philanthropy / Corporate (McCourt Global / Frank McCourt personal funding; Project Liberty Institute 501c3; no disclosed VC rounds for the protocol itself)
Última Investigación 1 jul 2026
Protocolo Federado Atributos
Orígenes Decentralized social networking (motivated by Frank McCourt's campaign to build user-controlled digital identity infrastructure; reaction to centralized platform control of social graphs; Project Liberty's mission to "win the fight against Big Tech")
Base de Datos Blockchain state (Social Identity contracts, social graph operations, and announcement batch roots stored on Frequency blockchain; announcement content off-chain in batch files addressed by hash)
Lenguaje de Consulta Frequency RPC API (on-chain state queries); off-chain batch files addressed by content hash
Formatos de Datos Parquet (batch announcement files); IPFS/content-addressed storage for announcement batches; on-chain: Substrate-encoded messages; Dead Drop Announcements use encrypted payloads
Edición Colaborativa en Vivo N/A (social networking protocol; not a collaborative editing tool)
Edición de Texto Enriquecido N/A (announcement content is application-layer; protocol specifies structure not rendering)
Soporte Móvil Yes (Frequency Access mobile-friendly; MeWe mobile apps; protocol is transport-agnostic)
Soporte Web Yes (Frequency Access web-based onboarding; web applications as BAPs)
Aplicaciones Nativas Yes (MeWe native apps; Frequency SDK for app developers)
Términos Free / Open source (Apache-2.0 specification; Frequency Access free for users; application developers may have own terms)
Fondos Not separately disclosed (McCourt Global is a multi-billion dollar private equity firm; Project Liberty is a multi-year initiative; specific DSNP protocol budget not public)
Basado En Frequency / Substrate / Polkadot (blockchain consensus layer); IPFS / content addressing (off-chain announcement storage); Smart contracts (Social Identity ownership)
Direccionamiento por Contenido Yes (off-chain announcement batches content-addressed; on-chain roots provide tamper-evidence; IPFS integration for batch file hosting)
Cifrado de Extremo a Extremo (E2EE) Partial (Dead Drop Announcements support E2EE private messaging; public announcements and social graph are public on-chain; DSNP extends E2EE to prevent service providers from reading message contents or knowing communicating parties)
Firma Substrate / sr25519 (Frequency blockchain transaction signing); smart contract ownership via blockchain wallet keypairs
Permisos Smart contract / Cryptographic capabilities (Social Identity ownership enforced by blockchain; delegation model allows apps to act on behalf of users within granted permissions; revocable at any time)
Compatibilidad con la Web Semántica N/A (Parquet/binary format; no RDF or linked data vocabulary in core spec)
Modelo de Federación Shared Heap / Blockchain (all Social Identity and social graph state stored on shared Frequency blockchain; announcement batches off-chain but anchored on-chain; apps query shared state rather than federating between servers)
Requisitos de Instancia / Servidor Moderate — applications need Frequency RPC node access; Frequency full node runs on Substrate stack; no per-application server required for read access; write access requires Frequency tokens and transaction signing
Portabilidad de Cuenta Full portability (Social Identities are blockchain-native and owned by user cryptographic keys; not bound to any application; any DSNP-conformant app can access same social graph)
Arquitectura de Descubrimiento / Relé Blockchain-native (social graph and announcement roots stored on Frequency; apps discover content by querying on-chain announcement batches and resolving off-chain Parquet files; no relay or gateway required)
Modelo de Autoridad del Servidor User-controlled (Social Identity is a smart contract owned by user wallet; no app can remove or modify another user's identity; apps can only read/write on behalf of delegated users)
Madurez del Protocolo / Estandarización Proprietary Open Standard (published specification at dsnp.org; Advisor Summit governance process; 500K+ production users via MeWe/Frequency; Apache-2.0; Project Liberty Institute stewardship; not submitted to W3C, IETF, or IEEE; Governance Working Group ongoing)
Soberanía de Datos User-controlled via blockchain (Social Identities and social graph owned on-chain by user key; announcement content stored by apps but anchored by user-controlled on-chain hashes)
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