Problem Statement & Solution

The Problem: Messaging Has a Privacy Crisis

The way people coordinate online is broken, and in Web3, it is actively risky.

Traditional messaging platforms are built on surveillance-era assumptions. Every message generates data. Content, metadata, timing, counterparties, device signals, and network information are collected, correlated, and retained. Even apps that advertise encryption still require accounts, phone numbers, emails, or centralized identifiers that leak structure and intent.

This is not just inconvenient. It is dangerous in a world where wallets hold assets, authority, and governance power.

Web3 users control private keys, manage treasuries, negotiate deals, and coordinate sensitive actions. Yet the tools they rely on to communicate were never designed for adversarial environments. They expose social graphs. They leak metadata. They separate identity, communication, and value into disconnected systems.

What is broken:

• You do not own the communication surface. Messages are stored or routed through systems you do not control.

• Metadata is exposed by default. Who you talk to, when, and how often can be inferred even if content is encrypted.

• Identity is fragile. Phone numbers, emails, and usernames are weak links that can be reset, seized, or correlated.

• Communication is not protocol-native. It is not tied to wallets, signatures, or onchain actions in a verifiable way.

This failure is especially costly for DAOs, funds, founders, freelancers, and anyone coordinating value privately. Financial sovereignty without communication sovereignty is an incomplete system.

Web3 fixed money. Coordination is still leaking.

What is needed is not better settings or stronger promises. It is a new foundation where privacy, identity, and execution are native, not bolted on.

The Whisper Solution: Privacy by Architecture

Whisper is not a messaging app with privacy features. It is a private coordination protocol where your wallet is your identity and chat is the execution layer.

Privacy is not enforced by policy. It is enforced by structure.

Wallet as Identity and Endpoint

Your wallet is your address. There are no usernames, phone numbers, emails, or accounts. Communication happens directly wallet to wallet using XMTP, authenticated by signatures, not credentials.

End-to-End Encrypted, Off-Chain Communication

Messages are transmitted off-chain and sealed with end-to-end encryption. Only the sender and receiver can read them. There is no backend that can inspect content or extract metadata.

No Central Authority

There is no central server that stores conversations or social graphs. Messages are relayed, not hosted. There is nothing to subpoena, censor, or breach.

Stealth Addresses and Metadata Resistance

Each conversation operates through fresh stealth addresses. Your primary wallet is never exposed. Transfers and actions inside chat cannot be trivially linked back to your wallet history.

Chat as an Execution Layer

Messages can carry executable intent. Send value. Accept payment. Confirm escrow. Unlock funds. Every action requires a wallet signature. No backend trust is assumed.

Context Native Value Transfer

Value moves inside the conversation. No copy pasting addresses. No switching apps. Payments and private in-chat swaps happen silently in the background, without exposing intent on public markets.

No Presence Leakage

There is no last seen, online status, or typing indicator. Read confirmation can be proven cryptographically without leaking timing or availability.

No Public Social Graph

There are no followers and no visible network. Reputation is private and composable. Users can prove successful private interactions without revealing counterparties.

Whisper assumes hostile conditions by default. Networks can be observed. Relayers can be watched. Infrastructure can be compromised. Privacy still holds.

Communication stops being something routed through someone else’s system.

It becomes something you control, sign, and execute.