Offline Protocol

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

[Offline Protocol @OfflineProtocol]

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 https://t.co/Df8oEN0pQz to learn more.

[Offline Protocol @OfflineProtocol]

shop dot offlineprotocol dot com

[winny @winternet]

got me feeling hella british with this one lads @OfflineProtocol

[Offline Protocol @OfflineProtocol]

@winternet first ever delivery of the new collection btw

[winny @winternet]

thrilled to announce the @OfflineProtocol merch goes incredibly hard

[satvik @sxtvik]

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!

[Offline Protocol @OfflineProtocol]

We will start sending early testing invites for Fernweh V2 and MINE tomorrow.

Come build a new internet with us.

[satvik @sxtvik]

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:

[satvik @sxtvik]

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

[satvik @sxtvik]

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

[satvik @sxtvik]

Thanks for the new phone @solanamobile!

Excited for @OfflineProtocol x Seeker.

Coming soon 🛜

[Offline Protocol @OfflineProtocol]

@jtriley2p @brennuet Appreciate the feedback! We’re in the process of open sourcing our meshSDK and other components of our infrastructure stack. Offline Protocol will eventually be majority open sourced and fully decentralized to serve our users and developer communities.

[Offline Protocol @OfflineProtocol]

@VitalikButerin @Fatalmeh EF has our contact information, @VitalikButerin. This is what we do. Let’s chat!

[Offline Protocol @OfflineProtocol]

@dan_sickles Wait till you try Fernweh V2 next month…

Hybrid connectivity for daily use, audio, video, groupchats, multimedia support and lots more 👀

[Offline Protocol @OfflineProtocol]

“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!

https://t.co/V0P8Ozk5hz

[Offline Protocol @OfflineProtocol]

@sxtvik @VitalikButerin Cc: @tkstanczak @VitalikButerin @ethereumfndn

Sovereignty for the world who needs it most is being built at Offline Protocol.

[satvik @sxtvik]

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

[Jules Mossler @julie_mo]

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?

[Nym @nym]

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_

[satvik @sxtvik]

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.

[Abbas Khan ⟠ @KhanAbbas201]

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.