No cloud. No accounts. No middlemen. Hearth is an identity and payments platform built on the principle that your data belongs to you — and only you.
Ed25519 keypair generated on your phone. Never transmitted. Never stored anywhere else. Your identity is a key, not an account.
QR-based pairing over the public internet. Phone in Perth, node in Genesis, desktop in Perth. No USB. No LAN required.
Sovereign relay node running on Hetzner. Docker, Caddy, HTTPS, WebSocket, IPFS. No AWS. No Cloudflare. No Google.
Frameless Tauri app with Discord/Opera-style shell. Left rail, omnibar, right panel, dark/light theme, persona switcher.
Real-time node dashboard showing connected devices, message relay stats, and activity log. Anonymised — no personal data exposed.
Rate limiting, body size caps, UUID validation, CSP headers, X-Frame-Options, HSTS, fail2ban, signed node identity manifest.
Wallet address derived deterministically from the IRK via HKDF-SHA256. No separate wallet setup. One key — identity, wallet, everything. Per-chain Ed25519 + raw scalars for EVM/XRPL.
Address-to-address payments. No Visa. No Stripe. No middleman. Token agnostic — any currency, any chain. Works over LAN without internet.
Passive yield on held SOL. Displayed live in the desktop topbar. Non-custodial — you hold the keys.
Auto-compounding ATOM via Restake. ICS consumer chain validators (Neutron, Stride) for additional rewards. Optional stATOM liquid staking.
X25519 ECDH key exchange, ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD, Blake3 nonce derivation, Ed25519 envelope signatures. Phone↔Desktop confirmed end-to-end.
HTTP 402-based stablecoin payment protocol integrated with Stellar/Soroban. Single Ed25519 persona key = HAP signer + Stellar G-account + AP2-compatible did:key.
Create, send and settle invoices persona-to-persona. Replaces Xero, MYOB, FreshBooks. No subscription fee. Your data stays local.
Phone-based POS. Customer scans QR, pays with Hearth. Instant settlement, no card terminal, no 1.5% merchant fee.
Recurring payments between personas. Replaces Stripe subscriptions. Creator sets the plan — subscriber approves with their phone.
Contact management linked to persona addresses. Persona-isolated address book on mobile + desktop. Purchase history, deal pipeline, notes.
Manage WordPress sites from Hearth Desktop. First commercial use: West Coast Power Equipment migration to static + IPFS + Web2 hybrid.
GoFundMe alternative. Zero-fee donations via Stellar USDC. Milestone Soroban escrow. Donation NFT receipts. Persona-verified campaigns.
Address-to-address messaging. X25519 ECDH + ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD. Signed by sender's persona key. Genesis relay deletes after delivery — never sees plaintext.
Peer-to-peer calls over LAN or relayed via node. WebRTC transport, Genesis signalling. No Zoom. No Teams. No server recording.
When both parties are on the same network, messages route directly without touching the Genesis Node at all.
Every Hearth user can serve a website from their persona. HTTP host shipped, serves persona-branded site. IPFS publishing arriving in Phase 5.2.
First-party and third-party apps distributed via HAP. App ID = Ed25519 pubkey. Persona-scoped install by default. Sovereign-by-default — any node can host an alt store.
Built-in browser panel in Hearth Desktop. Web2 sites, Web3 dApps, IPFS content, Hearth-native sites — all in one shell. No Chrome. No tracking.
Sovereign media app. Four-pillar UI shipped as desktop Tauri + Flutter mobile/TV monorepo. Distributed via Hearth App Store. TV target is the lean-back home.
Cross-platform publishing: Nostr (native), Farcaster (Neynar), Bluesky (atproto), X (manual). One persona, every network. First app in the Hearth App Store.
Flagship vertical microdrama series for HearthMedia. Identity-sovereignty as plot. 80 episodes, paywall at ep 12, S1 finale tied to a real esports match.
Expand from one node to a cohort of 5–10 globally distributed nodes. One Active Genesis at a time. Automatic failover. Signed node identity manifest already shipped.
Multi-node signature requirement for transaction finality. 0.1% validator fee. Permissionless — anyone can run a validator node.
TVs and desktops become household-level relays. mDNS discovery, WebSocket HAP relay, IPFS pin set, stream fan-out. Plex/Jellyfin without the server box.
NIST-finalized ML-DSA-65 added alongside Ed25519. Dual-signing for long-lived artifacts from day one — harvest-now-decrypt-later defence. Aligns with Stellar's QPP.
A full operating system with Hearth identity baked in at the kernel level. Your OS knows who you are without asking Google.
Physical hardware key. IRK stored in secure enclave. Works like a YubiKey but for the entire Hearth ecosystem — identity, payments, signing.
Verifiable credentials anchored to Hearth personas. Land titles, licences, passports — verified without a central database.
Neighbourhood-owned internet infrastructure. Hearth nodes form the backbone. No Telstra. No Optus. No ISP reading your traffic.
Persona-signed likeness grants. Scoped, revocable, time-bound. T0-T3 trust tiers for synthetic media provenance. Ethics baked into the protocol.
Kaspa-inspired proof-of-work token for the Hearth gaming ecosystem. Skill-only Ladder + free Prediction rounds. No pay-to-win - money is opt-in, gated, separate.
The internet was built on the assumption that identity would be solved later. It wasn't. Instead we got passwords, data brokers, surveillance capitalism, and trillion-dollar companies whose entire business model is knowing everything about you. Hearth is the alternative. Your identity is a key. Your key never leaves your device. Everything else follows from that.