telegram rents you a room. whispery makes you the owner.
membership is a key you can issue. the channel is an asset your community owns. no one can shut it down, read it, or take it away. not discord, not telegram, not us.
- e2e encrypted: we can't read it
- zero metadata: nothing leaks
- no feed, no algorithm: as sent
- on-chain: nothing on our servers
- we never touch the money
- open spec: anyone runs it
rented rooms behave. owned rooms talk.
platforms polish their rooms: terms of service, phone number, a feed tuned for advertisers. that's how a neighborhood goes quiet.
an owned room has rules too, the difference is who writes them. no feed to perform for, no metric to chase. raw energy. it gets weird on your terms: inside jokes, 3am threads, unplanned projects. that life is the asset.
how it works
issue the door
issue a collection of keys and set the price, or point whispery at what you already issued on-chain: a CryptoPunk, a POAP, a collection. those holders walk in free.
your key is your login
no app. no signup. members connect a wallet and they're in. encrypted from the first message, right alongside the discord you already run.
the room pays for itself
every key sold is a mint from your member's wallet to your contract, never through us. sell enough keys and the room covers its own bill. or hand the bill to the room: it's the community's asset, it can stay alive without you. be satoshi. the math is below.
the door lives on blockchain: your contract, the keys. the messages live on decentralized transport & storage, sealed. whispery carries between the two and can't read what it carries. another courier fits the same spec.
the event ends. the audience compounds.
a group per event dies with the event: the chat closes, the whatsapp scrolls into noise. so whispery doesn't do rooms per event.
you get one room, and every event feeds it: this year's tickets, a POAP from 2023, the same door. and the door checks. everyone inside traces to something you issued: no strangers, no fake admins.
the platform that sold the ticket keeps that transaction. you keep the audience of all of them.
the channel that survives everyone. including us.
no testimonials yet; this is a prototype. the next best thing: the fork. the collection got farmed. it happens. on a rented platform you ban accounts and watch them come back, because the door was never yours. here the door is a contract you own. you don't purge the room. you take it with you.
fig. 2 · the fork: 134 holders, the whole archive and the door move out. the same command can be pointed at us.
$ whispery fork keeping-it-weird --keep ./holders.list ✓ door ....... 134 of 142 nfts admitted · nothing re-issued ✓ history .... swarm · same chunks, new manifest · nothing re-uploaded ✓ channel .... live · epoch 48 · sealed to the 134 · old room ... still up · still theirs · still readable
room forked.
all 142 keep their nfts. all 142 keep every message they ever read. only the 134 get the next one. nobody was banned. the building came with us. $
own it. then earn from it.
how does an owned room earn? any way you can mint. charge entry. price patron keys higher. let last year's ticket in free. hand the till to the room itself. the door is a contract, so a formula is something you issue, not a plan you get approved. the simplest opening move: charge the door, never the interaction.
our numbers, your price, your call.
- direct sales: from the member's wallet to your contract. never through us.
- survives everyone: the community can pay the bill, or run the open spec for free. if you walk away, everything keeps working. it passes the satoshi test. final cost to you: zero.
- transparent model: free for holders. setup from 500 EUR, first month included. then 99, 299 or 990 EUR a month by community size. never metered, no lock-in.
what you build is yours. always.
faq
how do i actually make money with this?
you sell the keys. issue as many as you want, set the price, and every sale mints from the buyer's wallet to your contract. whispery takes no cut of it. resale royalties and tiered rooms are on the phase-2 bench; we'll say so when they're real. and because the channel is your community's asset, no platform decision can switch that income off.
i run my events on luma. what does whispery add?
keep running them there; nothing moves. luma is the box office: it sells the ticket, checks people in, and its event chat does the job while the event lasts. what it doesn't have is the room between events: the chat closes with the event, and a paid membership gets people into your events, not into a room. whispery is that room. the door reads what your events already issue, POAPs from past editions included, so it opens seeded, not empty. in a founding setup we wire it with you.
so what's the whispery token?
there isn't one. whispery doesn't issue a token, and nothing you build here runs on one: the keys are yours, minted from your contract, at your price. you issue whatever you want, that's the business. we bill infrastructure in euros and send an invoice your organization can file.
what happens if whispery disappears?
your channel doesn't. the group and its content live on-chain and in decentralized storage, not on our servers, and the keys live on your contract, so even sales continue. anyone can serve the channel: you, another provider, a holder with a server. that's what the fork demo shows.
stop renting your community's home.
your door, your room, your panel, set up with you. the first month is included. on day 30 you decide: subscribe, or walk away with everything.
no lock-in. that would defeat the purpose.