Platho is live. An encrypted messenger + TON wallet built on TON. No accounts. No central servers. Keys stay on your device. No waitlist. No roadmap promises. You can use it right now. platho.app

💸 Why messages cost money in Platho The short answer: because we have no servers. An ordinary messenger has a data center, and somebody pays for it. If it isn't you, it's an advertiser, an investor, or whoever bought access to your conversations. There is no such thing as a free message — only a message someone else paid for. In Platho there is nobody to pay: no server and no company stands between you and the person you are writing to. Your message is a record on an open network, kept and verified by independent nodes around the world. That work costs money, and the sender pays it — straight from their own wallet, at the moment of sending. Where the price comes from: 0.01 GRAM is the protocol fee, and the rest is what the network charges for gas and storage. Hundredths of a coin per message. What does that buy you? We cannot read your private conversations. The keys never leave your devices, and we have no server where your messages would sit — and no key to open them with. We cannot delete your public post. Not of our own will, and not on anyone else's demand. What is published lives on an open network: there is no delete button there, and we don't have one either. The messenger runs on its own, with no owner. Responsibility for public posts rests with the people who write them. What is written to the blockchain cannot be changed by anyone. The other side is worth knowing up front: we will not restore a lost recovery phrase, and we will not erase a post you regret. Freedom without an owner cuts both ways.

Happy 13th, @telegram 🎂 Building on TON myself now — and the deeper you go, the clearer it gets how much had to go right for any of this to work at all. Congrats @durov

There's now one more non-custodial wallet — an official one, from Telegram. Will it fare better than the others? Will it bring in new users?

What do you do when governments want “unwanted” information deleted from your messenger?

Privacy that lasts only until the government sends a letter isn't privacy. If someone else holds a key to your private messages, they aren't really yours.