The first uncensorable, permissionless and truly open social network
WEB-SCALE SOCIAL PEER-TO-PEER PROTOCOL
Solcial is being built to provide users with an experience as close as possible to Web2 social media platforms, while taking advantage of Web3 technologies.
One obstacle that any blockchain-based platform faces, is user fees. In order to eliminate user fees for non-token related operations while maintaining privacy and consensus, Solcial is building a peer-to-peer (P2P) layer anchored in Solana and built on top of libp2p that delivers content (feeds, likes, etc) through self-hosting and peer replication.
We have also developed a special type of node that has the same external protocol as a typical desktop or mobile app, with added optimizations designed to handle tens of thousands of concurrent peers, called Beacon Nodes. Beacons are essentially a set of pinning services that will preserve users’ content when creators go offline and make it available for other users; all user content is stored on IPFS and accessed through a P2P layer without relying on censorable servers or gateways.
