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    <img src="assets/mark.svg" alt="Hermes" width="22" height="22" style="display:block">
    <span>Hermes<span class="x">.X</span></span>
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  <a href="messenger/">Messenger</a>
  <a href="branding/">Branding</a>
  <a href="https://theseus.x/" class="get">Get Theseus</a>
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  <h1>Message by name<span class="x">.</span></h1>
  <p class="tag">End-to-end encrypted DMs over Nostr, addressed by your
    on-chain registered name instead of a public-key string.
    Your name owns your key. No email, no phone number, no company, no server
    that can delete your account.</p>
  <div class="cta">
    <a class="btn primary" href="messenger/">Open Messenger</a>
    <a class="btn ghost" href="https://theseus.x/">Get Theseus (desktop)</a>
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    <div class="dot"></div><div class="dot"></div><div class="dot"></div>
    <div class="title">Hermes · hermes.x/messenger</div>
    <span class="npub">your npub: <b>npub1ab…z89</b></span>
    <span class="status">1/1 relay</span>
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      <div class="side-head"><input value="Search contacts…" readonly><button>+</button></div>
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        <div class="avatar">AL</div>
        <div class="meta"><div class="name">alice</div><div class="last">you: see you tomorrow</div></div>
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        <div class="avatar">BO</div>
        <div class="meta"><div class="name">bob</div><div class="last">great, send me the link</div></div>
        <div class="badge">2</div>
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        <div class="avatar">TE</div>
        <div class="meta"><div class="name">test</div><div class="last">chipnet is working</div></div>
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          <div class="name">bob</div>
          <div class="pk">023bf8c1…9ad2</div>
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        <div class="bubble in">hey, did you register your name yet?<span class="time">11:38</span></div>
        <div class="bubble out">just now — bob.x is live<span class="time">11:40</span></div>
        <div class="bubble in">nice. send me the hermes.x link<span class="time">11:42</span></div>
        <div class="bubble out">https://hermes.x/messenger<span class="time">11:43</span></div>
        <div class="bubble in">great, send me the link<span class="time">11:44</span></div>
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<div class="mockup-caption">Inside Theseus today · browser-side webapp in progress</div>

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<section class="plain">
  <h2>What ships today</h2>
  <p class="lede">Hermes is live inside the Theseus desktop browser. Web
    messenger and Android follow.</p>
  <div class="grid">
    <div class="card">
      <h3>Threaded chat <span class="src ok">live</span></h3>
      <p>Contact list on the left (search + unread badges), selected
         conversation on the right, inline reply. Enter to send.</p>
    </div>
    <div class="card">
      <h3>Send by name <span class="src ok">live</span></h3>
      <p>Type <code class="inline">alice.x</code>. The client resolves the
         name on-chain, wraps NIP-17 to the recipient's Nostr key, publishes
         to their declared relays. Sealed-sender — the relay never sees who
         sent what to whom.</p>
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    <div class="card">
      <h3>Address book <span class="src ok">live</span></h3>
      <p>Local contact list — add names, nicknames, import vCards. Nothing
         uploaded; the book is on your device.</p>
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    <div class="card">
      <h3>History on your device <span class="src ok">live</span></h3>
      <p>Messages persist to disk per identity. Close and reopen the panel —
         your threads are still there, unread marks included.</p>
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    <div class="card">
      <h3>Web Messenger <span class="src next">next</span></h3>
      <p><a href="messenger/">hermes.x/messenger</a> — browser-side messenger
         for anyone without the desktop app. Same crypto, same identity.</p>
    </div>
    <div class="card">
      <h3>Mobile (Ariadne) <span class="src plan">planned</span></h3>
      <p>Inside the Ariadne Android app: same wallet seed, same Nostr identity,
         zero extra onboarding.</p>
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  <h2>The one idea that makes this different</h2>
  <p class="lede">Every existing Nostr client has the same wart: identity is
    <code class="inline">npub1q8s7f3k…</code> gibberish. The human-name fix —
    NIP-05 — resolves <code class="inline">alice@example.com</code> through a
    DNS domain and a web server. That is exactly the ICANN + server chain
    Bitcoin Cash names exist to escape.</p>
  <div class="note">
    <b>The Hermes pitch.</b><br>
    <code class="inline">alice.x</code> publishes her Nostr pubkey as an
    on-chain record. Her name certificate <i>is</i> her verified,
    seizure-resistant identity. Message anyone by their
    on-chain registered name — no phone number, no email, no ICANN,
    no company, no server that can delete your account.
  </div>
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  <h2>How it works</h2>
  <ol class="steps">
    <li><b>Your name owns your key.</b>
        <span>Register any name on the chain, publish your Nostr pubkey as an
        <code class="inline">np</code> record. The key is derived from the
        same wallet seed as the name, so one seed backs both.</span></li>
    <li><b>Find people by name.</b>
        <span>Type <code class="inline">bob.x</code>. The client resolves
        it against the chain, pulls <code class="inline">np</code>
        (Nostr pubkey) and <code class="inline">nr</code> (preferred relays).
        No directory server involved.</span></li>
    <li><b>Send the message sealed.</b>
        <span>NIP-17 gift-wrapped DMs — the relay sees neither sender nor
        content, only that a wrap addressed to some pubkey exists. Route over
        Tor to also hide your IP.</span></li>
    <li><b>The name shows, not the pubkey.</b>
        <span>Incoming messages reverse-resolve pubkey → name where possible,
        so your chat list looks like a normal chat list — not a wall of hex.</span></li>
  </ol>
</section>

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  <h2>Honest boundaries</h2>
  <div class="grid">
    <div class="card">
      <h3>Messaging, not email</h3>
      <p>No Gmail interop — by design. A separate anonymous-mailbox product
         covers "sign up on services without leaking a real address".</p>
    </div>
    <div class="card">
      <h3>Metadata resistance is good, not perfect</h3>
      <p>NIP-17 hides sender and content from relays. Relays still see the
         recipient pubkey, timing, and your connection IP unless you route
         over Tor.</p>
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    <div class="card">
      <h3>Relays are Nostr's soft spot</h3>
      <p>A message lives only while some relay keeps it. We run one relay +
         write to a handful of public relays for reach and redundancy.</p>
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  </div>
</section>

<section class="plain" style="text-align:center">
  <h2>Try it</h2>
  <p class="lede" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto">
    Open the web messenger right here, or install Theseus for the full
    experience (persistent history, sidebar entry, keyboard shortcut).</p>
  <div class="cta">
    <a class="btn primary" href="messenger/">Open Messenger</a>
    <a class="btn ghost" href="https://theseus.x/">Get Theseus</a>
    <a class="btn ghost" href="branding/">Brand kit</a>
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  <div>hermes.x — a <a href="https://silentmode.st/">Silent Mode</a> project.</div>
  <div class="fine">Named for the messenger of the gods. Ermis in modern Greek.</div>
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