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Finishes the icon sweep started in badce1bc. The branding pages' download links now serve mark.webp (main) + mark-wings-both.webp (variant); the Open Graph image for site-hermes-x points at the webp too. Legacy .svg files stay on disk so any outside link to them keeps working, but every page we control now references the webp assets.
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<title>hermes.x — message anyone by their on-chain name</title>
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<meta name="description" content="Hermes: end-to-end encrypted messaging where your Bitcoin Cash name is your identity. NIP-17 sealed DMs over Nostr. No email, no phone number, no company account.">
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<meta property="og:description" content="End-to-end encrypted DMs over Nostr, addressed by your on-chain registered name. No email, no phone, no server that can delete your account.">
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<meta name="twitter:description" content="Sealed-sender DMs over Nostr, addressed by on-chain registered name.">
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<nav class="topnav">
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<a class="brand" href="./">
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<img src="assets/mark.webp" alt="Hermes" width="5" height="22" style="display:block">
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hermes<span class="x">.x</span>
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</a>
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<a href="./" class="here">Overview</a>
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<a href="messenger/">Messenger</a>
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<a href="branding/">Branding</a>
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<a href="https://theseus.x/" class="get">Get Theseus</a>
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</nav>
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<header class="hero">
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<div class="mark" aria-hidden="true">
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<img src="assets/mark.webp" alt="Hermes" width="3" height="22" style="display:block">
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</div>
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<h1>Message by name<span class="x">.</span></h1>
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<p class="tag">End-to-end encrypted DMs over Nostr, addressed by your
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on-chain registered name instead of a public-key string.
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Your name owns your key. No email, no phone number, no company, no server
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that can delete your account.</p>
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<div class="cta">
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<a class="btn primary" href="messenger/">Open Messenger</a>
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<a class="btn ghost" href="https://theseus.x/">Get Theseus (desktop)</a>
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</div>
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</header>
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<div class="wrap narrow">
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<section class="plain">
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<h2>What ships today</h2>
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<p class="lede">Hermes is live inside the Theseus desktop browser. Web
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messenger and Android follow.</p>
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<div class="grid">
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<div class="card">
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<h3>Threaded chat <span class="src ok">live</span></h3>
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<p>Contact list on the left (search + unread badges), selected
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conversation on the right, inline reply. Enter to send.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<h3>Send by name <span class="src ok">live</span></h3>
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<p>Type <code class="inline">alice.x</code>. The client resolves the
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name on-chain, wraps NIP-17 to the recipient's Nostr key, publishes
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to their declared relays. Sealed-sender — the relay never sees who
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sent what to whom.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<h3>Address book <span class="src ok">live</span></h3>
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<p>Local contact list — add names, nicknames, import vCards. Nothing
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uploaded; the book is on your device.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<h3>History on your device <span class="src ok">live</span></h3>
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<p>Messages persist to disk per identity. Close and reopen the panel —
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your threads are still there, unread marks included.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<h3>Web Messenger <span class="src next">next</span></h3>
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<p><a href="messenger/">hermes.x/messenger</a> — browser-side messenger
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for anyone without the desktop app. Same crypto, same identity.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<h3>Mobile (Ariadne) <span class="src plan">planned</span></h3>
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<p>Inside the Ariadne Android app: same wallet seed, same Nostr identity,
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zero extra onboarding.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>The one idea that makes this different</h2>
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<p class="lede">Every existing Nostr client has the same wart: identity is
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<code class="inline">npub1q8s7f3k…</code> gibberish. The human-name fix —
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NIP-05 — resolves <code class="inline">alice@example.com</code> through a
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DNS domain and a web server. That is exactly the ICANN + server chain
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Bitcoin Cash names exist to escape.</p>
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<div class="note">
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<b>The Hermes pitch.</b><br>
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<code class="inline">alice.x</code> publishes her Nostr pubkey as an
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on-chain record. Her name certificate <i>is</i> her verified,
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seizure-resistant identity. Message anyone by their
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on-chain registered name — no phone number, no email, no ICANN,
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no company, no server that can delete your account.
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</div>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>How it works</h2>
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<ol class="steps">
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<li><b>Your name owns your key.</b>
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<span>Register any name on the chain, publish your Nostr pubkey as an
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<code class="inline">np</code> record. The key is derived from the
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same wallet seed as the name, so one seed backs both.</span></li>
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<li><b>Find people by name.</b>
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<span>Type <code class="inline">bob.x</code>. The client resolves
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it against the chain, pulls <code class="inline">np</code>
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(Nostr pubkey) and <code class="inline">nr</code> (preferred relays).
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No directory server involved.</span></li>
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<li><b>Send the message sealed.</b>
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<span>NIP-17 gift-wrapped DMs — the relay sees neither sender nor
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content, only that a wrap addressed to some pubkey exists. Route over
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Tor to also hide your IP.</span></li>
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<li><b>The name shows, not the pubkey.</b>
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<span>Incoming messages reverse-resolve pubkey → name where possible,
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so your chat list looks like a normal chat list — not a wall of hex.</span></li>
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</ol>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Honest boundaries</h2>
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<div class="grid">
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<div class="card">
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<h3>Messaging, not email</h3>
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<p>No Gmail interop — by design. A separate anonymous-mailbox product
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covers "sign up on services without leaking a real address".</p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<h3>Metadata resistance is good, not perfect</h3>
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<p>NIP-17 hides sender and content from relays. Relays still see the
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recipient pubkey, timing, and your connection IP unless you route
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over Tor.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<h3>Relays are Nostr's soft spot</h3>
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<p>A message lives only while some relay keeps it. We run one relay +
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write to a handful of public relays for reach and redundancy.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section class="plain" style="text-align:center">
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<h2>Try it</h2>
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<p class="lede" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto">
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Open the web messenger right here, or install Theseus for the full
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experience (persistent history, sidebar entry, keyboard shortcut).</p>
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<div class="cta">
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<a class="btn primary" href="messenger/">Open Messenger</a>
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<a class="btn ghost" href="https://theseus.x/">Get Theseus</a>
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<a class="btn ghost" href="branding/">Brand kit</a>
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</div>
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</section>
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</div>
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<footer>
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<div>hermes.x — a <a href="https://silentmode.st/">Silent Mode</a> project.</div>
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<div class="fine">Named for the messenger of the gods. Ermis in modern Greek.</div>
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