An open, censorship-resistant protocol for social media and messaging.
Your social graph is your infrastructure. Friends store your data, you store theirs, and content propagates through trust-weighted gossip. No server controls what gets stored, served, or censored.
Gozzip inherits Nostr's proven primitives — secp256k1 identity, signed events, relay transport — and adds a storage and retrieval layer where users own their data.
- Storage Pacts — bilateral agreements where trusted peers store each other's events, verified by challenge-response proofs
- Tiered Retrieval — reads cascade from local pact storage → gossip → relay fallback, eliminating relay dependency
- WoT-Filtered Gossip — information propagates through trust boundaries, not broadcast channels
- Transport Independence — operates over IP, BLE mesh, radio, Tor, or any transport via FIPS integration
Relays don't die — they become optional discovery layers instead of gatekeepers.
Gozzip speaks Nostr natively — existing keys, events, and relays work unchanged. Data is self-authenticating and portable to ActivityPub (Mastodon), AT Protocol (Bluesky), RSS, and Matrix.
Migration is seamless: a Nostr user becomes a Gozzip user by installing a client that adds device delegation and storage pacts in the background.
Trust-Weighted Gossip for Decentralized Storage and Retrieval
Covers the full protocol: storage pacts, tiered retrieval, WoT-filtered gossip, network-theoretic foundations, FIPS transport integration, cross-protocol comparison, and a phased implementation roadmap.
Protocol design complete. No production implementation yet. Architecture designed for gradual transition from today's relay model — storage decentralization first, retrieval decentralization later.
MIT