A free network that funds itself.
KANDO gives people a social network with no ads, no fees and no bots — and sells the trust layer underneath it to organisations. Two engines, one core technology.
From proven technology to compounding revenue
Five stages. The hardest one — proving the protocol works — is already behind us.
Proven core
Live MVP, real Kademlia DHT, 91-node validation, utility model filed. The technology risk is already retired.
Harden & audit
Protocol hardening under churn, independent security audit, mobile apps. Grants (NLnet/NGI, Business Finland) fund this.
Seed the network
Overlay onto existing networks instead of cold-starting. First communities arrive; the trust graph starts to densify.
Open the revenue engine
Trust API in production, first private hives, dual-licences. Pilots convert to paying customers.
Scale
Consumer network compounds at near-zero marginal cost while B2B revenue scales on software margins.
Organisations pay for trust. People never do.
Every bot-plagued platform, DAO and marketplace has the same unsolved problem: proving that a user is a real, independent human — without biometrics, tokens or gas. That is exactly what KANDO's network produces as a by-product, and what we sell.
Trust API / SDK
Sybil-resistant verified identity and verified propagation, delivered as a service to other apps, marketplaces, DAOs and platforms.
Private hives
Universities, cooperatives, associations and companies run their own permissioned network with admin, moderation and compliance modules.
Commercial dual-licence
Organisations that cannot comply with AGPLv3 buy a commercial licence — the proven MongoDB / GitLab model.
Managed nodes
Hosted relay and super-nodes with an availability guarantee for organisations that do not want to operate their own.
Revenue mix shifts from grants to product
IllustrativeDevelopers & platforms
Apps, marketplaces, games and fediverse services that need Sybil-resistance and anti-bot defence.
Trust APICommunities & institutions
Universities, cooperatives, associations and NGOs running their own private hive.
Private hivesDAOs & governance
One-person-one-vote without buying identity, biometrics, or a token.
API + licenceNear-zero marginal cost
The network is hosted by its own users, so serving another member costs us essentially nothing.
Software margins
The Trust API scales globally without infrastructure spend rising in step with it.
A moat that grows
Every new member makes the trust graph denser — and the B2B product more valuable.
Free users are not a cost. They are the product's moat.
Consumer growth and enterprise revenue do not compete for the same resources — each one makes the other stronger.
- 1Free members joinInvite-based growth
- 2Trust graph densifiesVerified, bot-free network
- 3B2B product gets strongerBetter identity signal to sell
- 4Revenue + grantsFunds engineering
- ↻ …which brings in the next members. The loop tightens with every cycle.
Growth is built into the geometry.
There is no growth-hacking budget here. Every member can invite six neighbours, and membership only matures when they do — so the product's own rules drive expansion.
Each member can invite six neighbours — growth is structural, and every new member costs the company nothing to host.
Free, forever
No fees, no gas, no token. Removing the paywall removes the single biggest barrier to a social network reaching scale.
Every member adds value
Each verified person strengthens the trust graph that enterprises pay to use. Growth and revenue point the same way.
Read the hive in your own language.
Every message in Explore can be translated with one tap. A neural AI model (Meta's NLLB-200) runs on KANDO's own nodes — it detects the source language automatically and translates across 200 languages. Set your preferred language once and the whole feed just speaks it.
- 200 languages — From Persian to Spanish to Chinese — auto-detected, no picking the source.
- Private by design — The model runs on our own servers. Your messages never touch a third-party API.
- One tap, or automatic — Translate a single message, or set a preferred language and let it happen for you.
hello my friend, welcome to the hive
سلام دوست من، به کندو خوش آمدی
A social network that works for you.
Real people, private by default, and now translated by AI — the everyday experience members actually get.
AI translation, built in
Read every message in your own language. Our own NLLB-200 neural model covers 200 languages and detects the source automatically — running on KANDO nodes, never a third party.
Explore — ideas spread ring by ring
Post to your neighbours; a message only travels outward when each ring gives it three yes. Reach is earned, not handed out by an algorithm.
End-to-end encrypted chat
Every message is sealed. Only you and your recipient hold the keys — no third party, no server in the middle.
Verified, bot-free
Every member is vouched for by six neighbours. No bots, no fake accounts, no strangers slipping in.
You own your identity
Your keys live on your device. No phone number, no email harvesting, no biometrics — ever.
Free, forever
No fees, no gas, no token. The network is hosted by its own members, so it stays free as it grows.
Back the layer the open internet is missing.
We are raising non-dilutive grant funding (NLnet / NGI Zero, Business Finland) to harden the protocol, and opening the Trust API to first integration partners.