Trust becomes network geometry.
A social network that is free for people and structurally impossible to flood with bots — private by design, resilient by design.
Finland · EU · AGPLv3 · kandonet.com
Feeds are full of bots — and the business model is surveillance.
Spam, scams and AI misinformation fill feeds. Users can no longer tell who is a real person.
Mainstream networks track users, sell attention & data, and can censor or de-platform at will.
Mastodon & Nostr give ownership but have no built-in defence against spam and fake accounts.
Structure is security.
KANDO replaces financial trust (gas, PoW, staking) and surveillance trust (KYC, biometrics) with structural trust — the cheapest and most scalable of the three.
Hex topology
Six neighbours · O(1) routing.
Rule of 3
≥3 confirmations to spread. Native spam filter.
Co-eclosion
Sybil-resistant, no PoW/PoS. cNFT + DID.
Gasless DHT
Kademlia. No server, no chain, no fee.
Proof-of-Growth, not Proof-of-Work.
Rights unlock only when a node's neighbourhood matures. Faking one citizen means faking an interlocking cascade of nodes — Sybil attacks become mathematically unfeasible.
Holds a coordinate via invite. Inactive.
Ring 1 filled & verified. Visible, no rights.
Ring 2 matured. Full rights + identity.
The hard part already works.
Live web app — login, hive, invites, verification, E2E chat.
Cold test confirmed reserved→candidate→citizen end-to-end.
libp2p + real signed Kademlia DHT — not a simulation.
Estonian utility model filed · code AGPLv3.
Capital accelerates a proven core — not a concept on paper.
A horizontal trust layer, not another social app.
Digital identity, verification & bot/fraud defence.
Decentralised identity, Sybil-resistance, anti-spam for Web3 & the fediverse.
SDK / managed-infra licences, dual-licensing, pilots.
The network is free for people. Organisations pay.
Users never pay, see ads, or have data sold — that is the trust promise and the growth engine. Revenue comes from organisations, alongside the free network, never in front of it.
Trust API / SDK
Sybil-resistant verified identity & propagation as a service — usage-based + SaaS tiers.
Private & enterprise hives
Open-core + dual-licensing (MongoDB/GitLab model) + managed nodes with SLA.
Optional premium + grants
Creator badges, storage, brand hives (never required); EU / Business Finland grants fund the runway.
No ads · no data sale · no per-user fee · no token
Developer-first, overlay-led — built in Finland.
- Overlay, don’t cold-start — layer over Nostr / fediverse to bring in users.
- Developer & scientific credibility — live demo, open-source, complex-contagion theory.
- Lighthouse pilots — a university, a creator community, a DAO → case studies.
- Values fit — a top-trust, privacy-first society — our no-ads, user-owned model matches Finnish & GDPR values.
- Funding & ecosystem — Business Finland grants, the Startup Permit, and Slush support open-source deep-tech.
- Talent & heritage — world-class engineering, cryptography, and telecom / mesh-networking depth.
- EU market — single-market access, plus proximity to our Estonian entity (Comfyuse OÜ).
No one else combines structural trust with zero cost.
| Capability | Worldcoin | BrightID / Gitcoin | Nostr | KANDO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sybil resistance | Biometric | Social graph | Weak | Structural |
| No token / no gas | ✕ | Partial | ✓ | ✓ |
| No biometrics / KYC | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Native spam filter | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | 3-confirm |
| O(1) routing · offline mesh | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
Join the hive.
NLnet / NGI Zero · Sovereign Tech Fund · Business Finland · Open Tech Fund — non-dilutive runway.
EIC Accelerator · Baltic/Nordic deep-tech & impact VCs · strategic angels.
Use of funds: harden Go-libp2p core & cold-start · independent security audit · SDK & DevRel · 2–3 lighthouse pilots.