About Yappr

Decentralized social media on Dash Platform

What is Yappr?

Yappr is a decentralized social media platform built on Dash Platform. Unlike traditional social networks where a company owns and controls your data, Yappr stores everything on a blockchain. You truly own your identity, your content, and your social connections. No company can ban you, delete your posts, or shut down the service.

How It Works

When you use Yappr, you're interacting directly with the Dash Platform blockchain:

Your identity is a cryptographic key pair. Your private key is your password, your public key is your ID.
Your posts are documents stored on the blockchain, signed with your private key to prove you created them.
Your username comes from DPNS (Dash Platform Name Service), mapping a human-readable name to your identity.
Social actions like follows, likes, and reposts are all blockchain documents that anyone can verify.

Key Features

Posts

Share your thoughts in up to 500 characters

Profiles

Customize your name, bio, avatar, and banner

Follow

Build your network and see updates from people you follow

Likes & Reposts

Engage with content you enjoy

Encrypted DMs

Private conversations, encrypted end-to-end

Private Feeds

Encrypted posts visible only to approved followers

Store

Create a storefront, list items, and sell with Dash

Tips

Send Dash tips directly to users you appreciate

Notifications

Tabbed alerts with unread indicators and preferences

Bookmarks

Save posts to revisit later

Blocking

Control what you see in your feed

No Central Server

Yappr has no backend servers. This website is just a client application that runs entirely in your browser. It connects directly to Dash Platform's decentralized network of nodes. If this website went offline, your data would still exist on the blockchain, and other applications could access it.

Open Source

Yappr is open source software. Anyone can view the code, verify what it does, suggest improvements, or create their own version. Transparency builds trust.

View on GitHub

Community Driven

Yappr is a community project. There's no company behind it, no investors to please, no ads to sell. It exists because people believe in the idea of social media that users actually own. Contributions, feedback, and ideas are always welcome.

Technical Details

Contract ID

9oDC6xdg8WRixTD2j3FCBq3vtsrf6bRGjXSJbhtFoma9

Network

testnet

Interaction Topology

Document Types

23 types across 2 contracts (social + storefront)

View Full Data Contract

Resources

Dash Platform Docs

Learn about the underlying technology

Dash.org

The Dash cryptocurrency project

Last updated: January 2025