Who owns your identity in the AI economy? On November 19, Evgeny and Bruce McCarthy (Product Culture) will talk about: 1. Why AI is breaking trust in traditional networks. 2. How SimpleX is solving this problem. 3. How SimpleX will make money.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Who Owns Your Identity in the AI Economy?. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

If an AI can clone your voice and your face, and spoof your phone number and email address, then phone numbers and email are dead. Join us to hear ...

Over 600,000 people talk on SimpleX, 20x more than in 2023. Thank you! It is the only messaging network without any user identifiers - where only you control your contacts and conversations. Now you can own a part of it - watch full video, learn more and invest on Wefunder: https://wefunder.com/simplex.chat

Your Claude Code can now chat on SimpleX! With the MCP package we just released, it can join channels/groups/talk to bots, and ask you before it connects or sends. To run it: ```npx -y @simplex-chat/mcp serve my-agent``` https://github.com/simplex-chat/simple

We got accepted to Anthropic OSS Scanner:

GitHub

simplex-chat: enrol project by shumvgolove · Pull Request #342 · anthropics/oss-scanner

Enrol projects/simplex-chat I have verified each of the following before submitting this project: I am a core maintainer of this project. I acce...

The first review already received - there are no critical findings! We will publish an update soon.

SimpleX Chat has grown to over 600,000+ users! More than 70% in the last 6 months and 20x since the 2023 investment round. SimpleX is the only messaging network without user identifiers - which means that nobody can reach you unless you want it, and nobody can watch or block your private conversations. It is the only network that can protect users from AI scammers that can fake people you trust, even their email addresses and phone numbers. You can now invest in SimpleX Chat and own a part of it - watch our new explainer video on Wefunder.

You were born without an account. Nobody tracked your conversations. Privacy was never a feature - it was the way of life. SimpleX brings it back - the only messaging network without any user identifiers.

SimpleX Chat: private and secure messenger without any user IDs (not even random)

SimpleX Chat - a private and encrypted messenger without any user IDs (not even random ones)! Make a private connection via link / QR code to send ...

No phone number. Share your address or QR code in your bio, site, X, or anywhere else. Anyone can reach out. You choose who to accept. Change the address anytime without losing your chats.

Invest $500+ by September 22 and get a SimpleX public name for your channel or business for 7 years, ahead of the public launch:

Invest in SimpleX Chat

Get a stake in SimpleX Chat - the first and only messaging network without any user identifiers. Equity crowdfunding on Wefunder.

Investors also get free supporter badges, so you can send larger files (2-5 GB) that stay available longer (7-21 days) without being identified.

SimpleX supporter badges are released in v7.1-beta! Send larger files (2-5gb) that stay available longer (7-21 days), without being identified. Investors in our equity crowdfunding on Wefunder receive supporter badges as perks:

SimpleX Supporter Badges — Send Larger Files That Stay Available Longer, Without Being Identified

If you invest $500 or more by September 22, you will also receive a public SimpleX name for 7 years: https://wefunder.com/simplexchat

SimpleX Chat livestream is tomorrow! To learn about our future roadmap and crowdfunding, join us at 17:00 UTC (10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UK). We will talk about: - why we are building SimpleX Chat. - how revenue will work, with 2 demos. - why the coming flood of AI clones makes SimpleX the best design for personal communications. - why this round is the best time to invest. - your questions! The links for livestream: - X:

X (formerly Twitter)

SimpleX Chat

Livestream. SimpleX Chat: Foundation for the Future

- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SimpleX-Chat/streams - our page: https://stream.simplex.chat Please send questions via our email chat@simplex.chat or via SimpleX Chat:

SimpleX Chat - Invitation

SimpleX Chat has grown to ~480,000 users! It has been growing more than 2x every year over the last 3 years. Now you can get a stake in SimpleX Chat and benefit from the company growth. If you invest $500 or more, we offer a SimpleX public name for your channel or business as a perk: - for 10 years if you invest until 17:00 UTC tomorrow (countdown on Wefunder page) - for 5 years for early bird investors - for 3 years after that. Learn about how we plan to make SimpleX Chat profitable and about all investment terms on Wefunder: https://wefunder.com/simplexchat How do we know how many users SimpleX has, without having user IDs? App Store and Play Store provide actual usage statistics – monthly active users and daily active users. It is ~72% of the total. The rest we estimate based on GitHub and F-Droid downloads.

SimpleX Chat crowdfunding is live! We are building the first messaging network that can't identify you – a decentralized, open-source network where only you decide who can connect to you and which servers to use, and nobody can know who you talk to. Yesterday SimpleX got to 1M+ downloads on Play Store (3M+ total). Thank you! We invite you to invest in SimpleX Chat and become part of building private and secure communications for all people. If you invest $500+, you also get SimpleX public name as a perk: - for 10 years if you invest until August 15 - for 5 years for early bird investors - for 3 years after that. Read about investment terms on Wefunder: https://wefunder.com/simplexchat

We are launching public SimpleX names - a name nobody can take from you. You can try a test SimpleX name with your channel or business in v7-beta. Read more in the blog post:

SimpleX Public Names — a Name Nobody Can Take From You

We published the whitepaper about Community Credits - a closed loop prepaid payment system to fund servers and client application in decentralized SimpleX network: https://simplex.chat/credits/whitepaper.pdf About Community Credits:

SimpleX Community Credits

Alain Brenzikoher presented it at Web3 Summit: SimpleX Community Credits: Making Privacy Profitable.

We updated SimpleX Chat Privacy Policy and Conditions. What changed: Stronger privacy commitments: - explicitly states that preset servers do not log IP addresses. - you can verify clients and servers via reproducible builds. quantum-resistant end-to-end encryption. - messages are irreversibly removed from preset servers on delivery or after 21 days. - transparency commitment by client apps. New private one-time connection links and public addresses: - your profile data is encrypted on the server - only people with the link can access it, not the servers. - one-time link profile data is removed once the connection is established. Public channels (beta): - chat relays are used to deliver messages to channel subscribers. - chat relays cannot identify subscribers. Commit with the change:

GitHub

docs: update privacy policy (#6786) · simplex-chat/simplex-chat@05f9963

What changed: Stronger privacy commitments: - explicitly states that preset servers do not log IP addresses. - you can verify clients and servers ...

(we maintain it in GitHub so you can track changes). Full text:

SimpleX Privacy Policy

Please let us know any questions or suggestions - many amendments were proposed by the users.

Happy New Year! Thank you all for your incredible support of SimpleX network in 2025: - to users for over 2,000,000 app downloads since launch. - to enthusiasts for hundreds of community hosted servers. - to group owners for thousands of groups. - to businesses and projects using SimpleX Chat for customer and user support. - to developers who created integrations and libraries for SimpleX network. - to all who donated, and especially to Vitalik Buterin for his game-changing donation of 128ETH. 2026 will be great for privacy and for SimpleX network!

A big news for SimpleX Chat privacy and security: Android apps released via GitHub and F-Droid are now 100% reproducible! It means that you can easily verify that the app is secure, even if the download site was hacked. From v6.5 our release process is: 1) build Android apps on two independent machines and confirm they are 100% identical; 2) cryptographically "sign" them; 3) add signature files to the release page so you can verify. v6.5 beta.3 release:

GitHub

Release v6.5.0-beta.3 · simplex-chat/simplex-chat

New in v6.5-beta.3: fix opening new contact request on remote desktop. fix remote desktop failing to receive new events after error. iOS: fix dial...

Server and Linux desktop builds were already reproducible, and Android APKs are now as secure. Anyone can check it themselves - no coding needed, just follow our simple guide to verify the app is genuine or run the build yourself:

Verify and reproduce builds

Our users asked many questions about Chat Control, as discussions were restarted in the EU this week. SimpleX Chat is an open-source app where users control the code and the servers they use. Therefore it is impossible to implement any client-side scanning, and it will not happen. If the law is passed, two options are possible: - we might need to stop offering preset servers to the EU users. - we will not need to change anything - this is the most likely outcome. Our operations are always consistent with our Privacy Policy (https://simplex.chat/privacy), and we would rather shut down than do anything that contradicts this agreement with our users.

"Code alone doesn't cut it. Not code alone, not code widely distributed, not even code widely used. Some measure of toleration in society for activities conducted in private is necessary for long term success. Not convenient, not easier, but necessary." Eric Hughes, "Kid Gloves or Megaphones" (email to Cypherpunk mailing list), 1996

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