ZeroChat.One: A Decentralized Communication Layer for PulseChain (Coming Soon)

ZeroChat.One

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A Decentralised Communication Layer for PulseChain Communities

There are people encountering the current pressure on privacy and communication as if it arrived unexpectedly. For others, particularly those who have watched the evolution of money, identity, and platforms over decades, the direction has been clear for a long time.

Control has always moved through layers. First through money, then through identity, and eventually through communication itself. When financial systems became increasingly abstracted and intermediated, behaviour became easier to influence. When decentralised finance began removing some of that leverage, attention naturally shifted to coordination and speech.

This is not a new conflict, its simply reaching a new surface.

What ZeroChat Is

ZeroChat is a decentralised messaging and social platform built specifically for the PulseChain ecosystem. It is designed to give communities a usable, real-time communication layer that does not depend on a single company, server, or authority to function.

At its core, ZeroChat combines three elements that are rarely brought together cleanly:

• decentralised message distribution

• self-sovereign user identity

• blockchain-based access control (Token gating)

The goal is not theoretical purity. The goal is resilience, usability, and reduction of control points.

Decentralised Messaging via Relays

ZeroChat does not route messages through a central server or database. Instead, it uses a decentralised relay model. Messages are signed by users and published to multiple independent relays simultaneously.

Users connect to several relays at once. If one relay goes offline, others continue to deliver messages. There is no master relay, no authoritative store of all content, and no single operator who can unilaterally alter or suppress communication.

Relays are independent by design. Anyone can run one. Communities can operate their own relays if they choose. As more relays are added, the network becomes harder to disrupt, not easier.

This is a fundamental difference from traditional platforms, where all communication ultimately passes through infrastructure owned by one company.

Identity Without Accounts

ZeroChat does not use email addresses, phone numbers, or platform-issued accounts. Users authenticate using cryptographic keys.

This can be done through browser extensions that manage keys on the user’s behalf, or through locally generated keypairs encrypted with a passphrase. Authentication is performed through signed messages, not stored credentials.

There is no central authority issuing or revoking identity. Participation is based on possession of a key, not approval from a platform. This removes one of the primary control mechanisms used by centralised systems.

Rooms and Communication Modes

ZeroChat supports multiple types of rooms to reflect how communities actually operate:

• PulseChain Feed

• open rooms that anyone can join

• invite-only rooms

• application-based rooms where users apply or answer questions

• token-gated rooms with automated access rules

• nested sub-rooms inheriting permissions from parent rooms

This allows everything from public discussion spaces to tightly controlled private coordination, without forcing all communities into the same structure.

End-to-End Encryption Where It Matters

Private rooms and direct messages on ZeroChat support end-to-end encryption.

Messages are encrypted on the user’s device before being published to relays. Only intended recipients can decrypt them. Relay operators cannot read message content, and backend infrastructure has no visibility into private conversations.

Encryption is chosen deliberately at room creation and enforced thereafter. A private room remains private. There is no ambiguity about what is protected and what is not.

This approach avoids the false sense of security often created by optional or unclear privacy features on centralised platforms.

Token-Gated Access Without Custody

ZeroChat integrates PulseChain-based token gating as an access control mechanism, but without assuming that tokens must represent value.

Communities can gate rooms using existing tokens, or they can create purpose-built tokens that carry no financial value and act purely as access keys. These keys can be distributed at scale using multisenders.

Rooms can require an exact token balance for entry, preventing sharing and ensuring that access remains controlled. Importantly, users do not need to connect wallets that hold value. Participation can be handled using separate, low-risk wallets created solely for access.

This reflects a broader PulseChain ethos: minimise exposure, separate access from capital, and avoid unnecessary trust assumptions.

Roles, Moderation, and Local Governance

ZeroChat includes role-based permissions for rooms, allowing communities to define administrators, moderators, posting rights, and read-only access.

Moderation exists, but it is not centralised. Each room governs itself. Optional AI-assisted tools can help flag content, but decisions remain local to the community.

There is no global enforcement mechanism and no platform-level authority silently shaping behaviour across the entire network.

What ZeroChat Is and Is Not

ZeroChat is not fully on-chain messaging. Current blockchain infrastructure is not suited to real-time communication at scale, and forcing that would compromise usability.

It is also not immune to all forms of pressure. No system is. What ZeroChat does is remove single points of failure and make control more complex, visible, and expensive.

It is a pragmatic step forward, not an ideological endpoint.

Why This Matters for PulseChain Communities

PulseChain has attracted people who care about self-sovereignty, reduced reliance on intermediaries, and systems that work without permission. Communication is a natural extension of those values.

ZeroChat will provide a space where communities can organise, speak, and coordinate without handing control to platforms whose incentives are fundamentally different from their own.

It is not built on hope that centralised systems will change course. Its built on the assumption that they won't.

Closing

ZeroChat.One is infrastructure. It is not a statement piece, or a reaction to headlines. It is a tool designed to function in the world as it actually is.

For communities already operating outside traditional financial structures, having a communication layer that reflects the same principles is not a luxury, we think its a necessity.

And ZeroChat exists to meet that need, quietly and deliberately.

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