Chain 4663 · Live
Encrypted · Anchored · Unremovable
Every message anchored on Robinhood Chain. Half of every payment goes back to the people holding $GRAM.
Messages are sealed on your device and free to send, forever — the relay posts them on chain with no gas and your address never on chain. Rooms are $10 a month, paid by whoever runs them; members ride free.
HoodGram is an end-to-end encrypted messenger that lives on the open web and settles on Robinhood Chain. Every message becomes a permanent, verifiable anchor on a public network — proof it was sent, readable by no one but the recipient. There is no store to remove it from and no subscription to cancel. You buy in once.
A $5 activation, paid in $GRAM, creates your account and includes your @handle. It never renews and never expires — the account is yours for as long as the chain exists. The price is also the spam wall: every account on HoodGram cost somebody five dollars, which is five dollars more than a bot flood wants to spend. No free tier, no burner armies.
A room is a group chat with rent: $10 a month, paid by whoever runs it. Members never pay. Anyone may pay a room’s rent — paying grants no control. If the rent lapses, the room pauses new messages and deletes nothing: history, keys, membership and admin all survive, and paying again reopens it instantly.
Sending costs nothing. A relay batch-posts your sealed message on chain and pays the gas — no wallet popup, no fee, and your address never appears on chain. Prefer not to trust even that? Post it yourself for about a cent. Self-posting is permissionless and always will be.
Every message is anchored on Robinhood Chain. What the chain holds is a sealed, padded envelope and a timestamp — proof the message happened, with nothing inside for anyone to read. Your history cannot be quietly edited or deleted by a company, because it does not live at a company.
50% of every payment — every $5 activation, every month of room rent — is paid to $GRAM holders, pro-rata by holdings, in weekly epochs. No staking, no lock-up, no deposit contract. Hold in your own wallet at the weekly snapshot, then claim.
Holding more unlocks status, never money — a badge, shorter @handles, bigger rooms. A tier is judged on the lower of your live balance and the last weekly snapshot, so it must be held, not visited: it cannot be flash-bought, and selling drops it immediately. The revenue share itself needs no tier — every holder is paid pro-rata from the first token.
| Tier | Hold | Unlocks |
|---|---|---|
| Resident | 0.05% | Holder badge beside your name in every chat |
| Block Captain | 0.10% | + 4-character @handles, bigger uploads, bigger rooms |
| District | 0.25% | + 3-character @handles, early features |
| Kingpin | 0.50% | + 2-character @handles, broadcast rooms |
For two decades, private messaging has lived in app stores and on company servers — places with owners, and owners can be ordered. The scanning law now in force in the EU applies to unencrypted services; encrypted messengers were carved out this round, and the next round starts in September. In August, a billion-user messenger disappeared from the App Store for two days on one company’s decision. HoodGram is built for the day one of those votes goes the other way: a web app with no store to remove it from, sealed messages with nothing readable to hand over, and a self-post door that no one — including us — can close.