The Sovereign promise
If we disappear, you don't.
Most platforms own the account you build on them. If they close, raise your fees, or boot you off, everything you built goes with them. The Sovereign is built the opposite way — what's yours stays yours, on every feature we ship.
What the promise covers
Every feature on The Sovereign runs on the same foundation and honors the same promise. Here is the whole stack.
Foundation layers
10 layersIdentity
your self. your keys.
Vault
your documents. your lock.
Share
your data. your consent.
Wallet
your money. your keys.
Sign
your signature. your contract.
Proof
your claim. your proof.
Backup
your data. your survival.
Health
your records. your access.
your inbox. your rules.
Vote
your voice. your vote.
Surfaces
11 surfacesMarket
your trade. your terms.
DM
your words. your privacy.
Chat
your rooms. your rules.
Hire
your work. your worth.
Feed
your timeline. your choice.
Social
your people. your graph.
Fund
your raise. your risk.
Learn
your skills. your proof.
Meet
your gatherings. your doors.
Read
your words. your readers.
Call
your voice. your silence.
The stack
identity (root) ├── Vault ── Market, DM, Chat, Hire, Feed, Social, Fund, Learn, Meet, Read, Call ├── Share ── Market, DM, Chat, Hire, Feed, Social, Fund, Learn, Meet, Read, Call ├── Wallet ── Market, Hire, Fund, Learn, Meet ├── Sign ── Market, Hire, Fund, Learn, Meet ├── Proof ── Hire, Social, Learn ├── Backup ── (structural — powers the rest of the stack) ├── Health ── (structural — powers the rest of the stack) ├── Mail ── (structural — powers the rest of the stack) └── Vote ── (structural — powers the rest of the stack)
What stays yours
Your identity
The handle people see, the keys behind it, the whole portable self you build here. You can take it to any compatible app and keep going.
Your data
Everything you post, message, publish, or store is signed by you and saved where you can still read it after we're gone.
Your reputation
Reviews, history, and trust you earn on any feature travel with your identity. Nobody can secretly delete or fake it.
Your money
The wallet attached to your account is real money. Export it or move it whenever you want. We can't spend it for you, and we can't freeze it.
What you're in charge of
Your backup
We give you a one-tap export of the keys that prove you're you. Save it to a password manager the same way you'd save any other login. Keep it; you'll need it to leave.
Anything you only upload here
Drafts, notes, and things you haven't published are yours, but they live with us until you do something with them. If it's important, back it up.
Your choice to leave
Nothing about The Sovereign locks you in. That's the point. You can be here, somewhere else, or both at once.
How to leave cleanly
Export your identity
In settings, confirm your password and copy your backup key to a password manager. That key is how any other app recognizes you as you.
Export your wallet
In wallet settings, reveal your wallet credentials, then sweep the balance to any Lightning wallet you control.
Walk away
Your data is already signed by you and saved publicly under your name. No migration needed. Delete your account here and you're done.
How it applies to Market
Market is the first feature live on The Sovereign. It's also how we keep the lights on — a flat $5 a month, and nothing else.
See how Market works →The technical version
For people who want the details: identities are Nostr keypairs we generate and encrypt for you server-side, exportable as an nsec any time. Listings on Market are signed Nostr events (kind 30402 — addressable classified listings) pushed to public relays on your behalf. Reviews are signed events referencing the listing and the seller's npub. Profiles are kind 0 metadata events. Your handle is verifiable as [email protected] via NIP-05 at /.well-known/nostr.json. Wallets are Lightning accounts; Tier-3 users connect their own via NWC. Every feature we add follows the same pattern: data signed by you, keys held by you, relays outside of us.
Relays we publish through
wss://relay.damus.ioLivewss://nos.lolLiveAny Nostr client can read these relays and confirm your content is where we say it is. No trust required.
Stay, leave, or do both.
We built this so the choice is always yours.