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Email you own. Spam you don’t pay for.

A decentralized mail protocol on Solana — postage paid by the sender and earned by you, pricing spam out at the source; addresses tied to your wallet instead of a rented domain; and mail encrypted end-to-end and stored off-chain on IPFS. Standard SMTP, IMAP, and POP3 underneath, so the inbox you already use just works.

Read the Prelude → Skip to the Introduction


Get paid for your own inbox

Postage from strangers lands directly in your wallet. You’re compensated for the attention you’re already spending defending it, instead of a provider monetizing your data for free.


Turn your inbox into an opt-in income stream

Opt into the campaign pool and advertisers pay you — postage to land in your inbox, and a bounty when you reply. You pick the topics you’ll hear about; nobody reaches you uninvited or for free.


An address that’s actually yours

Tied to your wallet, not a domain someone else controls. Move it to a new domain any time and keep your history and identity intact — nobody can revoke it out from under you.


Private by default

Every message is sealed straight to your wallet and stored on IPFS, not on a company’s server. No provider ever holds your mail in the clear.


Works with the inbox you already use

Standard SMTP, IMAP, and POP3 to the letter — your existing mail client just works. No new app to learn, no migration required.


No gatekeeper, no single company

SithBit is a protocol, not a product. Anyone who owns a domain can run a mail server and earn a share of the mail it carries — the same footing as every other operator on the network.

Curious how a blockchain ended up solving a fifty-year-old email problem? Start with the Prelude for the story of how SithBit came to be, or jump straight to the Introduction for how the economics actually work.