This is DeDe (Decentralized Delivery) Protocol:
Not a token, not speculation. It’s infrastructure, deployed on Ethereum mainnet.
We’re watching the same pattern everywhere: Postal systems collapsing. Parcels lost, broken, stolen or seized. Increased surveillance, ID requirements, more decay. Less reliability, less privacy, less dignity.
The institutions that were supposed to protect our right to communication are failing, even though privacy of correspondence is guaranteed under UN Article 12 and ICCPR Article 17.
So instead of being stuck in surveillance and Inefficiency-As-A-Service, we have to build parallel systems immune to centralized control. Systems by us for us, in the spirit of the Fediverse:
community-powered
decentralized
permissionless
protocol, not platform
no corporations
no bosses
no surveillance
no extraction
DeDe (Decentralized Delivery) is not a token, not a scam, not a VC product, not a walled garden. It’s a rail, an open delivery settlement layer anyone can build on.
What it does:
Every parcel is an NFT with a lifecycle
Escrow is automatic, trustless, and transparent
Anyone can create an NFT-Parcel
Anyone can carry parcels while they’re already on the move
No fleets, no gig exploitation, no “shadow wages”
Zero extra CO₂, use the movement people already make
Protocol fee is immutable (0.5%), so nobody can rug / extract
Privacy is natively built in.
Fully MIT-licensed & open-source
It’s not a startup. It’s not a marketplace. It’s not a company.
It’s the peoples infrastructure for physical logistics.
Because if we want a free world, we can’t outsource critical communication infrastructure to decaying governments, surveillance corps, or gig economy parasites.
If you want to understand the philosophy behind it, here’s the full manifesto + artwork:
Medium: https://medium.com/@ekarlsson66/dede-the-delivery-rail-for-a-free-world-e7be944b90fc
If you want to poke around the contracts:
DeDe Protocol GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/pablo-chacon/dede-protocol
DeDe Quik-Start Templates GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/pablo-chacon/dede-templates
No pressure to “like crypto.” DeDe is just a tool. Use it, fork it, ignore it. All up to you. More decentralized civilizational fundamentals, means less dependency of collapsing control systems. We must have working alternatives when the centralized systems break down.
Against decay, we build. That’s the spirit of the fediverse. That’s the spirit of DeDe.
Fedex and UPS deliver almost anywhere, and can do insured packages. Here in the U.S. there’s also the postal service, which also can deliver across a wide geography, beyond that of the U.S. borders. These cost a trivial amount of money and if one has a post office near them, they can pay with cash and avoid revealing their identity.
It sounds like you want people to use a form of cryptocurrency to pay a stranger, whichever stranger comes first, to deliver a physical package, then paying the deliverer once the package is accepted, using that same cryptocurrency.
Even if the protocol doesn’t track or identify anyone, if the ledger is available for anyone to see or even if it were limited to package deliverers, a tracking mechanism would be trivial to create.
This does not guarantee any level of security for the package, only the payment, which is only theoretically secure because I haven’t taken the time to check.
If it somehow took off as a solution people needed, once a package is put on the chain, there could potentially a mad free-for-all of deliverers, all fighting tooth and nail to get that package.
The entire trip delivering would also be fraught with dangers potentially, as deliverers who weren’t fast enough might simply rob or kill the winning deliverer, take the package, then deliver it themselves. If they wanted to…
If the payment for a package is high enough, one might wonder just what was so important to warrant such a payment. Drugs? Guns? Biological weapons? Black market organs for transplant? Actual cash money?
Don’t forget that computational costs electricity, which costs the environment until the world gets off of fossil fuels. Potential users would have to ask themselves if the package delivery is more important than climate change.
This sounds like a way to try and make crypto money, for doing absolutely nothing, by inserting crypto into a market that doesn’t need it, to do a job already handled just fine by companies that already have the infrastructure in place, with no real problem being solved that needs solved.
What problem does this solve? How does this make package delivering any better?