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.
you lost me at “Parcel NFTs”
I understand the skepticism and it’s justified, NFTs have gotten a bad rep. =) Personally, I never speculated on NFTs. It’s never been my thing. But the tech itself? Solid. It’s just been misused.
Just because a technology gets applied poorly doesn’t make it inherently bad. This is why I think they’re perfect for this use case:
An NFT is just a digital record of ownership for something non-fungible (i.e., unique and indivisible). Unlike fungible tokens like ETH or BTC (which you can split or mix), an NFT always refers to one unique thing.
In the case of DeDe, the NFT represents a parcel, not a jpg, not art. The NFT holds metadata like:
Parcel ID
Lifecycle state (e.g. Created, PickedUp, Delivered)
Reference to encrypted pickup/dropoff info
It’s not trying to “put the package on-chain,” just anchor its identity and state in a verifiable, tamper-proof way. If someone tries to fake a parcel NFT, the metadata won’t match, you’ll instantly detect it as invalid. This is way harder to spoof than a PDF shipping label or a database entry.
Same tech could be used for:
Title deeds
Car ownership
Event tickets
Access credentials
So yeah, NFT hype was a mess, but the primitive itself is useful when applied to real-world logistics, ownership, and transfer.
Cool story.
Alot of cryptobros over at nostr. Try your luck there.
Thanks I’ll check it out. 😀