Serverless · P2P · End-to-end encrypted

Messaging infrastructure you own outright.

Kant is the secure communication layer for teams that refuse to hand their message routing to a centralized provider. No account server, no message store, no plaintext ever touching infrastructure you don't control.

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relaysees ciphertext only
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XChaCha20-Poly1305 · noise handshake · relay holds no plaintext, no history, no keys
The value proposition

Five reasons teams choose infrastructure they own.

Control

Run your own relay and connect clients to a network you operate. Nobody else's infrastructure sits between you and your peers.

Privacy posture

The relay is intentionally not the message store. It never processes plaintext content — it forwards ciphertext and nothing else.

Reachability

Built on libp2p and circuit relay v2, designed for peers behind NAT, firewalls, and mobile network churn — real-world connectivity, not a lab demo.

Operational transparency

Health, readiness, metrics, and registry endpoints are built into the runtime. You can watch exactly what it's doing.

Platform independence

Client and relay are decoupled enough to support self-hosted or fully customized network designs — no single vendor to depend on.

Positioning

Not a Telegram replacement. A routing layer you can actually audit.

Kant doesn't compete on scale or polish. It competes on infrastructure ownership: a relay-assisted P2P architecture built for organizations that need control over network topology, not a prettier consumer inbox.

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“We help organizations deploy secure messaging without handing their routing infrastructure to a centralized provider.”

Under the hood

Every primitive is a known quantity.

No proprietary crypto, no black-box routing. The whole stack is built from primitives you can look up and verify independently.

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Transportlibp2p · WebSockets · noise encryption · yamux
Crypto corelibsodium · X3DH · Double Ratchet
BootstrapStateless circuit-relay v2 bootstrap node
Groups & filesGroup messaging · chunked, resumable encrypted transfer
RoutingOptional onion routing with cover traffic
Operations/healthz · /readyz · /metrics · Prometheus-native
The project hub

This is where the project actually happens.

Kant doesn't run a support ticket queue. Protocol decisions, relay operations, and the roadmap get discussed in the open, in one place.

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