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.
Thanks for the thoughtful critique. Some clarification to help:
DeDe isn’t trying to replace FedEx/UPS/USPS.
DeDe is not a platform or an app. It’s a protocol, closer to TCP/IP than Uber.
It handles one function only:
escrow -> pickup -> dropoff -> finalize
Everything else (matching, identity, trust, messaging, routing) is off-chain, by design. That separation is what preserves privacy and prevents metadata leakage.
What problem DeDe actually solves
Not postal logistics, those require fleets, warehouses, and fixed infrastructure.
DeDe addresses the centralized crowdshipping model used by Uber/Doordash/Amazon Flex:
• zero privacy • centralized control • data extraction and surveillance • wage manipulation • platform lock-in • mandatory identity • opaque matching
DeDe gives communities the same underlying mechanics of crowdshipping without a corporation in the middle collecting or exploiting sender/carrier/destination data.
No tracking, no identity, no metadata
Parcel NFTs only encode:
• parcel ID • escrow amount • lifecycle state
No names, addresses, routes, timestamps, or identities. All sensitive information stays off-chain.
DeDe doesn’t broadcast parcels, seek couriers, or coordinate delivery. It only settles funds trustlessly.
No token, no speculation
• no governance token • no staking token • no inflation • no “earn crypto for nothing” • no VC angle
Ethereum is used strictly as a neutral, permissionless escrow layer.
In short
DeDe is a tiny, open, neutral settlement rail for P2P delivery, just infrastructure communities can use or ignore as they like.
Regarding environmental footprint:
Blockchain environmental impact depends on how electricity is produced, not on the existence of computation itself. Electricity demand has been rising for decades, long before blockchains or AI, and will continue to do so.
If critical economic infrastructure depended on abundant, cheap green power, it would create a strong incentive for energy producers to scale sustainable sources faster. The largest investors in green energy today are still heavily tied to fossil fuels, so shifting economic incentives can help accelerate the transition.