Permanent Identity, Infinite Apps
Building a unified social layer for any app, any chain, and any creator
Blockchains are built on a core paradox: we've built one of the most powerful social technologies in history but failed to make it meaningfully social.
Nowhere is this more true than on Solana. At 3000 TPS, every transaction is inherently social – every swap, mint, and game achievement weaves a new thread into the tapestry of our onchain identity, but unfortunately, on Solana, we are knitting with disappearing threads.
Because no protocol on Solana gives context and state to our identity data, we are forced to rebuild our digital identities from scratch with every new application. Onboarding on Solana is broken.
We are expected to authenticate into web3 apps with our wallets; shouldn't we hold that authentication to the same standard as "sign in with Google"? Our profile picture, bio, and friend connections are credible facsimiles of our identity. Apps built on a meaningfully social blockchain would understand this as soon as a user logs in.
This isn't just inefficient. It's tragic. Underneath the technology, crypto has always been about people – their trust, their communities, their relationships. Yet we've built an ecosystem that treats users like anonymous addresses, forcing them to rebuild their social identity with every new app and experience.
The Silent Tax of Starting From Zero
What makes this especially painful is that the social graph isn't just another feature – it's the foundation that makes every other feature more valuable. When Tensor knows your trading circles, it can surface relevant signals. When Magic Eden understands your collection history, it can personalize discovery. When Star Atlas knows your squad, it can enhance matchmaking. The social graph is the catalyst that transforms raw functionality into rich experiences. Without it, we're building sophisticated tools that can't see their own users.
Instead, we're watching Web2's fragmentation play out in fast forward, with every app becoming its own isolated social network. This isn't just inefficient—it actively hinders mainstream adoption and hurts the user experience.
This fragmentation was tolerable when building apps took months, but AI collapses the app creation timeline even further. Without shared social infrastructure, we're about to fragment user relationships across not hundreds, but millions of isolated experiences.
Solana has finally made consumer crypto viable through games and social applications. But by forcing users to rebuild their social graph with each new experience, we're creating a tax on innovation. That's not a feature – it's a failure of infrastructure.
Building the Foundations: Tapestry + Solana
Solana isn't just another blockchain – it's cultivated something unique: a culture of relentless consumer-first innovation. Instead of debating theoretical scaling solutions, Solana founders are busy building, testing, and iterating on products that millions of people want to use.
This focus on practical experimentation makes Solana the natural home for social infrastructure:
Only chain with speed and finality for real-time social features
Commitment to L1 scalability means social data lives where value lives
Sub-cent fees make social interactions economically viable
Solana's focus on L1 scalability creates a unique opportunity: social data can live exactly where financial data lives, creating one integrated layer for both money and meaning.
Just as Solana made high-speed transactions accessible to everyone, Tapestry makes social features instant and effortless. Developers can add rich social layers to their apps in minutes, not months. Users never have to rebuild their networks from scratch again.
That’s not to say that Solana is currently generating all of the social data you’ll ever need – but it doesn’t have to. Tapestry also ingests data from other chains and protocols, such as Base, Farcaster, and Lens, making it possible to build a truly comprehensive social profile that lives on a single chain.
The magic is in the permanence: your social connections become as fundamental as your wallet balance, following you seamlessly across every experience.
Early adopters like Access Protocol, AllDomains, and Primitives show what's possible when apps tap into this shared social layer – richer experiences, instant user engagement, and network effects that compound with every new integration.
This is the foundation for turning a network of transactions into a network of relationships.
Toward an Ephemeral Future
Tapestry isn't just solving today's problems—we're building for a future where applications are created and discarded at the speed of thought. The age of AI is about to transform software creation from artisanal craft to conversational abundance. Building apps will become as natural as describing them, creating an abundance of ephemeral experiences.
The true power of this shift isn't just in the quantity of apps – it's in their specificity. Every community will spawn its own custom tools. Every event will have its own temporary economy. Every meme will become an application. The boundary between social interaction and software creation will blur until they become indistinguishable.
By storing social data directly on Solana's L1, we ensure that relationships remain permanent even as applications become temporary.
We're not just building a protocol, we're creating the bedrock that enables infinite online creativity.
In a world of infinite apps, what matters isn't where you go – it's who you bring with you. Tapestry ensures your relationships travel with you, anywhere in the digital universe.
While apps may be temporary, your identity is forever and constantly evolving. That's why we're building Tapestry—to ensure that in a world of infinite ephemeral experiences, the connections that matter remain permanent. The coming flood of AI-generated applications will make this infrastructure essential, but the need exists today.
The future is permanently social, infinitely expressed.