Letters

A different take on email. Family-internal first, federated later. Identity is a wallet address; messages are signed by the sender. No bulk send, no marketing campaigns, no tracking pixels, no auto-delivery. Short threads — long discussions belong in the Common Book.

Preview only. This is a working family-internal letters drawer — household members on this device can leave each other notes. The federated, wallet-signed version that talks to other Narrow Highway households is Phase 2.

Write a letter

The drawer

The standing design

Identity is a wallet

In Phase 2, each member of a Narrow Highway household holds a self-custodial wallet. Their wallet address is their identity. Every letter is signed by the sender; recipients can verify it came from who it claims.

No bulk send

Letters are always intentional, addressed to a specific recipient or small group. The system refuses to send a single letter to many recipients. No mass mail, no campaigns, no algorithms.

Short threads

Long discussions don't belong here. They belong in the Common Book or the Walk. Letters are for quick notes.

No tracking

No read receipts that leak across servers. No images that phone home. No links rewritten for tracking. What you send is what they see; how they read it is theirs.

Spam economics broken (Phase 3)

Inbound from non-contacts pays a tiny crypto fee, refunded if you reply. Spammers stop sending the moment it costs them something real per message.