NAVE

Identity = Freedom

A room on the open internet that no one can take from you.

A growing family of applications and a protocol, built so your data — your contacts, your documents, your estate, your table — answers to your keys, and no one else's. Built on nostr, over scoped data grants.

The primitive underneath

Revocation isn't a policy. It's a key rotation.

Everything here stands on NIP-DA — Scoped Data Grants: private, live, revocable data over public relays. You publish an encrypted scope under your own key and hand its key to whoever needs it. They always read your current version. And when you want them out, you don't edit an access list on someone's server — you rotate the key, and their copy simply stops opening. No policy to trust. No account to close. No company in the middle. The signature is the authorization; the rotation is the revocation.

The rooms off the Nave

One primitive, pointed at every hard problem it fits.

Each is the same three lines underneath — receive the grants addressed to you, keep the newest, decrypt the current truth — wearing a different job. All shipped, all public, and the list keeps growing.

01 Protocols

The primitive everything else is built on.

Nscope

The foundation · NIP-DA

Scoped Data Grants — the ~300-line primitive every app above vendors identically. Three event kinds: the encrypted scope, the gift-wrapped grant, the self-encrypted index. A NIP submitted to the nostr protocol, with TS and Go implementations in live interop.

02 Agents & AI

Bounding an agent on both ends — what it may perceive, and what it may do.

Nvoy

Delegation

Delegate data to an AI agent, end-to-end encrypted to its key, dereferenced live, severable in one keystroke. OAuth hands out a token into a system that keeps your data; Nvoy hands out the data — and lets you un-see it.

Nact

Agentic actions · human-signed

Give an AI agent a voice on nostr without giving it your keys: it drafts an action, you enact it with a signature, it broadcasts. The action-out half of scoped autonomy — Nvoy governs what an agent may see, Nact governs what it may do.

03 Apps & Utilities

The same primitive, pointed at a corner of a life you’d rather keep.

Nontact

Emergent views

Your address book isn't a database — it's the sum of what people currently grant you. Update your card once; everyone holding it dereferences the new truth. Move, change numbers, drop someone — one edit, everyone current.

Nvelope

Blob scale & lifecycle

Live document sharing where a shared file is a scope: revocation instead of expiring links, recovery from your key alone. Big payloads ride encrypted on Blossom with the key delivered by grant — same wire, bigger cargo.

Nherit

Succession

A family break-glass legacy vault: one estate record in per-beneficiary scopes, heirs holding revocable grants, the whole thing reconstituting from a single key printed on paper. No company between you and your family — nothing to be breached or sunset in thirty years.

Notegate

Anonymous intake

Serverless secure tip intake for newsrooms: a tip line is a keypair, sources are ephemeral browser-minted keys whose only reply channel is a 12-word phrase, proof-of-work is the spam toll — checked before anything is decrypted. The grant index is the case docket.

04 Games

Where the protocol is the board.

Ntrigue

Secrets as stakes

A phones-only party game of secrets, dilemmas, and blackmail. Every answer is an encrypted scope; pairwise prisoner's-dilemma trades decide who sees what. Its design law is the protocol's honesty clause played for keeps: you can revoke a secret, but you can't un-tell it.

Built by

James A. Fairweather

Nave is one person's argument, made in running code: that when your identity is a keypair you hold and your relationships are grants you can revoke, no platform owns you. That is the whole of Identity = Freedom — not a slogan, a stack. Each application is a proof of the same sentence, pointed at a different corner of a life you'd rather keep.