Sudo

About

Building a messenger your wallet would design.

Sudo Labs builds the open Web3 messenger protocol — independent of any platform, accessible from any wallet.

Our mission

Make the wallet the social account.

Crypto rebuilt money to be open and ownable — but the social layer it runs on is still rented from Big Tech. Discord accounts can be banned, Telegram can be subpoenaed, X can be acquired. Your wallet is the only handle you actually own.

Sudo is the open messenger built around that fact. No emails, no usernames you don't control, no custody. A protocol you can fork, a relay you can self-host, and an economy that pays you for showing up.

212k

Verified wallets

9,200

Communities

$48M

Settled in escrow

62

Teammates worldwide

Our story

From hackathon hack to mainnet messenger

  1. ●

    2023

    Idea born during ETHGlobal — ‘a messenger where the address is the account’.

  2. ●

    2024

    Sudo Labs incorporated. Closed seed round led by community-aligned funds.

  3. ●

    2024 Q3

    Internal beta with 1,200 wallets. End-to-end encryption shipped.

  4. ●

    2025 Q1

    Public testnet. .sudo registry live on Base.

  5. ●

    2025 Q4

    Sudo Escrow v2 + first 64 validators bonded. SUDO token launch.

  6. ●

    2026

    Mainnet beta. Mining, hidden validators, smart-contract groups, Stage rooms.

Backers & community

Aligned by tokens, not term sheets

Our seed round was structured for long-term alignment: 5-year vesting, no protocol-control rights, validator participation expected from every fund.

Variant Fund
Polychain
Robot Ventures
1confirmation
ConsenSys Mesh
Public Goods Network
PenumbraLabs
ETH Local Berlin

Want to join us?

We're hiring across engineering, design, trust & safety and operations. Equity for everyone, async by default.

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An open protocol, in public.

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