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
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2023
Idea born during ETHGlobal — ‘a messenger where the address is the account’.
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2024
Sudo Labs incorporated. Closed seed round led by community-aligned funds.
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2024 Q3
Internal beta with 1,200 wallets. End-to-end encryption shipped.
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2025 Q1
Public testnet. .sudo registry live on Base.
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2025 Q4
Sudo Escrow v2 + first 64 validators bonded. SUDO token launch.
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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.
Want to join us?
We're hiring across engineering, design, trust & safety and operations. Equity for everyone, async by default.