$VELUM launches on Pons · 2 Oct · 18:00 UTC
Nobody sawa th#*g.
Private internet, mail & AI — paid by the byte.
Independent nodes. Keys that never leave your device. Every cent sits in an on-chain escrow you can audit — not in somebody's wallet.
Every product is a different pattern of the same idea: you pay for exactly what you use, and nobody in the middle gets to keep a copy.
The website is only the shop. Tunnels go device-to-node, messages are sealed on your device, and money moves through a contract anyone can read.
01 Private tunnel
WireGuard to a city you pick. Pay per GB.
live02 Messenger
Wallet-to-wallet chat. MLS end-to-end.
live03 Sealed mail
Subject, body, files. A letter, not a bubble.
coming soon04 Infer
Open models, billed per token streamed.
on-chain05 Escrow
Deposits wait in a contract, not a treasury.
open06 Run a node
Stake, serve, redeem vouchers yourself.
What the café Wi-Fi logs
Everything
you do.
Scroll to lift the veil
“The chain sees a receipt.
Not your life.”
Settlement
What happens to your money?
Velumtools is testnet software on Robinhood Chain. Nothing here is financial advice, and test tokens have no value.
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Most “decentralized” privacy apps ask you to send money to a treasury wallet, then trust a database to credit you. If the company disappears, so does your balance.
Velumtools doesn't hold your money at all. You lock a deposit in the PaymentChannels contract for one node. Your browser creates a throwaway session key and, as data or tokens flow, signs tiny cumulative receipts — vouchers — with it. No wallet pop-ups while you browse.
The node redeems the latest voucher whenever it wants; the 5% protocol fee is split out on-chain at that moment. When you're done, the rest comes back to you — instantly if the node settles, or automatically-claimable after expiry if it doesn't. Nobody can take more than the voucher you signed.
Meet Vel
Velumtools. Velum means veil.
It keeps things.
Vel is what the protocol looks like from the outside: a shape under a cloth, two lights, nothing else to read. Move your cursor — Vel is watching you, not your traffic. Click it.Tap it — Vel is watching you, not your traffic.
- $VELUM
- Live
- on Pons · Robinhood Chain
- Supply
- 1B
- fixed — no mint, no owner
- Protocol fee
- 5%
- hard-capped at 10% in code
- Contracts
- 5
- live on Robinhood testnet
Why escrow
Trust fewer people with your money.
Where your payment waits
A company treasury wallet
VelumtoolsPaymentChannels escrow contract
What proves you paid
A row in their database
VelumtoolsA voucher you signed, redeemable on-chain
Unused balance
“Credit” on their books
VelumtoolsRefunded by the contract
If the company vanishes
Balance gone
VelumtoolsReclaim after expiry, no permission needed
Node directory
Hidden marketplace behind an API
VelumtoolsNodeRegistry — public, staked, slashable
Who pays operators
The company, later, if it wants
VelumtoolsThe contract, the moment a node redeems
Protocol fee
Whatever the backend says
Velumtools5%, capped at 10% in the contract
Third-party providers
Names scrubbed from error messages
VelumtoolsListed openly: WireGuard, XMTP, Ollama
Operators
Got a spare box? Be a city.
- 1
Stake
Lock 10,000 VELUM in NodeRegistry. It is your bond — slashable if you cheat, returned after a 7-day unbond.
- 2
Serve
The agent attaches WireGuard peers or streams an Ollama model, meters usage and pauses anyone who stops signing.
- 3
Redeem
Vouchers are redeemed straight from escrow to your address. 95% to you, 5% protocol fee, split by the contract.
# WireGuard exit in your city NODE_PRIVATE_KEY=0x… CHAIN_ID=46630 SERVICES=vpn \ VPN_BACKEND=wireguard CITY=Jakarta COUNTRY_CODE=ID \ PUBLIC_URL=https://node.example.com npm run node # or a GPU serving Ollama models SERVICES=infer INFER_BACKEND=ollama npm run node