A Hardware Device For Messaging & Money That Can't Be Shut Down
The team at Freedom Factory has been working on a new device that will come out in 2026. This device comes with XMTP built in. A lot of people have a lot of opinions about this device, but I think most are missing the bigger picture. Let me explain...
First off, it's not a phone. Competing with Apple and Android is a fool's game. It's a private money and messaging device powered by networks for money and messaging that can't be shut down.
That's the one thing everyone’s missing about the dGEN1.
And it changes everything.
Everyone’s debating the dGEN1’s UI, colors, specs, and features.
Cool. Debate it all you want.
But that’s not the story. There's something so much bigger happening here...
The story is that, for the first time, a phone lets you communicate and hold value no one can seize.
We are in the era of Chat Control, surveillance laws, and silent censorship, where messages can be scanned, accounts frozen, and speech filtered. App stores are the gatekeepers of the world, and there are 2 of them.
The real innovation isn’t another shiny app.
It’s a device that unlocks a foundation for freedom.
In an era where:
Discord hackers are stealing our license photos and personal info because we had to KYC...
Elon can read every X DM I’ve ever sent...
Pavel promises to protect my unencrypted messages & metadata sitting on his private servers, trust him...
Signal has to leave entire countries because if the iPhone is compromised, so is their app...
And even Apple is removing Advanced Data Protections for people in the UK
…maybe we should be debating what a new foundation unlocks for freedom, not whether people like the color purple.
Two things are required for freedom to exist.
Communication that can’t be shut down.
Money that can’t be seized.
Let's talk about the dGEN1...
The dGEN1 runs on @XMTP_, a messaging network that’s quantum-resistant, open source, and as secure as Signal. As Mainnet rolls out, no single country runs over 50% of the nodes.
This means that if any country changes its privacy laws or adopts something like Chat Control, XMTP cannot be shut down. What good is quantum encryption if a country can just turn off the server?
That means no person, no company, no billionaire, and now no country can take away your freedom to communicate.
The dGEN1 does things that most people won’t even realize are unlocking this new foundation…
You don’t sign up and give away all your personal data.
No email.
No phone number.
No KYC.
Just one key.
And with that key, you own your messages, your money, your freedom.
The fight for privacy no longer lives in apps.
It lives at the hardware level.
The decentralized network level.
At the key level.
Because when everything else is compromised, the last frontier of freedom is the device in your hand. The key you use to access that device. And a network that can't be censored or shut down by a person, company, or even country.
So yeah, you can critique the UX. We can debate whether we love it or hate it. We can say I'll never use another hardware device.
But if you’ve ever lived in a place where communication can get you killed, it honestly doesn’t matter what it looks like - it matters that it fucking works.
You'll use a new hardware device when your assets get frozen, or the leader of your country shuts down the app you're using to talk to your family.
True innovation changes what’s possible for people who have no other choice.
dGEN1 isn’t a phone.
It’s a new era that’s worth everyone fighting for. I'm so excited to see more teams building new hardward devices. The world needs it.
We don’t need another app.
We need an entirely new system that no one can own.
We need to rethink the entire stack: The key, the network, the hardware.
That's what dGEN1 really did here.
Privacy isn’t just a network.
It isn’t just a key.
It’s all three —
The key, the device, and the network are all working together.
A new foundation for freedom. Buy a dGEN1 here.
Come build with us at XMTP.
P.S. It was so cool watching friends from Coinbase unbox and use XMTP built into the dGEN1.