Resources
A curated directory of websites, applications, repositories, packages, and community channels across the Pubky ecosystem.
Websites
Section titled “Websites”- pubky.org — Official Pubky website
- pubky.tech — Awesome list: Ecosystem directory
- synonym.to — Synonym (company behind Pubky)
- docs.pubky.org — Official documentation
- pkdns.net — PKDNS public resolver
- pubkyring.app — Pubky Ring key manager
Live Applications
Section titled “Live Applications”- pubky.app — Decentralized social media app
- explorer.pubky.app — Pubky data explorer
- pubky.observer — Pubky data explorer
- eventky.app — Event management on Pubky
- playground.pubky.org — Interactive demo: same user-owned data powering multiple apps with different layouts
Core Repositories
Section titled “Core Repositories”All under github.com/pubky:
- pubky-core — Collection of the components that make up the Pubky protocol
- pubky-app — Pubky social media application
- pubky-ring — Mobile key manager app
- pubky-nexus — Aggregator and indexer for pubky.app
- pubky-app-specs — Shared data models and validation for apps interoperable with pubky.app
- pkarr — Public Key Addressable Resource Records (sovereign TLDs)
- mainline — BitTorrent Mainline DHT implementation in Rust
- react-native-pubky — React Native bindings
- pubky-core-ffi — Pubky Core Mobile SDK
- pkdns — DNS server resolving pkarr self-sovereign domains
- paykit-rs — Payment toolkit
- http-relay — HTTP relay
- pkdns-publisher — PKDNS record publisher
- pkdns-resolver-extension — Browser extension for PKDNS resolution
- pkdns-digger — Resolvable sovereign keys tool
- homegate — Gateway service
- pubky-explorer — Data explorer (explorer.pubky.app)
- pubky-docker — One-click Pubky deployments
- workshop — Live coding workshop for building JS apps with pubky-sdk
- pubky-crypto — Minimal crypto utilities
- pubky-locks — P2P commerce
- pubky-ai-bot — AI capabilities for Pubky
- pubky-cli — Command-line companion for interacting with Pubky homeservers
- atomicity — Proposal for a P2P credit system
- pubky-ai-kit — Context for building with Pubky and AI
Community Projects
Section titled “Community Projects”- homeserver-dashboard — Homeserver dashboard UI
- pubky-node — All-in-one binary to run a homeserver, DHT node, and PKARR relay and Pubky toolset
- eventky — Event management on Pubky
- pak — Pubky Army Knife
- pubky-nextjs-template — Next.js template for Pubky apps
- pubkytree — Pubky tree visualization
- tagky — Automated tagging using LLM
- pubky-canva — Collaborative canvas on Pubky
- pubky-mint — RSS-like way to browse your follows’ Pubky activity
- vanity-pubky — Vanity key generator
- pubky-private-messenger — End-to-end encrypted messaging
- pkdns-vanity — PKDNS vanity key generator
Package Registries
Section titled “Package Registries”Crates (Rust)
Section titled “Crates (Rust)”- pubky — Pubky Rust SDK
- pkarr — Public Key Addressable Resource Records
- pubky-app-specs — Shared data models and validation for Pubky apps
- mainline — BitTorrent Mainline DHT implementation
npm (JavaScript/TypeScript)
Section titled “npm (JavaScript/TypeScript)”- @synonymdev/pubky — Pubky JavaScript/TypeScript SDK
- @synonymdev/pkarr — Pkarr JavaScript/TypeScript SDK
- pubky-app-specs — Shared data models and validation for Pubky apps
React Native
Section titled “React Native”- @synonymdev/react-native-pubky — React Native SDK
Community Channels
Section titled “Community Channels”- Pubky on pubky.app — Official Pubky profile
- Telegram: pubkycore — Community chat
- Discord — Developer community
- X/Twitter: @getpubky — Official updates
- YouTube — Tutorials, demos, roundtables, presentations
- Medium: pubky — Blog posts and articles
Videos & Talks
Section titled “Videos & Talks”- Pubky Introduction — BTC Prague 2025 (08/01/2025) — Introduction to Pubky
- The Atomic Economy (08/29/2025) — The Atomic Economy talk
- Pubky Community Call #3 (02/17/2026) — Community call
- PKDNS Explainer (10/26/2024) — How PKDNS works
- Pubky Explorer Explainer (10/27/2024) — Using the Pubky Explorer
- Pubky Notes Explainer (10/28/2024) — Note-taking with Pubky
- Pubky Password Manager (10/31/2024) — Password management demo
- Pubky Arcade (10/29/2024) — Gaming on Pubky
- Pubky AI Social Bot (11/01/2024) — AI integration demo
- Nuh @ Thank God for Nostr podcast (11/19/2024) — Podcast interview
Philosophical Foundations
Section titled “Philosophical Foundations”Essays, talks, and resources exploring the vision, principles, and philosophy behind Pubky and the Atomic Economy.
Essays & Manifestos
Section titled “Essays & Manifestos”- The Age of Social Intelligence (03/29/2026) — Why social intelligence is the missing layer as AI scales, and the Semantic Social Graph as open cognitive infrastructure
- How to Fix Spam, Bots, and AI Slop on the World Wide Web (03/16/2026) — The Semantic Social Graph as the real algorithm to replace centralized feed curation
- Building Blocks for the Atomic Economy (10/17/2025) — How each technical primitive maps to a philosophical principle of sovereignty
- The Atomic Economy: Reclaiming Society from the Inside Out (04/24/2025) — Extending Bitcoin’s revolution into identity, trust, and coordination
- Corporate vs. Community-Led Open Source Development (11/07/2024) — Cathedral vs. Bazaar: why effective freedom tools require intentional design
- Pubky: The Next Web (11/05/2024) — The founding manifesto: diagnosing the web’s failures and proposing “You Are the Algorithm”
- Introducing Pubky: Rebooting the Web with User Sovereignty at the Core (10/25/2024) — Synonym’s official launch statement on digital autonomy and open-source sovereignty
- Welcome to the Atomic Economy (12/04/2021) — Early articulation of the Atomic Economy vision: webs of trust replacing centralized gatekeepers
Bitcoin & Trust Philosophy
Section titled “Bitcoin & Trust Philosophy”- How to Think About Data on Bitcoin (05/01/2025) — Blockspace as a free market, and why social data doesn’t belong on-chain
- Fiat Will Never Die, Long Live Bitcoin (02/10/2021) — Units of trust vs. units of work: a nuanced framework for money and credit
- Who secures Bitcoin? (10/26/2019) — Individual nodes as the ultimate guarantors of consensus, not miners or developers
Talks & Interviews
Section titled “Talks & Interviews”- The Next Web — Bitcoin Audible Chat 124 (01/15/2025) — Deep dive into Pubky’s philosophy, credible exit, and pragmatic decentralization
- Defending Bitcoin — HackerNoon (01/21/2019) — Origin story: defending decentralization at the protocol level, the thread that leads to Pubky
- AMA — Stacker News (04/03/2022) — Extended Q&A revealing first-principles thinking: “Primitives are all that matter”
Third-Party Analysis
Section titled “Third-Party Analysis”- What is Pubky? — Bitfinex Blog (08/01/2025) — Accessible overview of Pubky’s philosophical and technical foundations
- Synonym Launches Architecture For A Self-Sovereign Economy — Bitcoin Magazine (11/16/2021) — Synonym’s founding announcement: replacing the legacy economy with self-sovereign alternatives