Resources

A curated directory of websites, applications, repositories, packages, and community channels across the Pubky ecosystem.

Websites

Pubky documentation for LLMs: overview, page index, and full documentation
Pubky agent skills — Maintained skills for AI coding tools working with Pubky
Nexus Scout — Read-only query gateway for AI agents exploring the Pubky social graph (agent guide, source)
Context7 resources to keep LLMs up to date: pubky.org llms.txt, Pubky Homeserver repo, Pubky Nexus repo, PKARR repo, PKDNS repo, pubky-app-specs repo, Pubky Docker repo, and Mainline repo
DeepWiki (AI-generated codebase wikis with LLM chat): pubky-homeserver and pubky-nexus

pubky.app — Decentralized social media app (source)
mypubky.com — Shareable bio page for your profile, links, posts, and payment options (source)
pubkyring.app — Pubky Ring key manager (source)
passport.pubky.app — Pubky Passport browser signer with Google sign-in and encrypted recovery backups (source)
payky.app — Payment profile for sharing payment details in one link
mapky.app — Social map with user-owned location-based data
explorer.pubky.app — Pubky data explorer (local testnet instance, source)
simulator.pubkyring.app — Browser tool for signing in to Pubky apps on a local testnet (source)
pubky.observer — Pubky data explorer
playground.pubky.org — Interactive demo: same user-owned data powering multiple apps with different layouts

Uploadky — File sharing with files stored on your Pubky homeserver (source)
TimechainWiki — Bitcoin encyclopedia with reader annotations synced through Nostr or Pubky (source)
Loopky — Flashcards with spaced repetition and decks stored on Pubky (Android releases)
Chessky — Multiplayer chess across homeservers, with no indexer or other backend (source)
Ghostly — Encrypted chat and file sharing built on PKARR (source)
Pubky Pulse — Experimental app observability with SDKs and MCP access for AI agents (source)
eventky.app — Event management on Pubky (source)
tagky — Automated tagging using LLM
Pubky Watcher Canvas — Multiplayer pixel canvas demonstrating Pubky event streams (source)
pubky-mint — RSS-like way to browse your follows’ Pubky activity
vanity-pubky — Vanity key generator
pubky-messenger — Rust library for private messaging over Pubky
pkdns-vanity — PKDNS vanity key generator

Pubky SDK — Rust crate and JavaScript/TypeScript npm package
pkarr — Public Key Addressable Resource Records (npm, source)
pubky-app-specs - Shared data models and validation for Pubky apps (npm, source)
mainline — BitTorrent Mainline DHT implementation (source)
@synonymdev/react-native-pubky — React Native SDK (source)

Introducing Pubky Collections (08/10/2026) — Save, organize, and share Pubky posts
Payky: One Link, Every Way to Pay You (06/16/2026) — Create and share a payment profile using Pubky Ring
MyPubky: Your Link-in-Bio, Without the Lock-In (06/09/2026) — Build a portable profile with links and payment options
Why the Internet Is Broken by Design and How Pubky Changes the Model (03/03/2026) — Introduction to key-based identity and portable data
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
Nuh @ Thank God for Nostr podcast (11/19/2024) — Podcast interview

Essays, talks, and resources exploring the vision, principles, and philosophy behind Pubky and the Atomic Economy.

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
Nostr vs Pubky: The Basics — John Carvalho compares the protocols’ approaches to identity, discovery, and data ownership
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
Opening Pubky (01/30/2026) — The public launch, portable identity, and building apps around user-owned data
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

You Cannot Store “Lifetime” — Subjective value, reputation, and the limits of money as a store of value
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

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”

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