Parlons · on Maxima and the Minima blockchain

Parlons!

Let's talk. Nobody in between.

Private chat with no company in the middle. Your words are sealed on your device and carried by relays that people like you run. No sign-up, no phone number, no account with anyone.

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Android · Mac · Windows · Linux · iPhone with an account · Raspberry Pi

CCamilleonline · 3 relaysSealed end to end

Today

je parle09:41

tu parles09:41 ✓

nous parlons. No number, no sign-up?09:42

None. You added my QR, I answered. That was the handshake.09:42 ✓✓

25 MxUSDSent in the chat, over the same sealed path09:43 ✓✓

Message

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✓a relay has it

✓✓their device has it

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Get started

One question decides what you install.

Do you want to chat on this device, or have one account on every device? Both keep your identity yours. Neither puts it on anyone else's server.

On this device

Install the app. It creates your identity there and then, as 24 words, and you are chatting a minute later. The phone or computer helps carry the network when it safely can.

AndroidMacWindowsLinux

One account on every device

Run a Parlons account with one command on a machine that stays on, then pair your phones and laptops to it. The same chats everywhere, and messages wait while a phone is off. The only way an iPhone can be reached.

iPhoneAndroidMacWindowsLinuxRaspberry Pi

AndroidThe full app. Your identity on the phone, calls and payments included.APK · 0.6.145 · Android 9+ MacParlons Desktop, signed and notarized. Brings its own Java.DMG · 1.5.115 · Apple silicon WindowsParlons Desktop for your user. No administrator needed.MSI · 1.5.115 · Windows 10/11 LinuxParlons Desktop for Debian, Ubuntu and their relatives.DEB · 1.5.115 · x86-64 iPhoneParlons Cloud pairs with your account by scanning one QR code.iOS 17+ · with an account

Your own account

One command. One scan. Nobody in between.

Paste one line into a terminal on a Mac, a Linux box, a Raspberry Pi or a VPS. It installs Java if it has to, fetches the newest release and checks its checksum, registers a service that survives reboots, and ends by drawing the QR code your phone scans.

$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eurobuddha/maxima/main/ops/get-parlons-cloud.sh | bash

[1/5] Java                     present
[2/5] Newest Parlons Cloud     parlons-cloud-0.11.123.jar, sha256 verified
[3/5] Service                  starts at boot
[4/5] Waiting for the account to come online
[5/5] The parlons command

  Your Parlons account is running (Parlons Cloud 0.11.123).

  Address (share it; it never changes):
  your full MAX# address is printed here

  Pair your phone: open the Parlons Cloud app and scan this QR.
  the QR code is drawn here, with the full invite under it

  BACK UP YOUR SEED NOW:  ~/.parlons/seed.txt  -  it is your identity AND a wallet.

Parlons Cloud for Android, ready to pair: the account address, Scan pairing QR, the pairing code and Connect & pair

Anywhere that stays onA Raspberry Pi, a Mac mini, an old laptop, a 1 GB VPS. Outbound internet only. No port forwarding, no public address.

Every device, one identityPair the iPhone, the Android phone and the laptop. A new device asks to join and any paired device approves it. A lost phone is one revoke away.

Yours to moveAn encrypted backup carries the whole account to another machine with the same address. Or let a friend host it, and leave whenever you like.

See it

Real screens from the apps.

Parlons! 0.6.145 and Parlons Cloud 0.2.90, captured from the release builds with two demo identities talking over the live relays.

A Parlons! conversation between Camille and Léo, with grey and double delivery ticks — **A conversation**Sealed on the sender's phone. Two ticks come from the other person's own device.

The Contacts tab: your Parlons address with Share my address and Scan, and one contact online — **Contacts**Your address is a QR code to share. Adding someone is a handshake.

The Network tab: reachable, hosts connected, contacts, mailbox and outbox counters, and the relay list — **Network**Which relays carry you, and what this phone does for others.

Parlons Cloud's Node page: always on and online, uptime, three relays attached, and the permanent address — **Your account**Always on, attached to several relays, with a permanent address.

Your accountUptime, relays, paired devices and a new pairing code in one tap.

Why it holds

Privacy that comes from how it is built.

Sealed end to end

Every message is encrypted on your device for the one key that can open it, and signed by yours. A relay carries a sealed blob and a routing key, nothing else.

No account with anyone

Your identity is 24 words you hold. No server can reset it, sell it or hand it over, because no server has it.

Several relays at once

Your phone attaches to several relays run by different people. Lose one and the others still carry you.

Ticks that tell the truth

Two ticks come from the other person's own device, not from a relay. Messages to someone offline wait in a mailbox until they are back.

Your address is a key

Where you are connected changes. Who you are does not. A permanent MAX# address reaches you on any device.

Nothing to take on trust

The source is open. The desktop app is signed and notarized, and every release carries checksums. The authors collect nothing.

Be the network

Nobody runs it. Everybody does.

Phones outnumber servers, so Parlons asks phones to help, carefully: on Wi-Fi, while charging, and never at the cost of your own messages. A computer that stays on can do more. A server does the most.

Contributing

Holds sealed mail for people who are offline, answers lookups and signs delivery receipts. It cannot read any of it.

Every phone, by default. Pauses on low battery.

Directly reachable

The phone gets a real public address, so contacts reach you one hop shorter. Parlons Desktop proves its port from outside before it advertises it.

On Wi-Fi, while charging, if your router opens a port.

Relay

Carries other people's sealed traffic on port 9535. Parlons Desktop has a switch for it too.

Phones: Wi-Fi, charging, battery at 60% or more.

Account relay

An always-on account can relay for others on TCP port 9501, every hour of the day.

Your own account with --relay.

Host

One process keeps many people's accounts online. Each of them can leave at any time with an encrypted backup.

A small server for friends and family.

Words and value

Your identity is also a wallet.

The same 24 words hold Minima. Pay a contact from inside the chat, in MINIMA or in MxUSD, the Minima dollar token, and the payment travels the same sealed path as the message. No exchange, no custodian, no address to copy by hand: the person you are talking to is the address.

How to send a payment, step by step →

MxUSD token id0x7D39745FBD29049BE29850B55A18BF550E4D442F930F86266E34193D89042A90

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