Capsule Social

aid: capsule-social
name: Capsule Social
description: 'Capsule Social was a decentralized-innovation company founded in early 2021 by cryptography researcher Nadim
  Kobeissi to build tools for a web3 future. Its flagship product, Blogchain, was a decentralized publishing and social platform
  — a Substack-like blogging experience with Twitter-like social elements — built on IPFS for serverless content storage and
  the NEAR Protocol for identity, digital-asset management, and tokenized community governance, letting creators own their
  content and monetize it behind optional paywalls. The company raised a ~$2.6M seed round from investors including Polychain,
  Naval Ravikant, Fyrfly, and former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan. The Blogchain product and the capsulesocial GitHub organization
  have been inactive since roughly October 2023, and the capsule.social domain has since been re-registered by an unrelated
  "social memory" consumer app — so the surviving authoritative surface for this entity is its open-source GitHub org, not
  the current website. There is no hosted REST API: Blogchain is a client-side web3 dApp (Vue frontend, NEAR smart contracts,
  IPFS).'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/capsule-social/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- polychain
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-note: Product/org inactive since ~2023-10; capsule.social domain re-registered by an unrelated company. Do not harvest
  well-known/domain-security artifacts from capsule.social — they belong to the new owner, not this entity.
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  license: AGPL-3.0
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Self-hosted open source · you run it yourself
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/77242000?v=4
tags:
- Company
- Social
- Web3
- Blockchain
- Decentralized
- Publishing
- Blogging
- NEAR Protocol
- IPFS
- Cryptocurrency
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/capsulesocial/capsule-vue/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/capsulesocial/capsule-vue/releases
- type: License
  name: AGPL-3.0
  url: https://github.com/capsulesocial/capsule-vue/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: Website
  url: https://capsule.social
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/capsulesocial
- type: SourceCode
  name: Blogchain web application (capsule-vue)
  url: https://github.com/capsulesocial/capsule-vue
- type: SourceCode
  name: Blogchain NEAR smart contracts (capsule-near)
  url: https://github.com/capsulesocial/capsule-near
- type: Packages
  url: packages/capsule-social-packages.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence