Foundation
Decentralized Identity
Your identity on epress is your Ethereum address — a cryptographic key pair you generate yourself. No platform issued it. No platform can revoke it. It is mathematically yours.
Platform Account
The fragile identity
Your username, followers, reputation — all borrowed, never owned.
Self-Sovereign Identity
The robust identity
Your identity exists independently. No platform can take it away.
Cryptographic Ownership
Your private key never leaves your device. You sign, you prove, you control.
Universal Portability
Take your identity to any EWP-compatible platform. Your reputation travels with you.
Censorship Resistant
No central authority can suspend or delete your account. Your voice cannot be silenced.
Verification
Proof of Source
Every piece of content is cryptographically signed by your Ethereum identity. Simple to use, mathematically impossible to forge.
Write
Sign
Sign Message
epress.world
Message to sign:
Publish content: 0x7a3f...9e2b
Broadcast
Published!
Your content is now signed and ready to be distributed to your followers.
Transaction Hash
0x1a9f...8e3d
Distribution
Notify-Pull: Efficiency Meets Decentralization
Publishing doesn't crash your server. You broadcast a lightweight cryptographic proof. Followers independently pull the full content. Cost scales naturally with influence.
Publisher Broadcasts Proof
Alice creates content, generates a cryptographic hash, and signs it with her private key. She broadcasts only the Proof of Source (PoS)—about 200 bytes—to all her followers.
Followers Verify & Request
Each follower node receives the PoS, verifies the signature against Alice's Ethereum address, and then initiates a pull request for the full content.
Content Distributes On-Demand
Alice serves the content directly to each requesting node. The cost is distributed: popular publishers invest more in bandwidth, but retain full control and monetization.
Why this matters: In centralized platforms, viral content can bankrupt you with bandwidth costs. In epress, viral content creates economic opportunity. You control the infrastructure, you capture the value, and your reach is limited only by your willingness to serve your audience.
Network
Nodes & Protocol
epress nodes communicate via the epress world protocol (EWP) — an open protocol for content distribution. Each node stores content, manages follows, and syncs with peers.
No Central Server
Nodes communicate directly with each other. No company owns the network infrastructure.
Open Protocol
EWP is public. Anyone can implement a compatible node in any language.
Equal Peers
Every node has identical capabilities. No privileged nodes, no gatekeepers.
Distribution
Content Flow
When you publish, content doesn't just reach your followers — it becomes permanently distributed across the network, each copy carrying its own cryptographic proof of origin.
PoS Travels With Content
Every replica carries the original cryptographic proof. Authenticity is verifiable anywhere in the network, without contacting Alice's node.
Local Storage Enables Local Timeline
Because each follower node stores content replicas locally, your timeline is generated entirely on your own node — no central server involved.
Experience
Local Timeline
Your timeline is generated locally by your node, aggregating content from everyone you follow. No algorithmic manipulation — just a simple, timestamp-ordered feed you control.
Platform Algorithmic Feed
You won't believe what happened...
⚠ Paid promotion
Buy this product — limited offer
⚠ Advertiser content
My honest opinion about...
⚠ Reach limited by algorithm
We think you'll like this...
⚠ Platform chose this for you
Platform decides what you see.
epress Timestamp Timeline
Just deployed my epress node, feels great
✓ Content + PoS verified
Signed my first post on epress network
✓ Content + PoS verified
Welcome to my node — this is home
✓ Content + PoS verified
Reading the epress whitepaper, chapter 12 is wild
✓ Content + PoS verified
You choose sources. Timestamp order. Nothing hidden.
Ready to Run Your Own Node?
Everything you just learned runs on your own server. One command to install.
$ # Install epress on your server $ curl -fsSL https://epress.world/install.sh | bash