Iris
Decentralised messenger and Nostr web client whose repository is archived, while iris.to still serves the application.
How it started
Launched
· Date by which Iris had switched to Nostr, as reported by Fortune quoting the author on 2023-02-21. Iris predates Nostr: it grew out of Identifi, a decentralized identity and reputation project its author described publicly in 2018, and ran on a peer-to-peer backend before Nostr. · Source (opens in a new tab)
Why it was built
Martti Malmi on moving Iris to Nostr: "I switched to Iris because Nostr had basically the same philosophy as Iris and its previous backend but [with a simpler] implementation and bigger community of devs and users." · Source (opens in a new tab)
Milestones
Pre-Nostr chapter: author describes Identifi, the decentralized indexing project Iris grew from · Source (opens in a new tab)
Iris awarded 1 BTC, half of the HRF bounty for metadata-free encrypted Nostr group chats · Source (opens in a new tab)
iris-messenger repository points to the new iris-client repository as the current iris.to source · Source (opens in a new tab)
Release history
Repository facts collected .
Status evidence
Checked 2026-10-04: GitHub reports this repository as archived, with its most recent public push on 2024-10-19. The most recent published release is app-v0.2.2, dated 2023-08-19. Archived reflects the repository state published by GitHub, not a judgement about the software or any successor project. The project website answered with HTTP 200 at this check. No founder, maintainer or creator is attributed: person-level role evidence was not verified for this record.
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Sources
People
Founder: not verified.
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