So one of the coolest things I saw while at Bitcoin 2025 was http://Vermilion.place, It's very similar to http://Etch.social in that it's a social network deploying the posts directly onchain with no centralized contracts. Vermillion is to Bitcoin and Etch is to EVM chains. Ours use NFTs (fully on-chain ones) and theirs use Ordinals. They are very similar concepts.

I had a great talk with the founder of Vermillion, Smarak, and we're both deploying similar data so at some point it's possible we could exchange data, possibly in the Nostr format, possibly... Etch could translate data to Vermillion and see data from Bitcoin data as well. That would make one social network across many blockchains.

Now all someone needs to do is come along and do Solana and we've got the trifecta. Anyone want to translate ERC-7847 to Solana?

I'm super excited for the future of decentralized social media now. I feel like we took a step in the wrong direction with early blockchain attempts and now we're headed back in the right direction. No permissions, no invite codes, just standards anyone can use to deploy directly on-chain. We finally have good-faith decentralized alternatives to centralized social media, not new silos governed by centralized smart contracts.

The end of centralized social media is still a long way off, but the end is now visible. Between Etch and Vermillion protocols people finally have honest open attempts at decentralized social media and I'm super excited about it!