---
title: "Subspace – Decentralized Communication Platform"
url: "https://ankush.one/projects/2025.subspace/"
description: "A censorship-resistant, permanent communication platform with a Discord-like UX, built on the AO computation network."
author: "Ankush Singh"
date: 2025-06-10
lastmod: 2026-10-13
tags: ["arweave","web3"]
status: "archived"
website: "https://subspace.arweave.net"
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  - {"archived":false,"label":"GitHub","url":"https://github.com/subspace-dev/app"}
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---

# Subspace – Decentralized Communication Platform

Links:

- [Website](https://subspace.arweave.net)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/subspace-dev/app)
- [Demo Video](https://x.com/use_subspace/status/1982168682064212271)

**Subspace is a fully decentralized communication platform with a familiar, Discord-like experience, but permanent, censorship-resistant, and powered entirely by the AO network.**  
It shows how real, everyday apps can run without central servers.

## 🌱 What Subspace Is
- A **chat and community platform**, similar to Discord  
- Fully **decentralized**: no servers, no central control  
- **Censorship-resistant** and **permanent**, thanks to Arweave  
- Runs entirely on the **AO compute network**

## ⚙️ Key Features
- **Channels and communities** you can join, just like Discord  
- Messages are **permanent** and stored on Arweave  
- No company or admin can take it down  
- Built on a simple, message-based architecture powered by AO  

## 🔐 Why It Matters
- Gives people a communication app that **can’t be shut down**  
- Shows that large, real-time apps can run fully on-chain  
- Makes decentralized tech feel familiar and easy to use  

Together, these show what’s possible when you build real applications on the AO network.

[YouTube video](https://youtu.be/8TsBYd6FcQc)


## Status

From September to November 2025 I rebuilt the app on HyperBEAM from a clean slate and added a waitlist, direct messages, temporary conversations and guest users. The demo video above went out at the end of October 2025. The app and SDK repos are archived now, and while [subspace.arweave.net](https://subspace.arweave.net) still loads, the HyperBEAM node it talks to is offline.