DeSo on any website.

DeSo is a Layer 1 proof-of-stake blockchain whose state machine is shaped specifically around social primitives. Where a generic chain stores account balances and contract storage, DeSo natively stores profiles, posts, follows, likes, diamonds, reclouts, NFTs, and creator coin balances as first-class state. Every action a user takes (publishing a post, tipping a diamond, following a profile, buying a creator coin) is a signed transaction submitted to a DeSo node, batched into a block, and committed to the chain. Public DeSo nodes (operated by the DeSo Foundation, by Diamond, by Openfund, and by community contributors) expose REST and GraphQL APIs that let any client read the full social graph without operating its own node. A widget that wants to embed a DeSo feed must resolve the username to a public key via the node API, then query the same node for the latest posts, coin price, and diamonds. Poper does this automatically: paste any username, public key, or feed slug and the widget hits the right node, fails over to backup nodes if the primary is unreachable, and caches responses at our CDN edge for fast subsequent loads. Because the data is on the DeSo chain itself, your account is portable across every client and your embed keeps working even if a particular node operator disappears.

DeSo's biggest divergence from Web2 social is identity ownership. Your DeSo identity is a base58-encoded public key registered on the DeSo chain itself, controlled by a private key that lives in your wallet (typically the DeSo Identity service or a hardware wallet integration). No company can suspend your DeSo public key, change its associated username without your signature, or revoke its access to the chain. Compare that to X, Threads, or any other centralized social: those accounts are licenses that can be revoked, suspended, or rate-limited at the platform's discretion. For founders, journalists, NFT artists, and creators with strong personal brands or risky topics, the on-chain key is a meaningful upgrade. For widget embeds, the implication is even more practical: a DeSo embed cannot be broken by a platform suspending your account or rotating its API. The widget resolves the public key through any DeSo node and queries chain state, so the only way to break a DeSo embed is to take the entire DeSo chain offline, which is a different category of risk from a single corporate account ban. Poper leans into this by querying chain state on every cache miss so your embed always reflects the canonical on-chain truth.

DeSo ships with two economic primitives that are baked into every profile and post: creator coins and diamonds. A creator coin is a per-profile token whose price is set by a bonding curve denominated in DESO (the chain's native gas token). When supporters buy your creator coin, the price goes up; when they sell, it goes down. Many creators use their coin as a paid-membership primitive, gating Discord access, premium drops, or community channels behind ownership of a minimum amount of their coin. The widget can render live creator coin price (in USD or DESO), the 24-hour price change, and the total holder count next to the feed, which turns the embed into a real-time economic display. Diamonds are the chain's on-chain tipping primitive: any user can tip a post 1 to 6 diamonds, each level worth a progressively larger amount of DESO. Diamond counts beside posts function as on-chain upvote signals, except backed by real value movement rather than free likes. Poper surfaces diamond totals, top tippers, and the USD value of all tips on a post, giving visitors a verifiable look at the economic value the audience has moved. These primitives are why DeSo is uniquely positioned for creator and DeFi-social hybrid use cases: the chain is the marketplace.

Diamond (deso.com / diamondapp.com) is the flagship consumer client and the most active surface for DeSo activity, but it is not the only one. Desofy is a TikTok-style short-video client. Openfund is a fundraising and tokenized investment platform built on DeSo creator coins. Setu is a community-and-DAO-focused client. Several other clients (Cloutfeed, Polygram, NFTz, Cloutavista) serve niche audiences and surface the same shared chain data with different UIs. Because all clients read and write the same DeSo state, a post published from Diamond shows up in Desofy and Openfund, and a creator coin trade from Openfund affects the price displayed in Diamond. For embeds, this multi-client architecture matters: your widget pulls from chain state, not from any single client's database, so the feed reflects activity across the whole DeSo ecosystem. Poper's embed renders chain-anchored badges that show which DeSo block a post was committed to, plus a sameAs link back to the canonical Diamond URL for SEO and social citation. If a particular client (even Diamond itself) goes down or pivots, the embed continues to work because the underlying data lives in the DeSo chain.

DeSo, Lens Protocol, and Farcaster are the three most-cited Web3 social protocols in 2026, and they take meaningfully different architectural approaches. Lens (built by the Aave team and launched in 2022) anchors profiles to NFTs on Polygon: every Lens profile is a Profile NFT, every post is a Publication NFT, and every follow mints a Follow NFT. The result is a social graph that lives entirely as transferable on-chain assets, with gasless interactions through Lens V3 dispatcher contracts. Farcaster (founded in 2020 by Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan) keeps identity on-chain (FIDs in an Optimism Layer 2 registry) but stores casts off-chain in a peer-to-peer Hub network for free, instant interactions. DeSo takes a third path: it is its own purpose-built Layer 1, with every social action committed directly to DeSo blocks. The tradeoffs differ. DeSo gives you full chain-level finality and built-in economic primitives (creator coins, diamonds) but requires its own node infrastructure. Farcaster gives you fast, free posting via Hubs but pushes the durability question onto Hub operators. Lens gives you fully tokenized social objects but pays gas for every interaction. For website embeds, DeSo's choice to keep social activity on-chain is what makes the feed economically rich: the embed can show coin price, holder count, and tip value because the chain itself is the source of truth. Poper supports all three protocols (deso-feed, lens-protocol-feed, farcaster-feed) so creators with multi-protocol presence can mirror activity onto the same site.