Organization Name – RSS3

Category – Security & Identity

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RSS3 is a decentralised open-information protocol launched in 2021 that is building what its founders describe as an alternative information layer to the centralised platforms — Twitter, Google, OpenAI — that currently index, curate, and mediate access to human-generated content. The name references RSS, the open syndication protocol from the early internet that allowed content to flow freely across platforms before walled gardens closed that architecture off. The $RSS3 token lists on Bybit, OKX, and Bitget. Founders Joshua Meng and Maggie Lou are verified. The VBTS of 6.27 at the 45th… percentile and MES of 5.83 at the 9th percentile (trust Medium) are near-to-below median. The Bonfire Union portfolio context — which includes Mask Network — is worth understanding as an ecosystem affiliation.

The original RSS standard was a genuine and important piece of internet infrastructure. It allowed a reader to subscribe to any website’s feed without the website knowing the reader’s identity, without a platform intermediary deciding what to show, and without a recommendation algorithm optimising for engagement over relevance. The death of RSS as a mainstream protocol — driven by Google Reader’s shutdown in 2013 and the rise of social media algorithmic feeds — was a significant loss for information autonomy. The RSS3 name is a deliberate reference to what was lost and a claim that the team is trying to rebuild it at the next layer of the information stack.

Whether RSS3’s decentralised protocol layer can provide what RSS provided — open, platform-independent, user-controlled information syndication — at web scale, with AI-era content complexity, and in competition with the largest companies in the world, is not answerable from a product description. The timing is relevant: the AI era makes the data layer beneath AI systems enormously valuable, and whoever controls the index that AI agents query has extraordinary leverage over what those agents know. An open, decentralised index is a genuinely important counterweight to that concentration. Whether RSS3 is the project that builds it requires tracking actual protocol adoption rather than the ambition statement. RSS3 is Unverified under VaaSBlock’s RMA framework. Read More