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Theme fund: NGI0 Commons Fund
Start: 2025-08

Ricochet Refresh UX

Making privacy more user-friendly

Ricochet-Refresh is a decentralised, open-source instant-messaging client that allows people to chat with each other anonymously and securely, via the Tor network. This project will strengthen Ricochet-Refresh’s privacy and anonymity guarantees by basing it on the Gosling library. The project will also improve user experience and implement various new features one expects from contemporary instant-messaging software, and prepare the way to bring Ricochet-Refresh to Android devices.

Run by Blueprint for Free Speech e.V.

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This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).