Straight answers, in plain language.

Sending is feeless — no fee, no gas, no per-message charge. The only thing you put up is a one-time refundable bond (a spam gate) that you get back. Receiving is always free.

It’s part of the Stealth app family, and your identity is just an address — no name, phone number, or contact upload. Sending posts a one-time refundable bond; receiving needs only an address.

No — stealthtext is text-only by design. Keeping it to text also means image-based abuse can’t travel over the channel.

Desktop and mobile (iOS and Android), with equal weight. The browser extension does not carry messaging.

1,000 XSS, locked once when you start sending. It’s a spam gate, not a fee — flooding the network would mean tying up a fortune, so throwaway spam accounts stay expensive. It stays locked until you choose to unlock it, then it’s yours again.

No. Your bond is fixed to the amount in force when you locked it — a later change can never evict you or make you top up. You’d only meet a new amount if you unlock and lock again by choice.

The community, slowly — not us, and no price feed. Stakers each set a preferred figure and the live number is the stake-weighted median, so no single holder can move it. It eases in small steps and can shift at most about once or twice a year, keeping the entry cost sensible as XST/XSS value drifts.

No. Every message is end-to-end encrypted to the recipient — only their key opens it. No company server, no backdoor. Messages are authenticated with post-quantum zk-STARKs and sealed with post-quantum encryption — proof and privacy both post-quantum.

That a shielded action happened, and roughly when — never who sent it, who received it, or what it said.

A network-wide expiry removes them for both sides — no server keeps a copy. Removed from honest nodes and unreadable to everyone; encryption is the one absolute.

Only under sustained demand above the rail’s rate (about 43 messages/sec, measured). Normal bursts drain in seconds.

Block any address at any time; the one-time bond makes throwaway spam accounts costly. The site publishes a safety contact and a community-standards commitment.

Yes — messaging runs on Stealth’s shielded rail, post-quantum from proof to encryption.