Texochat is a Web3 / crypto-native messaging platform built to solve issues like spam, insecure communication, and lack of crypto features in platforms like Telegram and Discord. It combines secure chat with wallet-based identity and built-in tools such as transactions, rewards, airdrops, NFTs, and staking.
Startup Description
Texochat is a decentralized, privacy-first communication platform built specifically for the Web3 era. We enable individuals, communities, creators, and blockchain projects to communicate, transact, and collaborate securely in one unified environment—without relying on centralized servers or data-harvesting business models.
At its core, Texochat is a secure messaging application powered by blockchain and IPFS. Users connect using a crypto wallet instead of a phone number or email, making identity self-sovereign and fully owned by the user. All messages are end-to-end encrypted and stored on decentralized infrastructure, ensuring that no third party can access, monetize, censor, or manipulate conversations. This architecture removes single points of failure and gives users true ownership of their data.
Beyond messaging, Texochat integrates a native wallet directly into chats, allowing users to send and receive crypto assets as easily as sending a text message. Users can transfer tokens, tip other users, distribute community rewards, and send NFTs with on-chain verification—without switching apps or copying wallet addresses. This turns chat into a transactional layer, enabling peer-to-peer payments, creator monetization, NFT utility, and community economies to operate naturally within conversations.
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Business Model
Texochat generates revenue through clear, usage-based monetization, aligned with real activity on the platform rather than ads or user data.
Texochat’s revenue streams are built around three primary methods.
First, transaction fees are applied as small, transparent charges on in-chat crypto transactions, NFT transfers, and staking actions performed through the integrated wallet. These fees scale naturally with platform usage.
Second, service fees are charged for advanced community tools such as Airdrop distribution and Reward systems. Projects and communities pay to use these built-in services, replacing unsafe and unreliable third-party bots with secure, native functionality.
Third, Texochat earns NFT marketplace fees from users who list, buy, or sell NFTs on the platform. A small percentage fee is applied to each marketplace transaction, including NFT trades and listings.
Together, these revenue streams create a sustainable, utility-driven business model where Texochat earns as users and communities actively communicate, transact, and engage within the ecosystem.
Customers
based in
India, East Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America, Middle East & North Africa, South Asia, Australia & New Zealand (Oceania), Southeast Asia, Africa (excluding North Africa)
Business
Modal Type
Texochat generates revenue through clear, usage-based monetization, aligned with real activity on the platform rather than ads or user data. Texochat’s revenue streams are built around three primary methods. First, transaction fees are applied as small, transparent charges on in-chat crypto transactions, NFT transfers, and staking actions performed through the integrated wallet. These fees scale naturally with platform usage. Second, service fees are charged for advanced community tools such as Airdrop distribution and Reward systems. Projects and communities pay to use these built-in services, replacing unsafe and unreliable third-party bots with secure, native functionality. Third, Texochat earns NFT marketplace fees from users who list, buy, or sell NFTs on the platform. A small percentage fee is applied to each marketplace transaction, including NFT trades and listings. Together, these revenue streams create a sustainable, utility-driven business model where Texochat earns as users and communities actively communicate, transact, and engage within the ecosystem.
Type of
Sales
B2B, C2C, B2C
Competitors
Competition in crypto-focused messaging is limited, with Telegram as the dominant platform and Discord as a secondary option. However, Telegram is plagued by excessive spam, weak security, poor moderation, and a lack of true crypto-native features—making it inefficient for serious crypto communities. Even its wallet integration falls short of what users expect from a real crypto wallet. Discord, while powerful, is complex and unintuitive for non-technical users, which is why most crypto communities still rely on Telegram despite its flaws.
Texochat is purpose-built for crypto communities, offering features unavailable in existing messaging apps, including an integrated crypto wallet, in-chat transactions, staking, a native rewarding system, and an NFT marketplace—all designed to enable secure, spam-resistant, and value-driven
Teams
Akhilesh Mishra
Founder
Tell us a bit about how founding team knows
each other.
Akhilesh Mishra is the founder and CEO of Texochat. He has been active in the crypto ecosystem since 2016, starting as a student exploring faucets and micro-earning platforms, later building his own products and running a successful crypto blog. With deep hands-on experience in crypto communities, wallets, and on-chain workflows, Akhilesh is focused on building a secure, crypto-native communication platform purpose-built for Web3.
Why did you decide to start this
company?
This team is well positioned to win because we have deep, hands-on experience in the crypto ecosystem and understand the real problems faced by crypto communities.
Are all the founders full-time on this
project?
Yes
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