Gozzip Earns a 50 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an Open Social Protocol That Turns Trust Graphs Into Storage Infrastructure

Gozzip turns your social graph into your storage network. Instead of relying on servers that decide what gets stored and served, the protocol creates bilateral storage pacts between peers within your Web of Trust. Data lives on your device and your trusted contacts' devices, verified by cryptographic challenge-response. The architecture formalizes how human communities have always preserved information: reciprocal obligation along trust edges, bounded by Dunbar layers, propagated through gossip. Built on Nostr primitives, bridges to ActivityPub and AT Protocol. The relay becomes a fallback, not a gatekeeper.