The address layer of the internet

Stop typing your address into 47 forms.

Today, your address is duplicated across Amazon, UPS, FedEx, USPS, your gym, your dentist, your insurance, your utility company, and 39 other vendors — most of which leak it eventually. Hylaq Address: your @handle is your address. Move once. Done.

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The hidden tax of moving

The average American moves 11 timesin their life. Each move requires updating your address with ~50 vendors. The math: you do this 550 times per lifetime. Hours of forms. Lost packages. Mail going to your old apartment for years. Identity data leaking into 50 vendor databases, of which ~6 will be breached in your lifetime.

And carriers? UPS, FedEx, Amazon — they each spend $200M+/yr on misdelivery, re-routing, and manual address verification. The address layer of the internet is broken because no one owns the resolver.

What we replace

USPS NCOA

$1.2B/yr admin

National Change of Address paid lookups. Plus moving forms + mail forwarding.

Vendor address fields

50 forms × 11 moves

Every retailer + bank + utility maintaining their own stale copy of your address.

Carrier routing

$2B/yr in misdelivery

UPS / FedEx / Amazon waste $200M+ each on bad addresses. We're the source of truth.

Data brokers

$200B/yr industry

Address data sold to advertisers. Hylaq Address keeps it owner-controlled — they pay you, not data brokers.

Four privacy tiers (ship-day-1)

Owners control visibility per address. Phase 1 ships PUBLIC + MASKED + GATED + PRIVATE; Phase 2 wires push-notification approval flow for GATED.

PUBLIC

Full address returned to any querier. Best for businesses with a public storefront.

MASKED (default)

City + region + country only. Authorized carriers can request the full address through a paid query channel.

GATED

Owner approves each query via push notification. Amazon wants my address? Tap yes.

PRIVATE

Only the owner sees it. Stored for personal reference.

The 40-year arc

Year 1
Power users + privacy nerds
Early adopters set up Hylaq Address as an extra layer between them and 50 vendor forms. We integrate with major e-commerce checkouts via API.
Years 2–4
First carrier integration
One major shipper (FedEx, ShipStation, or Amazon Logistics) queries @handle as a fallback for stale customer data. ~10M queries/mo at $0.001 = $120K MRR.
Years 5–8
Carrier-tier adoption
3+ major shippers query Hylaq Address as primary source of truth. 1B+ queries/yr × $0.001 = $1M+/yr in pure protocol revenue. Misdelivery rates drop industry-wide.
Years 9–15
The address book of the internet
Government services, voter registration, utility billing, school enrollment — all resolve to @handle. Smart cities query for delivery + emergency services. $50B+/yr in routed query volume × thin take rate = $500M+/yr.
Years 16–40
The default physical-address resolver
The way email won as the default identifier — Hylaq Address wins as the default physical-location resolver. Drone delivery + AR overlays + autonomous vehicles + smart cities all resolve via @handle. Address as a primitive.

Why only Hylaq

@handle = the only universal identifier

USPS owns NCOA but not your identity. Google has your identity but no shipping protocol. Hylaq has both: @handle binds your identity to your physical destination cryptographically.

Composes with the rest of the stack

Veritas verifies the address (USPS NCOA, carrier delivery, bank statement, government ID, or attestation from another @handle like your landlord). Loadit pays the per-query fee. Rail settles carrier billing. No one else has all four primitives.

Owner-controlled privacy is the wedge

Visibility tiers + per-query audit log means the data stays with the owner. Every other 'address book' company sells your data — that's actually their business model. Hylaq makes the owner the seller.

Network effect on both sides

More users with @handle addresses = more value for carriers to query. More carriers querying = more passive income for users. Standard two-sided marketplace dynamics that nobody else has the address-space coverage to trigger.

Shipped today

2 Prisma models — HandleAddress + AddressQuery
4 visibility tiers — PUBLIC / MASKED / GATED / PRIVATE
6 verification sources — UNVERIFIED / USPS_NCOA / CARRIER_DELIVERY / BANK / VERITAS_ATTEST / GOVT_ID
Soft-delete via effectiveTo — full address history is preserved + auditable
7 API routes — /me (GET + POST), /[id] (DELETE), /[id]/primary, /[id]/visibility, /resolve/[handle], /queries/[handle]
Per-query audit log — every carrier lookup logged with fee + visibility served
4 consumer pages — landing, setup, my-addresses dashboard, public resolver

One identifier. Infinite vendors. Move once, done.

The address layer of the internet has been broken for 50 years because no one owned the resolver. We do.

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