Hylaq never dies.
Even when the internet does.
No cell signal. No WiFi. No problem. Your phone finds a nearby Hylaq device via Bluetooth or WiFi Direct. If nobody's around, it reaches a satellite. Your payment arrives. Your message arrives. No one can silence the mesh.
How the mesh routes you
- 1. Internet — default path when you're online. 120ms, $0.0001 per envelope.
- 2. Bluetooth LE + WiFi Direct — when you're offline, your phone scans for nearby Hylaq devices (100-200ft range). Their phone carries your envelope. Free.
- 3. Carrier satellite — Apple Messages Satellite (iPhone 14+), Android Satellite Messaging (Pixel 9+), Starlink Direct-to-Cell, AST SpaceMobile, Lynk Global. Your phone talks to space.
- 4. SMS gateway — last-resort fallback. Works on any phone ever made since 1990.
- 5. Local queue — if none are available right now, the envelope waits on your device and submits the moment any transport opens up.
Phone-to-phone
Bluetooth LE + WiFi Direct. Your friends' phones carry your message until one reaches signal. Free. Works at Burning Man, on planes, in subway tunnels.
Satellite fallback
When no peers are near, your phone talks to Apple / Starlink / AST / Lynk sats directly. Works in the middle of the ocean.
SMS fallback
On a dumb phone? Zero Hylaq users around? An SMS gateway delivers your envelope. Never fails.
Relays can't read your mail
Every envelope is end-to-end encrypted to the recipient's Veritas device key before it enters the mesh. Relays carry ciphertext — they have no key, no way to decrypt, no way to modify. They just route the bytes. Your Loadit payment, your SOS, your message — private even when it hops through 40 strangers' phones.