Dassie
Dassie
Banks build up. We build out.
A kopje is a low rocky outcrop in the African veld. The rocks are solid and stable; on top lives a colony of nimble dassies, hopping from rock to rock, with the rocks as their safety and their home. Every morning they climb out together into the first sun.
Dassie is a kopje: low, wide, and open to anyone who climbs on. Everything in Kopje is low and wide.
The rocks are the ledgers: the XRP Ledger, Bitcoin. Solid, stable and dependable. On top lives a society of nimble dassies, jumping from rock to rock, with the rocks as their safety and their home.
Each node is a dassie. It runs on its owner's own server, peers with a few neighbors, keeps its own books and protects itself. Nobody sits on top of anybody.
The rocks do the holding. Payments hop from node to node; settlement lands on a ledger that does not move. The stability comes from the rock, not from a tall building.
Trust grows sideways. Each node sends more of its payments through the peers that have earned it the most. Good neighbors get busier.
Sunrise is the mood. The colony climbs out together into the first light: a new day, warm and hopeful. It is also honest. Dassie is early, but the sun is coming up.
So the identity lies down: horizons, kopjes, wide compositions and warm light, with the sun behind everything. Nothing towers. Nothing glows neon. The only thing that shines is the violet cube, because that is the value moving between friends.
Solid rocks, nimble dassies. The ledgers hold still; the nodes hop between them. It grows wider, not taller.
Horizons, kopje lines and wide frames. If a layout starts to tower, lay it down.
Sandstone and sunrise apricot. Soft gradients like the first sun on rock, never neon.
The sun is always behind. What stands in front of it is a silhouette, and the edges the sun reaches catch a rim of light.
The mark is Perch: a dassie sitting on a faceted rock with the sun rising behind it. The rock is lit from behind, so only its top edge catches the light, and the dassie sits on that lit edge. Its small cut, the Silhouette, is the same drawing seen through the sun's circle, all in ink. The wordmark is “Dassie” in soft Fraunces, with a capital D: it is a name, and Fraunces’ round D is as friendly as the rest. The mark as files: Sunrise and the Silhouette, in SVG.
The palette is the kopje at sunrise. Grounds are sandstone, the light is apricot, the kopjes are granite on terracotta earth, actions are ember. Violet is kept for value alone: the cube, the payment, the balance mark. If everything were violet, nothing would be.
Fraunces with its SOFT axis at full rounds every terminal; WONK lets a few letters lean on their neighbors in display sizes. Figtree carries the reading: open, friendly and plain. DM Mono sets commands and amounts, so numbers line up.
Use SOFT 100 everywhere. WONK 1 for display only.
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk 0123456789
400 for reading, 600 for labels and buttons. Never below 13 px. Pairs with Fraunces’ round shapes without competing.
248.50 DSUSD
31.200000 XRP
Amounts, addresses, commands. Its soft round dots and commas match the rest.
Six elements, all lying down, all lit from behind. They carry the brand when there is no illustration, and they give the illustrations ground to stand on.
Ends a page or a major section, and carries the footer: an ink horizon with kopjes of granite blocks, lit from behind, now and then a dassie drawn for its rock.
The sun is behind, so light shows as a rim on top edges. Every divider is 2 px ink under 2 px Sunrise. On a headline (0.045 em) or a dark card (2.5 px), once or twice per site.
Bunch grass, grown in code and never stamped: clumps of every size, blades that arch under their weight and catch the sun along their outer half, rooigras nodding above. At the dassies' scale. On the balance card and in the footer.
One flat disc, no glow and no rings, for a moment: a hero, a release, a node coming up. One per screen, never with the mark inside it. A dassie in front of it sits well inside it or clear of it, never on its edge.
Faint dotted hops in warm stone, only where something moves: a payment's route, setup progress. Nothing rides on them.
Every node's avatar: the sun with its own granite rock, drawn from its node ID, so a node looks the same in peer lists, routes and maps.
A shape reads as droppings when four things come together: a dark warm brown, a soft rounded outline, one lump with nothing inside to say what it is, and the size of the animal beside it. A rock in Kopje has none of them.
Calm, plain and warm. We take money seriously, so we say exactly what is true; we enjoy the work, so we don't sound like a bank.
Describe the network as people next to each other, never as a power above them.
Your node peers with a few neighbors. Together you're the network.
Join the most powerful payment infrastructure ever built.
Say how far along we are. The sun is coming up; it isn't noon.
Dassie is early: few users and few ledgers so far, with more every day.
The future of finance is here. Start earning today.
Explain how standing grows between peers instead of asking anyone to trust us.
Your node sends more payments through the peers that earn it the most.
Trustless, unstoppable, bank-grade security.
Short sentences, everyday verbs. A little sun, never a joke at the user's expense.
Sent. Kai has 4.20 DSUSD. Your node settles with boot2 later today.
Transaction broadcast to the decentralized settlement layer. 🚀
The same rock, the same light, at every size: the dassie.land front page, the node's wallet, and the things operators hand to each other.
Dassie is a peer-to-peer payment network you run yourself. Your node peers with a few neighbors, keeps its own books and settles on a shared ledger. Nobody sits on top.
Your node meets others through the bootstrap nodes, boot1 to boot5, and picks its own peers.
It records what each peer owes it and settles with them on a shared ledger.
Your node sends more payments through the peers that earn it the most in fees. Good neighbors get busier.
The testnet starts fresh. Set your node up again with a new phrase.
