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Cherry is a wallet-to-wallet messenger and social layer built on Solana, letting users communicate, organize into communities, and trade tokens — all through their existing Solana wallet, with no phone number, email address, or KYC required.

What It Does

Cherry's core premise is that a Solana wallet is sufficient identity. Users connect their wallet to access encrypted direct messages with any other wallet address, join or create group chats, and participate in token-gated clubs that restrict membership to holders of specific tokens. Because authentication runs through the wallet rather than a centralized account system, Cherry does not collect personal identifying information and cannot be siloed behind a traditional login.

The platform positions itself as the social layer that was missing from Solana's DeFi and trading ecosystem — a place where communities form around tokens and trades happen inside the conversation rather than across separate apps.

Key Features

Encrypted direct messages. Cherry supports wallet-to-wallet DMs protected by end-to-end encryption using native encryption modules. Messages travel between wallets rather than between email addresses or phone numbers, keeping identity and communication on-chain.

Group chats and token-gated clubs. Beyond one-to-one messaging, Cherry supports multi-user group chats and clubs whose membership is restricted to wallets holding a specified token. This lets project communities, DAO participants, and token holders self-organize with automatic access control enforced at the wallet level.

Gasless messaging. Introduced in version 0.5.0, gasless messaging removes the need for users to hold SOL to cover transaction fees for every message sent, reducing friction for new and casual users.

OTC trading with escrow. Cherry includes over-the-counter trading functionality that lets users arrange and settle token trades directly within the app through built-in escrow, without relying on a centralized exchange or leaving the conversation.

Integrated trading terminal. In September 2026, Cherry launched an in-app trading terminal that lets users check token charts and execute trades without exiting a conversation. The launch announcement reached over 81,000 impressions on X, indicating strong community interest.

Cherry Analytics. In addition to its messaging products, Cherry operates a dApps analytics leaderboard that aggregates community reviews across the Solana ecosystem. As of mid-2026, the leaderboard covers 649 Solana dApps with more than 369,000 reviews, organized across categories including DeFi and trading, games, wallets, NFTs, content and streaming, AI and agents, and privacy. Premium dashboard tiers offer AI-powered sentiment analysis and whale-user identification for individual projects.

Availability and Technical Details

Cherry is available as a native mobile application on both iOS (App Store, requires iOS 16.1 or later) and Android (Google Play). The iOS app is published by Letty Ltd, a company based in London, United Kingdom, with an app size of approximately 54 MB. The app reached version 0.9.0 in early 2026, with successive updates adding GIF support, in-chat reactions, user badges, connection indicators, and message animations. The web interface is accessible at chat.cherry.fun.

Ecosystem Fit

Cherry targets the intersection of Solana's DeFi culture and its growing mobile-first user base. It claims the position of the leading social application on Solana Mobile, the Android-based crypto smartphone produced by Solana Mobile. By embedding a trading terminal alongside messaging, Cherry competes in a space where coordination and execution typically occur across multiple disconnected tools — aiming to collapse that workflow into a single, wallet-native environment.

The platform's participation in the Solana Mobile Hackathon (Clock In, September–October 2026, organized by RadiantsDAO) reflects its continued activity and integration within the broader Solana developer community.

Security and Audit Status

No independent security audit has been publicly disclosed in available sources. The app uses end-to-end encryption for messages and relies on Solana's on-chain infrastructure for wallet authentication and escrow settlement.