Tapestry

Tapestry was a social graph protocol on Solana. It let developers add profiles, follows, posts, comments and likes to their apps through a single API, with the data shared across every app built on it. Tapestry appears to be inactive. Founder David Gabeau's personal site lists the company as running from 2022 to 2026 and says it raised $12.5 million "before winding down in difficult markets." The @usetapestry X account has not posted since early May 2026. The website and developer docs were still online in September 2026, but we found no formal shutdown notice or statement on whether the API is still running.

What Tapestry did

Tapestry's pitch was that onchain social apps kept rebuilding the same backend for profiles, follower lists and notifications, and each one started with an empty graph. Tapestry offered a shared graph instead. An app could import profiles from across the Solana ecosystem, add social features without running its own social database, and pull in identity data from Farcaster, Lens, Bluesky and EVM activity. The project's vision page also described a points model: developers earned when other apps read their data, and users earned through engagement.

The website reported more than 208,000 profiles, 127,000 content nodes (NFTs and comments) and 65,000 follows on the graph. These figures come from the project and we could not verify them independently.

How it worked

According to the technical docs, Tapestry used state compression, the same technique behind compressed NFTs on Solana. Social data sat in an off-chain graph database so reads and writes stayed fast. That data was organised into a Merkle tree, and the tree's root was written to Solana in a transaction each time the data changed. Any tampering with the off-chain copy would no longer match the onchain root. The Block's funding report said this Layer 1 approach set Tapestry apart from Farcaster and Lens.

Developers could call the REST API directly or use the socialfi npm package. Each app got its own namespace, which kept its profiles, follows and content separate from other apps while still allowing cross-app reads. Tapestry also published a Solana Starter Kit template.

Products and integrations

Tapestry came from the team behind Primitives, a Solana digital art collecting app that later integrated the protocol. Other products and integrations included:

• Solana Social Explorer (SSE), a block explorer that combined onchain activity with Tapestry social data, with features such as transaction feeds, wallet tracking, copy trading and profile comments.
• An integration with Solana Name Service (SNS) SNS$0.00065+30.6%, announced in February 2025, that added follows, activity feeds and profiles to .sol domains.
• Integrations listed in the Q2 2025 review with Pudgy Penguins PENGU$0.00763+3.3%, Tokie, tops, Lux, JESTR and SagaDAO. The team said more than 15 apps had integrated by then and that X handles had become the main identifier across apps.
• Zumi, an AI companion app that launched on iOS in October 2025. Users chat with their Zumi and dress it up, and when they are offline the Zumi interacts with other Zumis in a shared "Zumiverse." Gabeau's site says Zumi reached 160,000 users who spent an average of 17 minutes a day in the app.

In early 2026 Tapestry sponsored the onchain social track at the Solana Graveyard Hackathon, where it said 74 teams used the protocol. It also announced a "venture token" with Seedplex in December 2025, with details promised for the new year. We found no evidence that the token launched.

The SSE token

A community-launched SSE token for Solana Social Explorer was created on Pump.fun in early 2025. BlockBeats reported that it hit a $50 million market cap within four hours. Tapestry later called the explorer a core client and said it would add SSE utility to its products. SSE was not an official Tapestry protocol token.

Funding and team

Tapestry announced a $5.75 million Series A in January 2025, co-led by Union Square Ventures and Fabric Ventures. Stellation, Slow Ventures, Foresight Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Harlem Capital, Social Graph Ventures and Re7 also took part. The Block put total funding at $12.5 million, including earlier seed rounds, and said the company had 13 employees at the time. We did not find a published security audit.

Status

The last posts on Tapestry's X account, in April and May 2026, were about Zumi 2.0 and a talk at Solana Consumer Day in Miami. Gabeau now describes the company in the past tense, and we found no later product updates. Developers should not build on the Tapestry API without first confirming that it is still available.