Tapestry

Tapestry was a social graph protocol on Solana. It gave app builders one API for profiles, follows, posts and likes. Every app built on it shared the same data. This is the Solana project at usetapestry.dev. It is not the Tapestry AI (TAPS) token or any other project with the same name.

Tapestry appears to be inactive. Founder David Gabeau's personal site lists him as founder and CEO from 2022 to 2026 and says the company "raised $12.5M and wound it down in 2026." The team's blog has had no new posts since 30 April 2026, and the @usetapestry X account posted nothing in the 60 days to late October 2026. The website and docs were still online in October 2026, with no shutdown notice.

Is Tapestry still active in 2026?

Probably not, and nothing has changed since our last check in September 2026. The evidence:

• Gabeau describes the company in the past tense and says it was wound down in 2026.
• The last blog posts, in April 2026, were about the Zumi app: Zumi 2.0 on 8 April and a final update on 30 April.
• We found no product updates, posts or press after that.

What we could not find is a formal notice that the API is switched off. The website still invites developers to sign up and still shows its graph figures. If you are thinking of building on Tapestry, confirm the API still works and that someone is maintaining it first.

What the Tapestry protocol did

Onchain social apps kept building the same backend for profiles, followers and alerts. Each one also started with no users in its graph. Tapestry offered one 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 reports more than 208,000 profiles, 127,000 content nodes (NFTs and comments) and 65,000 follows on the graph. These are the project's own figures, and we could not check them independently.

How the Tapestry social graph worked on Solana

According to the technical docs, Tapestry used state compression. That is the same technique behind compressed NFTs on Solana.

Social data sat in an offchain graph database, so reads and writes stayed fast. The data was organised into a Merkle tree, and each time it changed, the tree's root was written to Solana. If anyone tampered with the offchain copy, it would no longer match the root onchain. The Block's funding report said this approach on a Layer 1 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. That kept an app's profiles, follows and content separate, while other apps could still read them. Tapestry also published a Solana Starter Kit template.

Tapestry integrations: Solana Social Explorer, SNS and Zumi

Tapestry came from the team behind Primitives, a Solana art collecting app. That app later used the protocol too. Other products and integrations:

• Solana Social Explorer (SSE). A block explorer that combined onchain activity with Tapestry social data. It had transaction feeds, wallet tracking, copy trading and profile comments.
• .sol domains. An integration with Solana Name Service (SNS) SNS$0.00097-3.0%, announced in February 2025, added follows, activity feeds and profiles to .sol names.
• Other apps. The Q2 2025 review listed Pudgy Penguins PENGU$0.00645-12.9%, 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. When they are offline, it talks to other Zumis in a shared "Zumiverse." The blog announced Zumi Earn, a way for users to earn from the app, in February 2026 and Zumi 2.0 in April 2026. Gabeau's site says Zumi grew to 160,000 users who spent about 17 minutes a day in it.

In early 2026 Tapestry sponsored the onchain social track at the Solana Graveyard Hackathon, where it said 74 teams built on the protocol.

Does Tapestry have a token? SSE and look-alikes

Tapestry never launched an official protocol token that we could find.

• SSE. Fans of Solana Social Explorer launched an SSE token on Pump.fun in early 2025. BlockBeats reported that it reached 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, but SSE was not a Tapestry protocol token.
• Venture token. In December 2025 Tapestry announced a "venture token" with Seedplex, with details promised for the new year. We found no evidence that it launched.
• Look-alikes. Several tokens named "Tapestry" or "TAPESTRY" exist on Solana, including Pump.fun launches as recent as October 2026. We found none linked from Tapestry's website or blog. Treat any token using the name as unofficial.

Who Tapestry was for

Tapestry was built for teams making Solana consumer apps. They got profiles, follows and feeds without running their own social backend. Their users also arrived with friends already in the graph. It suited small teams that needed to ship fast, such as hackathon builders.

Now that the company has wound down, it is a poor choice for a new app in production. With no one maintaining it, the API could go offline without warning. It is still useful to anyone studying how onchain social graphs were designed on Solana, and to teams with an existing integration who need to plan a migration.

Tapestry risks: API availability, audits and custody

• Availability. The biggest risk is that the service stops. Tapestry ran the offchain graph database and the API. Only the Merkle roots lived on Solana, so apps depended on the company to serve the actual data.
• Data portability. If the API goes dark, an app would need its own copy of its users' profiles and follows. Developers still using Tapestry should export that data now.
• Audits. We found no published security audit of Tapestry's code or onchain program.
• Program control. Our project record lists no Tapestry program addresses, so we could not check who holds upgrade authority.
• Scam tokens. As above, tokens using the Tapestry name are not official.

Tapestry alternatives for onchain social on Solana

Teams that want a shared social graph today have fewer options than when Tapestry launched:

• Farcaster, the social protocol The Block named as a Tapestry competitor. It announced Solana support at Accelerate 2025.
• Lens, the other protocol The Block compared Tapestry with.
• Solana Name Service (SNS) SNS$0.00097-3.0%, whose .sol names already carry identity and were integrated with Tapestry, for apps that only need names and profiles rather than a full follow graph.
• Your own backend, the route Tapestry was built to replace. You run it yourself, but you own the data.

Tapestry funding, team and history

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.

David Gabeau founded the company in 2022. The team built Primitives first, then the Tapestry protocol, Solana Social Explorer and Zumi. Its last public activity, in April and May 2026, covered Zumi 2.0 and a talk at Solana Consumer Day in Miami.