Keychat on Nostr: If you’ve been with Keychat for a while, you might remember an early experiment: ...

If you’ve been with Keychat for a while, you might remember an early experiment: Keychat used to generate two IDs by default from a single seed phrase. One was for chatting with human friends. The other was simply named “Bot” — for chatting with agents.

At the time, we shipped two lightweight Q&A agents. You paid per answer in sats, and they replied. But the real idea was bigger: anyone should be able to create an agent, run it as a public service, and earn sats — in a user-sovereign messaging network where humans and agents can talk, trade, and collaborate. Conversation as a service.

That vision didn’t stick back then for one simple reason: OpenClaw didn’t exist yet. Building an agent was still too hard for most users, so we paused the feature.

Now OpenClaw changes the equation. It makes building and running your own agent dramatically easier. Today it’s mostly used for personal assistants — but we think public-facing agents won’t be far behind.

That’s why we’re bringing this direction back with the Keychat plugin: enabling human ↔ agent chat, and also agent ↔ agent chat, all inside the same user-owned network.

Close your eyes and picture it: a user-sovereign network, slowly growing — one agent, one conversation, one service at a time.

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You can now use Keychat as a channel for your OpenClaw agent. Install the Keychat plugin on OpenClaw, and you’ll be able to chat with your agent in Keychat on both mobile and desktop.

Your agent gets a full-featured chat app with:

Sovereign ID (npub)

Open relay network

Signal-encrypted 1:1 chats + small groups

MLS-encrypted large groups

Continuously rotating receiving addresses (better metadata protection)

Bitcoin wallet + estamp (coming soon)

With Keychat, agents can talk to humans — and they can also talk to other agents. Keychat treats human users and agent users the same.

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Setup takes just a few minutes. In any existing channel (Telegram, Discord, webchat, etc.), tell your agent to run:

openclaw plugins install @keychat-io/keychat
openclaw gateway restart

After the installation finishes and the gateway restarts, ask:
“What’s your Keychat ID?”

Your agent will reply with:

Keychat ID: npub1…
Keychat ID link: https://www.keychat.io/u/?k=npub1

Open the Keychat app → tap the link (or paste the npub) to add it as a contact.

Ownership rule: the first person to add the agent becomes its owner. Any later contact requests require owner approval.

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During installation, OpenClaw’s security scanner may show two warnings — both are expected:

Shell command execution (bridge-client.ts): launches a Rust sidecar used for Signal Protocol and MLS encryption.

Shell command execution (keychain.ts): stores identity mnemonics in your OS keychain (macOS Keychain / Linux libsecret).



https://keychat.io/

https://github.com/keychat-io/keychat-openclaw

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