Volla Partnership Announcement

You might have already heard about Volla, but today we are excited to make it official. We are announcing our partnership with Volla Systeme GmbH (Volla for short). A privacy-first mobile phone company with their own Android based OS, Volla is preparing to ship their new Quintus phone this fall with Holochain applications pre-installed.

Built with Holochain, the secure messenger app "Relay" will offer 1-to-1 chats and group chats with secure authentication, allowing you to share photos and other files — all 100% encrypted. Users connect to each other via public key, providing a decentralized and secure system of identifiers. Relay is entering beta testing this August.

Recover is a Holochain based application allowing users to create encrypted backups of their data without a cloud provider. Enabling (selective) recovery in the event of theft or defect, it automatically and incrementally backs up Volla phones.

Volla is reinventing what it means to hold a mobile phone in your hands, and we are glad to be a part of that. These are just the first Holochain apps to be built for Volla, but as a partnership committed to privacy first, distributed tech, we expect that there will be many more. Holochain on mobile is a huge leap, and we are thankful to Volla for blazing this trail.

Volla will be doing a pre-sale of the Quintus via Kickstarter. Keep your eyes on our socials to learn more.

Originally published on the Holochain Blog on July 22, 2024.