Hermes Protocol is a Web3 notification and communications platform developed on the Radix network, designed to facilitate connections between businesses and Web3 users while preserving privacy and anonymity.
Overview
Hermes Protocol delivers real-time notifications for critical on-ledger events, including new Governance Polls, NFT sales, Validator changes, and more. The platform allows dApps to send newsletters without requiring users to disclose their email addresses, thus promoting privacy and anonymity in the Web3 space. Hermes Protocol is compatible with popular platforms like Discord, Telegram, and Twitter, aiming to optimize user experience for both end-users and business partners.
History
The idea for Hermes Protocol emerged during Terra's second hackathon, where co-founders Sérgio, Ana, and Duarte combined their Web3 knowledge to create a notification platform capable of sending on-chain notifications to Discord and Telegram users.
Founders
Sérgio Rebelo
Sérgio has experience in online communities and software automation. His past positions include roles at Aptoide, Talkdesk, and AXA. He also co-founded a gaming events company in Portugal and worked with AXA in Belgium.
Ana
Ana is skilled in data analysis, fencing, and logical thinking. She holds a Master's degree in Management and has worked as a risk modeler at various European banks. Ana is proficient in several programming languages and is a front-end developer.
Duarte
Duarte is a full-stack developer with an interest in bots and automation. He met Sérgio in the "Among Us Portugal" online gaming community and contributed to the development of a community bot that streamlined gaming sessions.
Stated Goals (2023 pitch)
At the time of the Babylon launch the team set out to reach 100,000 unique users within a year, partnering with wallet providers including Xidar, Z3us, Stream and the official Radix Wallet, and to convert that reach into 200 paying businesses. Neither figure was ever reported as met; see Status below.
Competitive Positioning
The project positioned itself against Push (formerly EPNS), Notifi, Dialect, Mailchimp and SendGrid, arguing that a model charging businesses rather than end users suited Web3 adoption better. Push and Notifi both remain in operation.
Products and Grants
The project website, which is still online, presents three products rather than the single notification service described above: the notifications feed, peer-to-peer barter trades settled by a smart contract with fees shared between Hermes and the integrating dApp, and wallet-to-wallet messaging, an end-to-end encrypted cross-chain chat addressed by wallet address or domain name. It lists deployments on Terra, Terra Classic and Radix, names Ociswap, XRD Domains, XIDAR, RadixCharts and RadixScan among its Radix partners, and credits the site itself to Momentum One.
The same page lists the awards and grants the project won: an honourable mention at the Terra Spacecamp hackathon in 2021, an XDEFI grant and a Terra Emergency Builder Allocation in 2022, second place at the NEARCON hackathon in 2022, and a grant from the first cohort of the Radix Grant Program in 2023.
Status
The Dormant status in the infobox rests on four checks made on 13 August 2026, each of which can be repeated in a few seconds:
- The homepage’s own Enter App button points at
app.hermesprotocol.io, and that hostname has no address record. A, AAAA and CNAME queries all return no data – the Cloudflare-hosted zone answers with its SOA and nothing else – whilehermesprotocol.ioanddocs.hermesprotocol.ioboth resolve normally. The marketing site and the documentation are up; the application is not reachable. - The Telegram announcement channel has published nothing since 27 June 2023.
- The GitHub organisation holds eight public repositories, and the most recent push to any of them is 23 February 2024, to the main
hermes-protocolrepository. - The website itself still returns normally and is unchanged, so no wind-down was ever announced.
The team never said it had stopped. What the checks record is a project whose storefront stayed up while the application went off DNS, the announcement channel fell silent for three years and the code went untouched for two and a half.