DeSo is a new social network built on a custom blockchain designed for users to leverage their influence and monetize content. Its architecture, similar to Bitcoin, has greater capacity and throughput, better supporting complex social media data such as posts, profiles, followers, speculative predictions, and more. Like Bitcoin, DeSo is a fully open-source project with no company backing it, only tokens and code.

DeSo is the native cryptocurrency supporting decentralized social blockchains, aimed at powering various decentralized social media applications. DESO can be used to purchase "social tokens" and NFTs, and to create profiles and posts for decentralized social applications.