The story of how we got started on Zion.

We are is an open global scalable decentralized community platform that facilitates transparent and direct flow of content and payments between creators and their audiences.

October 2020

Founder Justin Rezvani reads the Lightning Whitepaper and self funds development for Zion v1 

June 2021

Zion v1 App is approved on AppStore, and lanches MVP at Bitcoin Miami 2021

August 2021

Zion v1 launches with 500 new lightning nodes added to the network in 24 hours

January 2022

Zion has 13% of all lightning nodes on the network processing over 120,000 lightning transactions between creators and fans

March 2022

Zion raises 6 Million Dollars on a 53 Million Dollar Post Money Valuation

Led by XBTO Humla Ventures, and Kingsway Capital, Bitcoiner Ventures, UTXO Management, as well as a series of high-profile angel investors including Tony Robbins, Phil Potter, Robert Breedlove, Griffin Johnson, Anthony Pompliano, Aaron Rodgers, Aubrey Marcus, Donald Park, and Mark Moss.

June 2022

Zion launches v2 vision would allow for each user linked to the network via a DID, and decentralized web node

That acts as a secure, granting individuals absolute and irrevocable custody over their data. This means that no individual user can use another’s data to manipulate their experience on the platform.

January 2023

Zion v2 White Paper is released to describe how we built our Web5 app

February 2023

Zion v2 is released on the AppStore and PlayStore

Press Articles & Releases

Nov 25, 2022
Zion v2 is released to the world and announces $6M in Funding
Feb 15, 2023
Web5 App ZION launches new version, raises $6M in funding round
Nov 25, 2022
Social Media Examiner - Decentralized Social: The Next Frontier for Creators
Nov 22, 2022
Coindesk - What Is Zion, the Web5 Social Network App?
Oct 29, 2022
Cryptotimes - Jack Dorsey Supports the Zion v2 Project Building on Web5
Mar 11, 2022
Bitcoin Magazine - Zion Hopes To Decentralize Social Media With Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
Jan 03, 2022
One37pm - What is Zion, the Social Network Built on Bitcoin?
Aug 18, 2021
Bitcoin Magazine - Zion Wants To Free Social Media From Big Tech Through The Lightning Network
Aug 18, 2021
Nasdaq - Zion Wants To Free Social Media From Big Tech Through The Lightning Network

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