Tapestry
SSEOn-chain social graph protocol
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About Tapestry
Tapestry is a social graph protocol built on Solana, offering developers a unified API to integrate social features such as user profiles, follow relationships, and activity feeds into their applications. Its core business is identity resolution: it aggregates a user's on-chain wallets, off-chain accounts (e.g., Twitter, email), and profile data across multiple apps, enabling portable social identities. The primary market pain point it addresses is the fragmentation of identity and social connections in the crypto ecosystem—users must rebuild their social graph in every new dApp, while developers face high costs in developing and maintaining social infrastructure. Tapestry solves this by providing a composable social data layer, reducing development time and allowing users to bring their existing relationships into new applications.
In the past six months (March to September 2026), Tapestry has focused on expanding its ecosystem and improving developer experience. Notable developments include the release of a Solana Starter Kit for rapid prototyping, enhanced API linking logic for better cross-platform identity matching, and integration with Tops.fun. The team also launched Zumi Games, an experimental on-chain pet game, to demonstrate the protocol's capabilities in consumer applications. By the end of this period, Tapestry reported over 15 integrated apps and a Day-7 retention rate of 76.4% for apps using its social features, indicating strong user engagement. However, the protocol's ecosystem remains relatively small compared to broader Solana adoption, and its long-term value depends on continued developer uptake and the network effects of its social graph.
Co-founder & CEO: David Gabeau. He attended NYU (dropped out) and Phillips Exeter Academy. He worked as a quality engineer at Snapchat and Lyft, then as an analyst at Union Square Ventures focusing on early-stage crypto, climate, and education. He founded Tapestry in 2022 to build a permissionless social graph protocol on Solana, and also created Primitives, Zumi, and other projects.
Core executive: Nehemiah Blackburn, Head of Product and Tapestry's first employee. He holds a BA in Political Science from Yale. Previously a product manager at YouNow and Minim focused on growth and monetization. At Tapestry, he leads creator marketplace, protocol strategy, and product vision.
No reliable public information was found on other co-founders or current core executives.