Protocol Overview

The Kidstr protocol is an open framework built on the Nostr ecosystem. Its goal is to enable trust-based online domains, starting with the challenge of providing children safe and suitable acces to the internet — but extending to anyone who wants control over what they see, who they interact with, and how they appear online.

Rather than relying on centralized moderation, AI-systems, or government ID systems, Kidstr establishes risk management through trust. It enables users — parents, educators, communities, or institutions — to assign three levels of trust to enviroments (servers) and relationships (people), while retaining the openness and interoperability of Nostr.

At its core, Kidstr is not a single app but a protocol layer that connects relays, clients, and signing bunkers through Nostr-based moderation events.

The resultis a decentralized, interoperable, and mostr importantly as safe as possible way to express who you trust, how far you trust them, and what a given profile is allowed to see and do.

At the heart of Kidstr is the multi-signature link between the parent and child keypairs.

This association event instructs the Nostr client and signing bunker to respect the associated moderation events.

Clients use this musig event to construct the child's personalized environment.

A child can then navigate freely within that predefined domain, while still maintaining autonomy:

• •They can follow others within the approved circles.
• •They can interact within Level 2 contexts.
• •They can see but not engage beyond the boundary of Level 3.

The musig link provides the root of delegation and oversight — without central servers, databases, or government Ids.