Los Angeles, September 2026
PRUF Systems Inc. today opened 10,000 public beta seats for PRUF.NET, a new iPhone social network built around a question most technology companies never ask:
What if the network simply did not know who you were?
Sign-up on PRUF.NET asks for nothing personal. No email, no phone number, no password and no identity profile. A user downloads the app, completes a live human check on their iPhone and receives an account without ever telling PRUF who they are.
“We don’t trust anyone with your identity, and that includes us,” said Khoi Diep, founder and CEO of PRUF Systems. “So we asked whether we could build a network that verifies a person is real without knowing who that person is, then keeps their private activity unreadable to us. PRUF.NET is what came out of that question. We stopped trying to build a better vault for personal data and started asking why we needed to collect the data at all.”
PRUF calls the approach zero-PII architecture. The network is designed never to collect personally identifiable information and never to store it in plain text. It doesn’t ask for it, and it is built to refuse it.
PRUF.NET is the first application of PRUF Systems’ zero-PII account architecture: technology designed to verify human participation without collecting names, email addresses or phone numbers, or storing biometric records. The company is developing this foundation for use beyond social networking, including privacy-preserving website access and human-controlled authorization for AI agents. The beta gives everyday users a way to experience that technology through private messaging, encrypted storage and social sharing.
During account creation, Face ID and a hardware key inside the iPhone confirm that a live human is present. Face ID checks happen on the device. PRUF never receives or stores facial data or biometric templates, and it keeps no email address, phone number or government identity.
Every account requires a physical iPhone and a live human in front of it. There is no web signup, and each active account needs its own device. Where a CAPTCHA asks a bot to prove it isn’t one, PRUF asks for a person holding a phone.
Private messages are end-to-end encrypted, and PRUF’s patent-pending dual-state data technology protects vault storage, so PRUF cannot decrypt that private content on its own.
PRUF.NET also takes a different approach to content. Photos intended for its witnessed-media system must be taken inside the PRUF camera rather than uploaded from a photo library. That allows the network to attach provenance showing that a verified human using a registered device captured the image through PRUF.
As AI-generated images become easier to create and harder to detect, PRUF is betting that proving where content came from will matter more than trying to guess whether it is fake.
There are also no ads. A network that never collects your identity has nothing to sell to advertisers, which raises the obvious question of how it pays for its own servers. PRUF.NET is free during beta and the core network stays free after it. Users who want more can opt into a monthly subscription for expanded storage plans and additional usernames beyond the free one. The people using the network pay for what they use; nobody pays for who they are.
The public beta is currently available on iPhone through Apple TestFlight. To join, visit pruf.net and tap the public beta link.
PRUF doesn’t need to know your name to know you’re real.
About PRUF Systems Inc.
PRUF Systems Inc. is a Los Angeles privacy technology company developing zero-PII verification, encrypted data systems and digital provenance technology. The company has filed four U.S. utility patent applications covering its core architecture. Its first application, PRUF.NET, brings the technology to everyday users through an iPhone social network.