DeSo is a freshly developed layer-1 blockchain meticulously crafted to decentralize social media for billions of users. Our vision is to empower an internet that is led by creators, owned by users, and welcoming to millions of developers worldwide, fostering collaborative innovation. Presently, only a few big-tech corporations dominate and govern all the information we consume online. DeSo returns ownership to users, not platforms. Your identity, profile, content, and social connections can now be securely owned by you, free from censorship. Creators now have the freedom to monetize their content in unprecedented ways. With innovative crypto-native monetization tools like Social Tokens, Social DAOs, Social NFTs, Social Tipping, and more, creators can monetize their passions and earn a living doing what they love. Developers can build in a gasless, permissionless, and transparent environment, where everything is open and on-chain for maximum accessibility and composability. DeSo is designed to support storage-heavy or infinite-state applications, unlocking a new realm of non-financial-based web3 applications previously unimaginable. Just as we have witnessed Bitcoin and Ethereum revolutionize finance, DeSo is now democratizing social media. We acknowledge that our mission is ambitious, but we firmly believe that the world will be a better place when users, creators, and developers are prioritized over corporations.