Voidly
Company
Voidly

Research and tools for
a free, private internet.

Voidly researches internet restrictions and builds tools for private access and communication. Our work serves people and the agents they use through VPN, Veil, Voidpay and Atlas.

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Understand restrictions.
Keep knowledge accessible.

Research starts with observations and sources that a reader can inspect. Our tools support private access and communication alongside that work.

Each product has a specific job, with its own permissions, privacy model and limitations.

A company.
A connected set of tools.

Voidly

Parent company and shared infrastructure

  1. Voidly VPN

    Connection

    An encrypted route for your device.

    Explore Voidly VPN
  2. Veil

    Conversation

    Encrypted messages, calls and groups.

    Explore Veil
  3. Voidpay

    Agent marketplaces

    Create a storefront and connect your agents.

    Explore Voidpay
  4. Atlas

    Open research

    Internet-access observations and their sources.

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The people behind the name.

Voidly is an independent company, founded by Dillon Parkes.

Explore the public projects, operating disclosures and contact routes below.

Company contact Investor information

Public company resources

Read transparency disclosures Published projects on GitHub (opens in a new tab)Legal contact Security contact

Open data.
Specific licenses.

Reuse depends on which material you are using. A dataset license does not license proprietary application code.

Voidly-original research
Original incidents, scores and annotations are CC BY 4.0.
Upstream measurements
Raw sources keep their own licenses. Check the source’s terms before reusing measurements or test lists.
Application code
Check the terms published with each software project. Public research does not make every application open source.
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Open infrastructure

Building the tools.
Supporting the network.

Our product work sits alongside network-access and private-payment infrastructure.

Public data over Tor

A documented onion route provides another way to read allowed public data. Its access guide includes dated checks and limits.

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Private-payment infrastructure

We are developing private-payment integrations alongside the agent marketplace. Each network has its own supported flow and qualification requirements.

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About Voidly

Censorship research and tools for a free, private internet.

Voidly is an independent company researching internet restrictions and building tools for a free, private internet. Voidly VPN, Veil, Voidpay and Atlas serve people and AI agents, with product-specific permissions and privacy models.

What Voidly Is

Voidly VPN provides encrypted connectivity; Veil supports encrypted communication; Voidpay is its marketplace builder for AI-agent services; Atlas organizes internet-censorship evidence and research.

  • Voidpay— A marketplace builder for AI-agent services. Create a branded storefront, publish or find services, and inspect the work. Posted jobs use manual review and direct-wallet payment after acceptance.
  • Atlas— Predictive network-risk intelligence. Check current index coverage, risk forecasting, platform and ISP scoring.
  • Relay— E2E encrypted transport for agents and clients. Forward secrecy, post-quantum key exchange, private coordination.
  • Network— Global measurement infrastructure. Probe nodes, VPN reachability, network telemetry.
  • Apps— First-party clients (VPN, Veil, Mail, Extension) built on the stack.

Each product has its own release scope, privacy details and documentation. Visit its product page before starting.

Who Voidly Is For

  • •Developers — building circumvention tools, connectivity-aware apps, or AI agents that need encrypted communication
  • •Researchers — studying internet freedom trends with citable, ML-classified incidents
  • •Journalists — verifying censorship claims with evidence chains and confidence scores
  • •Users in censored regions — who need reliable VPN, encrypted messaging, and accurate data about what is blocked

How We Know the Need

Iran — recurring total shutdowns

During the 2022 Mahsa Amini protests and subsequent unrest, Iran imposed multiple nationwide internet shutdowns. Our incident database documents hundreds of Iran-related censorship events, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Signal blocking.

Myanmar — persistent platform blocking

Since the 2021 military coup, Myanmar has maintained blocks on Facebook, Twitter, and Wikipedia. Researchers tracking the situation need verified, timestamped evidence — not anecdotal reports.

Russia — expanding censorship infrastructure

Russia's TSPU (technical means of countering threats) has expanded from blocking individual domains to throttling entire protocols. Our network detects VPN blocking, protocol throttling, and DNS poisoning patterns that evolve weekly.

What's missing today

When journalists cover a breaking shutdown, they cite OONI raw measurements or anecdotal user reports. There's no single source providing classified, citable incidents with evidence chains and confidence scores — that's the gap Voidly fills.

How We Engage Users

Probe contributor feedback loop

Community probe operators report blocking patterns from their networks. Operator and leaderboard listings are withheld to protect volunteers. Contributors in high-censorship countries provide ground-truth signals that validate our ML classifier.

Researcher & journalist integration

Citable incident IDs (e.g. IR-2026-0142) were designed after feedback from researchers who needed stable references for academic citation. MCP server integration lets journalists query censorship data directly from their AI tools.

Open data as a feedback channel

All incident data is CC BY 4.0. When external researchers find discrepancies, they can file corrections through our API or GitHub. This creates a self-correcting loop independent of our team.

What's next

Structured user interviews with journalists and human rights defenders in target regions. Advisory relationships with civil society organizations. These are planned deliverables for the next funding cycle.

Why This Exists

Existing measurement projects are essential but leave a gap:

  • —OONI generates raw probe measurements — doesn't classify incidents
  • —CensoredPlanet runs remote DNS/HTTP tests — no real-time alerting
  • —IODA tracks network outages — not targeted domain/platform blocking

Voidly bridges this gap: we correlate data from all three and the Voidly Network into tracked, ML-classified incident records with human-readable IDs (like IR-2026-0142), evidence chains, and confidence scores.

What We Provide

  • •Per-probe listings withheld (aggregate statistics)
  • •— citable censorship incidents (live stats)
  • •Classifier evaluation and limitations: live model info
  • •Shutdown forecast evaluation and degraded status: live accuracy report
  • •Multi-source correlation: Voidly Network + OONI + CensoredPlanet + IODA
  • •Real-time VPN accessibility testing across major providers
  • •Historical archive and public country index

Research & Open Data

Censorship Index
Country rankings • Risk tiers • ML-classified incidents
Open Data
CC BY 4.0 • REST API • HuggingFace datasets
Censorship Map
Interactive global view • Country profiles • ISP breakdown
Live Dashboard
Real-time incidents • Voidly Network status • Trend analysis

Live Stats

Per-probe and operator listings are withheld; aggregate counts are separate from a full fleet roster.

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Indexed OONI measurements
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Classifier evaluation
Withheld
Probe listings
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Index country coverage

Technical

AI Models
Infrastructure
  • • Per-probe locations withheld (aggregate API)
  • • Self-healing — Tier-0 watchdog reboots stuck probes
  • • WireGuard over UDP (alternate transports in development)
  • • Autonomous loop runs the stack — see live agent status

Apps & Clients

VPN
Data-driven routing • WireGuard over UDP • Client-side keys
VoidMail
Zero-knowledge encryption • Subject encryption • Unlimited aliases
ChainMail
Encrypted blockchain messaging • Self-destructing messages • On-chain delivery receipts
Browser Extensions
Censorship Monitor • Secure Inbox • Chrome + Firefox

Tools are free. Your anonymous usage data contributes to censorship measurement.

Transparency & Verification

Published Tools
Published tools (MCP server, agent SDK, probe app) are free to use. Censorship data is CC BY 4.0.
github.com/voidly-ai →
Blockchain Experiments
Privacy verification experiments on Base L2. Contracts are live; full proof pipelines are under development.
View contracts →

Operator & Capacity

Dillon Parkes

Founder & Lead Engineer

Built Voidly from the ground up — infrastructure, ML pipeline, Voidly Network, and data ingestion. Also serves as CEO of Nexcom Media Group. Elected public official as Director of Montgomery County MUD No. 238 in Texas.

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What funding enables
1. Expanded Voidly Network in underserved regions

Expanded measurement coverage in underserved regions (Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, SE Asia). Beneficiaries: researchers and civil society. Target metric: probe coverage in 130 countries, ≤5min detection latency.

2. Faster incident classification pipeline

Sub-30-minute verified incident reports with evidence chains. Beneficiaries: journalists covering breaking censorship events. Metric: median detection-to-published < 30 minutes.

3. Community probe program expansion

Desktop probe app + leaderboard + measurement contribution. Beneficiaries: activists and researchers contributing local measurements. Target metric: 500+ contributors across 50+ countries within 12 months of launch.

Explore the data. Verify the methodology.

All censorship data is open. All tools are free.

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