Indeed from outside STF seem like a pretty strong foundation with a plan lied out and everything, but the reality says a different story… Session is on life support
Session is asking for a community investment of 1million dollars, which i would say is alot considering the short period of time they have left, but not alot considering the size of operations that they have
the STF has received approximately $65,000 in donations. This is enough to maintain critical Session infrastructure for the next 90 days. We are extremely grateful for the support Session has received from the community, but unfortunately this is not sufficient to retain full-time developers. As a result, all paid staff and developers will have their final working day on April 9, 2026. After this date, some team members will continue on a primarily volunteer basis to help maintain Session until July 8, 2026.
If the fundraising is successful, the foundation would be able to continue active development of Session, including launching Session Pro and Session Protocol v2.
If it is unsuccessful, the lack of funding would mean the foundation is not able to support Session in any capacity and will need to be shut down. As a result, Session would be removed from the app stores, and critical infrastructure like the Session file server, push notification server and seed nodes will go offline.
Session plans to donate the rest of the money to the EFF in case this fundraising campaign turns out to be unsuccessful
We also want to assure you that if the STF is unable to secure funding sufficient enough to meet its goals within the next 90 days, any donations that cannot be used in accordance with the STF’s constitution will be publicly donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
I’ve always been skeptical about session. Their old name was Loki Foundation and they ordered a CageCode in the US.
Maybe Session was doomed from the get go with such high expenses!
I don’t get why they need 2 senior executives and developers that charge 12,500 USD per month.
It’s strange to say the least.
Everyone wants a living wage. FOSS shouldn’t require people who work 9-5 to do 6-10 after their day job.
Also, I think 150k is probably a fair and comfortable wage now after adjusting for inflation. I’ll bet our grandparents that raised 6 kids on a factory workers salary while mom stayed home made the equivalent of $150k back in the day when adjusting for inflation and COL.
That said… this all feels very abrupt on their end and I can’t help but feel they messed up in financial planning for the project if they suddenly need to raise these funds this way and on short notice. Doesn’t feel like a lack of community support. It feels like poor management.
Point 1: Your grandpa did not make 150k back then, adjusted for inflation or ppp adjusted inflation.
Point 2: 150k is a completely ridiculous amount, but for 2 people it represents 1/3 of the total pledge asked
This is batshit insane. Tell them to move to Poland or Portugal where you can live comfortably with 1/10th of that money.
what’s the infrastructure tho? isnt it decentralized? i understand development costs if you want to have a paid team but maybe slow down development? i dont know, asking for a million bucks sounds like a bit too much
You can’t run a project with full time employees on the $65,000 they raised. But, I also wonder what the hell happened on their end that they suddenly need $1 million and didn’t have a plan to raise it sooner. I get that $1 million only supports like 5-6 employees for a year. I’m just questioning where the need for the money arose so suddenly and how they had initially funded themselves, but can’t anymore. Session is the right idea. We should have anonymous encrypted messaging apps. Signal doesn’t support anonymity like they do. I hope they can raise the funds and will contribute myself. I just hope they’re able to find a sustainable model.
