Every day, things go missing and fakes go viral. Stolen vehicles vanish across borders. Packages “never arrive.” AI-generated images pass for evidence. The common problem isn’t crime or code — it’s that the world has no shared way to prove where something is, or whether something is real.
Nodle exists to fix that. We build technology that turns trust from a promise into proof.
Nodle operates the world’s largest smartphone-powered trust network. Millions of ordinary phones, each running an app with the Nodle SDK, quietly act as readers for the physical world: they detect low-cost Bluetooth tags on vehicles, pallets, tools, and packages, and anonymously confirm where those things are. The same network anchors cryptographic credentials to photos, videos, and documents — so anyone can verify that a piece of content is authentic and untampered.
Nodle finds the things that matter and verifies the content that doesn’t lie.
No new towers, no satellites, no fixed readers — the infrastructure already exists in everyone’s pocket.
Why it matters
The cost of not knowing keeps rising
01
Things get lost
Businesses lose billions every year to stolen vehicles, misplaced equipment, and shipments that disappear between handoffs. Most assets were never worth tracking — until sub-dollar Bluetooth tags and a billion smartphone readers changed the economics.
02
Content gets faked
Deepfakes cost US companies over $1.1B in fraud in 2025 alone. As generative AI makes fabrication effortless, cryptographic provenance — proof of where a photo, video, or document came from — is the only defense that scales.
03
People get exploited
Most digital infrastructure is paid for with user data and attention. Nodle’s model is different: people who power the network are rewarded for it, and their data is never collected, mined, or sold.
How it works
Millions of phones, one shared instrument
01
Tag
A small, low-cost Bluetooth tag is attached to anything worth knowing about: a car, a pallet, a toolbox, a parcel.
02
Detect
Smartphones running Nodle-powered apps passively detect nearby tags as their owners go about their day. It’s encrypted, anonymous, and uses less data than a single ad impression.
03
Attest
Each sighting is confirmed across many independent devices and recorded on the network — proof, not promises.
04
Reward
People who run the Nodle App earn NODL for powering the network. The network grows because the people at its center benefit directly.
The same cryptographic backbone signs content credentials: photos and videos captured with ContentSign carry verifiable proof of origin that any C2PA-compatible tool can check.
Trust is the infrastructure for the Age of AI
2.4M+
Active devices worldwide
175
Countries covered
3.7M+
Assets located / month
9 yrs
Operating at scale
Products
Every product answers one question: can you prove it?
ConnectX
Enterprise asset tracking on the Nodle network. Follow every asset, everywhere it goes, without installing a single reader.
The consumer gateway, and the only way to earn NODL for powering the network. Hold your own money in self-custody, chat privately over XMTP, and use AI that runs on your device.
“If a car is stolen from France and ends up in another country, there's a good chance we'll find it thanks to our partnership with the Nodle Network.”
Thomas Fournier
CTO, Roole · Vehicle recovery, France
1M+
Vehicles tracked
40%
Recovery rate
€9M+
Value recovered
4y
Operating at scale
What we stand for
Trust has to be earned in the architecture
Privacy by design
Participation is encrypted and anonymous. Nodle runs no ads, and never sells user data. The network can confirm where a tag is without knowing anything about the person whose phone saw it.
Proof over promises
Every claim on this site is backed by a live deployment or a production capability. Every sighting on the network is attested by independent devices. Every credential is cryptographically verifiable.
Open standards
Nodle is a member of the C2PA and works alongside Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative to define how the world verifies digital media. Interoperability beats lock-in.
People are the network
The network is powered by millions of individuals, and Nodle App users share directly in its value. No special hardware, knowledge, or investment required — just a phone.
The company
Put the network to work
Nodle was founded on a simple observation: the world’s most powerful sensing network already exists — it’s the smartphones we all carry. For nine years, Nodle has turned that insight into working infrastructure, growing from a connectivity experiment into a trust network operating across 175 countries, relied on by enterprises, insurers, and millions of everyday participants.
