Keywords for 2025:
Build 🛠
Peace 🌲
Teamwork 💪

What are you planning to build with the Beechat Kaonic?

🐝

5 years of R&D. Live, low-latency (sub-100ms) TDD audio over a cryptographic mesh network. Built on a Rust port of Reticulum, our Kaonic system balances sensitivity, range, and data rate for real-world performance.
This isn’t just another radio module. It’s a fully decentralised, infrastructure-free, and encrypted communications platform. End-to-end cryptography, efficient packet routing, and optimized PHY-layer performance—all packed into a modular form factor.
Designed for tactical operations, emergency response, and autonomous systems. No towers. No satellites. No centralised control. Just pure, resilient, off-grid connectivity.
The future of cryptographic mesh networking is here.

Forgive my dumb question, but all of this patented, right? I don't want to see any bigtech snatch it!

Great question. Thankfully, under international patent law, once an invention or technique is publicly disclosed, it cannot be patented by anyone, including big tech or even the original publisher. That’s actually one of the reasons we’ve chosen to publish it: by putting it in the public domain, we ensure it stays free and accessible. We’re offering the technology as open source for the benefit of humanity.

🐝 Beechat's founder sits down with EmComm solutions to discuss secure mesh networking & emergency preparedness. Check out the full interview here:

https://youtu.be/OX9hP8WIC0Y?si=RNsqsZAqlh4w9MeN

We’ve ported Reticulum to Rust — and it’s now open-source.

https://lnkd.in/epHnEt_m

We’ve rebuilt the entire Reticulum networking stack in Rust — modular, embedded-ready, and optimised for low-latency, resource-constrained environments. The full codebase is now live on GitHub.
This is a clean, from-scratch implementation (not a wrapper, not a fork) designed to run on systems like our Kaonic radios.

Check out the GitHub here:
https://lnkd.in/epHnEt_m

Learn more about our Reticulum port here:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7341079661549944833/

We’ve ported Reticulum to Rust — and it’s now open-source.

Check out the GitHub here:
https://github.com/BeechatNetworkSystemsLtd/Reticulum-rs
Learn more by reading the blog post on our Substack:
https://beechat.substack.com/p/weve-ported-reticulum-to-rust

We’ve rebuilt the entire Reticulum networking stack in Rust — modular, embedded-ready, and optimised for low-latency, resource-constrained environments. The full codebase is now live on GitHub.
This is a clean, from-scratch implementation (not a wrapper, not a fork) designed to run on systems like our Kaonic radios.

Check out our new video featuring the Kaonic 1S and some of the plug-ins that can expand its capabilities:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG80yyuIvGY

Field-ready today, geared for what comes next.

The modularity of Kaonic enables expansions into AI/ML processing, advanced MIMO configurations, and wideband RF.

How are you getting ready for tomorrow's mission?

Explore the Kaonic platform:
https://beechat.network/shop/

After weeks of focused work, we now have MAVLink running over Reticulum in Rust.

What that means:
- A flight controller connected over serial can talk to QGroundControl
- The traffic is encrypted, meshed, and carried over whatever medium Reticulum supports
- The transport is flexible over WiFi, sub-GHz, and 2.4 GHz

With MAVLink secured and meshed across a trustless network stack, we believe it is a big step toward making drones truly mesh-native. The ground and flight sides run as simple binaries, configurable with TOML, and it is ready for others to build on.

If you are working on drones, autonomy, or resilient comms, we would love to connect.
Check out the GitHub and get involved:
https://github.com/BeechatNetworkSystemsLtd/rns-mavlink-rs

We just dropped something new for the Reticulum community: rns-vpn-rs

This repo makes it possible to run a P2P VPN over a Reticulum mesh network.

In practice, that means:
- You can assign private IPs to Reticulum nodes.
- Any app that speaks plain old IP (UDP/TCP) can now run on top of Reticulum.
- Developers can connect services (chat, servers, APIs, telemetry feeds, etc.) across a Reticulum mesh without writing Reticulum-specific code.

It behaves like a normal VPN client. Peers show up as reachable IPs, and traffic is transparently routed over the mesh.

With this, projects can start routing any IP traffic over reticulum-rs, opening the door for all kinds of real-world use cases: off-grid comms, decentralized infrastructure, resilient field networking, and more.

Repo: https://github.com/BeechatNetworkSystemsLtd/rns-vpn-rs

🚀 First impressions are in! EmComm Solutions takes a hands-on look at the Kaonic.
In this video, he explores:
🔹 Kaonic’s development capabilities for ATAK, drones, and OEM integration
🔹 How Kaonic delivers practical value in the mesh radio market
👉 Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWYE1zF-Yy4

We’ve been testing Reticulum in large-scale mesh deployments and just hit a new milestone: 128 stable hops, and coming soon over our mesh radios

Why it matters:

ATAK and off-grid apps can extend situational awareness much further in the field

drone platforms can operate deeper into disconnected environments

OEM integrators can embed resilient, off-grid comms into custom systems

This was all done using Reticulum's open source framework, so anyone building on it can take advantage of the scalability. If you are working on similar project or applications, we would love to get in touch and collaborate.

👉 Explore Kaonic's capabilities here: https://beechat.network/applications/

Five years ago, Beechat set out to build reliable, decentralised off-grid mesh communications.

Today, that vision enters its next era through our partnership with GoTAK. Together, we’re making Kaonic a mission-ready radio seamlessly integrated with ATAK. With ATAK integration, Kaonic will power a secure Reticulum backbone for communication in both connected and disconnected environments.

Learn more here: https://getgotak.com/blogs/news/gotak-and-beechat-announce-exclusive-u-s-partnership-for-disruptive-open-source-mesh-radio-technology

Reticulum-rs is now live on crates.io 🦀

Beechat has officially released Reticulum-rs, the Rust implementation of the Reticulum Network Stack, now available on crates.io.

After more than a year of silence, the Reticulum crate is alive again. Since June 2025, Beechat has maintained and rebuilt it from the ground up, bringing Reticulum into modern, memory-safe Rust for a new era of resilient, off-grid communication.

What this means:
⚙️ Core and link layers complete
🚧 Transport layer in progress
🌐 Fully compatible with existing Reticulum networks
📡 Built for radio, MANET, and IP-based systems

Rust brings stronger performance, safety, and portability, making it ideal for embedded, tactical, and decentralised networking where reliability matters most.

This release continues Beechat’s mission to advance open, cryptographically secure networking — powering the Kaonic SDR mesh platform and beyond.

🔗 crates.io/crates/reticulum
💻 github.com/BeechatNetworkSystemsLtd/reticulum-rs

XDA Developers just covered rns-vpn-rs, Beechat's open-source project that brings full VPN functionality to the Reticulum cryptographic mesh.

rns-vpn-rs bridges the gap between conventional networking and trustless mesh systems. It assigns static IPs to cryptographic nodes, letting any IP-based app run securely over Reticulum, even without Internet or infrastructure.

Underneath, Reticulum provides asynchronous, store and forward routing, up to 128 mesh hops, and end-to-end encryption, forming a self-healing, delay tolerant transport layer.

As XDA's Joe Rice-Jones points out, this has major potential for field operations, disaster zones, and decentralised systems that must keep working when everything else fails.

Full article here: https://www.xda-developers.com/amazing-off-grid-open-source-vpn/