# Stellar-hush/hush > Open-source beta for private email on Stellar: encrypted messages, sender-controlled inbox policies, optional postage, and verifiable delivery receipts. Stellar handles identity and protocol actions while message content stays off-chain. - Magnitude: 6.2 out of 10 — Early signal - Stars: 131 total · +0 stars measured 2026-10-08, 00:09–00:44 UTC, ≈ 121 by evening - Star trust: star growth looks organic - Category: Security · Language: TypeScript · License: MIT · Created: 2026-10-07 · Last push: 2026-10-08 - GitHub: https://github.com/Stellar-hush/hush · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/Stellar-hush/hush ## Useful for - Run the local dev environment with bun run dev to test the mail client - Configure inbox policy to require approval, postage, or block a sender - Build and test Soroban contracts for policies, postage, and receipts ## Why it’s here - Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-08 (UTC), 00:09–00:44: 131 → 131 stars (+0). This is the change over that interval. - Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +121 stars, using observed gains and the previous day. - The repository is 1 day old and already has 131 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet. - Top new repositories this week: #99. - About 280 forks a day — people are taking the code. ## Star trust Star growth looks organic. Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer. ## Numbers - Forks: 129 - Issues and pull requests: 150 - Watchers: 0 - Average over the last week: 126 per day - Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks) - Stars in the last hour (measured): 0 ## Stars per day, last 5 days (oldest → newest, today is partial) 2026-10-04 … 2026-10-08: 0, 0, 0, 131, 0 ## Magnitude by day, last 2 days 10-07 1.3, 10-08 6.2 ## Spotted in now - Top new repositories this week: #99 ## Similar by description 1. **flectar/mail** — 0.9 · Steady · Apps · Rust · +0 stars measured 2026-10-08, 00:09–00:53 UTC, ≈ 4 by evening A native Rust email client with calendar, contacts and files that uses around 20 MB of RAM and renders mail without a WebView. Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/flectar/mail.md --- Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score. Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast. Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself. Data as of 2026-10-08 00:56 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.