Discord rolls out end-to-end encryption for all voice and video calls

The outliers are Stage channels, which are designed for larger audiences, as opposed to personal conversations, and text.

Your voice and video conversations on Discord are now protected using end-to-end encryption. Discord has concluded rolling out its DAVE protocol to its platform, a process that started in August 2023.

On May 18, 2026, Discord announced it had completed the lengthy process of enabling end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for all of the voice and video calls that take place on the platform. This utilizes something called the DAVE protocol, which is a tool the company uses to secure these communication options.

The process to implement DAVE across the whole platform started in September 2024, over a year after Discord shared it was experimenting with end-to-end encryption. DAVE rolled out to web browsers and gaming console with Discord also extending support to bots, apps, and Social SDK in 2025.

Discord hasn’t finished securing the platform either. While DAVE and E2EE now occurs on every voice and video call, the platform has begun removing the client code that supports unencrypted fallback.

The communication platform notes that it has no plans to extend the E2EE systems to text. “Many of the features people use on Discord were built on the assumption that text isn't end-to-end encrypted,” the statement reads. “Rebuilding them to work with encryption is a meaningful engineering challenge.”

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