diff --git a/src/app/layout.tsx b/src/app/layout.tsx
index faa287e..cec0100 100644
--- a/src/app/layout.tsx
+++ b/src/app/layout.tsx
@@ -17,14 +17,23 @@ const spaceGrotesk = Space_Grotesk({
   display: "swap",
 });
 
+/**
+ * Where this site actually serves. Next resolves the generated og:image against
+ * `metadataBase`; without it the tag is emitted as http://localhost:3000/... —
+ * present, plausible, and unfetchable by every social scraper. The fallback is
+ * the real host rather than localhost so a missing env var degrades to correct.
+ */
+const SITE_URL = process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL || "https://solon.orangecat.ch";
+
 export const metadata: Metadata = {
+  metadataBase: new URL(SITE_URL),
   title: "Solon — Bitcoin-Native Governance",
   description: "Radical transparency and cryptographic democracy for organizations.",
   icons: [{ rel: "icon", url: "/favicon.ico" }],
   openGraph: {
     title: "Solon",
     description: "Bitcoin-Native Governance for the Digital Age",
-    url: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL || "http://localhost:3000",
+    url: SITE_URL,
     siteName: "Solon",
   },
 };
diff --git a/src/app/opengraph-image.tsx b/src/app/opengraph-image.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a5459cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/app/opengraph-image.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+import { ImageResponse } from "next/og";
+
+/**
+ * Social preview card, generated at request time by Next's file convention.
+ *
+ * Solon had no og:image at all, so every link to it — Telegram, Slack, a DM —
+ * rendered as a blank grey rectangle. 1200×630 is the canonical 1.91:1 card
+ * size all three of those scrapers crop to.
+ *
+ * Satori cannot read CSS custom properties, so the palette is repeated here as
+ * literals. globals.css remains the source of truth; these mirror it and are
+ * the only non-CSS consumer of the tokens.
+ */
+
+export const runtime = "edge";
+export const alt = "Solon — Bitcoin-Native Governance";
+export const size = { width: 1200, height: 630 };
+export const contentType = "image/png";
+
+// Mirrors --solon-dark / --solon-orange / --solon-bitcoin in src/app/globals.css
+const INK = "#0F172A";
+const ORANGE = "#F97316";
+const BITCOIN = "#F7931A";
+const MUTED = "#94A3B8";
+
+export default function OGImage() {
+  return new ImageResponse(
+    (
+      <div
+        style={{
+          width: "100%",
+          height: "100%",
+          display: "flex",
+          flexDirection: "column",
+          justifyContent: "space-between",
+          background: INK,
+          padding: "72px 80px",
+          fontFamily: "sans-serif",
+        }}
+      >
+        <div style={{ display: "flex", alignItems: "center", gap: 16 }}>
+          <div
+            style={{
+              width: 20,
+              height: 20,
+              borderRadius: 999,
+              background: BITCOIN,
+              display: "flex",
+            }}
+          />
+          <div
+            style={{
+              fontSize: 26,
+              letterSpacing: "0.28em",
+              textTransform: "uppercase",
+              color: MUTED,
+            }}
+          >
+            Solon
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <div style={{ display: "flex", flexDirection: "column" }}>
+          <div
+            style={{
+              fontSize: 92,
+              fontWeight: 700,
+              letterSpacing: "-0.03em",
+              lineHeight: 1.02,
+              color: "#FFFFFF",
+              maxWidth: 960,
+            }}
+          >
+            Bitcoin-Native Governance
+          </div>
+          <div
+            style={{
+              marginTop: 28,
+              fontSize: 34,
+              lineHeight: 1.3,
+              color: MUTED,
+              maxWidth: 880,
+            }}
+          >
+            Radical transparency and cryptographic democracy for organizations.
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <div style={{ display: "flex", alignItems: "center", gap: 14 }}>
+          <div style={{ width: 64, height: 5, borderRadius: 999, background: ORANGE, display: "flex" }} />
+          <div style={{ fontSize: 24, color: MUTED }}>solon.orangecat.ch</div>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    ),
+    { ...size },
+  );
+}