
HenriPihkala,StreamrCo-FounderandCEO
“The Streamr Network offers an ideal opportunity to build decentralized communication andsocialmediaapplications.FortheWeb3communitytomigratefromusingWeb2messagingplatforms, they need a protocol that’s fast and serverless. We hope thechat.app provides atangible inspiration for builders to explore the possibilities of truly permissionless real-timecommunicationswithStreamr.” Chat rooms come in three types—public, private and token gated. Token gated rooms allowusers to configure an access control policy to check users hold a chosen token, or a certainamountoftokensintheirwallet,beforegrantingthemaccess.Privateroomsrestrictaccesstochosen users. Public rooms are viewable by anyone. Messages in all room types are securedby end to end encryption and allow users to communicate without any intermediaries. Over6,000registeredbetatestersarecurrentlyexploringthesevarioustypesofchats. The Beta version of thechat.app is built to work best as a desktop browser application withusers connecting via their wallets, including MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, or WalletConnect.Creating rooms and invites are on-chain transactions, while messages in chats arecryptographically signed and delivered over the Streamr Network. To avoid a UX pain point ofindividuallysigningactions,“hotwallets”aregeneratedandlinkedtotheuser’smainwalletwithon-chain mapping between the hot wallet and the main wallet. This allows for automatic signingandprovidesabarrieragainstthemainwalletbeingcompromised.Corefeaturesofthechat.app
- Decentralizedandserverlessgroupchatinstantmessaging
- Verifiableandtamperproofcommunication
- Delegated‘hotwallet’messagesigning
- ENSidentities&avatars
- OfflinekeyexchangeviatheLitprotocol
- ERC20&NFT721tokengatedrooms(experimentalfeature)
- Stakegatedchatrooms(experimentalfeature)Trythechat.appbetatoday!
AboutStreamr
Streamr is building the real-time data protocol of the decentralized web. This includes ascalable, low-latency and secure P2P Network for data delivery and exchange. As part of thevision, Streamr is working on a decentralized chat application, data marketplace, and otherdApps. The project was started by real-time data veterans with backgrounds in algorithmictradingandfinancemarkets.Streamrisbeingbuiltbycontributorsfromaroundtheworldandwas crowdfunded via ICO with $30M in October 2017. To learn more, visitstreamr.network. Mediacontacts Contact person: MarkLittle, ChiefMarketingOfficerofStreamr Email: [email protected] Website: https://streamr.network/ Mediakit:https://streamr.network/design
I have been writing about crypto for over two years. I have a vast amount of experience in the industry and my work has been featured on some of the biggest publications in the space.