
New peer-to-peer chat applicationlaunchesonthedecentralizedStreamrNetwork
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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!