Is Web3 messaging going to switch WhatsApp and iMessage? Co-founder of XMTP explains

Hashing It Out episode 24 explores Web3 messaging with Shane Mac, co-founder of XMTP — an open protocol and community for safe Web3 messaging — who explains the variations between Web2 and Web3 messaging. Mac additionally explains how Web3 messaging might spark main adoption for the whole business shifting ahead, no matter present person expertise limitations.

Previous to XMTP, Shane based Help, which constructed the primary enterprise messaging for Fb (NASDAQ:) Messenger, Apple (NASDAQ:) Enterprise Chat, Google (NASDAQ:) Enterprise Messaging, and SMS. On this episode of Hashing It Out, Mac explains why he made the swap from constructing Web2 messaging platforms to constructing Web3 messaging. In response to him, messaging should evolve based mostly on new identities. He explains that telephone messages (SMS) have been constructed round cellular numbers whereas new social media platforms like Fb and Instagram additionally got here with new identities. Web3 presents a brand new type of identification the place folks have wealth and persona tied to pockets addresses however couldn’t talk with one another. He describes this new type of identification combined with messaging as a “large innovation” and a “large alternative.”

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