For those who were unable to attend the ecosystem call this week, below is a summary of the discussion along with a couple other thoughts.
Questions Asked
1. What is DM3 looking for?
The team has been heads down building out dm3 and the key ask is feedback on the project. @hai-ko.eth has been very receptive to feedback and I encourage everyone to continue to provide their perspectives.
2. Will adoption be hampered by the current design?
As of August 2022, there are ~200 million addresses[1] with some activity. ENS has ~400 thousand primary owners. Though the protocol outlined above can handle wallet-to-wallet communication for non-ens address it depends on an alternative delivery services. A concern is the splitting and siloing of the data as result of multiple delivery services.
To this point, @vegayp (part of the project) stated
āIt is not for everyone, it is for people who are looking for something very specificā - Eduardo
Overall, Iām fan of having more messaging protocols. We need many experiments to figure out which one is right for web3. Hopefully, the multiple protocols will work with one another to avoid the data siloing issues of web2.
For transparency sake, nfty chat (Iām a co-founder) is building a protocol to handle many-to-many wallet communication, with wallet to wallet being a subset.
For those who want to explore protocols related to messaging in one form or another here are a few to follow:
- xmtp - wallet to wallet messaging
- farcaster - social network [2]
- epns - notifications
- waku - a suite of privacy-preserving, peer-to-peer messaging protocols
[1] Ethereum Cumulative Unique Addresses.
[2] Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks - Varun Srinivasan