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Telegram Introduces No-SIM Sign-ups With Blockchain-Powered Numbers
7.12.2022
Popular messenger Telegram now allows users to open accounts without the need to provide their mobile phone numbers. With the app’s latest update, they can log in using blockchain-based numbers instead, and they can be purchased with cryptocurrency on the Fragment platform. Telegram Promises ‘New...
WhatsApp crash: Are decentralized blockchain messengers a real alternative?
4.11.2022
Centralized communication apps share one crucial feature: They crash often. Cointelegraph investigates to see if decentralization can offer a solution
Messaging App Telegram to Auction Usernames on TON Blockchain
21.10.2022
Messaging app Telegram is to offer usernames via a platform on The Open Network (TON) blockchain, two months after the idea was floated by Telegram founder Pavel Durov
Founder of Web3 Messaging App: Decentralized Platforms Enable Users ‘to Build Their Communities in a Safe Place’
23.9.2022
In a world where censorship is growing and the right to privacy is being undermined, Web3 — the next iteration of the world wide web — looks to some like the solution users of online platforms are waiting for. As some pioneering Web3 products and solutions have demonstrated, when...
Telegram Adds Crypto to Messaging App, Opening Path to Payments
28.4.2022
Telegram has added the facility to send and receive Toncoin within the app, potentially opening up crypto payments to its 550 million users
Japan’s Top Messaging App LINE Launches Marketplace With 40,000 NFTs
15.4.2022
Japan’s top social network and messaging app, LINE, has launched a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The new service allows 90 million LINE users to send and exchange NFTs with their friends. ‘LINE NFT’ Marketplace Launched LVC Corp., the operator of LINE’s...
Japan’s most popular social messaging app Line adds NFT marketplace
14.4.2022
Line, Japan’s number one super app has launched its own NFT marketplace, adding to its list of crypto-ready features
Chinese Messaging App Wechat Reportedly Suspends Accounts Linked to NFTs
4.4.2022
Wechat, the Chinese messaging app, has reportedly suspended accounts that are linked to non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The objective of the crackdown is to stop the use of the affected accounts in promoting NFTs. The Widening Crackdown on Digital Assets The Chinese messaging app Wechat recently...
Japan-based messaging app will offer trial run of native token starting in March
8.2.2022
LINE Pay said it was considering adding other cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and Ether to its payments options in the future
Blockchain-based decentralized messengers: A privacy pipedream?
1.2.2022
While blockchain messengers stand to mitigate many of the privacy issues posed by their centralized counterparts, they still have their fair share of unignorable issues
Etherescan adds new messaging feature for anons: 'Blockscan Chat'
26.1.2022
The Blockscan Chat service enables users to message each other via their Ethereum wallet addresses
New private messaging app claims to be decentralized and quantum-resistant
25.1.2022
David Chaum has launched a new private messaging system that claims it can keep message data and information about its users secure against the most powerful computers
No Developed Nation Bans Cryptocurrencies, Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Warns Russia
24.1.2022
Pavel Durov, founder of the messaging app Telegram, has criticized Bank of Russia’s proposal to impose a blanket ban on a range of crypto-related activities. Such move would stifle high-tech development and chase away blockchain specialists, Durov says. Durov Speaks Out Against Bank...
Discord community splits as CEO unveils pre-released Ethereum integration
9.11.2021
The new feature will allow Discord users to actively participate in upcoming crypto initiatives such as NFTs, Web 3 and token adoption
Secretum Messenger: First Decentralized, Encrypted Messaging App to Come on Solana
13.10.2021
Messaging apps have become a global phenomenon, with over 3.6 billion users accessing them globally. Nowadays, an average person sends 72 messages per day. WhatsApp is channeling more than 100 billion messages every day, while the number is around 205 million for WeChat video messages. While...
PocketNet Changes Name to Bastyon and Releases Private Messaging App With PKOIN Chat Payments
10.9.2021
Bastyon’s messaging app would include end-to-end encryption, no link to phone number or any other metadata making it the most private messenger. Pocketnet, the social network based on proof-of-stake blockchain technology, enters a new phase of growth by changing its name to Bastyon and...
Status plans to incentivize node operators for decentralized messaging protocol
10.8.2021
According to the project, one of the pushes for its development was Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently encouraging developers to consider non-financial applications for DeFi
Encrypted messaging app Signal enables private payments using MobileCoin
7.4.2021
High-speed privacy payments using MOB available to UK users only
Rewards system allows decentralized messaging app users to earn crypto
6.4.2021
The messaging app project was aimed at avoiding third-party data harvesting
Private Messaging App Signal Now Accepts Donations in Cryptocurrencies
17.3.2021
The nonprofit foundation behind the privacy-driven messaging app Signal is officially joining the cryptocurrency venture. In this case, the Signal Foundation announced it has started accepting crypto donations. Signal Foundation Also Takes Donations in Privacy Coins According to an announcement...