waku and xmtp, mainstream merkle-related messaging

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i opened an old coinbase wallet and discovered there’s mainstream
blockchain messaging now, deployed but still in development

looks like it stemmed from
https://vac.dev/ which made
https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku used by
https://github.com/xmtp/xmtp-node-go

xmtp is presently not decentralized but claims to be pursuing this.

the work of vac.dev looks cool

it looks like messages might be stored off-chain (haven’t verified) in a
separate p2p network, but there is a big software ecosystem for users to
patch things on to.

a little reminiscent of early signal, where everyone was walled into this
stupid phone app but it used a great protocol under the hood that could be
facilitated to form secure communications with easy onboarding
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