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We are so often concerned with—and building for the purposes of—online privacy, that we have been less focused on a different type of privacy invasion. Privacy in your own home is under attack.
We’re going to zoom in on a specific part—one that we have recently made some big developments in. Mamy, one of our engineers, has made one of the world’s fastest BLS signature implementations. We have been working on this since 2018, and have some big results to show for it.
TL;DR If you registered a stateofus.eth name in the Status app before October 31, 2021, then you can collect $ENS as part of
Centralized Finance Today Almost every facet of banking, lending, and trading is now managed through centralized systems run by regulatory organizations and gatekeepers. Consumers must
Status provides a list of principles that drive us, found here [https://status.im/about]. Our principles motivate our design decisions, which features make it
Welcome to Waku! We value decentralization, because it protects users, privacy, and mitigates censorship. We value Web3, because it demonstrates that we've had enough of
The World Wide Web ("WWW" or "The Web") is a tool which began in the 60s, used by billions of people to share, read, and
What a month. > pic.twitter.com/gE9ecf08uq [https://t.co/gE9ecf08uq] — Status (@ethstatus) March 28, 2022 [https://twitter.com/ethstatus/status/1508497826803859456?ref_src=twsrc%
The internet is evolving. Web3 projects are already offering usable alternatives to the last generation of services. Why? Web2 projects did not respect the privacy
(image of the Lennon Wall [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennon_Wall] courtesy of IFMSA [https://ifmsa.org/wall-peace-freedom/]) As these notes were being
As tokenized communities [https://our.status.im/tokenized-crypto-communities-intro/] become more real, as more people begin to understand how crypto can protect their privacy [https://our.
What is refactoring? Developers can probably skip this section. Sometimes when you’re working on a project, things get thrown together in a fast, but
StatusQ [https://github.com/status-im/StatusQ/] is an emerging reusable QML UI component library for Status applications, licensed under MPL2.0. So what does that
Status [https://status.im/get/] moves ever forward, bringing privacy and secure communication to all. The core team has toiled to bring together a big
The idea of “sign in with google” has always frightened me. It’s convenient, absolutely, but it’s also ceding control of your data—ceding