TL;DR
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‘One username and login to rule them all!’ That’s one of the many promises Web3 has made to us all. The idea being:
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You buy a Web3 domain name → it acts as your username/digital identity across all Web3 apps (including socials, gaming, messaging, etc.).
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The easiest of those product categories being: messaging. A fact that isn’t lost on the folks over at Coinbase! They’ve just announced a wallet-to-wallet messaging feature.
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Which is kind of like if Venmo added a chat function, so you could DM your friends, as well as send them money. (The crypto version of that, at least).
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Do we really need another messaging app? At this point – no, not really (but this feels like more of a long-term play from Coinbase).
Full Story
‘One username and login to rule them all!’
That’s one of the many promises Web3 has made to us all.
The idea being:
You buy a Web3 domain name → it acts as your username/digital identity across all Web3 apps (including socials, gaming, messaging, etc.).
The easiest/most obvious first step of those listed categories being: messaging.
A fact that isn’t lost on the folks over at Coinbase!
They’ve just announced the roll out of their new wallet-to-wallet messaging feature.
Which is kind of like if Venmo added a chat function, so you could DM your friends, as well as send them money.
(The crypto version of that, at least).
The difference is, with Coinbase’s wallet-to-wallet messaging your username is yours (you own it, not Coinbase, not Facebook, not Twitter – you!)
Which is neat, but do we really need another messaging app?
At this point – no, not really (but this feels like more of a long-term play from Coinbase).
Is it nice to know there’s a messaging platform where we can truly own our own digital identities (instead of one of a small handful of tech giants)?
Absolutely!
