Coinbase-Backed DeSo Disrupts Telegram, WhatsApp, and Signal | Cryptoglobe

Los Angeles, CA, 11th October, 2022, Chainwire Takeaways: DeSo, a new blockchain that has raised $200 million from Coinbase, Sequoia, and Andreessen Horowitz, just launched decentralized on-chain end-to-end encrypted group chats, a first-of-its-kind innovation.On-chain messages are resistant to censorship and can be used pseudonymously without supplying personal information, just like Bitcoin or Ethereum.DeSo is the only blockchain that supports seamless end-to-end encrypted on-chain messaging today, and the extension to group chats is a first-of-its-kind breakthrough.Apps like Diamond, a Decentralized Twitter app that launched recently, are launching decentralized encrypted group chats on DeSo in the coming weeks. Diamond already supports end-to-end encrypted on-chain direct messages, which DeSo has featured since early 2021. Today, Signal is the most popular private messaging app, and yet users can’t use it without entering a personally-identifying piece of information: their phone number. This makes it so that anyone with access to Signal’s database gets full information about who the user messaging and when. Additionally, because Signal is a centralized service, it has been blocked in major countries like China. Imagine if creating a Bitcoin wallet required users to give up their phone numbers. Why can’t users have the same level of privacy and censorship resistance that they have…
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