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.
Ethereum-based project Status has started an incentivization program
for node operators around its decentralized peer-to-peer messaging
protocol, Waku.
In an announcement today, Status said it would be
rolling out the first phase of a program to encourage people to set up
and run nodes used by Waku, a private messenger based on the Whisper
protocol. The project said it planned to offer up to $100 worth in its
native token SNT to 100 people participating in a three-month program.
The
Status team forked Whisper to create Waku in 2019. The protocol uses
community owned and operated nodes to route messages through the network
rather than the “traditional” client-server model, with the project
working on a peer-to-peer messaging service aimed at competing with
major firms like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal.
“Using
peer-to-peer networks for personal communication is the only reliable
way to escape censorship,” said former Cointelegraph reporter Andrey
Shevchenko, who will be running one of the nodes. “Status has clearly
put a lot of effort into this to make it technically viable so I’m
curious to see where it goes.”
According to the project, one of the pushes for the development of the protocol was Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently encouraging developers
to “go further” in innovating beyond the typical boundaries of
decentralized finance, or DeFi. Buterin said that non-financial
applications for Ethereum, including decentralized social media, could
serve this purpose.
Related: Status, an Ethereum Private Messenger Goes Waku on Telegram
The
Status rewards program provides a small incentive for participants to
provide they have set up and maintained one of the nodes. The project
ran a pilot in South Korea — where it plans to have 25 nodes up and
running — but also aims for a large presence in Latin America.
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