In an announcement dated January 16, Web3 developer WalletConnect revealed the release of a notification tool for blockchain project followers.Wallet owners can register to get announcements from projects they’re interested in via the new “Web3Inbox” app, according to the developers.No phone number or email address is requested from users when logging in; all that is needed is a wallet signature.
Currently, the majority of Web3 projects use Web2 tools like Telegram, X, and Discord (previously Twitter) in conjunction to interact with their supporters.PancakeSwap, Chainspot, Space ID, Guild, Snapshot, TrustaLabs, Galxe, Sovereign Nature Initiative, Peanut Protocol, and Robots.Farm are among the ten Web3 projects that are reportedly already accessible via Web3Inbox.In an interview with Cointelegraph, WalletConnect chief operating officer Jess Houlgrave and strategy and biz-ops manager Kirby Horvitz offered some details about how the app works. According to Houlgrave, Web3Inbox “allows somebody to connect their Web3 wallet, and receive […] notifications all in one place; they can opt in and out of receiving different kinds of notifications from different products and from different applications.”
According to Houlgrave, the group has observed various ways in which projects have used the app to interact with their consumers.
“The use cases that we’ve seen so far have really been from a whole range of projects, from people like Snapshot saying ‘Hey, it’s time to vote on your DAO’ to NFT marketplaces saying ‘You’ve got an offer on your NFT,’ to a game where somebody says ‘Hey, I want to challenge you to a duel,’ anything where an application wants to engage with an end-user.”
Horvitz clarified that users can download the app using a web browser on a desktop computer or mobile device, and then add it to their home screen for easy access.It is integrated with the WalletConnect software development kit, which is utilized by the majority of mobile wallet apps, thus it may be connected to a wide range of wallets.
Houlgrave states that the team eventually wants to integrate Web3Inbox with an instant messaging system.To keep the app from getting inundated with spam, the team decided to start by concentrating on alerts. “Really granular opt in and opt out […] Doing that in a peer-to-peer context is technologically a little more challenging, and so that’s why it’s coming next,” she stated.
Over the past year, the crypto community has come to embrace the concept of inter-wallet messaging and notifications.OpenChat, which runs on the Internet Computer Protocol, introduced a “Communities” feature in August 2023 that is similar to Discord and lets wallet owners log in without revealing any personal information.A similar function, chat rooms that could be integrated into a project’s official website, was introduced in June by the Subsocial-based protocol Grill.chat.