Unicorner - 🦄 XMTP: Enabling crypto communication

• Raised $20 million Series A round led by a16z with participation from strategic funds, companies, and angels like Atelier Capital, Not Boring Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Alexis Ohanian, and Ric Burton

 

• Software Engineer - Distributed Systems
• Software Engineer - Full Stack
• Software Engineer - Protocol
• Senior UX Researcher
• Senior Partnerships Manager

Web3 is the evolution of the internet that’s designed to give individuals more ownership and transparency. Its rapid growth is inevitably unveiling the need for critical building blocks. Most of web3’s innovation has revolved around financial building blocks, but there hasn’t yet been a base layer for communication. XMTP is tackling this by upending the state of messaging today. Instead of fragmented platforms with no interoperability (the ability to exchange data between tools), XMTP is launching a messaging protocol that is fully permissionless, open-source, interoperable, and controlled by users instead of organizations. XMTP achieves this by enabling communications between wallets, the atomic unit of web3. In doing so, XMTP could be the core layer that enables communities, creators, and novelties like Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) in the web3 economy by introducing communication and coordination. Building blocks are particularly interesting in nascent spaces like web3 because they’ll unlock many forms of innovation; the tools that will be built on top of them will not only help us do what we already do better, but unlock all sorts of new behaviors we’re yet to imagine!