I welcome everyone, welcome Alex and welcome Smith Pat.
All right guys any minute now we're gonna be starting off this AMA and Mailchain is gonna be entering the room All right guys looks like Mailchain has now entered all right, let's go ahead and Start it up. So hi guys. I'm Landon. I'm a community builder
here with AuroraD, we update the latest information on the near protocol about the ecosystem. We analyze data, analyze projects and provide instructional content. We also support users on how to use and integrate into the ecosystem. Now, without further ado, welcome to the wonderful AMA.
with MailChain. Now MailChain, can you introduce a little bit about yourself and the project and maybe some of the members in your project? Yeah, so my name is Megan with MailChain. We're all about web3communication. If we could just wait a few minutes here, I wanted to get our CE
Tim on the space. I know he's come out. And he'll do the formal introduction. But yeah, we specialize in wallets, wallet, email, and messaging. And we're so excited to be supporting .or
domains now. So any user with a . Aurora address can now email wallet to wallet which is super exciting. So I see Aurora is here as well. That's exciting. Hey Aurora. All right. Awesome. That's what I'm
I'm talking about loving the excitement in the room tonight now. Is the other person on point at a speaker? Is his name Smith Pat? No, he's not here quite yet. His name's going to be Tim, but I know he's coming on any second. We're just about to hit the top of the hour.
Okay, perfect, perfect. We'll go ahead and give it a little bit of time guys. We'll start off in about one or two more minutes guys.
Okay, Landon looks like Tim's here. So I think we're already he can ask Adam as a speaker. Alright Tim, you are officially added.
Alright, there we go. Let's go ahead and get started. So Tim, can you please, first of all guys, let's go and welcome everyone back to the One-Up Law AMA with Mail Chain. Now please Tim, can you introduce a little bit about yourself, maybe the project and some of the members in your
>> Absolutely. Thanks so much for having me here today. I'm Tim, one of the founders of MailChain. At MailChain, we're building a communication layer for Web3. What we've built out is a way for people to be able to send email-like messages today. You can come on, you can use your normal address
that you'll use on Aurora or you can use your .error name and you can send a message to someone else or in fact any other Ethereum based address and what that is unlocked is the ability for people to communicate in Web 3. So you can receive messages from applications that you've used.
and receive messages from other people in your communities and people can finally start to adopt their Web 3 identities as a full functional persona. So the team right now is based across the world. We've got 11 people, half of the folks are working in our engineering.
And then we've got some other folks helping build out the community and our partnerships. One of those people is here on the call today and that's Megan who's been responsible for a lot of the work we've done in the Aurora ecosystem. And I'll let Meg introduce a little bit about herself too.
I'm a community lead and I've been in Web 3 for about a year and a half now and I was so excited when I found MailChain because what I saw was a solution to this problem that really resonated with me as a Web
three user, which is you all wake up in the morning and I'll kind of check a million different channels. That excite me that usually have a lot of other colleagues or peers in Web 3, but it's never in one place and it feels kind of organized and there's never a place
for me to communicate natively with the thing that matters most to me, which is my wallet address. So when I found Mailchain, I just got super excited and ended up joining the team. But what I call Mailchain now is my permanent residence or my home.
So anyone can email my wallet address or a domain name I resolve over that. And it's the first tab that I check in the morning now, which is really cool to have it. That be a Web 3 Native email tab. So that's a little bit about me.
All right, thank you so much. So it really, this project sounds really cool. It really sounds like you guys are kind of opening up a whole new way to communicate on Web 3 for everyone where it's an all in one thing where you instead of having to go another route, you have it all in one for convenience and it's pretty awesome.
I like the idea. I really love what this is going. Thank you. Yeah, so I guess there's actually two parts worth mentioning. There's the inbox, which is unified inbox for all of your Web 3 comms, but under that there's a really powerful protocol that sends end to end in crypto.
messages that any DAAP can just plug in, use RSDK and start sending messages instantly. Wow, that's super cool. Alright guys, so we're going to go ahead and start this off now. Are you guys, do you guys feel comfortable taking questions from the audience?
Absolutely. Let's see what we've got. Yeah. All right, that's what I'm talking about. All right, so we're going to start off. We're going to go kind of back and forth to few questions. I have right here in questions from the audience. So question number one today is going to be, could you guys tell me more about the big picture of MailChain?
Of course, I think so when we look ahead to 510 and even 15, 20 years down the line, the communications protocol is an opportunity for us to give something back to humanity. At the moment, people are struggling to send messages using their Web 3 identities, but these Web 3 identities are going to be
built into mobile phone wallets, your normal browsing experience, pretty much everywhere you go, you have the ability to plug in some kind of new identity. And it's all based on public private keys. So by being able to support native communication at a very granular level, then we see that there's a whole generation
of communication that can sit on top of this rather than what we've got today, which when we look at email, which is incredibly well adopted and it's already very well decentralized, but there are limitations in terms of who runs the accounts and how you can move your data around. And the control of that is to
much unsolicited male, but with a granular system of communication, then it's much easier to be able to stop bad behaviors and encourage the good behaviors so you can only receive messages on the channels that you want to receive them on. And that's the kind of future that we're looking at building and that we've built out with the early bit of the protocol.
Absolutely now we have another question coming in here and the question is what's the main problem male chain is solving especially for Aurora and how has it solved that? Of course, so the main
problem that we set out to tackle initially was the ability for people to be able to use their identities to send messages. So let's say you've just bridged some funds into Aurora, then it makes sense that you get a notification telling you that that's completed. Now it just so happens that the rainbow bridges
is actually very good at handling that float. Some other protocols, it's less seamless. But when you transact on any DAP or any smart contract, you have the ability to go and look at Aurora scans
or block its explorer, but sometimes that's pretty hard to read and we're starting to see depth send out confirmations of actions that took place. So in the same way that you go back to your email inbox and look at receipts and things that happened when you were just having your normal online
journey. This is something that we're seeing sort of maps over into Web 3 extremely easily. So you can make sense of your historic transactions by going back and looking at these messages and that helps you when you're trying to figure out did you actually stake some funds.
Did you need to move from a V1 to V2 contract and did someone want to come along and buy that NFT that you bought because it had some pretty interesting traits on it and it starts to add a little bit of color around that rather than just a transaction on environment that we're surviving in today.
I'm loving these in-depth answers. That's pretty awesome. Now, we're going to jump over to another question coming in that says, "Can you walk me through the user experience?"
Yes, I think actually I'm going to let me do this one. Yeah, it's fun because it's so intuitive. So you guys know when you open your traditional email inbox, you have a compose and ascend, and those are the two main actions.
Same with MailChain. So you get in, you have Compose, you have Drafts, you have Archive, so everything that you would sort of come to expect in a traditional email. And then you have a 2 and a From and a CC and a BCC.
And so you can do one-to-one messaging or one-to-many, which is super handy if you're a creator, if you have a community that you're trying to reach all you need is their walled address. So you can put that, you can put a list of them in the
BCC and send one to money which is really neat. And I've been in there. I spent something like 400 messages last week to different people. And the real fun part is when you resolve your favorite domain name.
favorite web 3 domain and then you can have that as the sort of name that covers your wallet address and start to email using just that. And it's really easy to set that up. But yeah, compose and send. That's essentially it.
Epic, so it really just, it sounds like you guys are really kind of just simplifying it for everyone. This is really going to open up a better communication overall in Web 3. Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah, exactly. I mean, if you think about it, we've been living without this.
for so long in Web 3. And it's funny, but we've gotten used to not having it. And so we've gone to Twitter DMs, to Telegram, but you don't get that direct communication that you really want because our
our wallet is what matters most to us. So this email platform gives you that and it's crazy how once you have it you realize like, oh my gosh, this is all I want to use. How can I have my own personal question? Because to be honest with you, I
I'm thinking I actually just want to use your product. I just want to know, like, yeah, like, how do I, you know, how do I, like, is an app? Like, what do I, how do I get it? So right now it's on desktop. So if you go to app.mailchain.com, you can sign up. It's a real easy
I say two minutes or less sign up process. So you create an at-mail chain. So I would create a magnet mail chain, a password, and then it generates a secret key for you, private key.
And you can log right into your account and that is a private fully end-to-end encrypted inbox. Only you can read your messages. And then you can immediately start sending a message to any other MailChain address or wallet address.
That's EVM compatible right now and eventually we're going to multi-chain. So it's real simple. Two minutes or less. I'm loving it. I'm loving that simplicity. That's happening. That's seriously happening. Now we have some requests coming in. Let's go ahead and take a question from the audience. We have bold Jacob Bowles.
Alright, any second now, Bulge Acapable should be a speaker. Let's see if it worked.
invite to speak. You might be having some technical difficulties.
We also have another request coming in from Crypto Lord. Let's go ahead and give Crypto Lord a chance to speak.
All right, Crypto Lord, welcome. What is your question for Mailchain today?
Crypto Lord, are you here with us?
Okay, maybe crypto Lord is not here with us. Whoa, but I do see bulls bulls is back. Both I'm gonna send you another invite
All right, Bulls, you are now a speaker. Oh Sorry Bulls, I guess. Oh, there we go. Thank you guys. Thank you for bringing up here.
question is what kind of security protocols do you have for Jumbo Chin to avoid high-go attacks?
Okay, what kind of security protocols do we have to prevent hackers? So everything is encrypted end to end using standard encryption libraries and on the front end of the mail application we have
set of security services that deal with rate limiting to protect the application layer. So like there's nothing that we went and created in terms of new encryption. We rest upon the shoulders of the giants that built the encryption that we use across the web today.
All right. Thank you both for joining us for you. Appreciate the question coming out of that awesome question now We're gonna go ahead and jump over to another question this question is now What three messaging is up and coming what sets mail chain apart from other people that maybe have something similar to going on
That's a great question. So one of the things I see is I look across the ecosystem and see projects at different stages and tackling different parts of communication. We see some interesting things
happening in chat, we obviously love email and that's what we went out to build the protocol and a reference implementation of an inbox. I also look across and see these founders that quite often we have completely shared view of the world and
how we want the world to adapt. I don't think it's a question of competition right now. I think people are serving a lot of users and there's overlap on that. But actually, it's all opportunity. You think how many identities are
not here today yet. There's only a few of us who have made it to Web 3 so far and we're seeing more and more people coming, even though this is a time when the market's less attractive to people, but we're still seeing tons of signups. So there is this interest for people
to continue to communicate and email certainly seems like a valuable set of messaging for people. But I think we're all looking at how do we service the next generation of people using identities. And if you don't go and put the technology out there for people to build on top of, then we'll never get that.
I love that answer. That was epic. Now we're gonna go ahead and take a look back. Let's see if we're getting any requests. Go ahead and raise your hand if you guys have a question. Let's go ahead and see.
Maybe no one has a question quite yet. All right, so here's my next question is how can Aurora users take advantage of MailChain? Now I know you guys kind of already broke this down one more time. Can you break it down one more time?
Yes, I think so one of the things that we see and we love about Aurora is Aurora Plus and the fact that if you are staking then you can obviously have access to free transactions. That mirrors a lot of our philosophies on how we will always be
provide a way for mail chain to have free messaging for people so they can send an amount of messages and have that almost as a public good. So when we came into the Aurora ecosystem we immediately identified with that and then started to look at some of the projects that
here today and we look at the NFT marketplaces, for example, looking at things like tofu NFT or even some of the exchanges, them coming in and as another EVM, they've got
the ability to immediately help the people who are in Aurora and contact the people who are in Aurora. And the folks that we see who are curating their identities, so buying the .error and names and making that a thing that they're identical.
identifiable by, as they interact with Aurora, we start to see these really strong identity constructs and that just shines in a community. And when we see strong communities in Web 3, a lot of it is based on having these strong identities.
Absolutely. And I really love that this is going to give people a chance to really not only, you know, have the strong identity, but also, you know, show it, be able to express communication in a fast and convenient way. That's super awesome. I'm really, I really am going to use this.
I'm going to literally use this. I really was thinking kind of thinking about how annoying it was when using your crypto wall that I couldn't just like, if I want to talk to my brother when sending something or something like this that, you know, there wasn't something like this that I knew of before and now I know of it and it's definitely going to come in handy. I really appreciate it.
Fantastic. If you want to send me a message, I'm always on Tim at MailChain, I'm happy to hear from anyone. And one of the things that you can guarantee with MailChain is that all addresses
is a verified. So if you send me a message, I know that it came from your address and you can't spoof that. So if you want to know if your brother really is asking you to borrow 50 bucks, then you can tell it's come from his address.
Wow, that is awesome. Wow. Alright guys, now we have another question coming in from ox, "Thiego". Hopefully I said your name right? Ox, "Thiego". What is your question for mail chain today?
Maybe you're here with us, ox Diego, let's check. All right, no, maybe he's not here. All right, let's go ahead and jump over to Aurora. Aurora, I see that you have your hand raised. What is your question for mail chain today?
Hi guys, thanks for this AMA today. It's really interesting to hear all about Mailchain. An aspect that I would be curious to know more about is how Mailchain can
preserve the privacy of its users. I think you mentioned before the end to end the encryption, but is there something else? What are the different steps that they're using to make sure that privacy is preserved?
Fantastic question. That's one of my favorites and that's because we spent so much time and energy thinking about this problem. So from the moment you sign up to MailChain, when you're creating your username for MailChain, what you're actually doing is creating a self-sauvering identity on your machine. We never see any unincredible
We will store encrypted profiles for people as a convenience. But all of that stuff, it feels like a web to sign up. But actually what you're doing is creating this incredibly powerful account infrastructure that when you link your different wallet addresses, we can't see that in
either because that sits in your encrypted data bundle. So we protect the privacy of users by never having unencrypted information being sent to any of our servers and that means even if someone came along and had a look at some of our data they wouldn't be able to decrypt that unless they had your
specific key to some. Then at the account level, every single account that you've linked, we can't tell that you've got a defy wallet that you've got a gaming wallet or how much you've got on those wallets because we just don't know what's linked. And then when you go to send a message, all the messages are
encrypted for the recipient to receive, nobody can tell that the recipient has a message bound for them and accept the recipient. So we obfuscate that information. So if you come along and look at the messages waiting to be delivered, you don't know who that for. And then on top of that,
The other features that we've built into Protect Users, we don't track any data of where people are coming from and don't make it our business to go into the specific analytics or analyze people's user metrics.
what else have I forgotten?
make did I miss anything on that? No, I think that covers it. But I think the biggest thing guys is, you know, as a as a web3 company, you have a decision every every decision you make can affect
user privacy. And I just know that the ethos of our company is we always default to protect. Even if that means sometimes it's not as convenient for the user.
But I think what's cool is we've been able to really balance security and convenience and mail chain. It's very easy to use, but you're still getting a very protected account. And like Tim said, one that self-sauvering, it's yours.
Oh, there was one thing that I forgot and that was when you register your wallet with us, you're signing that you own that wallet. And apart from that signature, we don't need you to use your existing keys to send mail chain messages.
So you're not having to constantly sign stuff using the same wallet that would send money or valuable crypto assets. You've proved to us you own that. We can prove that you own it to anyone else that needs to look at that. And beyond that, you have set for
messaging and encryption keys to be able to deal with the messaging path. So we protect users safely by not having them sign lots and lots of things and that's got people into trouble in the past and that account abstraction makes it a lot safer especially with lots of addresses.
I'm seriously loving that. That is awesome. Wow. All right. Now we have ox Diego. I see you have your hand raised, but what is your question, ox Diego? Are you here with us?
All right, what is your question today? Okay, thanks for this eME. I joined it actually. I want to know if Milchem offers and
domain name services just like ENS. And like I said, I just joined LIT. And I would love to get like a recap. It shows a couple of what has been said. I find this very interesting. So I'm really interested to know. Thanks.
Great. So for recap, I'd suggest you listen to the recording of the first bit for the benefit of the other folks on the call. I won't go back over all of the stuff that I said at the beginning. But for name services, we don't have our own name service.
service that we allow people to come along and purchase names. When you sign up to MailChain, you get a username which you choose. That is non-transferrable. And what we want to do is work with other name services who have got these
incredible reach into different protocols and they support the protocols very strongly and we support those folks. So for example with .errora you can go and buy your .error name and then you can bring that to MailChain and you can use that as your identity.
Yeah, awesome. I'll wait for the recording as well as the core ends and listen. Thank you very much.
All right, that's what I'm talking about. Ox Diego. Thank you so much for being here with us. Now we are getting another request coming in from Neurity.
All right, you are now approved, Neri.
All right welcome Nearity awesome to have you here. What is your question for mail chain today Nearity?
All right, let's go ahead and jump right over. So I had another question actually of my own.
to be honest. I was sitting here kind of thinking about MailChain and I was thinking also about like, so when I have MailChain it's only connected to one wallet or I can have it connected to multiple wallets.
you should connect all your wallets. So anywhere you've transacted, they can then send you a message to tell you if you need to do anything. Okay, and then my other question was basically like I can, I can, I can, I can
send messages, I can send different coins, I can send NFTs. No, so you can only send messages. We don't deal with sending any coins or any NFTs because the way
We build a protocol is that it supports messaging. Those messages don't live on chain. They're stored encrypted in decentralized storage, but they're not there forever because we believe that you don't necessarily want your messages stored somewhere forever. Whereas you do want your NFTs stored somewhere.
and a record of that. True. True. So it really sounds like you guys are really on point when it comes to privacy for your users. And that sounds to me like you're really strong point is you guys have very good end to end encryption.
And it just it really just it provides incredible amount of privacy at the and at the same time too you're given more ease because you you don't constantly have to sign everything to verify either. That's right we want to support you.
is in the safest way possible. And so when they're in messaging mode, they shouldn't have to think about everything that they're having to sign. They should just be able to send those messages and receive ones from verified addresses. And what are you guys' plans for maybe the future? What do you see for the future of MailChain?
So the most important things for us right now is working with the builders. We have obviously the SDK and that's open source and we're open sourcing as many of the libraries as we can. That's a question of bandwidth. So we wanted to solve messaging initially and now
We've got all this code that we want to get out into people's hands so people can build on top and we're starting to see some really good use cases coming through. And we obviously want to make this a really healthy ecosystem of builders so that people can just drop in messaging to their app. People know that they could be reached that way.
And it's a no brainer in the same way that email and traditional internet go together MailChain on Web 3 That's beautiful beautifully explained now I want to go ahead and jump over to the audience seems like we have quite a room now I want to go and ask the audience to send a request if you guys have any questions at all
Well, good and semi-alrequest don't feel shy. So go ahead, Blue Star, Mono, May, BB, Smith, Serena, Niva, Conan, Lisa. If you guys have any questions for MailChain, feel free to send me your requests. We'll go ahead and give it maybe one minute. We'll see if anyone maybe has any more questions.
And before that, while we're waiting, I kind of have another question. So before like, was there like a moment whenever, whenever like before like you did all this, was there ever like a moment where like you were like agitated or something and you were like, you know what? This needs to be created and you kind of have like a eureka moment.
Yes, and that's quite a funny story. So it was a bit of a eureka moment. At the time, it wasn't something that I needed drastically, but it made sense. So I used to work at Amazon Web Services in the startup team. And I was over at Ethereum DevCon. This was back in 2018.
I started working with a lot of the early builders in the Ethereum space and now it's interesting a lot of them have moved on. They're in different projects and I see a lot of them coming up in the mirror and then the Aurora ecosystem. But so I set this conference and I was working with startups and new projects.
all day long and then I work up in the middle of the night and I was like why are people not sending messages using the same addresses that they're using to send all these digital assets? You've got a great address structure. You've got a really good sort of transportation method using, at the time we looked at Transact
to be able to send the message and that was like very first MVP. But just this idea that you could use this as a communication rails and it's stuck and at the time there were a couple of other projects looking at some messaging primitives. I think status was around at the time and
I spent a little bit of time at DevCon talking to the folks at E and S and anyone who seemed to know what they were talking about why messaging shouldn't be a thing and nobody could give me a straight answer. So that was really where I started to get my teeth into the problem. I took it back to sort of my
My serial co-founder Rob who I worked with by day and then by night we'd create these side projects and experiment and play around with technology. And this was just something we couldn't shake. So it took us off on this path. And as we talked to more and more startups, which was our job by day, communication kept being a thing that came up and people couldn't
quite communicate with their users, you'd have a DeFi contract with thousands of people who are unreachable. They just put money on it. And that was astonishing. So as we've built it out, we've managed to unlock a lot of this stuff. That's awesome. That is awesome.
And I also wanted to know through this project, what's maybe been like you guys is maybe like biggest obstacle or like hardest challenge. I think that changes every week. It's hard building startups and for us,
The advent of layer 2's was definitely a turning point. So seeing EVMs deployed everywhere, we realized that if we kept to our old model, which used transactions, you'd have to have all this node infrastructure. And so we realized that we needed to build out
our own protocol. And that was an extremely difficult decision because by default, running a protocol, building a protocol is a lot of work. And like going down that path, we knew that it was a bigger challenge to take on. So I think that was probably the largest hurdle to
get over. And then after that, breaking down into the problems that we come into, like, how do you support X Protocol, Y Protocol, and make it so that you've got that same easy user experience that's safe. Keep doing that. That's definitely a challenge for our engineering team, and they're always doing that
Absolutely, wow. Well, it's really awesome to hear that you guys decided to take even though maybe the harder path, but the path more worthwhile. That's awesome.
I certainly hope so. And I think time will tell, but we're starting to see some really great early signs. And this is like the best time to be building because everybody is so focused right now. Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, I really, I really hear that from builders. I really, I really hear that that
right now is like the time for them to build. So what were they saying? I forgot my last name, but someone said something like when the market's down, it's time to build like in a bear market. That's what they said. They said everyone's busy building and doing things right now. That's pretty incredible. And then also guys,
We're going to go and jump over right back to the audience. Let's go ahead and check. Let's see. Does anybody have any questions guys? Feel free to raise your hands. All right. Looks like maybe not. All right, guys. So we're going to go ahead and wrap it on up. Tim, I want to thank you so much for being here and all
also I want to thank where we have mail mail. I didn't want to plug one thing guys for our audience today so I pinned the the thread at the top but we were offering a fun quest.
out there you can get $15 of Aurora domain credit, complete it. It's really simple to start. The puzzle questions are not easy. They're actually quite difficult but that's the fun part. So to begin all you do
you sign up for MailChain and then send an email with the word "quest" in it to welove.errora. And that's how you begin. So I'll be helping to man that inbox. So if you send a message, you may get a reply from me. So I hope you guys send a message today.
Thanks so much for having us on the show. It's great to talk to some of you folks out there. Thanks for the questions. Really enjoyed it. Yeah, thank you guys. Awesome community.
Landon I think you're on mute. Do you want to do a final wrap up? Oh my god. I've been doing the fine prep. Oh my goodness. I'm sorry. Okay. First of all, thank you. Thank you to the community for being here.
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for the community. So follow me to get a chance to receive the reward and explore the ecosystem. Now we had a great Q&A session today guys. Thank you guys so much for joining us. Now I want to go ahead and just go ahead and give a last word over maybe to Tim. Tim, do you have any last words for this Q&A session?
I would say come over and check out MailChain. Let us know your feedback. Come to app.mailchain.com, sign up, find your preferred username, and send me a message to MailChain. Love to hear from you.
100% guys make sure you're doing that now awesome and Tim I'm also going to be reaching probably out to you because this was an awesome Q&A and honestly it was one of the Q&As where I really just
I genuinely felt like I wanted to use it. So that's pretty awesome. - Love to hear it. - All right, you guys later. - Thanks, Landon. Have a good one, guys. - Bye-bye. - Bye-bye. - Thank you, bye.