Status plans to incentivize node operators for decentralized messaging protocol

Status plans to incentivize node operators for decentralized messaging protocol

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....


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