Notification Protocol Standard

[crisgarner]

Introduction

Hey guys, I'm Cristian Espinoza, a Solidity Developer from Tegucigalpa Honduras. I'm a Devcon 5 Scholar from the Ethereum Foundation and currently the founder of Affogato.co

I first got into Ethereum in 2018 as a friend of mine wanted to do a blockchain meetup and I helped to organize it, I was currently working on a prototype for a Stellar app and after the meetup, I was so impressed by the concepts of Smart contracts that got me hooked.

I love the idea of virtual hackathons as they are accessible enough for people that can't travel and help hackers to explore new ideas or projects. I know that Dragon Quest will be an amazing experience.

Idea description

There is no proper way to handle decentralized notifications. For example, on Affogato I needed to notify token holders that the redeem was available. Asking users for phone or email removes privacy.

I want to build a standard protocol that allows users to send notifications to addresses and to be so useful that it would be integrated into wallets. I fell this can be done with a DAO to manage certain parameters I want to implement later.

Skillset

I would like to discuss the skillset needed, so far I can think about:

• Frontend (React)
• Design (UX Design? UI Design?, Visual Design?)
• Community builder (DAO Summoner, DAO Ops, community manager)
• Doing a Metamask Plugin would be desirable

Communication

You can find me on any social network as @crisgarner

[kristinlow]

This seems like a great idea - I can think of a few places where this would be useful! Will reach out to you for the design component.

[Jack-Winters]

(Not participating but...) Have you considered basing the back end loosely on something like eip-1456 , see here and here which associates an IPFS multihash with an Ethereum address.

[crisgarner]

@Jack-Winters it looks interesting, I was actually thinking of using ENS custom data fields in their contracts for some notifications.

[crisgarner]

@kristinlow Awesome! I'll create a channel on the Discord to talk about it. Was thinking on a temporal name like "Meta Notifications"

[edsphinx]

Great idea, interested in the service.