Founder of Dmail: Metaverse and Web3.0 are the basis for the development of the future digital age

As a symbol of human beings entering the Internet, the status of mailboxes in the Internet cannot be shaken. However, there have been many problems with our commonly used mailboxes. Data breaches, spam, phishing emails, and more have begun to affect how we use our mailboxes.

In many Web3.0 ecosystems, mailboxes are prioritized as Web3.0 products. In DFINITY (Internet Computer), the Dmail team is also Try to make the mailbox Web3.0 to solve various problems of the current mailbox products.

Rhythm BlockBeats chatted with Lucas, the founder of Dmail, and listened to his views on Web3.0.

About the track

Rhythm BlockBeats: How did you learn about blockchain and Web3.0?

Lucas: Before joining the encryption field, I was a leader in the mobile phone industry and was in charge of marketing in an overseas country. At that time, because of some customers, I learned about the field of blockchain and was gradually attracted by its charm. Later, I chose to return to China and join a first-line public chain responsible for the developer community.

I started to participate in the developer ecosystem here. It was still four years ago, and I personally think that there are some prototypes of Web3.0 at the beginning. At that time, I also met a lot of excellent developers, and we often discussed ideas about the future of the industry together. I thought the industry needed a killer application product at that time, but under the influence of many factors, there was no such product. Since last year, with the maturity of various conditions, we have gradually conceived the Dmail product and officially launched it this year.

Rhythm BlockBeats: There are many products in the Web3.0 field, why do you want to use Dmail as a product?

Lucas: Web3.0 is just a concept at present, what kind of Web3.0 should be, what kind of products will appear, different people still There will be different understandings.

But in my opinion, the Web3.0 era will definitely have a deterministic feature: data rights confirmation and information interconnection. In other words, in the era of Web3.0, centralized nodes and the connection barriers caused by them will be greatly reduced. Everyone will have a digital identity on the network, and then they can freely travel between different applications through this identity. Space, complete the interaction between people and people, people and things, people and applications.

Under the background of this cognition, we believe that the current Internet applications that have the function of identity recognition and can play a role in information exchange, in the future Web3.0 Era could become an important infrastructure tool. Email is a tool that each of us will use at present. Its role in the Internet is very basic but an essential component. However, many people actually ignore the importance of email for identification and information connection. There are very few successful blockchain mailbox products in the market now, so we want to try to use blockchain mailboxes as an entry point to enter the Web3.0 field.

Dmail is a communication tool for Web3.0, we want Dmail to become a comprehensive information processing platform that aggregates multiple functions. On the platform, we can see a variety of functions including communication, information, asset transactions, etc. At the same time, through the unique distributed storage mechanism in the Internet Computer public chain, users can enjoy the convenience of the Web3.0 era while ensuring their security. Information and privacy security.

Rhythm BlockBeats: Why are you optimistic about the field of Web3.0?

Lucas: As just said, Web3.0 is still just a concept, but why are so many people willing to believe in this concept and move towards Working hard in this direction, I think that in addition to the "business opportunities" we understand, Web3.0 can actually solve the pain points in our current Internet.

We all say that Web3.0 is the era of value Internet, so how to reflect the value? I think it is mainly reflected in the amplification of personal value. We are now in the era of Web2.0, which has enriched our material and spiritual world, but it is the Internet that brings people together through a centralized model. When people obtain information and convenience, they transfer some of their own interests. For example, some of our private information is stored on a centralized platform. This is a major hidden danger to personal privacy and information security.

Speaking from a distance, the major Internet company information leakage incidents in the past 10 years can be found everywhere on the Internet; Telephone. When the combination of blockchain technology and the Internet produces Web 3.0, the Internet can ensure that everyone's information in the network will be protected by means of decentralized encryption and distributed storage, avoiding the risk of data leakage.

In the era of Web3.0, the business logic at the bottom of the Internet may also undergo earth-shaking changes:

1. Digital Identity. In the era of Web3.0, each user will have a decentralized universal digital identity, which requires users to manage their own personal databases, and no third party is allowed to access and tamper with them at will, and users can independently authorize which identity information is used for any purpose. There is no need to worry about identity information being leaked and stolen.

2. Data rights confirmation. In the concept of Web3.0, user data is stored in a distributed database and controlled by the individual user. Any behavior that wants to obtain user data needs to be authorized by the user itself, thus ensuring the authenticity and value of the user's data belong.

3. On the basis of digital identity and data rights confirmation, data pricing power and value distribution power will return to users. In the Internet era, every interaction between users and the Internet has an embedded transaction—data. When we enjoy the convenient service of online shopping, our data is also handed over to the merchant together with the final payment. And data is tradable in our time. With the assistance of blockchain technology, users can discover the hidden value of their own data, and obtain corresponding data pricing power through the token reward mechanism. This is another important reason why I am optimistic about the Web3.0 era.

About Dmail

Rhythm BlockBeats: Can you introduce the product Dmail, what are the characteristics of Dmail?

Lucas: In a simple sentence, Dmail uses the "Internet Computer" Internet Computer as the engine to complete the distributed storage and privacy protection of information; E-mail information identifies user identity and rights, realizes the horizontal connection between information, assets, storage, and DApps, breaks data islands, and becomes an important information interaction tool in the Web3.0 era.

First of all, we are a blockchain mailbox product, and in our recently launched Demo, we have realized the function of sending emails with traditional mailboxes. Therefore, compared with traditional mailboxes, we can not only communicate with any mailbox, but also achieve privacy encryption of information.

Secondly, we are also an NFT mailbox. The mailbox name is the identity of each user. At present, we have NFTized the mailbox name. In other words, each mailbox name is an NFT. In the later stage, we will open a trading platform for NFT mailbox names, and users can freely trade NFT mailbox names under the premise of ensuring information security.

Third, we are an important information communication tool prepared for Web3.0. In Dmail, information, assets, storage, DApp and other functions will be integrated in the future to form a connection bridge between different applications, and truly realize that users can travel through the decentralized world with their digital identities.

Rhythm BlockBeats: Why did you choose the Internet Computer network? Compared with other public chains, what are the advantages of Internet Computer?

Lucas: First of all, from a functional point of view, Internet Computer may be an answer to make up for the shortcomings of the market. The vision of Internet Computer is to become a "decentralized world computing cloud". Simply put, it is to build a distributed cloud computing platform combined with smart contracts. Compared with other public chains, its advantage lies in the seamless connection of various applications and unlimited performance. Since last year, Ethereum has been criticized the most for its "expensiveness" and "blockage". Internet Computer has filled in the lack of Ethereum from these two aspects, and this may become the most ecological development in the encryption market An important piece of the puzzle.

1. Low gas fee. In the DeFi market, gas fees are an unavoidable topic. Users need to reserve a certain amount of tokens on the public chain as gas fees. The Internet Computer is based on the reverse Gas model. When users use Internet Computer-based applications, they can interact with smart contracts without paying Gas themselves. The Gas fee is provided by the smart contract (software container) running the DApp. This design not only solves the problem of high gas fees, but also lowers the entry barrier for many users with small and medium funds, so that more investors can experience the convenience brought by the DeFi ecosystem.

 
2. Strong scalability. There is a unique language expression system in the Internet Computer ecosystem. "Container" is what we call smart contracts, "neurons" represent nodes in the network, and "neural network (NNS)" can be understood as what we call on-chain governance. The neurons and software containers are connected by subnets (ie, fragments), and neurons can dynamically adjust the number of subnets according to the overall load in the network to increase the overall TPS of the network. Compared with the fragmentation of ETH2.0 and the construction of various types of two-layer networks, Internet Computer has completed the expansion of the network through the dynamic adjustment of the subnet. In the network, the addition and merging of subnets is carried out on demand, and there is no need to stop DApp services during the expansion process. For users and developers, the process of capacity expansion is smooth and imperceptible.

 
3. High interoperability. In terms of interactivity, Internet Computer took into account the basic functions of Ethereum to the blockchain world at the beginning of its construction, so it created a set of Chainkey technology that can freely call Ethereum contracts. Using Chainkey can create a unique public key of only 48 bytes for Internet Computer's blockchain, and any device (even a smart watch) can independently complete the verification and confirmation on the chain. This technology can avoid synchronizing a large amount of signature data during the verification process of Ethereum, greatly reducing the running time of the network and improving the interoperability between Internet Computer and Ethereum.

From the perspective of application, Internet Computer is more suitable for the development of mailbox functions.

1. Advocate application of functional attributes. In the current public chain market, most public chains are constantly advancing in the financial settlement function, and one of Internet Computer's core visions is to let the blockchain hope to get rid of a single financial settlement layer function, so that it is possible to carry more such as High-traffic applications like Douyin. At present, a considerable number of social media DApps have appeared in the Internet Computer ecosystem. The basis for all this is his technical framework. Internet Computer currently deploys data centers around the world. These data centers host dedicated node hardware (such as servers, etc.), and communicate with each other to reach a consensus on the status of Internet computers. Combined with the subnets and containers mentioned above, Internet Computer can achieve unlimited expansion, carry any number of smart contracts to calculate and store any amount of data.

 
2. Distributed storage completes the storage and privacy functions of emails. Dmail relies on the underlying distributed storage protocol of Internet Computer to complete mail storage. The email will be stored in two parts. According to the user's needs, the email header and body will be split and hash stored in the entire distributed platform. The email header will be uploaded to the chain, and the email body will be Token encrypted. The party and the recipient can decrypt and read through the Token.

It is based on the above advantages that Dmail chooses to deploy in the Internet Computer ecosystem. We hope that the decentralized mailbox Dmail can develop simultaneously with the Internet Computer, and together become an important puzzle in the Web3.0 world.

Rhythm BlockBeats: The most important thing for everyone to use mailboxes is security. This is also the pain point of current mailbox products. User data is at risk. In terms of security, how does Dmail solve security? question?

Lucas: In the mailbox field, data security and information storage are relatively closely related, especially Dmail uses the characteristics of the Internet Computer public chain for security and storage related design, so the two questions are answered together.

Compared with traditional mail, the biggest advantage of Dmail is the absolute security of data. From the perspective of basic mailbox functions, Dmail is no different from ordinary mailboxes, and can easily transfer emails to and from any traditional mailbox. However, the hidden worry of traditional mailboxes is that email information is stored on centralized servers, which creates a risk of information loss or leakage.

Dmail is carried on the Internet Computer public chain known as "Internet Computer". Permanent threshold signature) + private container" has become the main technical means for Dmail mailboxes to complete distributed storage. During the storage process, the mail will be divided into two parts. According to the user's needs, the mail header and body will be split and hashed in the entire distributed platform. The verified sender and receiver can decrypt and read through Token. Through distributed storage technology, email information is stored in the entire network, ensuring information security and never being lost.

About Web3.0

Rhythm BlockBeats: Recently, Web3.0 seems to have become a key word again, but it has been discussed for several years and has not been used on a large scale. .0 How long before mass adoption?

Lucas: It may take a very long time for a concept to be commercially implemented, usually 10 years. There may be several peaks and troughs along the way. Just like the Metaverse, which has been very popular recently, it was not recently proposed. Facebook (now renamed Meta) began to lay out the VR industry about 7-8 years ago. And when I recently read an article about Metaverse written by an investor, I mentioned that someone once asked him, “You said before that it will take 6 years for VR glasses technology to mature, what if the technology is not yet mature after 6 years? "His answer was, "Wait another 6 years!" The same is true for Web3.0. None of us has the ability to predict when it will break out, but what we can do is to work towards the determined direction.

Another key issue, the outbreak of all industries is actually ecological construction. Web3.0 is currently a concept, but it needs further development of technology, injection of capital, and development of various projects. Just like many people did not expect DeFi to rise in 2020. We studied the DeFi ecology in October 2019. At that time, the development of Uniswap and Compound was still small, but suddenly they became behemoths due to an opportunity. This is the development of an industry. Your basic ecological structure needs to emerge first, and then an opportunity will start to grow vigorously.

Our Dmail is currently doing the same, laying a solid foundation for the emergence of the ecology, and waiting for the real time to come.

Rhythm BlockBeats: What market size will the Web3.0 field reach?

Lucas: Actually, before answering this question, we can imagine what the future market size of the Metaverse will be like? Metaverse builds a digital space where people may live together. In many people's understanding, the metaverse is a game, which is to meet people's needs for sound, light, and electricity. In fact, it is far more than that. At present, we have seen many metaverse concept projects applied to industrial design or new agricultural industries. . Its scope of application is of course not limited to the currency circle. How big do you think its imagination is?

Web3.0 and Metaverse have a large overlap in function, and the digital identity, data confirmation and economic model of Web3. adaptation. It can be said that Metaverse and Web3.0 are the basis for the development of the future digital age. Web3.0 provides the entrance and underlying infrastructure of the Internet in the digital age for the Metaverse and more emerging concepts in the future. In this way, you feel that the future How big should the market size of Web3.0 be?

Rhythm BlockBeats: Do you have any plans for Dmail in the future?

Lucas: Our demo is already online. Interested friends can go to our official website or official social media to learn more about the situation. We plan to launch it this month Our beta product. Dmail will soon launch our Bounty event, NFT auction, and account registration to carry out a series of related activities, and it is expected that the official version of the product will be launched in the first quarter of 2022.

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