openchat

In a co-working space in Singapore, three Oxford and Cambridge elites are sitting together with a whiteboard and some coffee.
The whiteboard says: Let's build a chat app.
If Zuckerberg heard this, he’d probably put down his flip-flops and say - I thought of that back in my Harvard dorm in 2004, and I made it happen. Now I wear the same T-shirt to work every day because choosing clothes is a waste of time.
But Matt Grogan isn't Zuckerberg.
Matt has been working with Dominic Williams since the 90s - yeah, the same guy who founded DFINITY and brought us ICP. Back then, they were involved in different projects, and nobody knew that twenty years later, one would be building a public blockchain while the other would create a WeChat on that blockchain.

If you're still complaining about your boss to your best friend on WhatsApp, or forwarding those "you know what I mean" private links on Telegram, I must remind you: in the traditional internet world, your so-called "privacy" is actually like a layer of transparent cling film - it looks sealed, but anyone can see right through it.
Big companies talk about "end-to-end encryption" but behind the scenes are busy feeding your chat data to their own AI algorithms, so that when you're scrolling through your social circle, you precisely see that advertisement for "hair growth shampoo" that you just talked about in the group. If you're fed up with this fear of being spied on by algorithms, monitored by your boss, and ruled by server outages, then it's time to talk about OpenChat.