Hi, guys
Wanted to share our progress.
1. We have created an MVP of our messenger Nolik (is for No Leak). You can find it at nolik.im
2. We’ve also posted an article at medium (https://link.medium.com/lLvNg6TzBX) with the high-level description of why it is (truly) secure and a step-by-step guide of getting started with Nolik
3. We’ve uploaded the code to our Github account. You can find it at github.com/chainify/nolik (frontend) and github.com/chainify/engine (backend)
4. We have updated our website and described on a high level how CDM protocol works
5. Currently, we are working on a White Paper and will share it shortly

We will be attending Waves meetup at St.Petersburg this wednesday!
https://www.meetup.com/ru-RU/Waves-Blockchain-Community-StPetersburg/events/262835360

Hi, guys
Current progress:
1. Significantly updated Nolik messenger
2. Created a complete guide on CDM protocol and deploying of personal Nolik. https://github.com/chainify/nolik
3. Ready to beta test new version of Nolik, please PM to get on board for private beta-testing

We keep experimenting with formats of communication based on Nolik technologies. Check this out:
https://nolik.im/pk/FQMvEDHwYSLxjbcwtUZnTeSJ1bdLT9x6fBLoV1BgvYD5

This is a one-time chat for secure communications. This is the same Nolik, with the same level of security, but without Waves Keeper extention. In fact that is the fastest way to send secure messages to anyone because no application installation or registraion needed.

Just a fun fact. Yandex translated a word "Trustless" as "Bitcoin". It seems that there is no broad usage of this word outside crypto area.

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Nolik graduates to the next version.
The last update contains:
1. Complete redesign (works on mobile too)
2. Waves Keeper is not required anymore
3. Contacts management
4. Group chats (add members to existing chats)
5. Focus mode (chat without distraction)
6. Easy sharing of your public link
7. Explorer with cryptographic proofs

Nolik is available at nolik.im

Initially, Nolik was designed as a multi-account platform. I'm happy to share that this option is already available in the latest release.

Now with user's online status

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7UdnAdTH4g

The draft budget of the city of Moscow for 2020 envisages an increase in the cost of installing cameras with facial recognition system by 14 times

Nolik has just upgraded to 0.8 version of CDM protocol but there are some issues with messages of 0.7 version. Working to solve this problem as fast as possible.

Nolik has been public for several months. During that period it was tested by more than a hundred people. It turned out, that Nolik's userbase is not growing, and retention rate is near zero. It means that, at least in this iteration, Nolik does not sovle any problems or cover any need. It is critical for a startup to stop doing things that don't work, and focus on the things that work. That is why, soon the public version of Nolik will be switched to Demo-mode and will have several restrictions.

The import/export of a seed phrase will be limited, also users won't be able to send messages to each other. The switch will be made in late December, so please make sure to backup your secret phrase if needed. You can also follow the instructions at chainify github page to deploy your own private environment and have access to all your messages even on your local machine.

Thank you all, guys, so much for your help and support. I will share the ideas on product development later on.

They say that good products start at the right time. Three years ago we started working on Nolik, but back then it didn't work out. Since then the protocol became much more mature, and Nolik was recreated several times. Today I'm happy to announce that about a month ago Chainify got a grant from Web3 Foundation to build Nolik on top of the Substrate framework. Yesterday the first milestone was achieved and committed for review. It turned out that Substrate is a very powerful framework and Nolik was embedded in it as a FRAME pallet. It means that any Substrate based chain will be able to use it and allow users to communicate without any censorship or third-party control. The links with the description of the protocol and milestone deliverables are attached to the message. I think it's a great time to give Nolik another try.

Join the discussion in our group:
https://t.me/chainify_talks

Web3 Foundation Grant Application:
https://github.com/w3f/Grants-Program/blob/master/applications/Nolik.md

Grant Milestone #1 Deliverables Pull Request:
https://github.com/w3f/Grant-Milestone-Delivery/pull/357/files

W3F Grant Milestone #1 is accepted )

During the last nine months we've been working on a PoC of our decentralised messaging protocol. I'm happy to announce that the last W3F grant milestone was successfully accepted! We described the protocol idea and the achieved results in this article: https://medium.com/@amrbz/decentralising-messaging-f4cc73d4d9b7

It took about five years of research in secure decentralized messaging to understand that none of modern blockchains are suitable for this task. There are designed to send money, not data like text or random set of bytes. I’m starting from scratch again. This time building own blockchain engine.

The key concepts are covered at www.nolik.org

You can buy one of the beautiful bitcoin addresses to support the research which I’ve recently generated. The list of available addresses is available here:

https://t.me/+S-p6hDGK_okwYzhi