Blockchain
Push Protocol, a decentralized communication community beforehand generally known as Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS), has launched on Polygon’s PoS chain.
The community is designed to allow cross-chain notifications and messaging for dapps, wallets and providers. Customers can join the protocol’s app to their wallets and set notifications primarily based on occasions occurring on-chain.
Its providers are at present being utilized by distinguished DeFi protocols on the Ethereum community together with MakerDAO, Uniswap and Aave.
Push Protocol’s latest rebrand indicators its choice to maneuver right into a multichain world, in line with Harsh Rajat, CEO and co-founder of the protocol.
“The launch of Push on Polygon is the primary of many blockchains our platform will in the end increase to, bringing an opt-in, native, censorship-resistant choice to Web3 customers in all places,” Rajat mentioned.
The corporate has near 60,000 subscribers because it first launched on Ethereum mainnet in early 2022 and has facilitated over 17 million notifications throughout 100 channels, he mentioned.
Push raised a $10.1 million token spherical in April this yr led by Bounce Capital, with participation from Tiger World and different distinguished enterprise capitalists.
Saurabh Sharma, head of investments at Bounce Capital, mentioned in a press release that Push Protocol’s choice to launch on Polygon would ease the Web3 ecosystem’s reliance on Web2 notification methods.
“Making communication native to the Web3 ecosystem and severing reliance on Web2-powered notifications means crypto customers will profit from improved UX [user experience], which in flip will drive adoption and use of Web3 tech,” he mentioned.
Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon, mentioned the Push community provides “much-needed performance to the Web3 ecosystem.”