SimpleX Chat has grown to ~480,000 users! It has been growing more than 2x every year over the last 3 years. Now you can get a stake in SimpleX Chat and benefit from the company growth. If you invest $500 or more, we offer a SimpleX public name for your channel or business as a perk: - for 10 years if you invest until 17:00 UTC tomorrow (countdown on Wefunder page) - for 5 years for early bird investors - for 3 years after that. Learn about how we plan to make SimpleX Chat profitable and about all investment terms on Wefunder: https://wefunder.com/simplexchat How do we know how many users SimpleX has, without having user IDs? App Store and Play Store provide actual usage statistics – monthly active users and daily active users. It is ~72% of the total. The rest we estimate based on GitHub and F-Droid downloads.

SimpleX Chat crowdfunding is live! We are building the first messaging network that can't identify you – a decentralized, open-source network where only you decide who can connect to you and which servers to use, and nobody can know who you talk to. Yesterday SimpleX got to 1M+ downloads on Play Store (3M+ total). Thank you! We invite you to invest in SimpleX Chat and become part of building private and secure communications for all people. If you invest $500+, you also get SimpleX public name as a perk: - for 10 years if you invest until August 15 - for 5 years for early bird investors - for 3 years after that. Read about investment terms on Wefunder: https://wefunder.com/simplexchat

Thank you. We are just pragmatic, and use what works best for the end users. The choice of ETH chain for namespace contract is dictated by the existence of good quality ENS contract and necessary UX - even forking ENS it was quite a bit of work to wire it all up. Would you rather we'd built a custodial solution where we control the names? That seems a dead end. And so far all BTC-adjacent smart-contact networks are not really as trustless as they claim to be (happy to be corrected here) - it's just a hard problem to build a trustless chain. In some remote future SimpleX network itself could provide computation consensus without underlying financial asset, but it's still a lot of work to get there. The downside of ETH for the end users is that it restricts access and creates friction, which is why it's a test launch, and these names are temporary and free. So you can just wait until we release .simplex namespace - hopefully later this year. For .simplex namespace we plan to use ETH's account abstraction, which would allow users to have full control over the names and key custody but without using any ETH to pay for it - some entity TBC would sell the name for any form of payment (BTC/XMR/USDT/ETH/fiat) and pay for gas to record the name on-chain (ETH account abstraction has the concept of paymaster, to allow developers/service providers to pay for gas for users' transactions).

Name is simply a reference to contact address - a way to connect. Revocable by whom? They are records in blockchain contract, controlled by user key. So not revocable. What's "sessionX"? :) But in general, verification always requires some alternative channel. If say a company publishes the name on the website, then you know that this name is likely controlled by the same entity that controls the website. This is not different from domain names - how do you know they are controlled by entities that you think they are?

We are planning to support other payments for .simplex names when they launch, including in-app payments. Right now you can use any swap service, including Unstoppable swap - they even have a SimpleX Chat bot for that. So, create an account in metamask, swap say $1 worth of ETH, that should cover the fee to register 2-3 test names.

There is no way to have names nobody controls without blockchain, is there?

Yes, we should. Lots to do to make UX better!

To raise capital and to operate, we have to follow the securities laws. We provided the community the best possible opportunity to invest and to own a stake in the company, and if it doesn't work for you, it doesn't mean it won't work for other users. Wefunder democratized access to early stage investment via JOBS act that its founder campaigned for - now regular investors can invest in early stage company and have the same benefits as before crowdfunding were available only to VCs. There is no way we can offer a stake in the company in a better way than this. And there is no way a widely used communication network can be built without substantial investment.

We are launching public SimpleX names - a name nobody can take from you. You can try a test SimpleX name with your channel or business in v7-beta. Read more in the blog post: https://simplex.chat/blog/20260722-simplex-public-names.html