$344.60 crowdfunded from 48 people
$1,194.57 received from matching pools
Your keys — your email
Eppie: Web3 native email and identity manager
The Big Picture 🦄
Our mission is to take private data away from the servers of the the Big Tech and allow Internet users to be independent owners of their identities. We believe that decentralized trustless Web is ready to become The Web, not just a niche for crypto investments. But first, it needs some general purpose functionality. Like an email.
Here Comes Eppie 🎉
Eppie is like Crypto, but it's email.
- Open protocol
- Peer-to-peer
- Encrypted
Through the combination of decentralized architecture and asymmetric cryptogrphy it allows users full account ownership. It is simple, beautiful, easy to set up and use: confirm your seed phrase and you are all set. It is compatible with other DID standards and can send messages within Eppie’s own network or directly to any crypto wallet. The client application is also compatible with SMTP/IMAP protocols, so you can connect a Web2 email service and, if you decide so, move the data to the decentralized network.
Fun fact 👀
Eppie can use conventional email as a name service: so you send a message to Gmail address, but it never lands on the server and goes straight to the decentralized network.
The Team 🤓 😾 🥳
We are a small company based in Estonia. It is one of the best countries in Europe for Web3 project development in terms of legislation. We have been building multi-platform applications for more than 10 years. Our previously released products have 20 million downloads worldwide. Among other things, our programmers are involved in development of Beam — confidential cryptocurrency and DeFi platform.
Why You Need Another Email? 📬
Your mailbox probably stores all sorts of important information — your business and social activity, financial state, health, consumer behaviour etc. You might even be using it as an identity provider to log into some crypto exchange and dosens of other services. Email is the core of your digital identity.
Yet, of 4+ billion email accounts in the world, about 0 belong to users. You log in — the server decides whether to allow you to use your identity or not. This is a privacy violation by design. Identity naturally belongs to human, it should not be a service.
How Does It Work? ⚙️
Eppie has no servers. It works through a peer-to-peer network, where every devise is a client. The application encrypts the data, breaks it to pieces and stores them on random nodes of the network — the other client machines. The address is also a public key. Only the user can retrieve the data using their matching private key. No one else has access to it, including us, the developers.
And no one has the authority to allow or disallow a user into their account. The decision is made on your machine, locally. Whoever owns the key, owns the mailbox.
Demo 📺
How We Use The Money? 💰
- Complete core product development for Public Beta
- Complete UX/UI design
- Build 100K community
- Conduct independent security audit
Roadmap 🚧
Open Beta
- Windows app
- Decentralized account creation
- Decentralized messaging
- Decentralized backup support
- E2E encryption
- Traditional email support
Release
- MacOS & Linux
- Open source the protocol
- Web3 name services support
- Sending emails to Bitcoin and NFT addresses
- Attachments of any size
- Custom domains
Join us 🤝
Eppie: Web3 native email and identity manager History
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accepted into Web3 Social 1 year ago. 33 people contributed $295 to the project, and $1,186 of match funding was provided.
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accepted into Web3 Open Source Software Round 1 year ago. 15 people contributed $50 to the project, and $9 of match funding was provided.
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