The Wind Behind EPNS

Recap of our journey: Our Investors, Advisors and Collaborators

Richa
Push Protocol
4 min readApr 13, 2021

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They say there is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Only a year ago, EPNS introduced a decentralized protocol for sending notifications — the missing piece of Web 3!!

Today, we’re thrilled to announce the big day is here — Launch of EPNS $PUSH 🔔 🎉 , the native governance token of the EPNS protocol. We wanted to take a moment to say Thank you for the amazing support! We ❤️ you 3000, hope you know that 🙂.

The genesis of $PUSH happened few days ago, 0xf418588522d5dd018b425E472991E52EBBeEEEEE, following our $PUSH token generation event.

Let’s do a Recap

Just a couple of weeks ago, we announced the completion of our 10x oversubscribed extended seed round, which followed our initial seed round. We raised $1.41 Million USD from the 2 rounds with support from top blockchain VC’s and Web3 angel investors. A few highlights of our journey so far.

  • We’re backed by 35+ top VCs and Web3 Angel investors including Balaji Srinivasan, True Ventures, Binance Labs, IOSG, BitScale, Bixin, Kenneth Ng (Ethereum Foundation), Sandeep Nailwal (Co-founder, Polygon), Mariano Conti, Anthony Sassano, DeFiDad, Ajit Tripathi, Scott Moore (Gitcoin Co-founder), Ravindra (Frontier Wallet), Preethi Kasireddy, Auryn Macmillan (Gnosis), Luka Sucic, TheLAO, MetaCartel VC, Fourth Revolution Capital, Moonwhale Ventures, D64 Ventures, LD Capital, BR Capital and more.
  • We are grateful for the support and guidance we’ve received from our Advisors. The EPNS Advisory Board includes: Nischal Shetty (Founder, WazirX), DefiDad (COO, Zapper.fi), Vivek Singh (Co-Founder, Gitcoin).
  • We were selected as a Top 20 Project in Gitcoin Kernel Fellowship.
  • We were selected for IDEO Colab PVD (30 best DeFi projects out of 120+).
  • We won grants from Polygon (former Matic Network) and AAVE.
  • We were a Top 5 project of Gitcoin Grants Round 7 (CLR7) with 216 contributors and over $16k in grants.

EPNS Collabs and Pilot Programs

We’re excited to collaborate with some of the most innovative teams in the space. Each new collab and pilot program introduces a practical and innovative new use case for decentralized push notifications. Recent partnerships and pilot programs include:

Uniswap — Our pilot collab with Uniswap includes building a channel for them which users can subscribe to and start receiving notifications when their transactions have been approved, warning them about gas costs, notifying them of impermanent loss, and much more.

Unstoppable Domains — We’ve working with the Unstopppable Domains team, currently integrated .crypto domains that means users can start receiving push notifications at their own personal [YourName].crypto domain name

Mask Network — Our collaboration with Mask.io enables bridging the Web2 to Web3 gap, direct-to-wallet notifications for users trading crypto without ever leaving Twitter or Facebook.

PoolTogether — In our pilot collab with PoolTogether we’ll bring push notifications to the users to notify them about the prize pools.

GnosisDAO’s SafeSnap — We’re excited to be Launch Partners of GnosisDAO’s SafeSnap!!

Superfluid — We’re exploring adding automated notification capabilities triggered by the basic functions available in the Superfluid Protocol such as: Starting, Editing and Cancelling a stream.

As we continue to build the EPNS protocol, we expect to develop many more exciting new use cases and collaborate with awesome teams at the intersection of decentralized services and push notifications to make all of our lives, through our wallets, more efficient and secure — business, personal, and social.

Stay tuned for further updates! And thanks for being part of our journey 💖

About Ethereum Push Notification Service

EPNS is a decentralized notification protocol that enables users (wallet addresses) to receive notifications. Using the protocol, any dApp, service or smart contract can send notifications to users in a platform-agnostic fashion (mobile, tablet, web, user wallets, etc).

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Disclaimer

🚨 WARNING 🚨

Beware of scammers and fake addresses

❗EPNS team members will NEVER DM you ever about anything!❗

$PUSH will not be available until the Polkastarter IDO on April 13

✅ Ensure email is from polka@epns.io. Be aware of email “spoofing” and when in doubt, be sure to check with our admins for any questions: https://t.me/epnsproject

✅ Only follow the official links for trusted information ✅

✅ Join the official EPNS channels

Website https://epns.io/

Twitter https://twitter.com/epnsproject

Telegram https://t.me/epnsproject

Telegram Announcement Channel https://t.me/epnsprojectnews

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Richa
Push Protocol

Delivering notifications at Ethereum Push Notification Service