# What is Ethereum Push Notifications Service? By [Decoding Blockchain](https://paragraph.com/@decoding-blockchain) · 2022-04-07 --- Why are Notifications Important? Imagine when someone sends you a notification on WhatsApp, how quickly you realize that you have received a text message. You go and check out their messages and respond. Even bank Credit/Debit transactions, you get notified all the time of what’s happening in your digital ID. Be it your social media applications or your gaming apps, notifications are everywhere. But all this was freely available in Web2.0 cult. But coming to the world of Web3.0, there was no such specific dApp which served real-time notifications. Wait!! No, I am not talking about how [@binance](https://twitter.com/binance) sends you notifications after transactions completion. Those are **Centralized Exchanges (CEX)** buddy 😅 **I am referring to the absence of native notifications powered by decentralized Apps.** If you regularly use DeFi apps, you must be at times surprised how you got unexpectedly liquidated. Your decentralized application simply has no feature to wake you up from your deep sleep. No alerts. Nothing !! Notifications become super important when your money is at risk 😷 OR Maybe you are an NFT enthusiast (OG Flippoooor 👀) watching out for some rare collectibles on platforms like [@opensea](https://twitter.com/opensea) or [@MagicEden](https://twitter.com/MagicEden). You want a notification as soon as the item is available on the marketplace. But what do you get? No alerts. Nothing again!! Web3 getting too silent eh? 🔔 Welcome to Ethereum Push Notification Service --------------------------------------------- ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/69beccbd367cf432331084b7c80a6d2c27faf821bd58e01b50a096fe136d4621.png) [EPNS](https://twitter.com/epnsproject) is World’s first notification service that enables sending notifications on decentralized apps across Blockchain networks. It’s a chain agnostic protocol that can easily expand into other blockchain networks and natively support their dApps. Currently they support Ethereum and have plans to extend into other blockchains soon (wen NEAR?) Very very important for all those lending/borrowing dApps on Compound and Aave. Good luck guys to launch into these chains soon in the future ❤️ How can some dApp benefit from this? ------------------------------------ If we plan to onboard next billion into Web3 ecosystem, we require two crucial components:1. Better UX2. Better Educational Content And both processes take time to evolve. Notifications can be a great way to improve **User eXperience**. How? > EPNS offers each dApp on Ethereum network to register itself as a channel on the EPNS service. dApps are required to submit minimum 50 DAI as listing fee. After listing, users of a dApp can officially subscribe to receive notifications from the dApp’s channel available on EPNS. > > There are other methods to chose upon how to receive these notifications. Once done, users will start receiving notifications on their Android/iOS/Web apps. dApps can notify: > > * All users at once > > * One user at a time > > * Group of users at a time > These notifications **can be presented both on-chain and off-chain**. In case you want the notifications on-chain, you will have to pay the **_Gas_** fee for Ethereum dApps. But no worries, their team is planning to launch soon on Polygon that will offer negligible gas in the future. Decentralized Apps can also chose to delegate some user accounts to broadcast notifications on their behalf on the channel. This process is pretty much straightforward to setup and hassle free even while removing delegators. This feature gives you the true essence of Decentralization 🦄 **And a Bonus happy cookie for You»** 🍪 > All of the notifications are \*\*incentivized \*\*💲 The listing fee submitted by dApps is staked on AAVE to generate returns which gets distributed in a fair share ratio to subscribers of the channel. > > Creating value for everyone 🔔 With the launch of $PUSH token, EPNS is rapidly expanding its governance methods and rewarding people who got early into their ecosystem. It also has a [#Rockstar](https://threadreaderapp.com/hashtag/Rockstar) NFT and Airdrop program that supports ambassadors of the network to earn an NFT and 2,400 $PUSH tokens every week. Want to know more about that? Check out below medium blog for more details 👇 [https://medium.com/ethereum-push-notification-service/kicking-off-the-epns-nft-community-drops-6a5c49808cf](https://medium.com/ethereum-push-notification-service/kicking-off-the-epns-nft-community-drops-6a5c49808cf) Interesting Usecases: --------------------- 1\. _You can create a decentralized blog where you could post content & then create a channel on EPNS for the blog. This way every time a new post is made, subscribers can be notified instantly. EPNS supports modern-age notifications packed with Links & Call-to-Action buttons._ 2\. _ENS domains on Ethereum could setup a status dApp in the future and broadcast their statuses to friends using the same 🐣_ I thoroughly enjoyed reading the Gitbook documentation of EPNS [available here](https://docs.epns.io/). In case you wanna have a deeper understanding, it’s a must read resource. I hope this article creates a better mental model and ignite curiosity for EPNS in your neurons. To be honest, I am eagerly waiting for them to launch on [#NEAR](https://threadreaderapp.com/hashtag/NEAR) in the future!! * * * In case you enjoyed reading through this article, don’t forget to share and subscribe to Decoding Blockchain newsletter 🤝🏽 I will be back soon with another interesting article on Ethereum vs Solana vs NEAR. Till then, Sayonara 👋🏼 --- *Originally published on [Decoding Blockchain](https://paragraph.com/@decoding-blockchain/what-is-ethereum-push-notifications-service)*