The Quest to Decentralized Communication and Social Contracts.

You could say that the very first Universal ID was an individual’s home address. A home address had a unique property, a universally identifiable global location, lat and long demarcated by street name and number, which allowed us to “communicate” with each other via mail. Sure your packages got lost/stolen during transit from time to time, and yes, maybe someone else saw the contents (mom! dad!), but it was a decent start for your identity.

Then, with the invention of the telephone in 1876, your phone number became your new universal address. Landlines made communication almost instant and a bit communal. I am old enough to remember saying things like, “moommmm get off the phone, it’s for me!!”...

The arrival of cell phones was probably the first time we ever had a personalized Universal ID by mobilizing and individualizing the communication. This device created a direct line between your identity and the rest of the world. If someone needed to talk to you, they just dialed your number …... not your home, not your office but your own, personal seven digits.

The rise of web/mobile apps introduced quite a few more Universal IDs. Emails, IP addresses, Bank accounts, Face IDs, fingerprints, credit cards, domain names, and social accounts allowed you to connect other apps/websites as a single sign-on solution.

The convenience of governments taking care of the real estate ownership, paperwork, banks holding your wealth, companies giving you phone numbers, emails, and your phone keeping all your accounts safe and sound with just a scan of your face or your fingerprint came at a cost, namely ownership of your identity.

In this state of affairs, our identity and data belong to employers, landlords, companies, governments (or primarily to your smartphone). And they can erase your identity and your wealth just as quickly as they created it.

To us, the most mind-blowing aspect of a crypto wallet is that you can create one by just “simply” picking 24 words—nothing else. No one else needs to hear it; you don’t need to be online; you don’t need to register it to a central authority or pass a gatekeeper. It can never see the light of day, but it is uniquely yours.

To give more concrete examples, imagine being able to:

• Create a bank account/Identity by simply writing down 24 words on a piece of paper and running these words through an algorithm. Every time you run these 24 words through this algorithm, you will get the same Universal ID (+ its private key) to send and receive money.

• Keep your bank account/identity and its reputation safe in thousands of decentralized nodes worldwide. Not a single central authority can fudge with it.

• Use your decentralized identity to sign in to any website or app, just like Facebook Connect, Apple, and Google accounts did. (🤯 Imagine a Facebook Connect not owned by Facebook.)

• Sign contracts, vote, buy, exchange assets, as well as prove your ownership on practically anything without the need of a central authority.

What if this identity could also receive a message, just like your home address can receive mail, or your phone number can receive a call text. Finally, a decentralized Universal Identity, created by you, owned by you, controlled by you, and now can communicate with other identities.

This is why we are going all in building g.host, a multi-chain, wallet-to-wallet messaging app that wants to go beyond negotiating for NFTs and eventually allow you to own much of your social life online.

We will start with normalizing the space with a fun-to-use consumer app.

We want to give you a platform where not only you can chat, but soon enough can turn conversations like these into actionable on-chain contracts;

• Yo, you owe me $10 from last night.

• I vote for having a new office in NYC for our company...

• Want to sell me your APE for 10E? 😭

• If you decide to come to SF tomorrow, I will send you an Uber...

• Here is your rental agreement; please sign and return it to this address.

• I bet $50 that the USA will win the World Cup tonight.

Spoken, written, social contracts are constructs we use every day. Our integrity and reputation are quantified by following up on many of these social contracts. Social contracts are how we make life fun, competitive, complex or transactional.

We believe we are at an inflection point. Decentralized Universal IDs are here, and they need a communication line, a string between the cups. We want to connect every Wallet, cross-chain using our wallet-2-wallet messaging app g.host so one day we can genuinely translate our words into actionable social contracts.

Cheers,

G.host

The Quest to Decentralized Communication and Social Contracts.

You could say that the very first Universal ID was an individual’s home address. A home address had a unique property, a universally identifiable global location, lat and long demarcated by street name and number, which allowed us to “communicate” with each other via mail. Sure your packages got lost/stolen during transit from time to time, and yes, maybe someone else saw the contents (mom! dad!), but it was a decent start for your identity.

Then, with the invention of the telephone in 1876, your phone number became your new universal address. Landlines made communication almost instant and a bit communal. I am old enough to remember saying things like, “moommmm get off the phone, it’s for me!!”...

The arrival of cell phones was probably the first time we ever had a personalized Universal ID by mobilizing and individualizing the communication. This device created a direct line between your identity and the rest of the world. If someone needed to talk to you, they just dialed your number …... not your home, not your office but your own, personal seven digits.

The rise of web/mobile apps introduced quite a few more Universal IDs. Emails, IP addresses, Bank accounts, Face IDs, fingerprints, credit cards, domain names, and social accounts allowed you to connect other apps/websites as a single sign-on solution.

The convenience of governments taking care of the real estate ownership, paperwork, banks holding your wealth, companies giving you phone numbers, emails, and your phone keeping all your accounts safe and sound with just a scan of your face or your fingerprint came at a cost, namely ownership of your identity.

In this state of affairs, our identity and data belong to employers, landlords, companies, governments (or primarily to your smartphone). And they can erase your identity and your wealth just as quickly as they created it.

To us, the most mind-blowing aspect of a crypto wallet is that you can create one by just “simply” picking 24 words—nothing else. No one else needs to hear it; you don’t need to be online; you don’t need to register it to a central authority or pass a gatekeeper. It can never see the light of day, but it is uniquely yours.

To give more concrete examples, imagine being able to:

• Create a bank account/Identity by simply writing down 24 words on a piece of paper and running these words through an algorithm. Every time you run these 24 words through this algorithm, you will get the same Universal ID (+ its private key) to send and receive money.

• Keep your bank account/identity and its reputation safe in thousands of decentralized nodes worldwide. Not a single central authority can fudge with it.

• Use your decentralized identity to sign in to any website or app, just like Facebook Connect, Apple, and Google accounts did. (🤯 Imagine a Facebook Connect not owned by Facebook.)

• Sign contracts, vote, buy, exchange assets, as well as prove your ownership on practically anything without the need of a central authority.

What if this identity could also receive a message, just like your home address can receive mail, or your phone number can receive a call text. Finally, a decentralized Universal Identity, created by you, owned by you, controlled by you, and now can communicate with other identities.

This is why we are going all in building g.host, a multi-chain, wallet-to-wallet messaging app that wants to go beyond negotiating for NFTs and eventually allow you to own much of your social life online.

We will start with normalizing the space with a fun-to-use consumer app.

We want to give you a platform where not only you can chat, but soon enough can turn conversations like these into actionable on-chain contracts;

• Yo, you owe me $10 from last night.

• I vote for having a new office in NYC for our company...

• Want to sell me your APE for 10E? 😭

• If you decide to come to SF tomorrow, I will send you an Uber...

• Here is your rental agreement; please sign and return it to this address.

• I bet $50 that the USA will win the World Cup tonight.

Spoken, written, social contracts are constructs we use every day. Our integrity and reputation are quantified by following up on many of these social contracts. Social contracts are how we make life fun, competitive, complex or transactional.

We believe we are at an inflection point. Decentralized Universal IDs are here, and they need a communication line, a string between the cups. We want to connect every Wallet, cross-chain using our wallet-2-wallet messaging app g.host so one day we can genuinely translate our words into actionable social contracts.

Cheers,

G.host