# introducing hashmail By [hashmail](https://paragraph.com/@rbkayz) · 2022-10-09 --- Communication is the lifeblood of a community, project, or organization. **Yet, web3 has long struggled with the lack of it.** Users, communities, DAOs, projects - pretty much anyone in the ecosystem are forced to rely on Discord, Telegram, or Twitter. While all of these communication channels serve an important role in web3, we still struggle with two key problems: 1. These channels are designed for mass or broadcast communication. **Targeted 1-1 or sub-group communication is nearly impossible** (_DMs are just filled with bots and scams now)._ 2. It is impossible to verify sender authenticity i.e. **can you be sure that the message is truly originating from the holder of a wallet address** This fundamental lack of communication is one of the main reasons that web3 has a poor user experience today. Two simple examples: * _if you want to connect with another user (e.g. who has a NFT you wish to own or have common interests, like a DAO),_ **_there is no mechanism for you to communicate directly with their public address_** * Or, when you connect your wallet to **a dapp, the dapp cannot communicate important information**, incl. transaction notifications, critical alerts, new updates, support, etc. ![root cause of a lack of communication in web3](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/cae9057f5016e2200da0e1dc0f73abc54ecdc1699b0db4a01fbcfad43a8c9311.png) root cause of a lack of communication in web3 a solution - introducing #hashmail ---------------------------------- hashmail is **your personal web3 mailbox.** Sign-up to hashmail at [https://hashmail.dev](https://hashmail.dev) With hashmail, you can **send and receive mails, simply with your wallet address**, in a secure, trusted, and private manner. Now you can directly engage with users and dapps, without having to provide a web2 identitiy like your email address, or phone number But hashmail is not just taking email (i.e. SMTP) and applying your address on it. **We aimed to take the power and flexibility of email**, and customize it natively for web3. Our roadmap and incentive model below highlights this in more detail Our goal is to make **web3 friendly and accessible to the next billion users**. And we think a simple, stylish, secure & private communication channel is critical to that goal. If this mission resonates with you, join our community and help build hashmail :) A brief note on our product roadmap. ------------------------------------ _More details coming soon in another post._ _Please_ _subscribe to receive updates. Oh, and we also send this to everyone on #hashmail_ [Subscribe](null) * **Supports multiple forms of identies -** web3 has wallet addresses, .eth, .lens, .sol, and many other identities. You can now send messages to any of them. _hashmail supports .eth and .lens today. More coming soon in Q4 2022_ * **Multi-chain & multi-wallet (coming Q4) -** hashmail supports more than 170 wallets in the Ethereum ecosystem today. _Solana and Binance support coming in Q4 2022. Other chains coming in Q1 2023_ * **Secure and private comms -** unlike gmail, your emails are encrypted with AES-256 encryption. So nobody can read them but you. * **dApp console -** So dapps can send important communications directly to you, instead of broadcasting on discord (like transaction confirmations, failures, updates, etc.) - Reach out to us to partner * **Decentralized storage -** Your emails are privately stored in decentralized storage. So your emails are accessible to you, even if hashmail no longer exists - _coming Q1 2023_ * **Calendar, Chat, Video, and lots more** _\- coming soon in Q1 2023 and beyond_ But wait, there’s more - **ever heard of getting rewarded, simply for receiving emails?** the hashmail incentive model ---------------------------- At the core of it, the hashmail protocol has an economic model we call **engage-to-earn** Like any social application in web2 today, applications pay to programmatically access and communicate with users (think email, whatsapp, twitter, etc.) But the **entire fee paid is captured exclusively by the platform.** hashmail upends that model by rewarding you (the user) for the value provided in engaging with the communication. So a portion of any fees paid by an application to send a communication is sent to the you (the user). **Thereby literally paying you to read emails :)** We have lots more exciting rewards for our early community members * Referral rewards on inviting friends * Airdrops for early users * Bug bounties * dapp referral incentives * _and more…_ There’s a strong case for a utility token native to hashmail. But we haven’t decided on whether it should be a standalone token, or simply a stablecoin. **Join our community to discuss and give us your perspective** Connect your wallet on hashmail - [https://hashmail.dev](https://hashmail.dev) Follow us on twitter - [@0x\_hashmail](https://twitter.com/0x_hashmail) Join our discord - [#hashmail](https://discord.gg/XEBe6frHVP) --- *Originally published on [hashmail](https://paragraph.com/@rbkayz/introducing-hashmail)*