# Dev Notes: February 20, 2024

> Group Chats Alpha; New XIP to Protect Inboxes; ETHDenver General Store

**Published by:** [XMTP Community](https://paragraph.com/@xmtp_community/)
**Published on:** 2024-02-20
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@xmtp_community/02-20-24

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Get Ready for Group Chats!We just released group chats on the Dev Network, and we'd love your feedback on it before we ship it to production. Let's work together to build secure, private group chats, portable across apps, and protected from spam by the network. View DocumentationNew Inbox Protection on XMTPXMTP is getting a major protocol update that brings users’ allow/block preferences to the network-level. All major inboxes are adopting this standard to respect users’ preferences, and each bringing novel user experiences to enrich it.View XMTP Improvement ProposalETHDenver General Store, Powered by $USDC & XMTP We're headed out west to #ETHDenver and opening the world's first General Store, powered by $USDC & XMTP. Send "gm" to thegeneralstore.eth to pre-order now, for pick up at our booth!

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