Status, an Ethereum Private Messenger Goes Waku on Telegram - Cointelegraph
Startup Status raised $100 M in its 2017 initial coin offering on the premise of building a private messenger based on the Whisper protocol that allows Ethereum DApps to communicate. When we were doing our ICO, we believed that the Ethereum Foundation was going to keep working on Whisper to improve scalability; however, Ethereum had to focus on other issues”, Corey Petty, Status’ head of security, shared with Cointelegraph.
Going Waku Status has been working on the fork of the Whisper protocol for a couple of years to solve some of the scalability issues. But for Status to compete with mainstream giants such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal the company is simultaneously working on another modular peer-to-peer messaging stack from the ground up.