Decentralized Communication Platform Satellite IM Completes $10.5 Million Seed Funding Led By Multicoin Venture Fund, Framework Ventures
Summary
Satellite IM is built as an EVM-compatible evolving protocol for simple sovereign storage and peer-to-peer communication, leveraging the interplanetary filesystem (IPFS). The platform allows users to sign, encrypt, broadcast, search, and store documents or messages with decentralized identifiers (DIDs), all while making the need for an existing wallet or on-chain data completely optional.Satellite IM has architected its platform in a developer friendly modular framework that enables users to build easily on top of the open-source platform, integrating multiple layer one blockchains.Distributed network technology enables a new era in high fidelity audio and video experience, said Matthew Wisniewski, Co-Founder and CEO of Satellite IM. Satellite is going to serve crypto communities by offering best in class crypto-native features, along a credibly-neutral, decentralized back end, said Kyle Samani, Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital.We are excited to see Satellite pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the social crypto space, said Vance Spencer, Co-Founder of Framework Ventures. Weve been waiting for someone to build decentralized discord for a long time, and we think Satellite will be able to do it.Satellite IMs initial early access launch on its core desktop protocol is scheduled for Summer of 2022, with a mobile native application launching in the Fall of 2022.Satellite IM is a fully decentralized peer-to-peer voice, video, and text communication platform. Satellite IM enables simple sovereign storage and peer-to-peer communication, leveraging the interplanetary filesystem (IPFS) and dag-jose.