Status Weekly Roundup: Desktop Messenger team. We've finished development of single channel encryption.

01 Aug 2023, 15:57

Status Weekly Roundup: Desktop Messenger team 🔏 We’ve finished development of single channel encryption. This means that when you create a ‘read-only’ or a ‘read and post’ permission for a specific channel, only those with the tokens you’ve specified in the permission will be able to decrypt the messages posted in that channel! This also means that in an ‘Open Status Community’ (a community that anyone can join without needing to hold any token), individual channels can be selectively encrypted when channel token-gating permissions are applied. Previously, the whole community had to be encrypted, which prevented users that haven't yet joined a community from browsing fully open and unrestricted public channels. Now prospective community members can browse open areas of a community to see if the community is one they want to join, before they apply to join. 🧑‍💻 The smart contracts for the TokenMaster and CommunityOwner tokens have been completed! We are continuing the integration of these contracts, so that users will be able to deploy these contracts and airdrop the associated tokens directly from the Desktop app in just a few clicks. Like all of Status Desktop’s token interactions, the UI for performing these actions is designed to be used by everybody, including non-technical users who have little prior experience of interacting with a blockchain. 🔗 We’ve been busy integrating the awesome Link Preview API that our colleagues in the Mobile team implemented. This new system improves both the privacy AND user experience of link previews by enabling the recipient of the link preview to see the preview image and copy without leaking their IP address to the URL being previewed. This means you won’t have to leave Link Previews switched off if you are concerned about leaking your IP address. Link Previews can now be enabled by default! 🙂 #EthStatusProgress