What’s a decentralized mobile dApp?
By: Secretum App
Tags: Messaging, Blockchain, Trading

The blockchain is fast gaining grounds across many sectors and the mobile application industry is not an exemption. Surviving through the decade, mobile apps used to belong to organizations which take a holistic control over important features like privacy and data security. With a rise in evident disadvantages of these primitive types of mobile applications, there seems to be a need for an alternative which dedicates more control to the users than the parent organizations.

Then came the blockchain, therefore, with an all-impressive possibility of public governance and utmost privacy. As the blockchain ecosystem grew larger and became more important to our daily lives, mobile apps crept their way into a new system — one which is totally decentralized and leaves no room for synonymousness of users.

Decentralized applications (Dapps) are the types of mobile applications that exist on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network of computers, such as a blockchain, in the stead of having a single hosting server. They are usually built to function like conventional apps, but without being controlled by a central authority.

Within the blockchain space, decentralized applications are more commonly known as Dapps. And, many of them usually work with a native cryptocurrency. This cryptocurrency, also known as tokens, may be used to facilitate platform features like gaming, governance, trading, staking, as well as interest earning. Using a compatible Wallet together with the Web3 Browser allows users access to use these dapps while keeping control of their tokens.

What Are The Benefits Of Using DApps?

Censorship Resistance : Decentralized mobile applications are censorship resistant. With no single entity of control, it becomes very difficult however, for any individual or government to control or restrict access to the dapp.

Blockchain Privacy : Dapps with unique features like Secretum offer top privacy by employing the blockchain technology and decentralisation feature. Secretum provides a truly decentralised app (DApp) ecosystem that is being built to facilitate a completely anonymous trader’s profile.

The Secretum DApp serves to address the loopholes on many primitive types of mobile applications, and other similar DApps, while retaining the most important features altogether.

End-to-end Encryption : In terms of messaging features, DApps facilitates a truly end-to-end encryption. There is therefore no single managing body of the application. User data is not routed through data centres, but through nodes. Although, there can be an arbitrary number of nodes in the network, it is nearly impossible to ban this application or filter it through a certain regulatory body.

Existing on a P2P network of computers, DApps don’t rely on a single point of failure like a hosting server. There is no possibility of downtime or any other types of restrictions. A typical DApp is an open source system, it encourages faster and more secure development of the ecosystem.

This fit is achieved by employing the top security of both monetary value and that of privacy that the blockchain provides. The Solana blockchain for instance, upon which DApps like Secretum is built, will add highly important features of speed and ease of use. This enables every user to feel satisfied while using an entirely open-sourced platform requiring no data submission for use. There is therefore no possibility of a data leak or of similar concerns.

How Does Decentralized Messaging Work?

DApps are designed to offer decentralized messaging and this works by subjecting user conversations to end-to-end encryption first. These are then routed securely through a number of verified nodes before finally arriving at the receiver end.

As for Secretum, its messaging functionality is built upon a network of independently verified nodes and a token (SER) to ensure that messages are truly encrypted. This also works to facilitate optimum file security, while node verifiers are rewarded for their contributions in expanding the ecosystem. Direct communication between P2P traders too are encrypted in this way. By requiring only a crypto wallet address to sign up, total user privacy and anonymity is permanently guaranteed.

There is a very clear distinction between the usual messaging apps and the newly evolved niche of DApps. In Comparison to decentralized counterparts, traditional centralized messaging apps send your message to data centres which analyze it for data mining. And eventually, the data is sent to the receiving body.

On decentralized messaging apps like Secretum however, messages are truly encrypted. The messaging app doesn’t validate users by their sensitive data like names and email addresses, and there is no single point of identity other than just a public wallet address for every user.