Privacy has been one of the most important aspects of the early crypto industry, and it was among the things that attracted people the most towards blockchain technology. These days, there seems to be less and less of it, and while this might be necessary in finance in order to prevent criminal activity, privacy in communication is still something that people have a right to.

Unfortunately, centralized messengers and chat apps are incapable of providing it, which is why people have turned to blockchain for a solution, and one team created the Jupiter Project, and its brand new Metis Messenger.

What is the Jupiter Project?

The Jupiter Project is an established project that aims to make blockchain more accessible. More than that, it wishes to use blockchain’s unique features to improve the quality and privacy of online communication by making sure that user data is private and secure.

The project was founded by Steven Grove, who said that his goal was ‘to create an affordable application layer to scaffold data storage from blockchain-enabled apps to easily store, replicate, and encrypt the stored data.’

For this purpose, on June 21st, the project released its own messenger to the Apple App Store. The app is known as Metis Messenger, and it emerges as a next-gen communications application that can sync across all platforms while still guaranteeing the users’ privacy and security.

What is there to Know About Metis Messenger?

Metis is a fully encrypted group messenger developed by the Jupiter Project, and it operates in a rather unique way. It uses accounts for channels, and builds each user their channel list, stored within their account. Doing this allows for account portability across any Metis instance — and all of it is possible with no advertising, AI listening in, or data mining. It just does what users need it to do, and that’s it.

Metis comes as a massive improvement over other social chat apps, and especially when it comes to centralized ones, that store all of personal and sensible data that users might make a mistake of sharing.

It answers the question of what if Facebook Messenger or Telegram were 100% private, decentralized, and fully encrypted. The app has potential to someday replace all of these messengers that people are forced to rely on today, and through Metis, the company can provide users with a fully secure and decentralized chatting service.

Benefits of Metis

Metis has a number of unique benefits, including the fact that every message is encrypted, and only visible to the group participants. Next, the process of sending and storing messages is completely executed through the use of Jupiter (JUP) tokens. The messenger doesn’t require users to use email or phone number to register, there is no location sharing, advertising, or data mining. New members of any group can only be invited by the group’s creator, and users’ profiles serve as their digital IDs.

In short, the app and the Jupiter Project allow users to take control of their own data, remain fully anonymous while chatting via their secure network, and make sure that their privacy remains in their hands.

Registering for the account is also very simple. All that users need to do is go to the Metis Messenger, download it, and hit ‘Sign Up.’ After that, they should write the recovery passphase and save it somewhere safe. Next, users need to create a unique alias, as well as a private encryption password. That is all it takes. After that, they can complete registration, wait for 25-30 seconds (the amount of time needed to process 1 block), and after that, they are free to log in and start using the app.