Germ Wins a Cypherpunk Fellowship from Protocol Labs for Our Open-Source Contributions to MLS
Company, Announcements, Engineering Tessa Brown Company, Announcements, Engineering Tessa Brown

Germ Wins a Cypherpunk Fellowship from Protocol Labs for Our Open-Source Contributions to MLS

We’re excited to share that Germ was awarded a Cypherpunk Fellowship to complete a portion of our open-source work extending the IETF end-to-end encryption standard Messaging Layer Security for decentralized systems. This fellowship capped off a fantastic three days at Cypherpunk Camp, an initiative of Protocol Labs and Web3 Privacy Now that Germ co-founders attended this fall outside Berlin.

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Integrating Germ with AT Protocol
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Integrating Germ with AT Protocol

End-to-end encrypted Germ DM is now a Bluesky messenger. In this technical post, we introduce the architecture of Germ’s integration with AT Protocol. From the beginning, Germ has been building for an interoperable E2EE ecosystem, and this extends to our integration with AT Protocol. We’ll define the goals that we set for this integration, detail our first steps toward those goals, and outline our path forward.

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Join the beta waitlist: Germ DM is integrating with your Bluesky handle!
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Join the beta waitlist: Germ DM is integrating with your Bluesky handle!

We’re Germ, the secure messaging app that puts your boundaries and your priorities first. No phone numbers, no tracking, no pressure.

We’ve been live in the iOS App Store with standardized, MLS-powered end-to-end encryption for a minute. Now, we’re bringing secure messaging to your ATProto handle—the username you use on Bluesky and across the Atmosphere in apps like Skylight, Smoke Signals, and more.

With this integration, we’re making it seamless to get where you’re trying to go—into a secure chat—the way you already know each other—as your handles.

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