Maskbook: Change the Web, Use Web3 Right on Top of Web2

EDCON 2020 · August 2020 · 12:12

Suji Yan presents Maskbook’s approach to bringing Web3 functions into existing social platforms rather than asking people to migrate. Demonstrations cover encrypted posts, cryptocurrency red packets and Gitcoin funding within Twitter and Facebook. He connects these integrations with easier onboarding and greater user control over data and digital assets.

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[Music] hey hello folks from ebcom this is suji tsujim from muscle team i'm very happy to join this virtual ed cam so today i'm gonna introduce and talk about how we change the web more especially how to use the web3 right on top of the web 2 through our solution time master so what is the problem of that today i think is you know it's a well-known in our crypto community but still

a problem for general public uh the user again can use they can use those platforms for free they gain those efficiency of big data and ai but they lose control of their data they can migrate freely the rules control what to read what they read and how they read they're basically manipulated by the whole big data and whole you know platform and whole current internet ecosystem um there's this is a famous screenshot from you know mark davis and congress hearing two years ago and in the last two years there's great progress in the decentralized community

but we haven't solved the problem yet we haven't really fixed today's internet of today's web 2 yet and web 3 is growing very fast and how can we solve this problems there's many many attempts of migrating to this you know migration to the new internet or to the new facebook uh this is attempt by many but and i think most of them already failed and take example of telegram it's a really cool service but even for telegram you can't take your friends and data from those existing platforms like whatsapp or facebook from we see you and it's really hard to you know

to come to persuade your gym probably to change or migrate from one platform to another one there's also attempt to build a completely parallel internet like those deep wipe or dark web using the onion network and those attempts are truly secure services but they're either too geeky for for people to use or they're condemned by mainstream media you can't expect we can teach our grammar or you know friends who don't really understand technology to use the tor network it's really hard to teach them how to stay cm wallet as well um in the past one one year two years

there's several attempts to make the website much more easier to use but it didn't solve the problem of okay how to let people from what to move to the web street is that really possible to let people using facebook to to use you know those grocery service like ethereum and eventually the question is okay how do you view the relationship of the the web to huge monopoly platforms and one three in our opinion from the very beginning of our project and our team we build those platforms as an infrastructure the facebook is or argos filter platform is the huge

data factory or you know digital asset factory if it's factory why can't we do something inside what can we do something within we don't really need to run away right that's probably the best way so here i'm gonna show um to you guys how much will work and what is massbook uh this video the resolution of this is kind of low but you can understand yeah just like you usually do click the tweet button and text what you want to encrypt write what you want to post without letting the platform know you can also select specific recipients below mac's book will automatically encrypt the text

click tweet to post your encrypted text you can also use the image payload to encrypt the text here is the comparison before and after using math book so basically the very first functionality we build on top of facebook twitter is uh you know the mastery is a it's a broad extension or compatible mobile solution that able to help you or enable the user to send encrypted posts or encrypted images or uh you know encrypt them into gibberish or gif or any kind of uh

any kind of form that can ha can those can contain those included information it's nothing uh special uh even compared to the old-fashioned pdp and it's really cool but it's not really you know onboarding user two or three it's giving them some you know uh crypto cryptographic um you know uh power or decentralized identity but what if we can we can extend the whole whole functionality and you know and extend or bring the whole three into the facebook and when the user using the maximum not only for the encryption decryption they also can send cryptocurrency they can also send nft

or anything into a three on top of the facebook groups through our small middle middleware and that's what we did in in the next step so here is how i send a stablecoin direct pocket using this syrian smart contract uh we wait like you know two three seconds and the one acquitted contract and then boom you know we encrypt or kind of come um the metadata of those content on on on facebook and on twitter make it into generation boom you have the red pocket like that right and when you want to receive that

if you're in store or you want to clean the red pocket if you start the clap extension already you just do a simple click uh and all those javascript or those you know using user interface are rendered through a decentralized layer there's no centralized service in our platform right now uh so that's really cool right and we're really happy to have you know a supporter from ecm co-founder vitalik and the stablecoin diet provider creator major dao it's really happy to have them to help us to to have this campaign

during the chinese new year this february to celebrate the chinese new year and another very interesting thing we notice is uh it's quite a small campaign we didn't really spend a lot of money for rap pocket but um do for for the february this year maker only have 50k um holders right now we can only have 70k holders it's a great girls uh you know you have 20k new holders um but besides the d5 the red pocket actually created three thousand transaction in a three-day um period that's really cool

and we also you know attract around 50 hundreds new users for uh from those twitter klls audience to the web 3. it's really simple that you don't need to tell the users or the on the website you tell the users okay you know there's a recruiting message just encrypted cryptocurrency once you installed the planning you went out more in the new world and we want to keep uh polishing the user experience and making it much more easier and the next thing we we do uh the next thing we do we did after the makerbot campaign is okay we already sent some cryptocurrency on top of the twitter and facebook

and how about listening some program like that and bitcoin is a very famous um community driven platform for you know hackers developers and you know ecm community and other decentralized communities sometimes uh the point let's still go back to the bitcoin so sometimes you know it's really hard for the general public or the non-winter user to learn to the uc series etc etc however let's just use the git coin on top of twitter and facebook to found directly through a simple you know click on the founders grand button

and eventually it will be like uh the history of 90s the the the relationship between the microsoft operating system windows and the the future uh entry point for or internet the broader in the 90s or of the other competitors of microsoft want to build yet another os to be tapped microsoft but nesting navigator they did build a broader within os and eventually uh after introducing javascript to developer websites so the broader become more like a number system the the value of the windows operating system is kind of diluted and general users have a way to to enjoy

the new world enjoy the new uh the web the internet so what we're doing is uh what we're doing at macbook is eventually bridge the web 2 and network 2 o2 and os 3 and create a huge unit create a way to let people use well 3 right on top of web 2 and we are alliance of 4 web 3 projects because eventually we are helping them to gain value from the web 2 layer to dilute value from those monopolies that's also what we can what we learned from the radical market the radical exchange foundation and this approach you know in my opinion

and our team's opinion is most efficient uh much more faster and will generate the largest amount of encrypted data to that asset from the from the general public state survey so eventually what would it be like it'll be like a data union a dao or something on top of we we don't know yet but i guess that's very interesting to experiment and that's very interesting way to gain the uh to have or the users from what two today to use web3 right on top of facebook and twitter uh not only about sending cryptocurrency but actually enjoying the world of decentralized staffs enjoying the award of already fancy

web3 free of internet free of money so if you want more information please join us on telegram or find me on mustang which is federated network social network or family on twitter uh we're happy to help and we're happy to learn from from all other other projects and how we can help them to onboard more web to traditional web users how to make web 2 users use for 3 right in their daily right on top of those giants thank you you