Hi EPNS frens✨! A wild and wonderful April just flew by loaded with great progress in all fronts. Let’s take time to recap briefly all the happenings this month!

Following a very high intensity pace in the development front, many moving pieces are coming together quite nicely and even ahead of time 😎.

• Web Sockets for Push Nodes passed QA and benchmarking! Soon, one can establish a connection with the Push Node and can stream live feeds to your dApp and extension.
• Smart Contracts v2 design and planning is in the last stages. Lots of cool features are being added. Stay tuned for more news.
• New dApp UI released! Including a new feature — Dynamic User Journey !. The EPNS browser extension is also being re-designed and will go Live soon.
• Ideation of analytics dashboard started! Thanks to the awesome feedback received from all our collaborators.
• Improvements to internal infrastructure and task automation are ready.
• Along with Developer guides, we now have a Quick Starter Guide for users to get familiar with our Crypto front-ends.

PUSH Nodes

Lots and lots of research and brainstorming took place this month around the decentralization of the PUSH Nodes. Many POCs have been worked on to ensure an efficient and highly scalable solution, and the first draft of the architecture is in the making!

Wallet to Wallet

One of hottest items in our 2022 roadmap have been getting a ton of work. Same as with PUSH Nodes, our Dev team put big effort to make sure a solid design is built. Endless research, analysis, and design sessions allowed us to finalize the Architecture Design phase.

As you can see, May is poised to be a month full of great news in the development front. Again, we take the opportunity to invite all builders to join us in our Discord to help build the Communication Layer of the Web 3 together!

And to finalize, a call to all of you developers looking to join us! We are still hiring! Reach out to us if interested.

Collaborations 🎎

Another month where our circle of frens keep getting bigger!

• Decentraland: together with Decentraland we are bringing Push Notifications to the Metaverse!
• NewOrderDAO: stay up-to-date with every Governance proposal submitted at every stage of its lifecycle.
• TokenBrice: This channel will enable direct, fully decentralized communication between the blog and its users without relying on centralized communication media
• Cryptex Finance: receive notifications whenever the collateral ratios in their vaults fall low and whenever new governance proposals are created for voting.
• Uniswap channel: opt-in to get notified about your UNI LP positions!!

This month we also started rolling out the capability for our different collaborations to offer opting-in to receive notifications from their dApps directly!

Governance 🗳 ️& Community 🎪

This month we proudly announced that EPNS raised its Series A! We celebrated this milestone hosting the most vibing Twitter Space #W3BeChillingTogether with the coolest OGs of Web3!

Also, this month our beloved Rockstars of EPNS vol.1 Program came to an end. Is with deep gratitude that after 52 weeks of wonderful participation from our entire community it’s time to make a pause 😉.

Additionally, during April we have observed a very important interest and increase in Push Grants Proposals. A total of 6 proposals have been running with very interesting suggestions and projects. Make sure to check them out!

We are also working on implementing more ways for community to get more actively involved with EPNS.

Other cool things took place this month:

• Check out the latest episode of Rockstars of Etherum_V2 with the CEO of ChainSafe Aidan Hyman!
• Trading competition on Kucoin — Winners get rewards from a prize pool of 25,000 $PUSH tokens!!

EPNS in the news 📺

So much to share this month regarding EPNS participating in several different events and being featured in many outlets.

• Announcing our $10.1 Million Series A
• Our founder Harsh gave a talk about the native communication protocol of Web3 during the ETH Dubai Conference. Forbes India featured our co-founder Richa as talks about her journey in crypto. EPNS has been featured in the latest report by Messari Crypto
• Our co-founder Richa was a speaker during the Fireside Chat at the Coinbase event.
• Our Product Lead, Jaf joined the CryptoPlaza_es community for a live webinar exploring EPNS & Notifs, EPNS x Float Capital AMA.
• Harsh’s session on ‘Why Web3 communication matters’ at Gitcoin Schelling Point. Jaf’s session on ‘Foundation Tools for DAO Infrastructure’ at The DAOist’s #GGG22. Zaryab’s workshop on ‘Building a better & secure Web3 world’ during Revelation Hackathon by BNB Chain at IIT, Delhi.
• EPNS is a sponsor of The DAOist’s Global Governance Gathering
• Fabio’s Session on ‘How to Build Web3 Communication in your Protocol’ during ETHAmsterdam.

This month hyper-charged us with energy to continue on our mission to build the Web3 Communication Layer. Looking forward for a very exciting month and rest of the year ahead of us!

Let’s keep PUSHing! 💪🏼

The EPNS team