Mask Network | Network Mask
About this extension. Encrypt your posts & chats on You-Know-Where. Allow only your friends to decrypt. Mask Network is a portal to the new, open internet. With Mask Network, you can send encrypted posts to your friends, participate in cryptocurrency lucky-draws, and share encrypted files on the platforms you are already using.
The portal to the new & open Internet. Send encrypted message and decentralized Apps right on top of social networks.
Encrypt your posts & chats on You-Know-Where. Allow only your friends to decrypt. Mask Network is a portal to the new, open internet. With Mask Network, you can send encrypted posts to your friends, participate in cryptocurrency lucky-draws, and share encrypted files on the platforms you are already using. Now #OwnYourData and enjoy financial autonomy across mainstream social network sites through Mask Network. All you need to do is to go through the set up guide and you can use it immediately! Mask Network is a free software and we are willing to take any code audit from anyone. We do not and will never store any of your personal data! More info on Mask.io
What Does Mask Network Do?
The current internet is filled with products and services offered by big tech companies. For internet users, privacy remains a top concern for users considering such products and services. To regain control of privacy, many privacy-focused companies have launched their own social platforms or applications. For example, Signal, a real-time messaging client was created to replace Facebook’s WhatsApp in response to privacy concerns. WhatsApp allows Facebook to collect data and location details from users, while Signal’s only user identifier is a phone number.
What is MASK Token?
Mask Network’s token, MASK, was released in February 2021. MASK holders are members of a DAO called MaskDAO, through which they have ownership of the ecosystem. MASK is used for governance, protocol incentivization, DApplet development, and premium features. Each token represents one vote, and token holders vote by staking their tokens on proposal contracts.
How Does Mask Network Work?
Mask Network is unique in the sense that it allows users to add a layer of privacy to their online interactions. To do this, Mask Network provides decentralized end-to-end encryption for information transmission and handles the interpretation of information.
According to Mask Network, the messages are encrypted asymmetrically. For this encryption type, two keys are used — the public key for encryption and the private key for decryption. When a message is sent on Mask Network, it is encrypted with the designated recipients’ public keys. When a designated recipient receives messages encrypted by Mask Network, the extension will decrypt the message with the recipient’s private key. After decryption, the message’s contents will be displayed in plain text.
What Is the Future for MASK?
Mask Network recently expanded to include buying and selling NFTs. On March 10, Mask Network and DEGO Finance formed a strategic partnership to create more NFT content for users. In the same month, Mask Network announced a collaboration with Cent to add NFTs directly to Twitter. In this partnership, Mask Network plans to allow users to trade NFTs and look at their bidding history within Twitter. The project wishes to expand this function to other centralized platforms like Facebook and Instagram.
On May 18, Mask Network announced a collaboration with Nym, a decentralized platform based on a metadata-obscuring network designed to prevent tracking. The two platforms plan to cooperate in node development, allowing users to use Mask Network nodes on the Nym testnet. With Nym, Mask Network plans to develop an encrypted private messaging service to mitigate the risk of information leakage by users on centralized networks.
Conclusion
Mask Network’s foundation remains as a peer-to-peer encrypted messaging application on which DApplets are continuously built to provide blockchain-related features. It is easy to use and only requires each user to install its extension on a major web browser. With its extension, Mask Network brings decentralization to centralized social networks like Facebook and Twitter. With various partnerships and funding, Mask Network is now looking to expand into NFTs and other encrypted messaging services.
