It has become clear that Blockstack Slack cannot be the permanent home for community communication. Several features of an open sources, decentralized project make the platform vulnerable to security threats. This is especially true of phishing attacks, as any user can modify their profile to be identical to that of another user.

As a result we’re challenging our community to come up with a team messaging application that uses Blockstack authentication for secure login and identity verification. This mutes many of the problems with current platforms such as not being able to confirm a users identity. In addition, Blockstack can enable features previously not possible, now only limited to your creativity as a developer.