# What Is Push Protocol ($PUSH), previously Ethereum Push Notification Service?

The [Push Protocol](http://push.org/), previously Ethereum Push Notification Service or EPNS, is the communication protocol of web3. Push protocol enables cross-chain notifications and messaging for [dapps](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/decentralized-applications-dapps), wallets, and services tied to wallet addresses in an open, gasless, and platform agnostic fashion. The open communication layer allows any crypto wallet / frontend to tap into the network and get the communication across.

Since its launch in January 2022, Push has powered over 17 million decentralized notifications to over 60,000 subscribers and counting, becoming the de facto communication layer for web3.

## Who Are the Founders of Push Protocol?

Harsh Rajat and Richa Joshi founded Push Protocol. 

Harsh Rajat is the founder and chief technology officer of Push Protocol. Harsh has been a decentralization advocate since 2015. Prior to Push, he was chief technology officer in his previous firms.

Richa Joshi is a consulting veteran turned startup founder. Before co-founding Push, she was a senior consultant at Deloitte Consulting.


### What Makes Ethereum Push Notification Service Unique?

For web3, a notification mechanism that can notify users or wallet addresses of important updates, events, actions and so on, does not exist yet. As a result of this lack, a lot of important events or required user actions end up being missed completely: for example, the expiration of ENS blockchain domains is inefficiently broadcast on Twitter, with the hopes that the grace domain user potentially reads about their domain’s expiry. If a protocol gets compromised, people have to look for other methods (besides the now-compromised protocol) through which they can notify the users. 

Push tries to solve this with its push notification service.

To do this efficiently, the notification is stored and treated like a JSON payload, and this is transformed as per the rules of the different carriers when the notification ends up reaching them. The JSON payload can differ with payload types, and this ensures the flexibility of the content, as well as the data, storage interpretation and delivery.

What this means is that Push can allow users to be in direct, full control of what services they end up getting notifications from, and impose rules on the services, which includes spam protection for users, and limits for Push ability to add wallets as subscribers. This means that notifications are treated as a social feed rather than a piece of information.

There are four types of users: service providers, which want to send notifications, users, who want to receive notifications if they deem them to be beneficial, wallets enable users to receive notifications through their centralized or decentralized solutions, and token holders, who can define the rules between the above users. 


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## How Many Ethereum Push Notification Service (PUSH) Coins Are There in Circulation?

The protocol’s token PUSH is designed to incentivize the continued adoption cycle of the Push protocol. In order to achieve this, users that are involved are rewarded through either an incentive or a penalty. Their continued involvement is a necessity for the growth as well as the adoption of the protocol, and to achieve the vision of becoming a Web 3.0 notification standard.


### How Is the Ethereum Push Notification Service Network Secured?

The Ethereum Push Notification Service Network will use Eth-Crypto to handle the secure verification process. This is a cryptographic JavaScript-function enabler for [Ethereum](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/). 


## Where Can You Buy Ethereum Push Notification Service (PUSH)? 

If you want to buy, sell or trade Ethereum Push Notification Service (PUSH), you can do so on the following exchange:

[Polkastarter](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/polkastarter/)

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Covalent leverages big-data technologies to create meaning from hundreds of billions of data points, delivering actionable insights to investors and allowing developers to allocate resources to higher-utility goals within their organization.

Instead of painstakingly sourcing data from a small handful of chains, Covalent aggregates information from across dozens of sources including nodes, chains and data feeds. The Covalent API then sources end-users with individualized data by wallet, including current and historical investment performance across all types of digital assets. Most importantly, Covalent returns this data in a rapid and consistent manner, incorporating all relevant data within one API interface.

Having achieved product-market fit, we are now planning to execute the next phase of Covalent, which is a progressive decentralization that will enable the Covalent Network to be owned and operated by its users. Of course, a critical piece to this is CQT.

CQT is the native token of the Covalent Network. It has three primary purposes:

CQT is a governance token, whereby token holders vote on proposals to change the system parameters.

CQT is a staking asset. Validators will earn fees for answering queries.

CQT is a network access token that fulfills data queries for users of the API.

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Covalent Knowledge Base for extensive guides on how to use the Covalent API. 

Covalent API Documentation.

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Dock is building a gateway to Web3 by providing simple solutions for businesses and developers to build, manage, and present digital Verifiable Credentials and decentralized identities using blockchain.

Dock provides credentialing technology that can be used to create cryptographically secure and instantly verifiable digital credentials, including workforce certificates, academic achievements, identity documents, and KYC checks.

Since 2017, Dock has been building Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Credentials (VC) technology, which will act as a gateway to Web3 in the future. We have been collaborating with organizations to adapt and innovate in the Web3 ecosystem by helping them understand the true ownership of their data and making their documents, certificates, and credentials become digital, tamper-proof, and instantly verifiable. Web3 is about data ownership and by using Dock’s technology, individuals can now truly own and control their most important documents and regain control over their data.

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Protocols can onboard users without paying gas fees.

Users can pay gas in an ERC-20 token of their choice.

Users avoid blockchain complexities like a change of network.

Transactions are confirmed much faster.

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Gitcoin creates technologies and opportunities that empower communities to fund, build, and protect what matters.

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Core products include Gitcoin Grants Stack, the end-to-end grants management solution, Allo Protocol, an open-source funding protocol, and Gitcoin Passport, an all-encompassing decentralized identity management tool.

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Our tech team is particularly experienced with cyber security in trading and DeFi protocols, their knowledge in smart contract coding is additive to the maintenance and upgrades in years to come.

Danny himself had worked at both BNP Paribas and Societe Generale, holding positions across his career from trading, sales and management regionally in FICC space.

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Running validator nodes on the network via staking

Making and voting on governance proposals to determine how network resources are allocated

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Governing important network parameters which ensure markets are secure and fair

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The aim of the platform is to democratize access to financial derivatives while using the benefits that decentralization affords traders over legacy alternatives.

Opium’s in-house token, OPIUM, launched in January 2021 and will fulfil various roles mostly centered around platform governance. Active users will be able to vote on some of the most important decisions involved in the platform’s operations.

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Stella strives to become the go-to destination for DeFi users to access maximum yield potential. Whatever on-chain strategies that users want to use on leverage (and safe enough to be supported), then Stella will support at 0% cost to borrow.

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Stella Strategy: Users can access multiple selections of leveraged strategies with 0% borrowing interest for the first time and get yields on leverage.

Stella Lend: Lenders can lend assets to the lending pools on Stella and get real yields. Yields generated from Stella Strategy are shared to lenders.

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To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Dego Finance.

Any user is allowed to launch an NFT and initiate mining, auctions and trading, covering the entire lifecycle of the product. Dego’s NFT protocol is a cross-chain, second-layer infrastructure for Blockchain projects that can be leveraged for user acquisition and token distribution.

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Users who are passively holding Ether or wBTC can deposit their assets on C.R.E.A.M. to earn yield, similar to a traditional savings account. For more information visit https://app.cream.finance/.

The C.R.E.A.M. Finance protocol was created as a Compound Finance fork.

C.R.E.A.M Finance is open-source, permissionless, blockchain-agnostic and offers yield farming rewards to its users in order to inclusively develop its network.

The project (which stands for Crypto Runs Everything Around Me) was launched unexpectedly on the Ethereum network on Aug. 3, 2020 through the YOLO liquidity pool. In September 2020 it went live on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC).

The CREAM token allows users to lend, borrow, stake assets and help govern the network, allowing them to vote on assets to support or delist.