Spasm for hackathons

Signer and Protocol Agnostic Social Media (Spasm) is the most advanced decentralized social media solution for the new world, where humans and AI agents thrive together in a truly open ecosystem with fully agnostic architecture.

ETHGlobal instance was created to show how Spasm can be used for organizing events and holding hackathons, so developers can easily showcase their projects by directly signing all messages with private keys, which is the actual web3 way of doing things.

Other instances that fully or partially federated with the ETHGlobal forum are: https://zkpunks.dev https://pussypools.fi https://degenrocket.space https://dark.vegas

Submitting events on Spasm-powered ETHGlobal forum not only provides native web3 experience, but also increases exposure of all event announcements, and post with hackathon projects.

Unlike most other decentralized social media solutions, Spasm is the only open ecosystem due its agnostic architecture that allows users to sign messages with different protocols, different private keys, and propagate them across different networks.

The groundbreaking multi-signing functionality allows users to simultaneously sign the same message with multiple private keys using different protocols and broadcast the message to different networks.

A multi-signed message has multiple authors (public keys), which enables integration of features from different ecosystems. For example, non-unique usernames can be fetched from Nostr meta events, while unique usernames can be fetched from blockchain-based NFT-powered naming services like ENS. Different social graph solutions can be plugged from various ecosystems.

Spasm enables groundbreaking multi-signing, which allowed users to simultaneously sign the same message with multiple private keys using different protocols and broadcast the message to different networks.

Many web3 platforms allow users to created profiles, upload images, and interact with each other through submiting comments and reactions. Most platforms already moved away from the old email and password-based system, opting for wallet authentication, also know as 'Sign-in with Ethereum' (EIP-4361), which requires a user to sign a special login message with a private key. But here's the catch: this is still based on the same old slave tech-style account-based architecture, similar to traditional banking, where all records are unsigned and stored in a centralized database that can be altered.

Spasm provides a better alternative, where all messages are directly signed, similar to how cryptocurrencies and DeFi operate. This web3-style method offers serious advantages:

• Enhanced security because signed messages can't be tampered with since they're verified on both the server and client sides against the provided signatures.
• Users can sign messages offline and then broadcast them, additionally boosting security.
• It's more interoperable with other platforms and offers options for federation, making it more resistant to censorship.
• Signed messages can be distributed across different networks, increasing their visibility.
• There's no need to sign any login message or rely on a third party service to handle authentication.
• Better privacy as users can broadcast messages through relays.
• Users remain full custody of their own identities.