EthOS, a native operating system that integrates with the ethereum blockchain, has launched a major new release.

ethOS 2.1 comes with “a System Wallet secure enclave, a mint app, a light node indicator and easier chain switching,” says Markus Haas, the co-founder of EthereumPhone.

This is a fork of the popular fork of Android, called LineageOS, making ethOS open source too and available on Github.

To install it, you need an OEM Unlocked Google Pixel 3, 3XL, or 5a, with this being a bridge to the team’s ambitions to launch a full on hardware device called the Ethereum Phone (ΞPhone).

The operating system, as you’d expect, has a native eth wallet and some blockchain capabilities like insta NFT minting a picture you take with your phone.

It connects with the blockchain roughly the same way as most wallets do, through a light node which instead of downloading every block, downloads only the block headers containing a summary of the information within the blocks.

These used to be called SPV wallets, and they still are in bitcoin, that standing for Simplified Payment Verification. They have some theoretical problems, but for more than a decade now they have run without problems in practice.

It integrates with the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) natively as well, something that then brings us to the actual potential unique ‘selling’ point.

This operating system integrates the little known Extensible Message Transport Protocol (XMTP), which describes itself as an open protocol, network, and standards for secure, private web3 messaging.

“Because the XMTP network persists messages, and those messages are tied to web3 identities as opposed to a specific client app, each web3 identity has an interoperable inbox that it can access using any client app built with XMTP,” the project says.

So a kind of an open chatapp, like the defi dapps but this doesn’t use a blockchain or the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). It does have nodes however.

“The nodes provide a message API that enables client apps built with the XMTP client SDK to communicate with the XMTP network. The nodes use Waku node software to connect to other nodes and form a peer-to-peer network to relay and store envelopes submitted and requested by client apps.”

These nodes are currently closed source and are operated only by XMTP Labs, though they’re working towards opening them up to make it a fully decentralized network.

So you can connect your ENS to XMTP through ethEOS and…. party on? Making this whole infrastructure from start to finish, well once the hardware phone is built, all crypto native as much as it can be.

So giving a vivid indication of the expansion of this space in seemingly unrelated areas, though crypto is making some significant advances even in what might look like further out areas.

One such area is data replication, like database replication for say MySQL but other sorts too with a full on 200 pages long dissertation discussing just how crypto is contributing to that space and in turn how new research can contribute to crypto.

The operating system therefore on its own might look like little, but combined with all the rest it is a bit of hard science coming to market.

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