New York, May 9, 6 am PT — Inco, developers of a universal confidentiality layer for Ethereum and other networks, has announced its partnership with Privy, the easiest way for crypto app developers to onboard their users. Now, developers can securely build on-chain products as Telegram Mini Apps and access their users right in one of the most used social media platforms worldwide with 900 million users.

Telegram Mini Apps (TMAs) are web apps that run inside Telegram Messenger and are accessible via individual or group chats. From there, users can launch an embedded web interface with an experience similar to other popular in-app browsers — and launching a TMA is as simple as starting a chat conversation with an app’s Telegram handle.

Telegram Mini Apps can be built using popular web development standards like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript / React. Besides easy user access, building a web3 product as a Telegram Mini App provides several advantages:

Automation with bots: Most Telegram apps utilize Telegram bots, which are automated text-based prompts for users, to facilitate in-app actions and receive notifications.
Seamless games: Many game developers opt to develop their mobile games as TMAs. TMAs eliminate the need for app downloads and can be swiftly shared via a copy/paste link.
Embedded monetization: TMAs offer opportunities for monetization through in-app purchases, subscriptions, and more, particularly leveraging TON.
Cross-platform experiences: Developers can easily synchronize session history across web and mobile app deployments. For instance, users can initiate an activity in a TMA and seamlessly continue it on the desktop web.

Inco is a confidentiality-focused EVM powered by Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). Using Inco, developers can build decentralized apps and mini-games (slot machines, card games, guessing games, predictions market, and more) that work with your wallet provider and leverage FHE technology, thus enabling new forms of gameplay with confidential elements. Today, many TMAs provide their own custodial wallets, which are prone to hacks, and centralized risks. However, this changes with the fact that developers can now integrate Privy SDK to provision self-custodial wallets for users to securely power on-chain experiences from Telegram.

What began as a fun exploration has evolved into a pioneering initiative by the Inco team, in collaboration with Privy, to develop non-custodial, on-chain games on Telegram. The team’s efforts have led to the creation of toy applications such as Slot Machine (@inco_slots_demo_bot) and Hangman (@IncoHangmanGameBot). Both games leverage FHE to provide on-chain confidentiality and randomness. Inco also invites developers to access its open-source repo to easily start building similar dApp experiences within Telegram.

“We at Inco believe that building decentralized apps directly within Telegram will become the next trend, further boosting the development of the web3 industry,” says Remi Gai, CEO of Inco. “Easy-to-access, share and scalable apps represent a new wave of dApps.We see the huge potential in supercharging more fun to on-chain games with confidentiality and randomness, and bringing this to the masses with Privy.”

“With this partnership, we help developers meet their users where they are. For many of our customers, this means Telegram, and we are happy to provide them with the opportunity to build their web3 products on-chain as Telegram Mini Apps,” says Max Segall, COO at Privy.

About Inco

Inco is the universal confidentiality layer of Web3, powered by fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and secured by Ethereum. It enables the development of next-frontier decentralized applications (dApps), providing confidentiality to existing blockchains and breaking down the final barrier to Web3 adoption at scale. For more information, please visit: https://www.inco.org/

About Privy

Privy is the easiest way for web3 developers to onboard all users, regardless of whether they already have wallets. They offer embedded wallets to seamlessly provision self-custodial wallets for users who sign in with email or social login, as well as powerful connectors for crypto natives who prefer to sign in with their existing wallets. It’s one library to onboard all users For more information, please visit: https://www.privy.io/