  The growing demand for connecting with each other across the world has proved
to be a boon to the growth of social media platforms. But when it comes to
ensuring the privacy and security of the platform, the control is in hands of
few monopolies. Some claim to provide a secure medium of communication but
their exploitation of users and misusing users' data with their centralized
control over the policies has led to various controversies. Lack of trust
towards these organisations have made people skeptical towards using these
applications for extremely secure communication use-cases. Thus, a system with
no central organisation in control and a trustless network is required. A
trustless network is a network which does not requires the participants (users)
to trust any central authority. These nodes themselves, as a group, can be
trusted to make a decision which aligns with the interests of all. This is
accompanied by a distributed network, where peers are connected to each other
to form a mesh-like network called Swarm. This distributed network of connected
peers is often attributed as the internet of tomorrow. The total number of
monthly active users on the top 3 chat applications surpassed 4 billion users
in July 2019. As of Oct 2020, WhatsApp alone has 2 billion monthly active users
sending around 100 billion messages per day. With such vast number of people
relying on chat applications, making these applications highly secure becomes a
task of paramount importance.
