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Using the same keys for signing “I’m me” and also for encryption is a no-no, so this becomes another key management problem.

The MM encrypt/decrypt is already deprecated for this reason. 

Wallet Connect has a protocol as well as centralized infra. 

XMTP is doing this.

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Wiring this up to wallets in browser extensions etc is hard. Native mobile wallets is the possible.

Still need interop.

Many other pieces like encrypted storage / backup of messages.

Status.im has been around for years, just a single client and fanatical focus on full p2p / decentralized / pseudonymous.

For a specific real time use case you could use a public key for saying "I'm me" but then rely on Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (which WebRTC uses) to ensure that exchanged data is secure. SRTP is already widely adopted and reliable