Ethereum

There has been a lot of spam on XMTP these past few days, so wouldn’t it be cool to have:

staked and non-staked addresses, where users can choose in the app layer to only receive messages from staked addresses. 

If the adress receives enough complaints (governed by smart contract) the address is slashed.

?

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this would help prevent general spam but for effective high EV scams this wouldn’t deter bad actors unless the stake was real high, and if the stake was real high would crowd out normal users.

Yes it wouldn’t be a panacea. The more sophisticated scams with better targeting are probably harder to prevent in general.