Towns is officially live! 

https://x.com/townsxyz/status/1846167106246848907

Come build the most secure and private messaging network in the world—owned by the people who build it and use it.

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Cool. I'd never heard of River until this announcement. Is it similar to @xmtp

not quite — there are some core differences on how the protocol works and what's happening onchain. river.build has a ton of info on how messaging works at the protocol level.

Answering the question "where's the beef?"