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# Abstract

<mark style="color:orange;">**deb0x protocol**</mark> aims to be a crypto community building environment that brings <mark style="color:orange;">together like minded people</mark> who first and foremost <mark style="color:orange;">value privacy, security, fairness & censorship resilience</mark>.&#x20;

It is a pay it forward initiative intended to mark <mark style="color:orange;">a clear shift from web2 to web3</mark>. The founding team's passion for privacy, decentralization, censorship resistance and community governed protocols was the inspiration that brought them together to build deb0x (decentralized inbox).&#x20;

The <mark style="color:orange;">goal is to offer an alternative to the current email</mark> (SMTP) protocol which is not secure and has so far led to vulnerabilities such as violation of private communications as well as censorship from certain centralized providers.