Vitalik has donated 128 ETH to both Session and SimpleX to support privacy-focused communication development.

BlockBeats News, November 27th, Vitalik Buterin posted stating that end-to-end encrypted communication is crucial for privacy protection, emphasizing that the next key step in this field is to support permissionless account creation and metadata privacy, and mentioning that Session and SimpleX are advancing in these directions.

He donated 128 ETH to each of them, while pointing out that decentralization, metadata protection, multi-device support, and Sybil/DoS resistance are still challenges that require more developers to work on improving such privacy-focused communication tools.