Welcome to the long-awaited Mattereum token generation event! Pleased to see you here. This post is to protect you from attempted fraud during the token sale period.

It contains instructions about how our communications will be conducted. TL;DR: the only place you can buy the Mattereum token is on https://swarm.com (once the public sale is open, this will be the direct link: https://app.swarm.com/matr). Do not trust any resource which tells you different unless it is published here and verified through our web sites, social media channels and so on. But it has to be here first, and those other resources will point here.

There will not be any special offers or special deals or bonus schemes or anything like that pushed out on Telegram or Twitter or the web sites, and anything that looks like that is fraud.

The details

Make sure that you do not send your crypto to scammers rather than purchasing Mattereum Discount Tokens (MATR tokens) as you hoped to.

To make sure that you get what you pay for, you have to be able to trust the methods you use to transact and you get some of the necessary information (like the MATR ERC20 address) from us.

So here’s the deal: the real security in the Mattereum TGE comes from the multisig which controls the MATR ERC20 token contract. In an ideal world, all the metadata supporting the MATR ERC20 token (legal documents, URLs, even social media) would be signed off using the same level of security as the token contract itself. Your browser would automatically verify the signatures on everything and you could transact in reasonable peace with a feeling of security. We do not live in this utopia yet.

When the TGE begins, or even before, you will be assaulted on all sides by people who want to steal your crypto by impersonating Mattereum, Swarm, and their personnel. Fraudsters might even use AI systems to impersonate people in fake videos.

You must not take instructions about who to send money to from any communication like that, regardless of how good it looks. Trust the cryptographic keys, not the pixels.

I want to lay down that good, solid bedrock of paranoia because I want you to get exactly what you pay for, now and always. That is what my company, Mattereum, is all about: building systems to make sure that people get what they pay for, always.

So here are three levels of trust for your consideration:

1. Secured by one of our Multisigs or swarm.com security

   1. MATR ERC20 contract

   2. Multisig owns Mattereum.ETH

2. Secured by ENS

   1. Publisher.Mattereum.ETH is used to authorize this publication

   2. Hashes of key documents will be published here

   3. If we have a compromise of any kind we will do our best to publish the notice here but for severe compromises that may take time if (for example) we are locked out of all of our laptops

3. Secured by password recovery systems controlled by corporations that we have essentially no control of

   1. Twitter

   2. Medium

   3. DNS on mattereum.com, mattereum.de and so on

   4. YouTube

   5. Email

   6. Telegram

   7. Signal

   8. Zoom

You do not want to connect a more secure system to a less secure system and then send money over that connection.

So if you take a crypto key from twitter.com and send money to it, it’s more or less inevitable that you are going to get defrauded now or later.

You know not to do that. This is just an example. Fake Twitter account token fraud is just an inevitable consequence of sending money from a more secure to a less secure ecosystem. But the same is also true of websites. There is currently no reasonable way of securing the entire system, so details on web sites could be compromised and we could be locked out long enough for people to get ripped off. It happens. We can’t even use Twitter’s NFT infrastructure to validate our Twitter accounts: they removed it.

The tools for publishing legal promises out of a multisig, then having them consumed by another multisig and used as a contractual framework for returning value, are also distinctly imperfect. Maybe there’s a better way of doing it than what we have picked: if we figure it out, we’ll let you know; if you know, let us know.

So with that said, here’s how we are going to communicate about the token sale.

Three Rules

• The MATR token is only available for purchase through https://swarm.com (specifically https://app.swarm.com/matr once the public sale is open) and NOWHERE ELSE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EVER at this time. That will be the condition until the “public sale” period ends, unless there’s some absolutely crazy act of god.

• We will, as far as possible, validate any materially significant information about the token sale here. For example, if it’s important news, we will publish it here.We will then point here from our social media. This creates some potential issues: a link which looks like it is from us might be from a scammer with a fake version of this web site. You have to exercise due caution: check URLs manually. If anything you see looks too good to be true, it is.

• We will not ever post crypto keys, do side deals or any other bullshit like that via any channel. We have no appointed representatives. There are no dodgy looking catfishers lurking at crypto conferences with wallets full of MATR they got from us in a prior transaction. None of that. It’s all scammers.

Stay safe. Be responsible. We will be publishing information about the token sale including updates of websites etc. soon. The materially significant details will be confirmed here also.

Good luck everybody, and wish us the best in this critical process. Guard your crypto!

Vinay Gupta (Founder of Mattereum)