Sending Notifications

Apps that want to use our notification protocol will receive access to a notification dashboard from where they can send notifications. They will be able to see several subscribed public keys, their casts, and other general statistics.

Apart from the dashboard, we provide API endpoints that let apps integrate notifications in their custom business flows.

Apps can send two types of notifications - broadcast and unicast.

• Broadcast notifications are sent to all public keys subscribed to the app.

• Unicast notifications are sent to a single targeted public key that is subscribed to the dApp.

Broadcast notifications are not sent immediately; they are subject to review before being sent to users.

Creating a cast

Notification contains

Field	Mandatory	Note
Title	Y
Body	Y
Icon	Y	Only shown on web
Image	N	Only shown on mobile
Action URL	N	Only works on web
Platform	Y
Cast time	Y*	For broadcast notifications
Topic	Y
Target Public Key	Y*	For unicast notifications

Notification Topics

There are 3 default Notification Topics, users have options to opt-out of specific topics.

Currently, we have:

General - Used for marketing and general announcements

Security - Used for announcements about security issues

Transactional - Used when targeting specific/single user(s) about some event/transaction, etc.