Not on account of the crypto protocol itself but because of how the project is being run.
To wit: encrypted messaging app Wire has now published an external audit of its crypto protocol, Proteus, and the implementation of the protocol across its various apps.
Ethereum, a crypto protocol on which The DAO was built, erased this fiasco with a hard fork, walking back the ledger of transactions to the moment before disaster struck.
Security in networked information systems is a very complex task that ranges from the level of crypto-primitives over crypto-protocols to the level of organizational matters and legislation.
Meanwhile, there are plenty of peer-to-peer crypto lending protocols on the Ethereum blockchain, like ETHLend and Dharma.
Without tag IDs as a priori, we propose a series of crypto-free, lightweight protocols that satisfy the requirements.
Marlinspike says OWS's own goal is to keep producing strong, open-source privacy and security tools that companies (and individuals) can easily incorporate into their own services, without having to do their own crypto research and/or protocol design.
Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Open Whisper Systems (OWS), the not-for-profit software group behind the respected Signal Protocol crypto (and the eponymous Signal secure messaging app) has responded to criticism of how the group is developing its projects by calling for more contributions from the community to broaden implementations of the protocol.
Update: OWS has objected to Wire's claim that it is built on the Signal protocol, and Wire has since clarified that its crypto is built upon the Axolotl protocol — a forerunner to the Signal protocol.
On the other hand — and given how mainstream a comms platform Skype is — then even partial e2e encryption could be seen as a bit of a step forward, perhaps most especially because Skype is adopting the Signal Protocol for its crypto addition.
