Enhancing the Awareness, Utility, and Anonymity Set of Oxen - Part 5 - Promote ‘Multi-device security device enhancement’ Purchasing by Interactive In-App Prompts

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Enhancing the Awareness, Utility, and Anonymity Set of Oxen - Part 5 - Promote ‘Multi-device security device enhancement’ Purchasing by Interactive In-App Prompts

The ORC-8 discussion illuminates a critical concern within the Oxen ecosystem: underutilization of the coin owing to a limited number of daily transfers, which in turn diminishes Oxen's practical anonymity set.

As foundational tools, we've utilized the AARRR framework and previously presented strategies in:

• Enhancing the Awareness, Utility, and Anonymity Set of Oxen - Part 1 - Web Traffic Optimization
• Enhancing the Awareness, Utility, and Anonymity Set of Oxen - Part 2 - Oxen Airdrop for ONS (Session User Name)
• Enhancing the Awareness, Utility, and Anonymity Set of Oxen - Part 3 - Promoting ONS Purchasing through Invisible Social Graph Exploitation and Interactive In-App Prompts
• Enhancing the Awareness, Utility, and Anonymity Set of Oxen - Part 4 - Promote ‘Perfect Forward Secrecy’ Purchasing by Invisible Social Graph Exploitation and Interactive In-App Prompts

These strategies primarily stimulate 'Acquisition', 'Activation', and 'Referral'.

Similar to Parts 3 and 4, Part 5 also utilizes interactive in-app prompts to encourage users to enhance their security, however, Part 5 does not rely on social interaction.

Part 5 is dependent on an unimplemented feature, the technical aspect of which is proposed in Session Standard: Multi-device Security Enhancement.

As an overview, the Multi-device Security Enhancement includes:

• Primary device on-chain registration
• Activation and deactivation of secondary devices
• Swarm authentication for each device ID using group signatures on short-term nonce challenges
• Device login history auditing using group signatures on mid-term nonce challenges
• On-chain self-destruction declaration, etc.

These enhancements necessitate a registration process akin to ONS that maps a user's Session ID to their device ID (device identity public key) on the Oxen blockchain. This process helps prevent race conditions that could arise from multiple devices competing to be the primary device and enables an enhanced security model and a potential ‘Session Standard’ payment business model.

This proposal focuses on the marketing side. The idea is straightforward: whenever a user recovers a seed phrase or links a new device, if the client detects that this user is not a 'Session Standard' user, which means they lack the multi-device security enhancement support suggested in the above proposal, we prompt the user to consider purchasing 'Session Standard'. This strategy enhances the 'Acquisition' and 'Activation' stages for the Oxen wallet, leading to an increase in Oxen usage.

For those not familiar with Part 4, we use the term 'Session Standard' to differentiate it from 'Session Pro', thereby creating three incremental pricing tiers: 'Session Free', 'Session Standard', and 'Session Pro'. 'Session Standard' offers a one-time, low-cost purchase that significantly enhances security, while 'Session Pro' is a monthly subscription offering timed feature enhancements.

In combination with Part 4, we suggest that 'Session Standard' includes both 'Multi-device Security Enhancement' and 'Perfect Forward Secrecy Capability'.