7 posts tagged with "Spritz"

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has made it harder to tell legitimate human interactions from automated or AI-driven impersonations. Modern AI can convincingly replicate voices and generate realistic video calls, enabling malicious actors to exploit technology for financial gain, identity theft, and unauthorized data collection. Fraudsters often impersonate banks, government officials, business associates, or family members via robocalls, text messages, and video calls—and some use deepfake technologies to make scams highly convincing.

The scale of the problem is staggering. U.S. consumers received over 52 billion robocalls in 2025, a large share of which were spam or scam-related. Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults report experiencing some form of online scam or attack, often through phone calls, text messages, or emails at least weekly. No demographic is immune: Deloitte reports that Generation Z is more likely to fall victim to online scams than Baby Boomers.

In December 2024, Vitalik Buterin published "What I would love to see in a wallet" — a detailed wishlist for the ideal Ethereum wallet. It wasn't just about sending tokens. It was about reimagining how users interact with Web3: seamless cross-chain experiences, robust account security, ZK-wrapped identities, and privacy that actually works.

At Spritz, we've been building exactly this — not just for finance, but for communication.

Internet-based voice and video calling is often assumed to be a basic layer of digital infrastructure. Yet current estimates indicate that approximately 29 percent of the global population—nearly 2.3 billion people—lives in countries where internet calling (VoIP) is restricted, censored, throttled, or banned in some form.

For leaders building global technology platforms or shaping digital policy, this is not a marginal edge case. It represents a structural constraint affecting billions of users, with consequences for regulation, product design, analytics, and global scalability.

Just hours ago, Vitalik Buterin declared "The decentralized renaissance is coming" — and called on developers to buidl decentralized. This is exactly what Spritz has been doing.

Around 2.3 billion people in 17 countries are affected by full bans, partial bans, throttling, or interference with popular messaging and calling applications. These restrictions impact text messaging, voice calls, and video calls, often across national borders. As a result, families, friends, and communities are unable to communicate freely.

A major reason these restrictions are effective is how most communication platforms identify users.

Communication is a universal human right recognized by the United Nations. Yet billions of people are denied meaningful access to it.

Nearly a third of the world does not have reliable access to voice or video communication. Families are separated not only by geography but by digital barriers. Geo blocking and censorship shut down conversations between people who simply want to speak to one another.

We believe this is unacceptable.

The internet was supposed to be a decentralized network—a place where anyone could communicate freely, share ideas, and build communities without gatekeepers. But somewhere along the way, we lost that vision. Today, a handful of corporations control our digital lives, deciding what we see, who we can talk to, and what we're allowed to say.

We built Spritz because we believe it's time to take back control.