Sending Notifications

Apps and NFT collections that want to use our notification protocol to interact with their users will receive access to a notification dashboard from which they can send notifications. They will be able to see the number of subscribed keys, their casts, and other general statistics.

Panel URL: https://panel.aptcast.live

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

There are two types of notifications that can be sent, broadcast and unicast

1. Broadcast notifications are sent to all keys that are subscribed to the dApp.

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

Broadcast notifications are not sent right away, they are subjected to review before being sent out to users.

Even unicast notifications will be subject to review while we are in the first few days of beta.

Using Aptcast Notification Panel to send notifications to your users

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 Key	Y*	For unicast notifications

Topics

There will be 3 default notification topics. In the future users will have the option to opt out of specific topics. We currently have General, Security, and Transactional.

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.