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-A minimalist, decentralised, end-to-end encrypted mail protocol.
+A minimalist, cypherpunk mail protocol. Fun, simple, decentralised, end-to-end encrypted.
 
 Online correspondence reduced to an address, a key and a message.
 
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 [SPEC.md](SPEC.md) defines the wire format, the operations and the trust model.
 
+## Inspiration
+
+The smolmail project takes inspiration from [Gemini Protocol](https://geminiprotocol.net), [Misfin](gemini://misfin.org/), and [LXMF](https://github.com/markqvist/lxmf).
+
 ## License
 
 The protocol definition, [SPEC.md](SPEC.md), is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license ([CC BY-SA-4.0](LICENSES/CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt)).