<p>Voice, the social media app built on the EOSIO blockchain network, has finally launched.</p> <p><a href="https://app.voice.com/post/@salah/join-us-1593835144-1">Currently open</a> in the read-only mode for the public, Voice allows only registered community members to publish content. The early-access registrations are also open, and beginning August 15, Voice plans to let those who registered invite their friends as well.</p> <p><a href="https://block.one/news/block-one-introduces-social-media-application-voice/">Announced</a> in June 2019, Voice was initially scheduled to launch in the fall of that year on the EOS public blockchain. But those plans changed and Block.one <a href="https://voice.com/blog/road-to-beta/">pushed</a> the launch date to February of this year, and <a href="https://voice.com/faq/">changed</a> the protocol from EOS to EOSIO. Block.one has <a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/59702/block-one-invests-150m-in-its-social-media-app-voice-to-fund-independent-operations">invested heavily</a> in Voice, including $30 million for the Voice.com <a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/28076/block-one-paid-30-million-to-purchase-a-domain-name-for-its-social-media-platform">domain name</a>.</p> <p>On changing the protocol, Salah Zalatimo, CEO of Voice, <a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/59702/block-one-invests-150m-in-its-social-media-app-voice-to-fund-independent-operations">said</a> earlier this year: "Iterating and optimizing a product like Voice is not feasible on a public blockchain due to the inability to rapidly innovate." </p> <p>&nbsp;</p>