The Story of DESK: How CoinDesk Built Its Social Token
CryptoX’s Consensus-focused tech experiment involved a litany of third parties to help make DESK sing. Source
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Metagood Uses NFTs for Social Good
Metagood, which is now a one-year-old company with 15 employees, may have a real claim at defining what “community” means. It’s backed by an extensive network of crypto experts, award-winning artists and social impact professionals, including Litecoin creator Charlie Lee as well as Sebastien Borget and Jeffrey (Jiho) Zirlin, co-founders
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Shiba Inu Community Shocked as Founder Disappears From Social Media Without Notice
Monday was a surprising day for all Shiba Inu followers as the founder of the popular dog-themed memecoin, Ryoshi, deleted all his tweets and posts. Nobody knew what prompted this action as the Shiba Inu community was left wondering with different speculations. Ryoshi, the pseudonymous founder of Shiba Inu, removed
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Shiba Inu founder deletes social media posts, steps down from community
Pseudonymous Shiba Inu (SHIB) founder ‘Ryoshi’ has walked away from the community after deleting all of their Tweets and blog posts this week. Much like Bitcoin (BTC) founder Satoshi Nakamoto, Ryoshi’s identity has remained unknown since the project launched in August 2020. Additionally, they have also held a hands-off approach
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CoinDesk Relaunches Social Token Into the Wild
The new DESK is an ERC-20 standard token on the mainnet, or live version, of the blockchain. However, to avoid congestion on Ethereum, the revamped DESK runs on Polygon. This is a sidechain, or parallel network, to Ethereum that allows more and cheaper transactions by keeping them off the primary
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Aave’s Decentralized Social Media Platform Arrives on Polygon
Lens Protocol opened on the Polygon blockchain mainnet Wednesday, Kulechov announced onstage at the Permissionless conference. Built by Aave Companies, it allows devs to build their own decentralized social media networks in which users fully own their data. Source
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Aave launches open-source platform for social networking DApps on Polygon
Aave (AAVE) has announced a new project called the Lens Protocol, which focuses on helping developers build social networking decentralized applications (DApps) on the Polygon (MATIC) blockchain. Apart from social media DApps, the liquidity market protocol creators aim to use nonfungible token (NFT) technology along with Lens' open-source blockchain tech to
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Why decentralized messaging apps will replace today’s social media platforms
The Russian government has cracked down on foreign social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, banning them for extremist activists. For protestors, activists and local civilians, these actions have resulted in a significant barrier to communication with the outside world. Furthermore, they have also raised the question of
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Rethinking Social Media for the Metaverse
So far, around three dozen U.S. cities, including Atlanta, Los Angeles, Miami and New York, have signed agreements allowing the gamified app to overlay its metaverse world on their streets. With 23 employees, FlickPlay has so far raised $6.3 million, and over 90,000 people signed up for a raffle offering
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CyberConnect Raises $15M to Expand Social Graph Protocol
The project seeks to make user data interoperable between Web 3 dapps. Source
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