Friend.tech
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I urge developers, industry leaders and the broader crypto community to delve deeper into the gaming possibilities that SocialFi presents
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We can’t all have impeccable taste in music — some of us need to spend the next 2 weeks diversifying our listening experience
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The SocialFi app appears to be losing steam even as crypto enjoys its best week in over a year
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Investors and founders give their perspectives on what Web3’s answer to social media could look like
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The partnership is part of a broader wave of interest in Web3 tourism applications. Plus, tattoos go on-chain and Friend.tech sees higher sell volume
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Various iterations of the popular social media tokenization app cropped up in September
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A drop in activity calls into question the longevity of the platform and its ability to generate revenue
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Let’s not conflate Friend.tech with the broader social token use case set, which is vast and actually has genuine potential
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Accountants say anyone trading on the popular app should expect to report their activities and profits to the IRS
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Hasn’t history already taught us how bad it is to assign monetary value to humans?
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Ansem warns that betting on Friend.tech shares is highly speculative: “If it goes up too fast, it’s going to come down”
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Friend.tech surged over the weekend, raking in more than $1 million in fees over a 24-hour period, and potentially getting Gary Gensler’s attention
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