social media
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Paradigm led the permissionless social media protocol’s fundraise just months after the launch of Frames
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DEGEN chain is designed to enable developers to tap into a popular memecoin community
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Valentine’s Day may inspire you to search harder for a partner, but declaring your love of crypto will not find you a perfect match
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Plus, NBA faces lawsuit over Voyager marketing, and ‘Nobody’ NFT collection books significant volume
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If one of the only ways to save crypto is a return to its subculture roots, then Farcaster seems like it fits the bill
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Farcaster has taken crypto by storm, but more must be done before it achieves mainstream popularity
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Farcaster’s co-founder and popular Frames ecosystem Base creator Jesse Pollak talked about the release of Frames and Farcaster’s future plans
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Plus, crypto gets its own Shark Tank, and Dwight Howard’s NFT project seemingly flops
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The agency gaffe will likely be followed by investigations into the hacker, the SEC, and maybe even X itself
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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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I’ll have my eyes and ears open to new, potentially better platforms, especially those in the incredibly energetic realm of decentralized social
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To get back to our subculture roots, crypto needs to extricate itself from a poisonous dynamic: Our reliance on X
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Various iterations of the popular social media tokenization app cropped up in September
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Analysts agree that while the crypto market has been plagued by poor liquidity, social sentiment can be a useful tool to track the buzz surrounding ether’s potential spot ETF
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