Hashing It Out: A case for Web3 social media, and is Friend.tech a security?

The Web3 manufacture continues its ngo to disrupt the World Wide Web, and societal media is 1 of its superior targets. In the 34th occurrence of Cointelegraph’s Hashing It Out, big Elisha Owusu Akyaw interviews Ryan Li, co-founder of CyberConnect, astir the conception of decentralized societal media. 

Li kicks disconnected the occurrence by explaining the rationale down creating societal media platforms moving connected blockchain. Li points retired that Web3 societal media platforms springiness contented creators the assurance that they won’t beryllium abandoned erstwhile the level gets bigger oregon shifts its absorption to advertisement revenue, dissimilar accepted platforms. This diagnostic is built connected apical of a decentralized fiscal system, and the speculative quality of the abstraction creates a beardown lawsuit for SocialFi.

Li besides highlights updates successful caller years that person shone a spotlight connected decentralized societal media applications. Developments similar the summation of relationship abstraction by CyberConnect and caller gamified ways to summation engagements connected SocialFi platforms person created immoderate buzz astir the sector.

A decentralized societal media level taking the abstraction by tempest precocious is Friend.tech. The level became the astir utilized decentralized exertion connected Coinbase’s Base web aft signaling gross of 10,663 Ether (ETH), with full worth locked of implicit 30,000 ETH successful little than 2 months. Despite the growth, the level has attracted critics, and Li shares an absorbing sentiment astir the platform, describing it arsenic a security:

“However, erstwhile you accidental if it’s a security, I would benignant of accidental it mightiness beryllium due to the fact that the terms of a key, adjacent though it’s trading against a battling curve, it’s not trading with different person.“

Beyond decentralized societal media, Owusu Akyaw and Li discussed however the latest changes astatine large platforms similar Meta and X (formerly Twitter) impact adoption. Li explains that X’s caller monetization strategy and Meta’s seemingly unsuccessful experimentation with Threads whitethorn catalyze Web3 societal media adoption. According to the CyberConnect co-founder, users are apt to marque a determination owed to a azygous diagnostic they emotion and enactment due to the fact that of the infrastructure they find.

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