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Altcoin Traders Get a New Darling as Bitclout Creator Launches DeSo

After the creator of a controversial decentralized social media protocol, Bitclout, Nader Al-Naji, announced his new project, Decentralized Social (DeSo), its native token, DESO, received a warm welcome in the market today, with traders bidding its price up by nearly a third in the past 24...

, by Fredrik Vold

Web 3.0 Is Coming, and Crypto Will Be Essential to It

Incentivizing individuals to participate in Web3 protocols empowers society. The issue is how much of the internet backbone can be realistically decentralized. The largest trend is likely to be a focus on usability.First, it was decentralized finance (DeFi), then it was non-fungible tokens (NFTs),...

, by Simon Chandler

Twitter’s Bluesky Finds New Lead, Square Building the Bitcoin Wallet Team

Twitter-backed decentralized social media project Bluesky announced that a new and Twitter-independent entity is in the works, while Square is expanding their hardware wallet team. "It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve finally found a lead," tweeted the official Bluesky account on...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

BitClout Investors Coinbase & Blockchain.com Step Up Their Shilling Efforts

Major crypto exchange Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is taking a lot of flak today for his open support of controversial blockchain-based social network BitClout (CLOUT). While another crypto giant, Blockchain.com announced they'll start supporting CLOUT trading this week.Both companies have...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Sentiment Against Elon Musk on Twitter Rose in May Post-Bitcoin-Criticism

It seems that Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin's argument that the markets would pay less attention to Tesla chief Elon Musk's Bitcoin (BTC)-related tweets got a continuation - with a sentiment tracking company finding less than 15% of May tweets about Musk being positive. The...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

FinTok & ‘Finfluencers’ Are On The Rise: 3 Tips To Assess Their Advice

Angel Zhong, Senior Lecturer in Finance, RMIT University. _____Queenie Tan is full of financial advice. Whether it is cheap date ideas, buying furniture, saving your first USD 100,000, doing your tax return or investing in Dogecoin, there is seemingly no topic the 24-year-old Sydney woman...

, by Angel Zhong

Block.one to Make Voice NFT-based Amid Non-Fungibles Market Cool Down

Block.one, the developer of EOSIO, an open-sourced blockchain software, has decided to close its decentralized social media platform Voice to the public for several months to upgrade it from a fungible to a non-fungible token (NFT)-based social platform, the company said. Voice’s website...

, by Jaroslaw Adamowski

TikToker Creates Joke ‘SCAM’ Coin – and People Are Buying it in Droves

A TikToker who made his own crypto token as a joke has been astounded to find that his coin has become an overnight success – and has apparently grown increasingly keen on his logic-defyingly popular creation.Andre Lewis aka Dre, who goes by the TikiTok handle of Dresuschrist, told...

, by Tim Alper

Young South Korean Crypto Enthusiasts Ditch Youtube For TikTok

Young South Korean crypto enthusiasts are reportedly increasingly shunning YouTube – once their favorite resource for crypto investment advice and token-related talk – in favor of TikTok-based crypto content-makers.Per Chosun, Generation Z investors are increasingly looking to broaden...

, by Tim Alper

Crypto Community Asks Who’s Next As SEC Hits Decentralized LBRY

Crypto users and advocates are rallying somewhat uncertainly around the cause of the decentralized content platform operator LBRY. The operator has been hit with a USD 11m legal challenge from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – which, per legal documents filed with the New...

, by Tim Alper

Law Firm Slaps BitClout Creator With a Cease and Desist Letter

As a lawyer implied would happen, a prominent law firm sent a cease-and-desist letter to the alleged creator of the new, fast-turned-controversial, blockchain-based social network BitClout. Major US-based law firm Anderson Kill has sent a letter to Nader Al-Naji, who they understand launched the...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Prominent Crypto Players Increasingly Angry With Heavily-Backed BitClout

The criticism against what turned out to be one of the most controversial crypto projects this year (so far) is heating up. Many high-profile players are growing increasingly angry with the new, high-profile-investors-backed project called BitClout.The first question that was in many people's...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Multiple High Profile Crypto Twitter Accounts Suspended, Users Suspect NFT Link

Twitter users have been left bemused after the accounts of a number of prominent crypto advocates were abruptly suspended – without any apparent explanation.Accounts belonging to influential individuals such as PlanB and Willy Woo were briefly taken down, although both of these have since...

, by Tim Alper

Ex-Block.One CTO Larimer Makes a Comeback With Social Network Project

Well-known blockchain developer Daniel Larimer is back with plans for a new, "logically decentralized" communication platform dubbed Clarion, being showered with both praise and criticism for it. In a Tuesday GitHub post, Larimer introduced the new project, stating that it's a logically...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Ex-WallStreetBets Mods Aim to Turn WBS 2.0 Decentralized & Tokenized

A group of moderators from the subreddit behind GameStop (GME) short squeeze, which made the headlines across the globe, WallStreetBets (WBS), is now planning to take a path of decentralization and build a smart contract-based pool."It's time to decentralize WallStreetBets [and] build...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

3 Reasons Why WallStreetBets Army Is Back For New Gamestop Rally

Larisa Yarovaya, Deputy Head of the Centre for Digital Finance, Lecturer in Finance, University of Southampton. ____GameStop shares have gone soaring again. The Texan computer games retail chain at the heart of the stock market drama at the end of January surged from USD 44 to a high of around USD...

, by Larisa Yarovaya

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