Good friend.tech, a lately launched decentralized social (DeSo) community, has generated over $1 million in charges in 24 hours on Aug. 19, outperforming established gamers within the crypto ecosystem, together with Uniswap and Bitcoin networks.
The platform was launched in beta model on Aug. 11 and permits customers to tokenize their social community by shopping for and promoting “shares” of their connections. Enabling an individual who purchases one other’s share to ship personal messages to one another. The protocol reportedly costs a 5% charge on transactions, with the unfold from trades representing the proprietor’s revenue.
Constructed on Coinbase’s layer-2 Base, the platform has seen appreciable exercise. In accordance to information from DefiLlama, Good friend.tech generated $1.12 million in charges in 24 hours, and $2.8 million since its launch. On the time of writing, the full mission income stands at $818,620, with over 650,000 transactions within the social platform and greater than 60,000 distinctive merchants.
Behind the mission is believed to be the pseudonymous developer Racer. In accordance to a senior software program engineer at Coinbase, Racer beforehand created social media networks TweetDAO and Stealcam, each based mostly on nonfungible tokens (NFTs). With Good friend.tech, Racer targets crypto influencers with an in depth fan base to earn royalties on buying and selling charges, in addition to Web3 initiatives looking for to strengthen relationships with enterprise capitalists and key gamers within the crypto trade.
The hype has additionally ignited evaluation of the social platform’s income mannequin, dangers and future. Pseudonymous decentralized finance (DeFi) researcher Ignas famous that underneath Good friend.tech’s present enterprise mannequin, “income comes solely from buying and selling charges however not from having extra shareholders,” he wrote on X (previously Twitter), including that “controversial personalities would possibly earn extra and even creating FUD might be used as a technique to earn charges.”
Founding father of Speak.Markets Lux Moreau additionally identified that as shares are offered, its costs improve considerably, probably encouraging smaller teams within the platform or alt group creations.
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As shares get offered, the costs additionally considerably improve. For instance, the five hundredth member pays round 15.6Ξ, the 250th member pays 3.9Ξ, and the a hundredth member pays 0.625Ξ.
This encourages smaller teams or alt group creations. pic.twitter.com/WVAjxFh0ee
— Lux Moreau ✨ (@MentionLux) August 12, 2023