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Decentralized social media platform Freind.Tech, constructed atop Coinbase’s Layer-2 platform ‘Base’ is witnessing a significant slowdown inside simply 4 months of making a significant market frenzy. However, inside 4 months of launch, the craze round this social media platform has been waning away fairly quick.

Vitalik Buterin Refers to Friend.Tech As Bad DeFi

In a current commentary, Haseeb, the founding father of Dragonfly, expressed astonishment on the fast transformation of Friend.tech from a crypto darling to a abandoned mission in simply 4 months. The prevailing sentiment means that Friend.tech’s bonding curve performed a pivotal function in its downfall, prompting a broader reflection on the teachings discovered and the next redesign of bonding curves within the crypto area.

Responding to this remark, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin weighed in on the dialogue, stating, “Bad gamefi is using financial speculation as a substitute for fun. Blockchain games need to be fun as games,” in an approximation of a sentiment he has shared a number of occasions.

During the height of the craze round Freind.Tech, the platform clocked greater than $50 million in whole worth locked. However, as per the DeFiLlama data, the TVL has been on a downfall since then and dropped by 50% within the final 4 months to $26.46 million as of date.

Buterin Remains Bullish on Farcaster And Lens

While Vitalik Buterin doesn’t maintain a lot bullish views about the way forward for crypto social, he stays confident about some decentralized social apps like Farcaster and WRT Lens.

Farcaster is a decentralized social app protocol that empowers customers to manage their knowledge, whereas additionally offering builders with the power to construct apps on the community in a permissionless method. Interestingly, Buterin’s feedback come because the Farcaster protocol registers 400% of the each day energetic customers following the introduction of “frames” on its social media utility Warpcast.

Frames on Warpcast now allow customers to mint NFTs, carry out transactions, declare tokens, learn exterior weblog posts, and take part in surveys—all inside the app itself, eliminating the necessity to signal a transaction or navigate away. This addition was applied on Jan. 27.

Also, the Farcaster community skilled important progress in each day energetic customers, escalating from round 5,000 on Jan. 28 to surpassing 24,700 by Feb. 3, primarily based on data from Dune Analytics. Moreover, the quantity of recent each day “casts” skyrocketed to over 2 million as of Feb. 3, marking a rare 1,000% surge from the roughly 200,000 recorded the earlier week on Jan. 28.

Similar to Farcaster, Lens is a decentralized composable social graph, empowering builders to create the subsequent era of social media purposes.

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