sxtvik · TEXXR

whole farcaster thing honestly feels like a slap in the face to anyone left in crypto still trying, in less than a year since raising 150m at 1b to abandon the company and tease something new is sad. in 2022, a16z prevented competing products to grow, csx was only fc clients, etc

2026-01-22 View on X

The Block

Neynar, a startup focused on decentralized social media infrastructure, is acquiring Ethereum-based social media project Farcaster from R&D firm Merkle

- Decentralized social media infrastructure firm Neynar is acquiring Farcaster, the Ethereum-based protocol that was last valued at $1 billion.

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whole farcaster thing honestly feels like a slap in the face to anyone left in crypto still trying, in less than a year since raising 150m at 1b to abandon the company and tease something new is sad. in 2022, a16z prevented competing products to grow, csx was only fc clients, etc

2026-01-21 View on X

The Block

Neynar, a startup focused on decentralized social media infrastructure, is acquiring Ethereum-based social media project Farcaster from R&D firm Merkle

Partner offers — Quick Take — Decentralized social media infrastructure firm Neynar is acquiring Farcaster …

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Surely no big deal that Cloudflare went down a month after AWS went down and that most infrastructure for essential communication, information, and human coordination now relies on these centralized companies. Completely normal outages and definitely not a scary test of any kind.

2025-11-18 View on X

The Independent

Cloudflare says “a fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved”, after a major outage impacted X, ChatGPT, and others from 11:48am UTC

Outage comes around a month after Amazon Web Services outage also took much of the internet offline

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@JasonYanowitz Whole timeline and other companies offering empathy and respect to Blockworks journalists let go today. Meanwhile Yano: we had record profits this year This reads very tone deaf and inconsiderate, and your next steps and victory laps should've been separated from a genuine

2025-10-30 View on X

TheStreet

Crypto media company Blockworks is closing its newsroom, launched in 2021, and will focus on software and data, continuing its main newsletters and podcasts

Pooja Rajkumari / TheStreet :

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@soneium wtf is this chatgpt buzzword vomit? literally 10 tweets in the thread and haven't explained anything, why does this need to exist and what problem is it solving that all the other general purpose L2s built on the same stack aren't?

2024-08-23 View on X

VentureBeat

Sony Block Solutions Labs, a joint venture between Sony and Web3 developer Startale, launches Soneium, a Layer 2 blockchain for creators, developers, and more

Sony Group and Startale unveiled development of the Soneium blockchain to accelerate Web3 Innovation.

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Apple focusing on mental health 👏🏽 This is really wonderful to see tbh. Digital journals, meditative practices, and mindfulness techniques enabled through tech can play an incredible role. We genuinely love to see this.

2023-06-06 View on X

TechCrunch

Apple announces watchOS 10 with an updated UI, including new widgets, Group FaceTime Audio, new fitness and health features, mood tracking, and topographic maps

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :

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Coinbase is launching an L2 called Base. Rip everyone expecting an airdrop. But chain wars just got more exciting 🫣

2023-02-24 View on X

CoinDesk

Coinbase launches Base, a Layer 2 network built on Optimism's OP Stack, offering access to Ethereum, Solana, and others, and has no plans for new network tokens

Sign up and get crypto Explore Learn Individuals Businesses Developers Company Sign … The Optimism Collective : Optimism Goes m̶u̶l̶t̶i̶ Superchain Tyler Pearson / DL News : SBF hi...

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Coinbase is launching an L2 called Base. Rip everyone expecting an airdrop. But chain wars just got more exciting 🫣

2023-02-23 View on X

CoinDesk

Coinbase launches Base, a Layer 2 network using Optimism's OP Stack, offering access to Ethereum, Solana, and others, and has no plans for new network tokens

Crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) launched Base, a layer 2 network built using Optimism's OP Stack, to attract millions of new crypto users in the coming years.

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Going after Yuga Labs instead of the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Citadel, and Blackrock just shows the world that SEC doesn't care about justice, consumer protection, or financial regulation. SEC cares about asserting dominance and ensuring TradFi continues to maintain full control.

2022-10-12 View on X

Bloomberg

Source: the US SEC is investigating whether Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, violated securities laws by selling its NFTs and ApeCoins

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Yuga Labs Inc., the creator of the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club collection of NFTs …

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OpenSea has 100s of Millions from the 2.5% + multiple rounds of funding, yet there is: - 0 customer support - 0 communication/transparency - 0 standardization of protocol/policies They keep pretending to be pioneers of Web3, but have 0 idea what Web3 means. We need change ASAP. https://twitter.com/...

2022-01-05 View on X

New York Times

NFT marketplace OpenSea raises a $300M Series C led by Paradigm and Coatue at a $13.3B post-money valuation

OpenSea, one of the most talked about blockchain start-ups in Silicon Valley, said on Tuesday that had it raised $300 million in new venture capital, making it the latest company …

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