Decentralized Social Media

Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban is one of several backers of a pre-seed round of Skylight, a startup seeking to rival TikTok, an app that could have new owners in the U.S. soon. What Happened: Skylight uses the AT Protocol, the same technology that helps social network Bluesky, which is one of...

One of the many potential social media companies that could rival Twitter as the latter sees a handful of changes under its new CEO is Bluesky.  What Happened: Decentralized social media company Bluesky counts Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey as an investor and could be a competitor to...

The recent $44 billion bid for Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) from Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk highlighted the need for an open-source social media protocol for some.  Transparency is one of the fundamental principles of public blockchains and something that many early backers...

By Alex Siman, founder of Subsocial - a Polkadot-based decentralized social network platform The imminent Ethereum London upgrade - as well as the launch of Polkadot and Kusama’s parachains - has done much to keep crypto spirits as markets remain bleak. Parachain candidates are drumming...