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Tom Mitchelhill7 hours ago‘I give it six to eight weeks’ — Critics warn friend.tech hype won’t lastMost crypto industry heavyweights have been bullish about the new decentralized social media app friend.tech, but some critics warn it"s getting too hot too quickly.3371 Total views25 Total sharesListen to article 0:00NewsJoin us on social networksFriend.tech, a new decentralized social media (DeSo) app, has rapidly become one of the hottest new things in crypto, with over 64,000 new users and more than 24,000 ETH in trading volume since its beta version launch of Aug. 11. 


While many crypto industry heavyweights have praised the app for bringing thousands of people on-chain and inspiring sign-ups from even non-crypto figures — such as gaming YouTuber Faze Banks and Russian protest group Pussy Riot — some have warned it’s at risk of burning out.


Built on Coinbase’s layer-2 network Base, friend.tech is a platform that allows users to purchase shares of their friends and influencers, which in turn grants them access to a private chat with that user.


Speaking to Cointelegraph, crypto commentator Yazan pointed out a number of troubling factors that led him to believe the app has between six and eight weeks before both share prices and general activity begin to nosedive.Let me tell you one thing.

Something isn’t right about @friendtech.

Creators making money from a group chat that doesn’t even work when you can’t even reply directly to people?

The way pricing works is ridiculous and can be easily taken advantage of.

Pumps and dumps. pic.twitter.com/TJqcktEM6P— Yazan (@YazanXBT) August 20, 2023


Yazan argued there has been an unsustainable rate at which share prices have increased.


“The fucked up market making that guarantees that the app makes the most money along with creators — the price goes up too fast,” he said.“How come there’s 100 holders and the price is 1 ETH — 1 ETH to be able to see a private chat?”


According to pseudonymous software engineer Cygaar in an Aug. 20 X thread, the price of someone’s shares on friend.tech is proportional to the square of the outstanding supply. As the supply increases, the price increases exponentially.It looks daunting, so let's simplify it. Let's assume that you only want to buy/sell a single share (amount = 1). This is also known as the spot price.

Using our middle school algebra skills, we can expand out the function and we'll get:

price = supply^2 / 16000— cygaar (@0xCygaar) August 19, 2023


Drawing parallels to BitClout — a predecessor DeSo app from 2021 — pseudonymous Web3 marketer Legendary shared his bearish prediction on the longevity of Friend.tech.


“I think the platform will collapse as BitClout did. We are in a bear market, and there’s nothing to do. Everyone jumps on an opportunity to make money, but I think the platform will be done within the next weeks to months,” he wrote.The bull case for friend.tech


Others however, shared a far more positive outlook on the new decentralized social media platform, praising it for its novel developments in UX for crypto applications — something that crypto app developers have long struggled to get right.


David Phelps, the co-founder of Jokerace and EcoDAO, described Friend.tech’s UX as the “greatest crypto has seen,” pointing to three main factors as to why the app was such a significant breakthrough for crypto.


Firstly, the app doesn’t require users to download via an app store account, which points more strongly to the idea of decentralization. Secondly, it bridges the funds to the app automatically, reducing the need for convoluted transactions.


Finally, the app allows users to deposit their ETH once and then buy and sell shares without ever having to sign a transaction again. The constant need to verify transactions via Metamask signatures has been a major criticism of many DApps in the crypto space.


Related: Friend.tech generates over $1M fees in 24h, surpassing Uniswap, Bitcoin networks


Regardless of the varied predictions concerning the app"s future success or failure, there’s no denying that it has taken crypto by storm.


On Aug. 19, Friendtech announced that it had received seed round funding from crypto venture capital firm Paradigm, sparking a wave of speculation over a future airdrop and potential token launch.Earlier this year, we partnered with @paradigm to build tools for new online social interactions.

We're grateful for the community's warm reception and excited to continue growing with you all pic.twitter.com/yINDMXkpuZ— friend.tech (@friendtech) August 18, 2023


Accordingto data from DefiLlama, Friend.tech has generated $1.42 million in fees in the last 24 hours and $4.2 million since its public launch.Total Friend.tech fees and revenue since launch. Source: DeFiLlama


At the time of publication, the total revenue for the project stands at $1.88 million, and it has witnessed over 724,000 transactions from more than 64,500 unique traders.


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