The improvement staff of the social network good friends.tech has earned nearly twenty million bucks in just a couple of months considering the fact that the platform’s launch.
Launched in August 2023, buddy.tech promptly attracted end users with the concept of selling tokens (known as keys) linked to the user’s Twitter account with ETH on Coinbase’s layer-two base. The keys also provide owners one of a kind privileges with influencers (KOLs).
Despite remaining a “newbie”, the venture is now the foremost application in terms of income produced on Base and in 2nd location in the complete cryptocurrency market, in accordance to information from DeFiLlama. At the present charge, good friends.tech’s estimated yearly income is $180 million.
TVL statistics, commissions on earnings earned and quantity of new end users of good friends.tech considering the fact that launch. Source: DeFiLlama
To date, this social network has produced just about $forty million in commission income from end users. Half of the complete compensation is offered to the venture staff as income, the other half is sent to end users whose keys are exchanged.
Under the stress of applications that place themselves as rivals on other chains (e.g Star Arena on Avalanche or PostTech on Arbitrum), good friends.tech nevertheless holds the upper hand in terms of day-to-day volume in the total SocialFi section. However, the quantity of new end users has dropped drastically considering the fact that the finish of September, as Coinlive when compiled.
In addition to the over-outlined earnings, anonymous good friends.tech founder “0xRacer” has also earned additional than USD 440,000 from the platform, in accordance to on-chain information compiled on Dune.
In contrast to its achievements, good friends.tech has lately faced a lot of issues linked to safety troubles. On October three, two SIM swap attacks occurred towards good friends.tech. As a consequence, hackers have swap SIMsacquired accessibility and stole 22 ETH (equivalent to 35,000 USD).
As of October four, there have been also four other end users who fell victim to this style of assault, resulting in the hacker going on to pocket 234 ETH. The venture later on extra the potential for end users to switch in between telephone quantity and electronic mail. These incidents are reminiscent of the good friends.tech incident that exposed the information of 101,000 end users in early August.
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