Quidli launched Connect, an open payments system that lets AI agents send tokens to people or other agents by resolving social handles from Telegram, Discord, Farcaster, X, GitHub, LinkedIn, email, an…
Neynar is acquiring Farcaster, the decentralized social protocol, and returning $180 million to investors as co-founders Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan step back from daily operations at Merkle Manuf…
Meta is reportedly considering allowing AI-powered accounts to operate on Facebook, a move that would fundamentally alter the social contract on the platform with roughly three billion users. The comp…
Meta has rolled out its Meta AI chatbot into Threads direct messages, giving the platform's 500 million monthly active users the ability to have private AI-powered conversations. The integration, whic…
Coinbase's Layer-2 blockchain Base is pivoting from social media to trading, payments, and AI agents after its social features failed. Jesse Pollak, head of protocols at Coinbase and creator of Base, …
Jesse Pollak is stepping back from leading the Base App, handing responsibility back to Coinbase, after admitting that the network's emphasis on on-chain social and creator coins was a strategic mista…
Base creator Jesse Pollak admitted the network's bet on onchain social products failed and handed the Base App back to Coinbase, where Jordan Fish (Cobie) will lead its next phase. Pollak said Base wi…