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Redefining Social Interaction with Meme Coins
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As crypto assets are gaining acceptance in the traditional financial industry, market dynamics are progressively shifting towards a more retail-oriented approach. Perhaps influenced by the GameStop incident, the meme coin sector has caught the attention of Gen Z, gradually transitioning from being considered alternative assets to essential components within the mainstream investment landscape.
According to CoinMarketCap, meme coins account for about 2% of the entire crypto market. The underlying reason for the meme craze is that institution-dominated value projects have become less attractive due to high valuations and the selling pressure from continuous unlocking, leading to decreased retail participation. As institutions and retail investors avoid buying from each other, meme projects have become the market’s focal point.
The key issue is the weakening wealth effect rather than a conflict between institutions and retail investors. The crucial problem is matching projects with users.
Match is a social platform based on AI and big data technology, aiming to establish an efficient value-based social network enabled by the wealth effect of meme coins. By constructing a sustainable value-based social ecosystem, Match deeply understands how to integrate user needs and economic mechanisms to promote both social interaction and economic returns. Match provides privacy-protected social functions and powerful AI capabilities, enabling users to securely manage their social data assets across various Web 3.0 applications, thereby achieving true value-based social networking.
The social networking market has always been in high growth, making it one of the most competitive fields. Recent data shows that there are 5.07 billion social media users globally, accounting for 62.6% of the world’s population. According to Ecwid, the number of social media users grew from 1.72 billion in 2013 to 4.76 billion in 2023, with a compound annual growth rate of 10.72%.
Despite its vast potential, the social networking market has high entry barriers. Walter Isaacson, a renowned author who has written biographies for Einstein, Jobs, and Kissinger, has a viewpoint on social networking: “Almost every digital tool, whether designed for it or not, was commandeered by humans for a social purpose”. But they must first be effective tools to create social opportunities. Therefore, recent social networking applications like Clubhouse and Damus quickly rose and fell due to the lack of unique tool attributes.
Match’s design is different from previous ones; it is a SocialFi application based on meme coins. Similar to social networking, meme culture is rooted in fundamental human needs. Any type of viral cultural transmission can form a meme culture. When meme culture combines with cryptocurrency, it creates meme coins.
Meme coins inherently have social spreading value. Match introduces new gameplay, creating strong community consensus through the resonance of Meme culture to drive ecosystem development. Match is about to issue its exclusive meme coin, RFG. RFG not only creates wealth effects but also attracts a large number of users, laying a solid foundation for social interaction on the platform. By leveraging its meme coin, RFG, Match will accumulate substantial user data, providing a solid foundation for subsequent AI analysis and social interaction.
In its development into an innovative value-based social ecosystem, Match follows four stages: Departure, Sailing, Breaking Waves, and Voyage. In the “Departure” stage, Match focuses on decentralized auction, social matching and mining, and the development of backend services. In the “Sailing” stage, Match enters a period of rapid expansion and application innovation. After launching basic functions, the platform promotes community building and promotional activities.
In the “Breaking Waves” stage, Match will further expand RFG’s application scenarios and deeply integrate AI technology into its infrastructure. RFG’s application covers multiple fields, including finance and social networking, meeting users’ diverse needs with innovative financial products and services. Through rich application scenarios, Match achieves both user scale and platform value growth. Match also introduces an on-chain DID system and social accessories to activate and amplify personal social value. By bringing in more SocialFi services and partners, Match continuously expands its ecosystem and drives global development.
In the “Voyage” stage, Match will complete the construction of a comprehensive service ecosystem, advancing to higher development levels. The platform offers diverse AI services, including intelligent advisory, personalized recommendations, and risk assessments, helping users make more informed decisions in complex market environments.
Match also utilizes ZK technology for privacy capabilities, addressing trust issues with off-chain data and computations. Users can share data confidentially within a trustless settlement layer, ensuring data privacy. ZK applications allow users to create confidential on-chain identities in a modular manner, surpassing traditional data obfuscation methods. Off-chain security guarantees provided by ZK technology ensure the integrity and expected state of vast off-chain data and computations.
Meme coins currently hold a market cap of around USD 49 billion. Match combines SocialFi with meme coins, forging a new value-based social ecosystem. Building upon the wealth effects of meme coins, Match attracts users and encourages them to engage in social activities, enabling value exchange and wealth amplification among users with SocialFi mechanisms. This innovative model not only attracts a large user base but also enhances long-term user retention and activity.
However, meme coins are community-driven and rely on community enthusiasm and hype, lacking sustainable development mechanisms for the long haul. How can Match sustain itself when interest in meme coins fades?
After accumulating data in the first stage, Match will use AI technology as its core driving force. Through intelligent data monitoring, precise user profiling, and AI-driven recommendation engines, Match helps users identify lucrative investment opportunities amidst the ocean of information, improving investment decision efficiency and reducing operational costs.
The success of meme coins often involves inevitability and chance. In the second stage, Match aims to help users seize early opportunities through AI. For example, when CCTV featured the meme coin SAMO, its community hype led to a 500% price surge. Similarly, the pre-sale of Darkfarm’s BOME surpassed expectations. By leveraging AI, such events can be identified, analyzed, and capitalized on.
Currently, Match is still in the early stages of AI training with limited data sets. As the volume and quality of data improve, Match may experience a breakthrough moment for SocialFi similar to the iPhone’s launch.
Additionally, Match plans to introduce a modular social layer to nurture a sustainable ecosystem. In the future, Match will be compatible with various mainstream public chains, allowing seamless integration of data and functionalities. This means that users can enjoy a unified, seamless social experience on the Match platform, regardless of the public chain they use. Furthermore, Match aims to evolve as the ideal platform for social IDOs. Through intelligent recommendations and precise matching, Match provides project teams with high-quality authentic users, facilitating swift traffic and user aggregation for projects on public chains. This not only improves the efficiency and success rate of token issuance but also enhances user engagement via social interactions, forming a sustainable ecosystem.
By harmonizing the four core pillars of wealth, traffic, social interaction, and information, Match forges a powerful value flywheel.
In the rapidly evolving and cacophonous blockchain domain, AI is often more of a gimmick rather than a practical tool. Match seeks to integrate AI into meme coins and SocialFi to deliver tangible applications, potentially heralding a fresh wave of transformation.
By utilizing AI for intelligent data monitoring and analysis, Match creates precise user profiles and offers tailored strategies to guide users toward profitable investments amidst vast information streams.
By analyzing social media trends, discussion scales, and on-chain data, Match’s AI delineates authentic project potential across multifaceted dimensions, distinguishing between retail and project-oriented buyers, empowering users to make more informed trading decisions. Besides, Match’s AI enables real-time access to project insights, saving users research time and helping them seize investment opportunities. The integration of AI not only improves the platform’s service quality but also provides users with personalized social experiences.
Moreover, Match’s AI can craft tailored strategies based on user profiles. Whether users are looking for quick profits, interested in memes, or are seasoned investors, Match’s AI provides bespoken recommendations and helps project teams devise more effective marketing strategies. In a cacophony of information, Match’s AI filters out valuable insights, providing value to users and addressing user retention issues. This not only increases user engagement but also enhances user loyalty.
Through AI-driven recommendations and precise matching, Match provides project teams with high-quality authentic users, making it the ideal platform for social IDOs. The deep integration of social interaction and finance allows users to enjoy the fun of socializing while earning considerable investment returns. Through in-depth AI-based analysis over social interaction data of users, Match generates precise user profiles and personalized recommendation strategies, offering more targeted services to meet different user needs. Moreover, Match uses social interaction data to create soul identities and on-chain credit certificates, further enhancing user trust and security on the platform. This approach not only improves user experience but also reduces costs and increases efficiency.
As Match accumulates more data and users, AI will provide more assistance to both users and project teams. For example, AI can aid in identifying product strengths and weaknesses for targeted optimization and improvements. It can also design more intelligent and personalized financial products to meet diverse user needs. Just like OpenAI, by increasing parameter training data sets, Match aims to trigger an AI revolution through qualitative changes brought by quantitative accumulation.
Surveying the industry’s social applications, from the early ONO to BM’s Voice, the common goal was to attract users to these new platforms for token rewards. However, this narrative has been debunked. The hurdle lies not in the veracity of Web 3.0 + social interaction but in the lofty costs associated with user migration from giants like Sina Weibo and Twitter. Even Sina Weibo’s own pictorial social platform, Oasis, faded quickly, illustrating the challenge.
An alternative approach entails leveraging niche appeal, akin to Douban or the present-day Farcaster, catering to specific user groups without attempting to supplant other social platforms.
In Web 3.0’s landscape, where trading takes a central stage, social applications can explore this facet, as exemplified by Match. Preceding Match, Friend.tech emerged with a viable proposition akin to exclusive circles where users believed prominent influencers could unlock wealth. However, Friend.tech merely attracted users through wealth effects without resolving the core query of user retention. Match aims to fill this gap.
Imagine such an offering: AI streamlines redundant social information for you, identifies investment projects that align with your flair, and offers you with passive SocialFi income while you are trading. Would you embrace this offering? This epitomizes the essence of most users’ demands in Web 3.0, a pain point Match solves.
At the heart of any application lies user retention; users are the linchpin for all endeavors, especially in the realm of social platforms. Presently, valuations of most prevalent social applications stay under USD 1 billion. To sustain these valuations, project teams must incessantly helm operations to enhance user retention. Conversely, Match, possessing an innate ability to naturally draw and retain a substantial user base, could potentially command valuations surpassing these figures by a wide margin, possibly even breaching the hundred-billion-dollar mark.
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Nobody Kidnapped Ledger Co-Founder Eric Larchevêque
In a bizarre development, an alleged kidnapping story of Ledger co-founder Eric Larchevêque is apparently a hoax. There is little information about Larchevêque‘s current whereabouts, but a “Justice for Eric” meme coin launched and crashed.
This strange episode took off like wildfire through crypto social media, but there was apparently not a scrap of proof.
Who Kidnapped Eric Larchevêque?
Ledger, a hardware wallet firm based in France, has experienced some difficulties recently. Its most recent major headlines were related to phishing scams targeting its users. However, today’s incident is far more dramatic.
According to local media, Ledger’s co-founder Eric Larchevêque was kidnapped. The report even alleged that the criminals demanded Bitcoin as a ransom.
This incident raises a lot of questions. For one, Larchevêque hasn’t been involved with Ledger since resigning in 2019. It appears that the kidnapping was staged, but this claim comes from an odd source.
Eventhough the rumor spread like a wildfire across social media, Larchevêque didn’t make any posts clarifying his current state. He’s a fairly active user on X (formerly Twitter), yet his last post was over 24 hours ago.
Instead, local crypto reporter Grégory Raymond stated that it was a hoax.
“We are able to assure that Eric Larchevêque (co-founder of Ledger) is not involved in the kidnapping rumor about him. Be careful with published information that could threaten an ongoing investigation in France and possibly someone else’s life,” Raymond claimed.
He added that “Eric is safe,” but was unable to communicate any other updates. This news did little to alleviate the community’s concerns and indeed only raised further questions.
If Larchevêque isn’t party to this kidnapping, then who is, and who would pretend to kidnap an ex-employee of Ledger?
The firm has been riddled with controversy over the last few years, but this incident takes the cake. Since Larchevêque and the original founders departed, Ledger’s new CEO received a lot of bad press over security concerns.
Also, back in 2023, the firm carried out massive layoffs. However, issues like this wouldn’t explain a fake kidnapping scandal.
Meanwhile, the story was viral enough for meme coin enthusiasts to jump in. An anonymous user launched a “Justice for Eric” meme coin on Solana, but its market cap cratered almost immediately.
Whoever launched it may be totally unrelated to the incident and only intending to do a quick rug pull. It still doesn’t answer any of the biggest lingering questions.
Ultimately, wherever Larchevêque is, or whatever reason Ledger’s name keeps coming up, this hoax highlights a growing issue in crypto. Several popular X accounts immediately began circulating this kidnapping story, even though there was no proof.
This entire episode may be more of a misunderstanding than a deliberate hoax, but it spread like wildfire all the same. The correct details of this story will only surface when Larchevêque gives an update on social media.
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Lido Founder Lomashuk Promotes Second Ethereum Foudnation
Lido founder Konstantin Lomashuk created a “Second Foundation” for Ethereum as the blockchain is going through leadership debacles.
The only material from this account remains vague, but a closer look at Lomashuk’s social media provides insight. In all likelihood, this Second Foundation will help promote decentralized ideals against the “bag-chasing” culture of modern crypto.
Lomashuk’s Goals For Second Foundation
Konstantin Lomashuk, founder of Lido and P2P.org, announced today on social media that he had created a “Second Foundation” for Ethereum.
This came after the Ethereum Foundation (EF) started undergoing a significant leadership transformation. Earlier today, veteran developer Eric Conner resigned from the project.
So far, Lomashuk’s intentions for this Second Foundation remain somewhat obscure. The actual announcement consisted of the phrase “hello world computer,” but the new account has no official description.
However, by looking at some of the material Lomachuk has been reposting lately, some insights into his thought process become clearer:
“The future of the world computer is decentralized. EF is only one part of the world computer. Perhaps the org that some people want to reform and bring back to new greater heights is actually not EF. The foundation should not ‘midcurve’, it should confidently represent the aspects of Ethereum that it can be effective at representing,” Vitalik Buterin said.
Also, Lomashuk said that comments about the growing scam culture in crypto “completely resonate” with him, providing insights into what he wants this Second Foundation to achieve.
For Lomashuk, this may be an opportune moment to divert his attention to the Second Foundation; Lido has been performing well lately.
“Vitalik, the best thing you could do right now imo is to spin out the R&D support functions from the EF into their own org and allow the existing Foundation to focus on ecosystem development and support this would be the best way to demonstrate a commitment towards decentralization,” a popular Ethereum investor wrote.
It’s evident that EF is experiencing a leadership crisis. At the same time, Ethereum has been plagued by declining demand, and EF is considering using staking to pay expenses. This would end a years-long taboo on taking a firm side in a future hard fork.
Ultimately, however, Lomashuk intends to proceed, the Second Foundation’s broad goals seem legible. Since the crypto market received massive cash flows and institutional acceptance last year, the space has transformed drastically.
Nonetheless, he expressed continued faith in the original vision of digital currency: a tool to build radically decentralized structures.
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Why These Altcoins Are Trending Today — January 22
With Donald Trump assuming office as the US President, the crypto market has experienced heightened volatility. While some altcoins have surged, others have faced significant crashes, and many are gaining attention due to recent developments.
BeInCrypto has analyzed three altcoins that have been trending over the past 24 hours and explored what might lie ahead for them in the coming days.
United States Donald Trump (TRUMP)
TRUMP has captured significant attention this week as the official cryptocurrency token of US President Donald Trump. Since its launch, the token has gained immense traction and is now ranked 24th among the top 100 cryptocurrencies, marking a swift rise in prominence within the market.
The token recently hit an all-time high (ATH) of $79 and is currently trading at $41. If TRUMP can secure $45 as a support level, it may resume its upward momentum and make another attempt at its ATH, signaling strong bullish sentiment among investors.
However, profit-taking could pressure the token, preventing it from surpassing $45. A drop below this critical level could lead to a decline under $34, potentially invalidating the bullish outlook. In a worst-case scenario, TRUMP might fall to $26, reflecting a significant shift in market sentiment.
World (WLD)
World (WLD) captured investor attention following the announcement of Sam Altman’s OpenAI collaboration with Oracle and SoftBank. Together, they plan to invest $500 billion in US AI infrastructure under the Stargate Project, supported by President Trump. This strategic move has bolstered confidence in WLD, positioning it as a trending altcoin.
WLD’s price surged by 12% in the past 24 hours, driven by the positive sentiment surrounding this partnership. This rally could enable the altcoin to reclaim its 4-month-old uptrend line as support. If achieved, WLD might target $2.55 in the coming days, reinforcing its bullish momentum.
However, if WLD fails to breach the $2.17 resistance, it risks losing traction and falling back to $2.00 or lower. A further decline to $1.74 could completely invalidate the bullish outlook, signaling a potential shift in market sentiment against the cryptocurrency.
Bonk (BONK)
BONK has surged into the spotlight following the inauguration of the US Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E.), which spurred renewed interest in dog-themed meme coins. This development has elevated BONK’s status in the crypto market, drawing significant attention from both retail and institutional investors seeking speculative opportunities.
The token recorded an 8% increase, trading at $0.00003236 and eyeing $0.00003151 as a critical support level. Securing this floor would strengthen the meme coin’s recovery prospects, potentially attracting more bullish momentum.
However, failure to hold the $0.00003151 support could lead to a decline toward $0.00002748. This drop would only invalidate the bullish outlook and also signal a broader loss of confidence in the token’s recovery potential.
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