Yesterday I accidentally stumbled onto a link for a ā€œdecentralized social networkā€ called DeSo (get it?) that apparently raised $200 million from Sequoia, a16z, and Coinbase last year. They (of course) did a token launch and snagged another $75 million from the crowdsale, which is now down 97% from the launch and 85% in just the last year.

I checked it out, and there is literally nothing happening on it. Seems like only a few people post on it per day. You have to set up a wallet before you can even sign in, which is apparently how every blockchain-based social app operates.

People post bad NFTs and complain about spam. Once and a while, the founder checks in to share an update and a few users mock him because there’s absolutely no network effect whatsoever.

What did they do with all the money?

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Had someone claiming to build on this down here a year ago....after a minute or 2 of talking could see he had no idea what he was doing....no logic...shitcoining

"What did they do with all the money?"

Bought Bitcoin I guess.

Imagine all the primal legend subscriptions you could buy with that

They spent them on cocaine, whores and champagne šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

It really amazes me what gets funded sometimes.

I could see the scam being something like this… $200M is the ā€œstickerā€ funding, with the actual release of funds being on a slower timeline with milestones.

But the VCs get their cash back and then some thru the token sale before they put in too much. Then they turn off the cash spigot when it doesn’t go well.

Basically how many of these crypto scams go- VCs found a way to take minimal risk thru token issuances. Many of them are also conveniently in the market making game. It’s all a fugazi.

I just can’t get over how anyone with half a brain can get behind a token-centric product after seeing every previous iteration go up in smoke for basically a decade.

ā€œThis time it’s different!ā€

Zero incentive for anything besides hype