Good friend.tech’s income hit $5.6 million on Sept. 9, marking a 30-day excessive for the lately launched blockchain social networking platform, which has regained a few of its misplaced momentum, in response to Token Terminal knowledge.
The robust income is pushed by a gentle enhance in utilization during the last two weeks regardless of a major fall within the hype it initially generated after its launch on the Base blockchain.
Stats
Good friend.tech registered 9,000 Every day Lively Customers (DAUs), with 2,000 new sign-ups on Sept. 9. Alongside this consumer exercise, the platform noticed a buying and selling quantity of $12.3 million, making it the third-highest buying and selling day since its launch.
In the meantime, charges collected by the platform for the day stood at $1.23 million — making it the third highest fee-generating day for any blockchain chain or dApp within the cryptocurrency market.
Based on on-chain knowledge, the platform recorded 92,000 key trades on Sept. 9, whereas the Complete Worth Locked (TVL) stood at $19.73 million. Since its inception, Good friend.tech has attracted 138,169 distinctive consumers.
By way of market dynamics, the mixed market capitalization of all its keys is reported at $57 million. The highest 250 keys account for a market cap of $43 million.
Decline in preliminary hype
Good friend.tech’s beta model made a powerful debut on Coinbase’s layer-2 Base on Aug. 11 and inside 10 days, the platform’s charges skyrocketed — surpassing heavyweights like Uniswap and the Bitcoin community with over $1 million generated in charges inside a single day.
Such meteoric success, nevertheless, proved to be short-lived. By the tip of August, Good friend.tech grappled with an over 87% dip in every day charges and a stark 90% drop in transaction quantity.
At its coronary heart, Good friend.tech’s major innovation lies in permitting customers to purchase and promote “keys.” These keys are a novel idea that permits consumers to ship personal messages to sellers, with the platform profiting by taking a 5% slice of the transaction.
This progressive characteristic piqued the curiosity of a number of high-profile figures, each from the cryptocurrency realm and the broader leisure business. The checklist consists of the likes of the UpOnly podcast host, famend YouTuber Faze Banks, and even the Russian protest ensemble Pussy Riot.
Nonetheless, critics have shortly dissected the explanations behind its fast downturn, with many, together with Coinbase funds threat supervisor Lisandro Rodriguez, attributing it to a mixture of “greed and poor execution.”
