The DeSo Mission
Simply put, our mission is to decentralize social media the same way Bitcoin and Ethereum are decentralizing the financial world.
But why is that important? 🧵👇
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The Social Layer 
A new layer-1 blockchain built from the ground up to decentralize social media and put the power back in the users hands.
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Twitter might share a tiny portion from its add revenue with creators. But it would never do this.
Just things 🙌🏾
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Tomorrow is day 1 of the Princeton x DeSo Startup Competition!
Students attending Princeton will showcase their skills in front of legendary investors, seasoned founders, and more.
Let the building begin 🛠️💙
RSVP to the livestream here:
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DeSo v3.1.1 aka The Social Network Hard Fork is coming to DeSo Mainnet next week!
These new features and enhancements are available to preview on testnet 👇
github.com/deso-protocol/
Please like and retweet to ensure the community is informed and ready ahead of these changes 💙
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DeSo's on-chain user and post associations unlock infinite new possibilities with a single new transaction type!
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How do you build on-chain social graphs beyond just “follows”?
Associations introduce a new paradigm for on-chain reputation that can be used for:
Verifications
Endorsements
Blocks
Reactions
Friend Requests
Polls
Scoreboards
And more…diamondapp.com/u/deso/blog/as
Verifications
Endorsements
Blocks
Reactions
Friend Requests
Polls
Scoreboards
And more…diamondapp.com/u/deso/blog/as2
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How do you build on-chain social graphs beyond just “follows”?
Associations introduce a new paradigm for on-chain reputation that can be used for:
✅Verifications
✅Endorsements
✅Blocks
✅Reactions
✅Friend Requests
✅Polls
✅Scoreboards
And more…
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🤯 Nearly 30,000 micro tips earned by creators YESTERDAY on apps like built on the social blockchain 🥳🚀
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To learn more about the Hard Fork, check out our latest blog post:
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The Social Network Hard Fork is one you won't want to miss.
It goes live on Monday, February 6th, 2023, at 9am* PT, with the block height set to 205386 (subject to the speed at which blocks mine).
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Access Groups (3/3):
Users will be able to interact with each other on other apps that integrate DeSo Chat.
Anyone can message across applications and blockchains using DeSo chat.
This even includes Ethereum addresses with ENS support.
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What if there was an on-chain messaging protocol that supported one-click login with MetaMask?
What if it had integrations lined up with major NFT platforms?
What if it was launching next week? 
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Access Groups (2/3):
With DeSo Chat you'll be able to add and remove users to your group chats.
Groups can scale to thousands of members, and those users will be able to see all previous messages on new devices.
DeSo Chat can become a “universal communicator” for all web3.
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Access Groups (1/3):
DeSo will also enable on-chain private key distribution so users can securely share private-keys material with others on-chain.
You'll be able to enjoy on-chain end-to-end encrypted direct-messaging (DM) and group chats.
AKA the DeSo Chat Protocol 💬
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Associations (3/3):
Additional on-chain use cases will be introduced with Associations including:
• Polls
• Tagging
• Flagging
• Blocking
• Reporting
• Endorsing
• Scoreboards
• Emoji Reactions
• Friend Requests
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Associations (2/3):
This introduces Decentralized Verification.
We no longer have to rely on centralized entities like Twitter/Instagram to hand out checkmarks.
Users can now build and distribute trust together.
Read more here.
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Associations (1/3):
In an on-chain world, users need to be able to build trust in a decentralized manner.
Associations allows users to create new on-chain relationships by connecting with other users or content in all sorts of verifiable ways.
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The DeSo blockchain will be undergoing a major upgrade introducing some game-changing features.
This includes two important feature upgrades in particular:
1. Associations
2. Access Groups
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The world of on-chain social is about to change forever.
✅ On-Chain Group Messaging
✅ Decentralized Verifications
✅ Cross-Chain Communities
✅ On-Chain Encrypted Content
This will all be possible beginning February 6th.
Announcing: The Social Network Hard Fork 🧵
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I earned $75 on today. That's more than what I've earned on Twitter in over 8 years.
Sync your tweets to decentralized social media and start earning too!
diamondapp.com/twitter-sync
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Cross-chain wallet-to-wallet messaging incoming 👀
The DeSo Chat Protocol upgrade is about to change the game!
100% encrypted, and 100% on-chain.
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Infinite Proof-of-Stake 👀
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DeSo has been busy building a ton of protocol-level primitives over the past 1.5 years.
And we're FINALLY getting ready to unleash it onto the world 👀
✅All on-chain
✅All accessible to web2 developers
✅All with ~zero gas-fees
The future of Decentralized Social has arrived!
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Gm, are you ready for some shipping!? 👀💙
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To learn more about this ground-breaking event, head over to deso.com/princeton/!
Startup pitches will be live-streamed, and you can RSVP to watch at the link below.
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This Princeton startup competition is the first of its kind.
But it's not the last!
We have been in contact with other elite universities, such as:
• University of Michigan
• UC Berkeley
• Stanford
• UCLA
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Every Princeton student that attends will be given $50 in crypto, which can be used to contribute to fellow student projects, HODL’ed, etc.
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Throughout the month, students will hear from an all-star cast of judges and speakers including:
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Powered by , students will compete for cash prizes to disrupt web2 platforms and create the next great decentralized application.
Why Openfund.com? Because it makes launching and funding startups as easy as creating a social media account.
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Beginning February 4th, students will compete for up to $50,000 in prizes and potential funding from DeSo and the legendary Venture Capital Firms in attendance.
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We chose to host the inaugural startup competition at Princeton due to its strong reputation for producing top crypto founders.
(stacks)
(Galaxy)
(Pantera)
(ConsenSys)
Plus, the founder of DeSo himself, !
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The Princeton x DeSo Startup Competition is a four-week hackathon-style event made for students looking to create and launch the Next Big Thing.
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Princeton University has produced some of the most successful founders in crypto.
Who will be a part of the next generation?
We are hosting a first-of-its-kind event to find out.
Announcing: Princeton x DeSo Web3 Startup Competition 🧵
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Decentralized Social media is inevitable.
Keep building 🛠️💙🛠️
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Exchange listings are great… but just wait until you see everything we're about to start shipping 😎💙🛠️
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Gn, see you tomorrow for another exciting announcement 👀💙😎
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🤩#BitMart is thrilled to announce the listing of
The following trading pair will be available: $DESO/USDT
💎Deposit feature: 01/15/2023 4:00 PM (UTC)
💎Trade feature: 01/17/2023 4:00 PM (UTC)
👉See details: support.bitmart.com/hc/en-us/artic
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2 exchange listings this week 💙
The first round of many this year!
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