Friend.tech pronounced ‘dead’ after activity and fees tank

Lower than three weeks after its launch, the decentralized social community Good friend.tech has already been declared “lifeless” by critics,  following a latest drop in key metrics equivalent to exercise, inflows and quantity.

Good friend.tech had a buzzy beta model launch on Coinbase’s layer-2 Base on Aug. 11. Every week later, its charges surpassed $1 million in 24 hours on Aug. 19 outshining Uniswap and the Bitcoin community.

Nevertheless, its charges have since cratered. Day by day charges peaked at $1.7 million on Aug. 21, however dropped over 87% to round $215,000 on Aug. 26 in response to DefiLlama.

Transactions on Good friend.tech additionally declined over 90% from the practically 525,000 peak on Aug. 21 with simply over 51,000 transactions on Aug. 27, Dune Analytics information complied by Crypto Koryo reveals, main many on X (Twitter) put up condolences for the community.

RIP Friendtech

August 2023-August 2023 pic.twitter.com/Fb0bh23Fyo

— Beanie (@beaniemaxi) August 26, 2023

Good friend.tech is centered on shopping for and promoting “keys” that allow the client to ship non-public messages to the vendor, with the platform reportedly taking a 5% lower.

It is attracted crypto and non-crypto influencers together with UpOnly podcast host Cobie, YouTuber Faze Banks and Russian protest group Pussy Riot.

In an Aug. 27 X put up, Coinbase funds danger supervisor Lisandro Rodriguez opined that the platform is “lifeless,” due primarily to “greed and poor execution.”

Good friend tech is lifeless due to greed and poor execution. We are able to see that after the preliminary influencer pump quantity has fallen off a cliff. Let’s dig into how this failure got here to be pic.twitter.com/WDQncTQJ21

— Lisandro (@TheRealLisandro) August 27, 2023

Alongside the price decline, patrons and sellers have additionally tanked, with Aug. 27 seeing round 10,000 patrons and seven,800 sellers in comparison with the Aug. 21 peak of over 58,000 patrons and 27,000 sellers, per Dune information.

Dune reveals inflows have additionally taken a dive from the Aug. 21 excessive of $16.eight million with Good friend.tech seeing round $1.6 million on Aug. 27 — a virtually 90.5% lower.

Earlier than the decline over the previous week, some group members had already shared their bearish predictions for the platform.

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Final week, crypto commentator Yazan informed Cointelegraph of things that led him to imagine Good friend.tech had between six to eight weeks earlier than it will see a decline in person key costs and exercise.

Yazan stated the person key worth will increase have been unsustainable and questioned why so many would pay upwards of 1 Ether (ETH) “to have the ability to see a personal chat.”

The platform has drawn parallels to the 2021 DeSo app BitCloud with pseudonymous Web3 marketer Legendary saying he believes Good friend.tech “will collapse as BitClout did.”

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