Current Status of SocialFi Development: Opportunities and Challenges Coexist, Huge Potential for the Future

Current Status and Future Prospects of SocialFi Development

SocialFi, as a combination of blockchain technology and social networks, is still in its early stages of development. Although its market capitalization accounts for only one-thousandth of the total cryptocurrency market, considering the strong monetization capabilities of Web2 social platforms, SocialFi still has significant growth potential in the future.

Exploring SocialFi: Who Will Lead the Next Social Revolution?

The concept of SocialFi can be traced back to 2017, but it was not able to be implemented on a large scale due to technical limitations at that time. In 2021, driven by the DeFi craze, SocialFi experienced a resurgence, leading to a wave of new projects. In 2023, projects like Friend.tech have drawn attention, but the short-term enthusiasm is difficult to sustain.

Exploring SocialFi: Who Will Lead the Next Social Revolution?

Currently, active SocialFi projects are mainly divided into two categories:

  1. Social protocols and graphs: such as Lens Protocol, Farcaster, CyberConnect, etc., dedicated to building decentralized social infrastructure.

  2. Social applications: such as Phaver, Warpcast, etc., developed specific applications based on social protocols.

Exploring SocialFi: Who Will Lead the Next Social Revolution?

Compared to traditional social platforms, SocialFi has advantages in protecting user privacy and promoting the redistribution of traffic value. However, the high entry threshold is the main factor restricting its development.

Exploring SocialFi: Who will lead the next social revolution?

Future SocialFi projects require:

  1. Lower the usage threshold and optimize user experience.
  2. Improve the token incentive mechanism to attract high-quality content creation.
  3. Explore sustainable business models

Although there is currently no true killer application for SocialFi, with the advancement of blockchain technology and the improvement of user awareness, SocialFi is expected to lead a new round of social revolution in the future.

Exploring SocialFi: Who will lead the next social revolution?

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PaperHandsCriminalvip
· 08-15 01:57
Cryptocurrency Trading suckers界天花板 已All in drop to zero三次
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GateUser-aa7df71evip
· 08-14 23:28
The ones doing SocialFi want to play people for suckers again.
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HappyToBeDumpedvip
· 08-13 17:40
The death mower is still buying the dip.
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NFTRegrettervip
· 08-13 17:39
Everything has been overcooked.
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FOMOmonstervip
· 08-13 17:30
It's just hype.
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ContractFreelancervip
· 08-13 17:19
Hype after hype, yet another round of Be Played for Suckers.
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