ChainCatcher news, Mask Network founder Suji Yan pointed out on Twitter that despite the heated discussions around decentralized social networks, the Arweave publishing feature of Mirror.xyz has been down for nearly two weeks during Token 2049, and almost no one is paying attention.It is reported that Mirror.xyz is a blockchain-based decentralized content publishing platform that utilizes Arweave technology for data storage.

ChainCatcher news, according to DL News, Cardano blockchain founder Charles Hoskinson stated in a post on X that after the Brazilian Supreme Court banned Elon Musk's social media platform X, he plans to launch a decentralized social media platform in Brazil.He stated: "Although Brazil has silenced our X platform's siblings, their work will continue and is important for all of us. I can't wait to recruit many Brazilians to help us build a decentralized social network."It is reported that the X platform has 20 million users in Brazil, but after the court ordered the suspension of the platform, many users in Brazil have been unable to access it due to Musk's refusal to designate a legal representative to handle matters related to the Brazilian government.

ChainCatcher news, according to Fortune magazine, decentralized social network tool provider Neynar has completed a $11 million Series A funding round, led by Haun Ventures, with participation from a16z, CSX, Coinbase Ventures, and Union Square Ventures.Additionally, the Web3 asset data platform RootData shows that Neynar is the simplest way to build on Farcaster, allowing developers to use Neynar's infrastructure to develop building blocks for the Farcaster protocol. The Neynar API can be used to read and write Farcaster data (profiles, casts, feeds, etc.).

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, Jack Dorsey has left the board of the decentralized social network Bluesky. A year ago, he helped fund and promote the service out of regret over Twitter's sale to Musk. The Twitter co-founder has been promoting his new charitable donation for open internet protocols on the platform owned by Musk (now renamed X), which he describes as "freedom technology." He also added X to such technologies, simply detailing that businesses can also build on open protocols.Dorsey has narrowed down his list of people he follows on X to three: Musk, Edward Snowden, and Stella Assange, the wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher. This indicates a noticeable warming of the relationship between X's owner and Dorsey, who posted on Bluesky a year ago that "everything got worse" after Musk took over Twitter and completely transformed it.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized social network Formless announced the completion of over $2.2 million in Pre-Seed funding, with participation from a16z crypto, Contango Digital Assets, Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal, Beacon Accelerator, WAGMIventures, MH Ventures, Knights Capital, and others. This funding will drive our commitment to advancing the development of the Share protocol.According to the crypto data platform RootData, Formless is a decentralized network and digital space that empowers individuals to connect, create, collaborate, and share in a multi-person digital economy, focusing on the development of decentralized media applications called Share Protocol. Share is a digital content distribution engine that utilizes peer-to-peer, pay-per-access microtransactions for decentralized distribution on the blockchain.

ChainCatcher news, according to moneycontrol, Meta has revealed via email that it is attempting to create "an independent decentralized social network for sharing text updates."According to leaks, the project is codenamed P92, is still in its early stages, and there is no exact release date yet, while Adam Mosseri, who oversees Instagram operations, is leading the project. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized social network Bluesky, supported by Jack Dorsey, has announced that it now supports user-customized domain name registration. Currently, this domain name system is built on the existing DNS infrastructure.Previously reported, on March 1, the Twitter alternative Bluesky, supported by Jack Dorsey, has released an invite-only beta version in the App Store. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey donated approximately 14.17 BTC (about $245,000) to the decentralized social network Nostr to further fund its development.Nostr is an open protocol designed to create a censorship-resistant global social network. The protocol does not rely on trusted central servers; instead, all users run a client. Using this client, users can publish content by writing posts, signing them with their private keys, and sending them to other servers, which then relay the content. (source link)