ChainCatcher news, Musk stated that the X platform is working to provide video monetization services for creators, competing with YouTube.

ChainCatcher news, Folius Ventures founder Jason Kam, while participating in the "Navigating Bull and Bear Markets------The Wisdom Behind Investment Revealed by First-Level VCs" Space hosted by RootData, stated that capitalization is the best way to monetize years of hard work by the team. Especially for leading companies in the crypto industry, they can achieve high valuations through capitalization.Jason Kam also mentioned: "Companies need to consider whether the capitalization process will affect their long-term business development. For example, some companies may face a sudden drop in valuation or regulatory risks after issuing tokens, so some enterprises prefer to handle it discreetly to avoid the negative impacts of excessive exposure."

ChainCatcher news, a16z general partner Andrew Chen discussed the commercial potential of ChatGPT on social media. Chen pointed out that OpenAI's ChatGPT has reached an astonishing scale of over 200 million users per week in just a few years. He raised several thought-provoking questions:Has anyone analyzed the per capita search frequency and revenue per display of ChatGPT? If a monetization model similar to Google's advertising is adopted, how might a business like ChatGPT perform?Chen believes that some products with a similar user base (such as the Firefox browser) had annual revenues close to $1 billion at their peak. If ChatGPT is free to use, its monthly active users could increase significantly.He stated that large language model (LLM) products have the potential to disrupt search businesses and may achieve considerable monetization capabilities.Chen also pointed out that it is worth considering whether LLMs will increase the overall search volume or merely capture market share from existing search engines like Google.

ChainCatcher news, the blockchain and AI-driven digital content monetization and ownership platform Creator.bid has announced the completion of a new round of financing, with participation from Mechanism Capital, Zee Prime Capital, Moonrock Capital, Cogitent Ventures, Momentum 6, ID Theory, NxGen.lens, HV Capital, MH Ventures, SkyVision Capital, MQdao, AlfaDAO, Tempo, and Silvermine Capital. The specific amount has not been disclosed.According to reports, Creator.bid supports content creators in building AI-driven digital assets to monetize content and manage writing. In addition, Creator.bid provides tools to enhance creators' autonomy over their work and income management.

ChainCatcher news, Phoenix Group has completed a strategic investment in the social network and content monetization platform Lyvely to strengthen its technology and Web3 portfolio. Lyvely will develop a token that seamlessly integrates into the platform, allowing anyone to profit from online content or services.

ChainCatcher news, Solana ecosystem content monetization protocol Access Protocol announced the completion of a $1.2 million seed round financing, with participation from Sora Ventures, DV Ventures, CMS Holdings, Double Peak Group, and other angel investors.Access Protocol stated that it will focus on developing Access v2, as well as the Scribe and Sketch platforms.

ChainCatcher news, UAE social network and content monetization platform Lyvely has completed its seed round financing, led by Cypher Capital.Lyvely will develop a token that is seamlessly integrated into the platform, allowing anyone to profit from online content or services.

ChainCatcher news, the founder of the public chain Fantom, Andre Cronje, stated on social media that Fantom has launched the Gas monetization feature, which will reward 15% of the Gas fees in the network to eligible dApps. The upcoming development focus will be on Gas subsidies, social identity verification, FVM, and new storage solutions. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Meta's Head of Business and Financial Technology, Stephane Kasriel, tweeted that Meta is now gradually reducing its investment in the NFT business to focus on supporting creators, individuals, and businesses in other ways. Additionally, he stated that Meta will continue to support NFT creators who use Instagram and Facebook to work better, simplifying payments through Meta Pay to make checkout and withdrawals easier, and investing in Meta's messaging payment and monetization services.Stephane Kasriel specifically emphasized that "creating opportunities for creators and businesses to connect with fans and profit from it remains a top priority."It is reported that Meta had previously stated that NFTs could help expand the creator economy, and Instagram announced a Polygon-based NFT marketplace plan last November. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Fantom has approved the DApp Gas monetization governance proposal, which will implement Gas monetization design for successful DApps to monetize the transaction volume they generate, allowing more network fees to be directly redirected to DApps built on Fantom, aiming to attract excellent development talent to ensure healthy and sustainable network development.ChainCatcher previously reported that the implementation of DApp Gas monetization will reduce Fantom's burn rate from 20% to 5%, redirecting this 15% reduction to Gas monetization, rewarding high-quality DApps, retaining talented creators, and supporting Fantom's network infrastructure. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Fantom founder Andre Cronje publicly released a "Letter to the Fantom Foundation Team" today, which mentions the core focus of Fantom's plans for 2023. It is stated that next year, Fantom will need to focus on vertical developers, with the overall goal of creating a sustainable environment for dapp developers to differentiate itself from other public chains.Core focuses will include gas monetization, gas subsidies, account abstraction, economic abstraction of gas fees, new middleware (Fantom Virtual Machine, new storage mechanisms), hardware limitations to optimize throughput (PebbleDB, flat storage, etc.), updating documentation and training for new builders and non-blockchain developers, timely disclosure of financial status, providing funding and grant opportunities for dapp teams, and more.In addition, Andre also mentioned in the letter that he has been officially nominated and accepted the position of board member of the Fantom Foundation and Fantom Operations. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Fantom has released a proposal for the dApp gas monetization plan, which aims to reduce Fantom's current consumption rate in order to redirect more network fees directly to dApps built on Fantom. As part of Fantom's ongoing efforts to implement sustainable monetization incentives for builders,It is reported that the proposal suggests adopting an advertising monetization model and extending it to gas monetization, in order to attract high-performance dApps that can draw stable user flows. If approved, this implementation will reduce Fantom's burn rate from 20% to 5%, redirecting the 15% reduction to gas monetization, thereby rewarding high-quality creators and dApps, and supporting Fantom's network infrastructure. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, Web3 game infrastructure service provider Insert Stonks announced the completion of a $2.5 million pre-seed funding round, led by FunFair Ventures.The personalized tools provided by Insert Stonks can help players and developers quickly and transparently profit from games. Currently, two platform tools have been launched: "is_engine" for game developers and "is_games" for game players. These tools are compatible with most games on the market and can be integrated quickly. (Source link)