Friend.tech's rapid decline underscores the volatility of DeSoc projects. Meanwhile, Farcaster and Lens Protocol emerge as robust alternatives, demonstrating significant user engagement and innovative features to enhance the decentralized social experience.

In its under two months of existence, Friend.tech has pumped, died and been revived, then been cloned, hacked, and the clone reportedly hacked at a loss to protect its monopoly. Safe to say that our original skepticism towards the project is yet to have softened.

Another potentially dodgy project gets pumped on the newly launched blockchain. Why does Base seem to attract so many of these chancers?