Social Tokens

3LAU Raises $16M to Tokenize Music Royalties for Artists and Fans

Paradigm and Founders Fund each invested $7 million, the crypto-savvy DJ told CoinDesk, with Paradigm’s Fred Ehrsam joining the board.

Business  ·  26 August 2021

DeFi-Powered Social Token Site Rally Submits Plan to Decentralize Itself

The proposed road map would see the "creator coin" platform split up into a venture studio, a DAO, a Swiss non-profit and more.

Tech  ·  18 August 2021
Spencer Dinwiddie

Spencer Dinwiddie’s Crypto App for Creators Raises $7.5M

The round included everyone from Animoca Brands to Matt James from “The Bachelor.”

Business  ·  1 July 2021
Funding Rounds

Web3 Creators Have a New Platform for Minting Social Tokens

Coinvise raised $2.5 million in a seed funding round led by Galaxy Digital HK and IDEO CoLab Ventures.

News  ·  29 June 2021
Fireblocks

Roll, Repairing From Hack, Enlists Fireblocks for Key Protection

The "social money" platform will also provide cybersecurity insurance of up to $30 million for Roll creators and users.

Business  ·  24 June 2021
NFTs

Paradigm, 3LAU Back $7.6M Raise for ‘NFT Social Network’ Showtime

Showtime was co-founded by Alex Masmej, the man known for tokenizing himself.

Business  ·  5 May 2021
Newsletters

Crypto Is a Luxury, Gucci Just Hasn’t Realized It

High-end retailers are accepting crypto for their wares when they should be thinking much bigger.

Business  ·  21 April 2021
CoinList

Social Token Platform Rally Raises $22M in RLY Sale on CoinList

The “Creator Coin” startup saw more than 40,000 investors participate in its CoinList distribution, a record for the token-sale platform.

Business  ·  12 April 2021
Roll

Social Tokens Crash After a Reported Hack at Roll Wallet

The founder of WHALE, a coin issued through the social token platform, confirmed the hack on Twitter.

Markets  ·  14 March 2021
Music Industry

Latest Music Act to Launch a Social Token: Portugal. The Man

The Grammy Award–winning band is turning to Rally to join the ranks of musicians launching fan engagement tokens.

Business  ·  14 January 2021
Opinion

COVID and Big Tech Burnout Are Pushing Social Tokens Mainstream

Before this year, social tokens were an intriguing but mostly hypothetical way to build a creator community.

People  ·  19 December 2020
Music Industry

Lil Pump Is Doing a Social Token Called PumpCoin

Rapper Lil Pump is the latest celebrity to dip into the crypto world with the launch of his “PumpCoin” social token.

Business  ·  18 December 2020
Music

Rapper Lil Yachty Sells Out Social Token in 21 Minutes

The token was listed on social money platform Fyooz, where buyers, most likely fans of the rapper, bought $YACHTY for $15 each.

Business  ·  10 December 2020