Decentralized Social

<img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/c5699c47f89d45afa0a7a9ee03fad465.png" /><h2 id="header-0">DeSo 2023 Year in Review: A Foundation That’s Built to Scale</h2>2023 has been a monumental year for DeSo, filled with game-changing updates to help set the stage for our upcoming Revolution PoS merge &amp; consumer app, Focus.DeSo is finally ready to take crypto mainstream.In case you missed our shipping season, here’s a full rundown of everything we’ve launched over the past year:<h3 id="strong-deso-brand-website-strong">DeSo Brand &amp; Website</h3>We&#39;re very proud to unveil the new deso.comDesigned to help bring the story of DeSo to life, many have called it “the best website they’ve ever seen,” sweeping all of the top design awards along the way.Visit: deso.com<img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/32d9aaaca37c4bf5b8bf983c428f66fa.png" /><h3 id="strong-revolution-proof-of-stake-whitepaper-strong">Revolution Proof of Stake Whitepaper</h3>A true Revolution is coming to social media with our breakthrough consensus mechanism and the introduction of staking, fast finality times, high throughput, lower fees, and burn-maximizing deflationary measures to the DeSo Blockchain.Revolution builds on top of the strengths of earlier PoS schemes from Ethereum, Cosmos, Flow, and Solana, to establish one of the most censorship-resistant and decentralized protocols in existence.Visit: revolution.deso.com<img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/7e01595729b64c6da37efdefbeb66dc6.png" /><h3 id="strong-deso-social-block-explorer-strong">DeSo Social Block Explorer</h3>With the DeSo Block Explorer, we introduce the concept of radical transparency to social media, that doesn’t exist today in a world full of web2 walled gardens.For the first time in history, you can now experience a completely open and transparent social network — stored fully on-chain!Analyze all on-chain interactions in real time while keeping track of the network’s most active creators with a one-of-a-kind human-readable block explorer.Visit: explorer.deso.com<img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/56e6d580e5114552bec096c930671e0a.png" /><h3 id="strong-deso-social-wallet-strong">DeSo Social Wallet</h3>On DeSo, your wallet is your identity.We’ve worked tirelessly to make UX &amp; onboarding into DeSo as frictionless as possible, all of which comes together with the launch of DeSo Social Wallet.Sign up with DeSo identity, MetaMask, or Google to get started and receive FREE starter $DESO to engage on-chain.Your DeSo Wallet is the central hub and gateway to the exciting world of decentralized social media, so you can easily keep track of all your on-chain interactions and assets.Watch your social graph grow in real time on a 100% open-source social network where you own your content like you own your Bitcoin.Visit: wallet.deso.com<img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/e26a52ef9804486a876b1ed115d3acd0.png" /><h3 id="strong-heroswap-strong">HeroSwap</h3>Cross-chain onboarding is HARD!With HeroSwap, powered by DeSo Smart Services, you can now swap cross-chain instantly and anonymously, making it easy to onboard new users and liquidity.HeroSwap supports BTC, DESO, ETH, SOL, SUI, AVAX, USDC, USDT, and more.HeroSwap is growing through our permissionless partnership program, as apps on Solana, Sui, and Avalanche have embedded HeroSwap while earning 50% of swapping fees.Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about becoming a partner.Visit: heroswap.com<img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/01185b0e09bc46478aeb61e608912b41.png" /><h3 id="strong-deso-dex-with-usdc-strong">DeSo DEX (with USDC)</h3>DeSo is the only blockchain that combines Social and Finance (SocialFi) seamlessly with world-class UX.The DeSo DEX takes this one step further with a fully on-chain order-book DEX that allows users to trade DeSo Tokens fully permissionless and virtually gas-free.With the recent introduction of USDC, DeSo Tokens can now be traded against either $DESO or $USDC.Visit: <a href="https://openfund.com/trade/Openfund" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">openfund.com/trade/Openfund</a><img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/4d74d24afbdc4bcea3d3ccf7456d62ff.png" /><h3 id="strong-deso-wrapped-assets-strong">DeSo-Wrapped Assets</h3>Now, you can avoid the dangers of a CEX by trading cross-chain assets permissionlessly on-chain, with full self-custody and no-gas!Trade wrapped BTC, ETH, SOL and even DESO with USDC on the DeSo DEX — with frictionless unwrapping via HeroSwap.Visit: wallet.deso.com/?tab&#61;tokens<h3 id="strong-img-src-https-academy-public-coinmarketcap-com-optimized-uploads-f992d620c2ef4b66a11e45dd369cc022-png-strong"><img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/f992d620c2ef4b66a11e45dd369cc022.png" /></h3><h3 id="strong-deso-chat-protocol-strong">DeSo Chat Protocol</h3>DeSo Chat Protocol (DCP) is a censorship-resistant messaging protocol powered by the DeSo Blockchain.Thanks to DeSo’s infinite-state blockchain and derived keys cryptography, DCP enables fully decentralized cross-chain and wallet-2-wallet messaging between DeSo and Ethereum wallets.DCP is 100% open-source and fully on-chain, with end-to-end encryption and support for DMs &amp; group chats. All of which has an average cost of ~$0.000002 per message.<img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/ac5e7669065d46eea7b54be69ce66c6d.png" /><h3 id="strong-deso-access-groups-strong">DeSo Access Groups</h3>With the introduction of Access Groups, we can now unlock the world of on-chain &amp; encrypted content.This enables new primitives like on-chain subscriptions, pay-to-unlock, and e2e-encrypted group chats (which powers DeSo Chat Protocol).All of these features will be on full display in our new consumer app, Focus.Visit: <a href="https://focus.xyz/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://focus.xyz</a><img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/358c8f72436d4791b0a7054584a808fc.png" /><h3 id="strong-deso-graphql-api-sql-indexer-strong">DeSo GraphQL API &amp; SQL Indexer</h3>Building Web3 apps should be easy!We&#39;ve built a state-of-the-art GraphQL-based indexer, standard on all DeSo nodes, for FREE!This now enables full GQL &amp; SQL querying of all on-chain data.Visit: <a href="https://graphql-prod.deso.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://graphql-prod.deso.com/</a><img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/15ead136fb6b47c695a08a70e27b286f.png" /><h3 id="strong-deso-javascript-sdk-strong">DeSo JavaScript SDK</h3>DeSo JavaScript SDK makes it incredibly easy to build fully on-chain and crypto-native apps by allowing developers to integrate DeSo identity, sign transactions, and interact with the API in only a few lines of code.Now, building disruptive, crypto-native consumer apps is open to millions of developers around the world.Visit: <a href="https://docs.deso.org/deso-frontend/get-started" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://docs.deso.org/deso-frontend/get-started</a><img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/1e507eef7b824f0583a7b6deb76abf61.png" /><h2 id="header-1">DeSo Associations</h2>Associations let DeSo move beyond follower-based social graphs to interest-based social graphs, to establish a new form of trust in a trustless world: open, transparent, and fully on-chain!For the first time, developers can create on-chain relationships between any user &amp; any user &amp; on any post - enabling INFINITE use cases.Visit: docs.deso.org/deso-features/associations<img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/bdec9527ca6d4775a5a71af32df99524.png" /><h3 id="strong-deso-derived-keys-strong">DeSo Derived Keys</h3>A huge pain in crypto is managing private keys.With the launch of Derived Keys, you get an extra layer of security by adjusting on-chain permissions, revoking allowances, and editing spending limits at the transaction layer — managed directly in the DeSo Wallet.This is paramount as the world continues to become digitally native and multi-million dollar hacks become commonplace.Derived Keys ensures you have an extra layer of security to help keep you at peace.Visit: wallet.deso.com/?tab&#61;derived-keys<img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/7c62e0578dea4b0f95dde271c6b3da4f.png" /><h3 id="strong-deso-offline-wallet-generator-strong">DeSo Offline Wallet Generator</h3>We introduced a custom-built cold-storage solution for safely and securely creating key pairs, and signing &amp; verifying transactions on air-gapped machines.Visit: <a href="https://offline.deso.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://offline.deso.com</a><img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/ffb0bb0900d040529fbd0a0c4afdf35a.png" /><h3 id="strong-improved-deso-liquidity-strong">Improved $DESO Liquidity</h3>With the launch of $DESO on multiple Tier 1 &amp; Tier 2 exchanges, we now have greatly improved liquidity.<ul><li>Coinbase</li><li>Gate</li><li>Huobi (HTX)</li><li>LBank &amp; more!</li></ul>Now, more people worldwide can onboard into Decentralized Social. Of course, if you don’t want to trade on a CEX, you can always store your $DESO at wallet.deso.com and buy on Openfund.com or HeroSwap.com.Visit: <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/deso/#Markets" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/deso/#Markets</a><h3 id="strong-img-src-https-academy-public-coinmarketcap-com-optimized-uploads-13e09f509d7e464d87e5af3f2f9a7eb5-png-strong"><img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/13e09f509d7e464d87e5af3f2f9a7eb5.png" /></h3><h3 id="strong-ecosystem-partners-strong">Ecosystem Partners</h3>At DeSo, we believe the future is cross-chain, which is why we’ve partnered with the following teams across Solana, Sui, and Avalanche:<ul><li>ethoswallet.xyz</li><li>hyperspace.xyz</li><li>avax.hyperspace.xyz</li><li>sui.hyperspace.xyz</li><li>flowx.finance</li><li>kriya.finance</li><li>naviprotocol.io</li><li>tradeport.xyz</li><li>spheron.network</li><li>livepeer.org</li></ul>If you want to partner with us, feel free to reach out!<img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/5693d29631d94599807c32ff06fd1c99.png" /><h3 id="strong-what-s-next-strong">What’s Next?</h3>The hype for DeSo is steadily increasing as we’ve recently announced the name of our next killer app, with phase 1 coming in early January.Additionally, the launch of Revolution Proof of Stake is just around the corner, with the promise of making DeSo one of the most deflationary protocols in existence.As we enter the new year, we ask that you share DeSo with your friends and begin engaging with the ecosystem&#39;s apps.<ul><li>DiamondApp.com</li><li>DeSocialWorld.com</li><li>Openfund.com</li><li>HeroSwap.com</li><li>Desofy.app</li><li>Storiapp.com</li></ul>The excitement for Focus continues to build, as it will come with multiple new social features that are impossible without the upgrades we made in 2023.An innovative “social airdrop” and “social bounty” with an all-new reimagined incentives program will reward the most active creators on the platform.As great of a year as 2023 was for DeSo, we believe 2024 will be even greater as we enter the main stage and bring consumer crypto apps to the masses!

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