The cryptocurrency token $FRIEND has experienced a significant decline, dropping over 95% in value. Major influencers and investors, including Machi who still holds over 9% of the supply, have been selling their holdings. Racer, who raised funds from Paradigm to monetize social interactions on Crypto Twitter, launched the token which subsequently plummeted, leading him to delete his account. Paradigm, which collected over $40 million in fees and transferred funds to Coinbase, has provided no updates on the project. The situation has left many investors questioning whether the decline was due to short-term greed, incompetence in product development, or poor communication. Despite initial promises of SocialFi being the future and $FRIEND reaching a $1 billion valuation, the token's performance has disappointed many holders, with over $50M+ raked in.
The only question I have for the Friend Tech team is: what’s next? What’s the future Paradigm/Racer ponzi? This was a masterpiece. We[Racer/Paradigm] created a low-quality messaging app, slapped on a 10% tax, and raked in $50M+. We tossed in a rev share with users, added a…
always strikes me as weird that these long term investors sold the most obvious long term play in DeFi at the bottom https://t.co/0kF1JdaWG0 https://t.co/Tk1afWSG6D
My biggest loss percentage-wise was $FRIEND. I'm still baffled: Was it a case of short-term greed to generate high fees and disappear, or even worse, pure incompetence in product development and communication? All major influencers cashed out, but I got stuck holding the bag.