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What Is Social Coin?
A currency born from the social web — inspired by Vitalik Buterin himself.
In the early days of Ethereum's expansion, Vitalik Buterin — Ethereum's founder and one of the most forward-thinking minds in crypto — began dropping breadcrumbs for a radical idea:
What if likes, retweets, and followers were currency?
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Earlier, in a 2013 article published on Bitcoin Magazine, Vitalik wrote:
“Someone can create SocialCoin.”
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In a tweet dated September 15, 2020, Buterin posed the idea:
“Think of followers/likes/retweets as being the currency.”
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He later resurfaced this idea and quoted this article on social media in 2020:
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Social Coin is not a meme, but a protocol-layer experiment in social incentivization. It builds on the thesis that social interactions are a form of value exchange and can be tokenized in a trustless and transparent way. By treating reputation, influence, and interaction as primitives in a smart contract system, Social Coin introduces new dimensions of economic behavior.