Friend.tech clone Stars Arena drives surge of activity on Avalanche

Decentralized social media (DeSo) application Stars Arena has caused a major uptick in activity on Avalanche’s C-Chain network.

As network activity increased, so did the price of the network’s native AVAX (

Pseudonymous X user Wale.swoosh described Stars Arena as “superior to Friend.tech in a lot of ways,” with its public feed feature allowing users to be more social than they would on the Base-based DeSo app.

I’ve capitulated in creating a Stars Arena account after seeing it all over my timeline.

Won’t shill my own ref link, but a few thoughts:

Stars Arena is superior to Friendtech in a lot of ways and solves one of the main problems I had with FT.

There is a public feed, so people… pic.twitter.com/S9KzPp3hqC

— wale.swoosh (@waleswoosh) October 4, 2023

Still, Wale.swoosh and a number of other users across X noted that the application was still quite buggy, with chats being “very laggy,” and drew attention to the lack of information on the team behind the application.

Stars Arena is the latest app to join a growing roster of social finance platforms such as Alpha on the Bitcoin network, Friendzy on Solana and PostTech on Arbitrum. Despite the surge in similar DeSo apps, Friend.tech remains the market leader, with more than $293 million in monthly trading volume, outpacing the next-closest app, PostTech, by more than $283 million.

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