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New Beginnings: Yup on Base, Creator-Focused

Yup is starting a new phase in its existence, doubling down on creator features and rewards. We’re working hard to make Yup the best place to post from in web3 social, and we’re excited to do it on the most consumer-aligned chain in web3.Launching YUP on BaseYUP on Base | Rewards | Bridge | LPs The Yup community is set for a significant advancement—our launch on Base, a cutting-edge Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution. This move aligns with our ongoing commitment to leverage the best technology...

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Nov 16
Yup is live on the App Store
Today marks a groundbreaking moment in our journey. We're thrilled to announce that Yup, our game-changing open social aggregator, is officially available on the App Store! Download it here: iPhone | Android Today, we're inviting you to transform your digital life. At Yup's inception, we dreamed about creating a new frontier in social interaction, envisioning a decentralized, composable, interconnected, and deeply human experience. Today, we're delivering on that dream. Yu...
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Jun 15
Aggregated Notifications 🔔
Never miss a mention again See who likes you across web3 socialsIntroducing: Aggregated Notifications 🔔Every like. Every reply. Every tag. In web3 social. In one app. Aggregated specific notifications are now live in Yup Mobile. We’re building a perfect, beautiful experience for all of decentralized social. That means every feature you need from web3 social platforms. Today, we’re one step closer. yup.
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May 24
Introducing Bluesky ☁️
Bluesky, welcome to Yup. AT Protocol, the decentralized, open-source social network that Bluesky is built on, is now fully integrated. That means our best Yup features work with Bluesky:Cross-post to Bluesky, Twitter, Farcaster with one click.Find your favorite posters' Bluesky accounts and let other Yupsters find yours.Enjoy curated Bluesky posts -- whether you've been invited or not.This is the future of social: a decentralized network of protocols, built on composable web3 archit...
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May 2
Introducing Cross-Posting 🌿🟣🐦
Yup puts the best of web3 in one feed. So you can find what matters, no matter where it's posted, everywhere you go. But that was just the beginning. Introducing: Cross-posting. 🌿🟣🐦 Post to Farcaster, Lens, and Twitter with one click. Now live in Yup Mobile.At Yup, our work is guided by a few big ideas: Blockchains are social graphs. Blockchains power interactions, and display those interactions for all to see. Therefore, blockchains are social graphs -- the richest in history. All we...
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Mar 22
Introducing Yup Mobile
This is web3 social's moment. The web2 giants are fading. Twitter is breaking. Meta is dying. TikTok might be banned. Every person frustrated with the old guard is the next person we need to onboard to web3. There is a new social being built, a decentralized, censorship-resistant social, that pays artists, rewards curation, and powers real connection. This is the way. But web3 social isn't perfect yet. Onboarding has hurdles. Good content is scattered across decentralized platforms....
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Aug 11
Yup Integrates Farcaster
Curate and Engage with FarcasterToday we're integrating Farcaster content into the Yup Ecosystem. You can like and curate, see it in Yup feeds, and earn rewards for great content. It's one feed to rule them all. Check out the content here! Farcaster refers to itself as a "sufficiently decentralized social network." Farcaster is often considered the 'Web3 Twitter' because of its focus on short-form content at the moment. Long-term, however, Farcaster sees itself is the infr...
Migrating to Polygon
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Feb 24
Yup UsersClaiming your YUP on Polygon is a piece of cake. 1. Go to [app.yup.io/migration] and sign into your Yup account2. Enter the Polygon address where you want to receive your tokens. (IMPORTANT:The address you use to claim your YUP will become your new YUP account. All future actions and rewards will be attributed to this address, so choose wisely)3. Follow the prompts on the migration page to claim your YUP rewards. And just like that, you're a Polyupster! (A Yupagon? Still working...
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Feb 22
Yup Polygon Migration
On Thursday, Feb 24, we write the next chapter of the Yup story. We will begin migrating parts of the Yup protocol to the Polygon POS blockchain, starting with the YUP token and reward distribution. This migration is part of our strategy centered around the composability and network effects of EVM-based blockchains like Polygon. It is in line with our mission to provide an opportunity for all users to engage with Yup and earn. Migrating the protocol is a commitment to speed, scalability, and ...
NFT Creator Rewards
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Oct 26
We’re excited to introduce YUP rewards for NFT creatorsRaising Everyone’s FloorWith the growth of NFTs and digital art, more and more users spend time browsing and curating NFTs. Currently, NFT creators and owners earn money on sale and resale. Yup proposes a new revenue stream for creators we're calling NFT Creator Rewards. Until now we’ve mainly focused on rewarding and recognizing curators, but creators play an essential role in Yup too. In its previous form, the Yup Protocol rewarded...
Yup Raises Seed Round to Empower Web3 Curators
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Oct 12
We’re incredibly excited to announce our $3.5 million funding round led by Distributed Global, an early investor in crypto unicorns Dapper Labs, Audius and Solana. The funding will be used to further develop a new web3-native social media experience, expand the Yup community, and empower curators across the web. The funding round was also joined by major players in the blockchain and tech space, including Dapper Labs, LD Capital, and various founder angels. Yup is a social network that reward...
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Oct 11
Proof of First: Web3 Taste, Earliness, and Curation
Who, What, When, and WhereOne of the advantages of blockchain technology is timestamped proof of users’ actions and associations with various applications, individuals, and organizations. These actions are immutable in the sense that they’re unchangeable and set in stone. It immutably records what happened, who was involved, and when it occurred.“What the blockchain does is assert facts about the metadata… It starts to give you unambiguous proof-of-who, proof-of-when, proof-of-what.” - Balaji...
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Jul 7
NFTs & the Meme Economy
The dankest memes of the future will be NFTs Memes are the internet's native art form. They transcend platforms, geographic locations, and language. NFTs are slowly becoming the economic infrastructure behind the internet's content and creators. Recent demand for meme NFTs has proven memes are more valuable when minted as NFTs. Here we explore minting memes as NFTs, arguing that soon most memes will be minted as NFTs due to advantages in monetization, provenance, attribution, and pl...