Navodi potiču od inženjera koji je nedavno počeo da radi za Reddit, a on tvrdi da ovaj potez predstavlja priliku koja 500 miliona Reddit korisnika može trajno da prebaci na web3 tehnologiju. Potez se oslanja na prethodne korake Reddita da prebaci svoje community poene na blokčejn, i ovime se produbljuju zalaganja društvene mreže za kripto.

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American social media giant Reddit may soon convert users’ karma points into Ethereum-based (ERC-20) tokens and onboard 500 million new crypto users in the process, according to a newly hired Reddit engineer.

Reddit’s partnership with Offchain Labs’ Arbitrum network will allow for the creation of a separate blockchain instance, to be used for storing users’ tokenized community points.

Currently, the community points of roughly 80,000 users from two subreddits — r/cryptocurrency and r/FortNiteBR — have been moved to the Rinkeby Testnet on the Arbitrum network, which, according to Rahul, will be scaled for gasless transactions:

Moreover, Reddit communities will also have the ability to fork blockchains through community-based decisions, in addition to allowing the scope to explore new monetization strategies with Web 3.0.