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According to TechCrunch, the decentralized social network Bluesky announced the completion of a $100 million Series B funding round, led by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from existing investors Alumni Ventures, True Ventures, as well as Anthos Capital, Bloomberg Beta, and the Knight Foundation. This funding round was completed in April 2025 but had not been disclosed earlier. Bluesky did not announce its latest valuation; previously, it raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Blockchain Capital.At the time of the funding announcement, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber announced her resignation, transitioning to the role of Chief Innovation Officer. Graber had previously stated that although Bluesky does not involve cryptocurrency, its decentralized design is inspired by her early work at Zcash, aiming to evolve centralized social media into an open and distributed network.

ChainCatcher news, independent developer Sebastian Vogelsang is developing a photo-sharing app called Flashes for the decentralized social media project Bluesky. The app uses the same technology as Bluesky, namely the AT protocol, and is built using the code from the developer's earlier Bluesky client, Skeets.When Flashes is released, it will support photo posts with up to 4 images and videos up to 1 minute long, with content synchronized to Bluesky, and comments and messages will be exchanged in real time. The developer expects to launch Flashes to the public in a few weeks, with a TestFlight beta version released beforehand.

ChainCatcher news, according to DL News, the stock price of Toronto-based blockchain company Bluesky Digital soared in November, as investors may have mistakenly associated it with the social media platform Bluesky. Since Donald Trump's election on November 5, Bluesky Digital's stock price has surged from $0.06 to $0.56, an increase of approximately 833%.A portfolio manager stated that the rise in stock price "may be due to the confusion caused by the name of the social media platform."

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi Data, the number of users on the American social media platform Bluesky has surged as users flee X following Trump's election as the next President of the United States. The upcoming changes to the terms of service may complicate the legal challenges facing this platform. Bluesky announced on Thursday that it gained approximately 2.5 million new users in the past week, bringing the total number of users to over 16 million.According to data from the analytics company SimilarWeb, after the news of Trump's presidential election victory broke, X saw 46.5 million visits in the U.S. on November 6, which is more than any other day in the past year and 38% higher than the daily visits in recent months.However, over 115,000 American users have deactivated their X accounts, the highest number since Musk acquired the platform. Meanwhile, Bluesky attracted about 1.2 million visitors on November 6, surpassing Meta's platform Threads, which had 950,000.

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, the decentralized social platform Bluesky has announced the completion of a $15 million Series A funding round, led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from SevenX, True Ventures, and Alumni Ventures.Bluesky stated that it will not "over-financialize" Bluesky's "social experience" by integrating cryptocurrency tokens, NFTs, or other blockchain-based technologies into its platform at this time.According to RootData, Bluesky is building the AT Protocol, a new foundation for social networks that allows creators to be independent of platforms, enables developers to innovate freely, and lets users make choices in their experiences. The project is initiated by the founder of Twitter.

ChainCatcher news, the "decentralized Twitter" project Bluesky has seen a surge of 1 million users in Brazil after X was banned, attracting a large number of new users in just three days. The platform's traffic skyrocketed 15 times over the weekend, leading to technical challenges. Bluesky was co-founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and functions similarly to X, allowing users to post text updates, share photos, and repost content. Its registration was fully opened in February this year.The Brazilian Supreme Court supported the ban on X, citing Elon Musk's failure to comply with a judicial order to remove illegal content and his failure to appoint a legal representative in Brazil. This decision effectively shut down X's operations in the world's sixth-largest market. The court also imposed a fine of 50,000 Brazilian reais per day on users attempting to circumvent the ban and they may face criminal charges.While X faces legal and financial difficulties, Bluesky is quickly adapting to new users, starting to publish content in Portuguese and providing localized tutorials. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has directed his followers to alternative platforms, including Bluesky.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, Jack Dorsey has left the board of the decentralized social network Bluesky. A year ago, he helped fund and promote the service out of regret over Twitter's sale to Musk. The Twitter co-founder has been promoting his new charitable donation for open internet protocols on the platform owned by Musk (now renamed X), which he describes as "freedom technology." He also added X to such technologies, simply detailing that businesses can also build on open protocols.Dorsey has narrowed down his list of people he follows on X to three: Musk, Edward Snowden, and Stella Assange, the wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher. This indicates a noticeable warming of the relationship between X's owner and Dorsey, who posted on Bluesky a year ago that "everything got worse" after Musk took over Twitter and completely transformed it.

ChainCatcher message, the decentralized social project Bluesky, funded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, is now open to the public. The project has undergone nearly a year of invite-only testing. Before opening to the public, the platform had approximately 3 million registered users.

ChainCatcher news, according to Blockworks, Australian Bitcoin miner Arkon Energy has completed a $110 million financing round, led by Bluesky Capital Management, with participation from Kestrel 0x1, Nural Capital, and others. Of this, $80 million will be used for expansion in the United States, while another $30 million will be allocated for an AI cloud service project at a 30MW data center in Norway.It is reported that Arkon Energy was established in 2019, and according to the crypto asset data platform RootData, it completed a $28 million financing round in November 2022, led by Blue Sky Capital. Subsequently, the company completed a $26 million financing round in June of this year.

ChainCatcher news, according to TechCrunch, data center infrastructure company Akron Energy has completed a $110 million financing round, led by Bluesky Capital Management, with participation from Kestrel 0x1, Nural Capital, and Florence Capital.Akron Energy CEO Josh Payne stated that the new funds will be used to expand the company's operations, with $80 million allocated to acquire an additional 200 megawatts of capacity for new data centers in Ohio, North Carolina, and Texas. Payne also mentioned that the company's U.S. data center portfolio is primarily occupied by institutional-grade Bitcoin mining companies.

ChainCatcher news, the "decentralized Twitter" project Bluesky will launch its latest version 1.52 in the coming days. The update includes multiple improvements to enhance platform security and reliability, such as allowing users to change and verify their email addresses, and warning users about misleading links through tagging.This update also brings several other enhancements. For example, when users utilize features like search and suggestions, the app now prioritizes people you follow in user suggestions; on mobile, users can switch accounts by long-pressing their avatar in the footer; the update to the image viewer on Android will also make it easier to pan and zoom, and all text is now selectable when viewing images on the web. This update also fixes many other bugs and improvements.

ChainCatcher news, according to data from TechCrunch citing data.ai, the "decentralized Twitter" project Bluesky has surpassed one million downloads on iOS and Android. In terms of usage regions, the United States has the highest number of Bluesky installations, accounting for 40%. This is followed by Brazil (9.5%), Japan (8.5%), Thailand (7.5%), and the United Kingdom (4.6%).According to the crypto data platform RootData, Bluesky completed a $8 million financing round on July 6, led by Neo, with participation from Kubernetes co-founder Joe Beda, Red Hat's Bob Young, Replit's Amjad Masad, Amir Shevat, Heather Meeker, and others. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized social project Bluesky announced the completion of an $8 million seed round financing, led by Neo, with participation from Kubernetes co-founder Joe Beda, Red Hat's Bob Young, Replit's Amjad Masad, Amir Shevat, Heather Meeker, and others.The new funding will be used to expand the team and manage the increasing operational and infrastructure costs. At the same time, Bluesky launched a paid service in collaboration with domain registrar Namecheap to provide domain purchasing and management services. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized social project Bluesky, funded by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, has surpassed 20 million registered users. (Source link)

ChainCatcher message, a short-term authentication solution App Passwords released by the Twitter-funded decentralized social project Bluesky, allows users to try out new clients without fully trusting their passwords. In the long term, Bluesky plans to implement SSO (Single Sign-On) with scoped permissions.Bluesky stated that its core development team is currently focused on completing the AT protocol, with priorities in the coming months being domain names as usernames and account portability, composable moderation and reputation systems, algorithm selection, and custom feeds. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized social project Bluesky has released its Android application. This project is a decentralized Twitter alternative supported by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. Currently, there are about 2.5 users, and new users need to join a waiting list or obtain an invitation code from friends to use the app. Additionally, the existing version of Bluesky has many limitations; users may not be able to import their following lists from other social networks and cannot send direct messages, among other issues. (The Verge)

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized social network Bluesky, supported by Jack Dorsey, has announced that it now supports user-customized domain name registration. Currently, this domain name system is built on the existing DNS infrastructure.Previously reported, on March 1, the Twitter alternative Bluesky, supported by Jack Dorsey, has released an invite-only beta version in the App Store. (source link)