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Patreon CEO Jack Conte says the platform paid out $10B to creators since its 2013 founding, creators now get $2B annually, and there are 25M paid memberships (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/patreon-10-billion-creator-economy-ai
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Exclusive: Patreon crosses $10 billion creator payout milestone
Today, more than $2 billion flows to creators annually on the platform.

Patreon CEO Jack Conte says the platform paid out $10B to creators since its 2013 founding, creators now get $2B annually, and there are 25M paid memberships (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/patreon-10-billion-creator-economy-ai
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Exclusive: Patreon crosses $10 billion creator payment milestone
Today, more than $2 billion flows to creators annually on the platform.

Blaine Cook, an original Twitter architect is one of the backers of the new Canadian social platform #Gander
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/busi…

Tech leaders ready launch of Canadian social-media platform Gander to buck U.S. dominance
Founders aim to create alternative that addresses content, data sovereignty concerns

Measuring Social Media Network Effects
Sinan Aral, Seth G Benzell, Avinash Collis, Christos Nicolaides
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04545 https://

Measuring Social Media Network Effects
We use representative, incentive-compatible online choice experiments involving 19,923 Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and X users in the US to provide the first large-scale, empirical measurement of local network effects in the digital economy. Our analysis reveals social media platform value ranges from $78 to $101 per consumer, per month, on average, and that 20-34% of that value is explained by local network effects. We also find 1) stronger ties are more valuable on Facebook and Instagram, …

Ethereum Conflicts Graphed
Dvir David Biton, Roy Friedman, Yaron Hay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20196 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20196

Ethereum Conflicts Graphed
Ethereum, a leading blockchain platform, has revolutionized the digital economy by enabling decentralized transactions and the execution of smart contracts. Ethereum transactions form the backbone of its network, facilitating peer-to-peer exchanges and interactions with complex decentralized applications. Smart contracts extend Ethereum's capabilities by automating processes and enabling trustless execution of agreements. Hence, understanding how these smart contracts interact is important in o…