Hey HN! I'm one of the co-founders of Flare, and we're pretty excited to be announcing our launch on HN.
We are creating a social network which uses IPFS and blockchain to monetise through distributed storage, rather than personal data harvesting.
We are a team of grads and DPhil students based out of the University of Oxford including the co-founder of Cashew and ex-NASA and Microsoft researchers.
We are crowdfunding a tokensale (pre-sale 6th Nov, and public sale 11th Dec). Its a crazy market at the moment but we think, amongst the hype, there is some serious potential to point the internet in a better direction.
Please check out our project-- feedback or questions welcome!
