{"id":52551,"date":"2021-11-09T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T09:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=52551"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:48:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:48:26","slug":"discord-ceo-hints-at-ethereum-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/discord-ceo-hints-at-ethereum-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Discord CEO hints at Ethereum integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The messaging app Discord is exploring the possibility of connecting to the Ethereum blockchain. This stems from a tweet by the platform&#8217;s founder and CEO, Jason Citron.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">probably nothing <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p4P6MoNGgd\">pic.twitter.com\/p4P6MoNGgd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Citron (@jasoncitron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasoncitron\/status\/1457841222995693570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>He posted a screenshot of the app&#8217;s Integrations tab with the option to connect an Ethereum account. The screen also shows MetaMask and WalletConnect wallet buttons.<\/p>\n<p>He captioned the image with the words &#8220;probably nothing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As of writing, the features shown by Citron in the messenger are not yet available.<\/p>\n<p>His tweet was a reply to Packy McCormick, the author of the Not Boring newsletter, who posted a link to his article about Discord. In it, he wrote about the platform&#8217;s potential as a &#8220;sleeping Web 3&#8221; and mentioned its ties to cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, researchers at Kaspersky Lab found that attackers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/discord-users-warned-about-fraudulent-cryptocurrency-giveaways\">steal cryptocurrency and personal data<\/a> from Discord users by posing as BTC or ETH giveaways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The messaging app Discord is exploring the possibility of connecting to the Ethereum blockchain. This stems from a tweet by the platform&#8217;s founder and CEO, Jason Citron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,465],"class_list":["post-52551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum","tag-social-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52553,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52551\/revisions\/52553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}