{"id":52750,"date":"2021-11-12T09:55:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T07:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=52750"},"modified":"2025-09-03T11:44:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T08:44:56","slug":"discord-ceo-says-there-are-no-plans-to-integrate-with-ethereum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/discord-ceo-says-there-are-no-plans-to-integrate-with-ethereum\/","title":{"rendered":"Discord CEO says there are no plans to integrate with Ethereum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discord Messenger is &#8220;not currently planning&#8221; to integrate with the Ethereum blockchain. This was stated by the company&#8217;s CEO Jason Citron.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thanks for all the perspectives everyone. We have no current plans to ship this internal concept. For now we\u2019re focused on protecting users from spam, scams and fraud. Web3 has lots of good but also lots of problems we need to work through at our scale. More soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Citron (@jasoncitron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasoncitron\/status\/1458607550677405699?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Thanks to everyone for the input. At the moment we are not planning to launch this internal feature. We are now focused on protecting users from spam, scams and fraud. Web 3.0 has many advantages, but there are also problems we need to address at our scale,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On November 8, in response to a post by Not Boring founder Pak McCormick about potential Discord development in the Web 3.0 ecosystem, Citron <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/discord-ceo-hints-at-ethereum-integration\">posted a screenshot<\/a>, showing a connection to the messenger from external Ethereum wallets such as MetaMask.<\/p>\n<p>Users reacted negatively to the CEO&#8217;s hint. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anathaeum\/status\/1457855796784648193?s=20\">\u0437\u0430\u044f\u0432\u0438\u043b\u0438<\/a>, that this way Discord is encouraging financial pyramids, and urged others to cancel <a href=\"https:\/\/support.discord.com\/hc\/ru\/articles\/115000435108-Discord-Nitro-Classic-%D0%B8-Nitro#:~:text=%D0%9E%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C%20%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%83%20%D0%BD%D0%B0%20Nitro%20%26%20Nitro,%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%20%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%83%20%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%83%20%D0%BD%D0%B0%20Nitro.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TL;DR don\u2019t leave the Discord platform whenever they officially implement N\/F\/T and cry\/pto wallet support<\/p>\n<p>Cancel your Nitro and put stress on their servers, they will start to heavily lose money. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eZGrvG8kgp\">https:\/\/t.co\/eZGrvG8kgp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AB1 (7 days \ud83c\udf82) (@SySAmii_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SySAmii_\/status\/1457862353479946247?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nitro is Discord&#8217;s premium service costing $9.99 per month ($4.99 for the budget Nitro Classic). Subscribers receive extended upload and server limits, animated avatars and other features.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-social-network-without-ads-discord-defies-convention-11615199401\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, the company&#8217;s revenue in 2020 was $130 million. Much of that came from subscription income.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2021, researchers at Kaspersky Lab discovered that fraudsters were stealing cryptocurrency and users&#8217; personal data from Discord by posing as giveaways of Bitcoin or Ethereum.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discord is &#8220;not currently planning&#8221; to integrate with the Ethereum blockchain. 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