Armed with an Ethereum ICO, Can Kik Succeed Where Facebook Failed?

Social media network Kik is on the verge of launching its own ethereum ICO, making it the first mainstream social network to feature cryptocurrency as a core component of its services.

With more than $100m in venture capital invested so far in the company, and what they claim is 50 million monthly active users, the social network that made a name for itself by incentivizing interactions with a points system seems ripe for cryptocurrency adoption.

But this is not the first time someone has come up with the idea, and in spite of what appears to be an impressive number of users, this is still a significant decline from just a couple years ago when it had a reported 200 million users.

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