Plan B

Happy Friday! Facebook is considering getting Donald Trump back on its platform as early as January 2023. Considering META stock is down ~60% over the past year, it wouldn't be too surprising to see Zuck play his Trump card to turn the ship around.

Wait... They shipped what!?

Coinbase has launched Node, a new infrastructure offering for web3 developers.

Details: Node lets developers create and monitor applications on the Ethereum blockchain. The Node API interface takes care of the underlying cloud infrastructure, while also handling data queries needed for running decentralized / NFT apps.

Node has a freemium pricing model, costing nothing for up to 120,000 daily blockchain queries.

Why it matters: Coinbase wants to reduce its reliance on crypto trading revenues, which have collapsed like a house of cards.

Coinbase Cloud was one of five prioritized products listed by CEO Brian Armstrong during an analyst call last month, and Node is the company's first major self-serve developer product with a free component.

Features & products hot off the press

Big tech

• Coinbase launches Node, aiming to become the AWS of crypto (The Block)

• Instagram is working on a nudity protection feature for DMs (Verge)

• Google is working on new royalty-free media formats to rival Dolby (Protocol)

• Bytedance launches its new Pico headset, a Quest 2 competitor (Verge)

• Twitter rolls out an edit button for a subset of Twitter Blue users (Bloomberg)

• Deepmind launches an AI chatbot trained using Google searches (MIT Review)

General and early stage

• Open AI open-sources Whisper, it's speech recognition system (Open AI)

• Webflow increases prices by as much as 45% (Webflow)

• OYE, a bilingual mental health app, is unveiled by J Balvin (TechCrunch)

• Figma lets users add files and Figjam's to Google calendar events (Chrome)

• Vercel ships a commenting feature on Preview Deployments (Vercel)

Getting 1% better at building product

• 34 ideas to outperform 99% of Product Managers (Product Coalition)

• Why product led-growth is the future (Lenny's Podcast)

Other tech happenings

• Superapp inbound. What China can teach us about the future of TikTok and video search (a16z)

• CU Web3. Colorado residents can now pay state taxes with crypto (Axios)

• Party poopers ahoy. How Meta and Google are using recession fears to clean house (Recode)

• Let's upload. NBA star Luka Doncic is launching a digital alter ego using Epic Games' Meta Human technology (Verge)

• Growing up. The Bootleg Ratio - how IG and TikTok are slowly becoming boring (Verge)

Courtesy of mindless Twitter scrolling

@alexrconrad

@shreyas

@TrungTPhan

And that’s a wrap for today. Stay tuned for more!

- Amol