Minds is a social network popular with crypto users and gamers.
Minds is a social network popular with crypto users and gamers.
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Minds raises $10M for decentralized and encrypted social network and messaging app

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Minds, the crypto social network with a focus on encryption and privacy, has raised $10 million from the tech freedom organization Futo.

Owned by Yahoo Games founder and WhatsApp seed investor Eron Wolf, Futo is dedicated to tech and policies that give the control of computers back to the people. While other social networks mine your data for ad purposes, Minds targets user privacy, and it is based on open source technology.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.