Dapper Labs Backs $3.5M Raise for Crypto Social Media Startup Yup

Dapper Labs Backs .5M Raise for Crypto Social Media Startup Yup
Yup, a crypto-backed social media platform, has raised $3.5 million in a funding round led by Distributed Global, with support from Dapper Labs and a host of prominent angel investors.Among those angels were Patrick Rivera (of the Web 3 publishing service Mirror), Scott Moore (of Gitcoin), and Nader Al-Naji, the controversial developer behind BitClout and the DeSo blockchain.Yup works a little like Pinterest, in that it lets users curate content from a variety of different social sites. Installing Yup’s browser extension adds a little button next to posts on Twitter and Facebook; clicking the button lets you assign posts a…