April reflected a market split between narrative hype and real progress. While attention chased memes and AI speculation, builder momentum remained steady across social, identity, and messaging. Against this backdrop, the Mask Network ecosystem has stayed focused on what matters: laying the groundwork for the next internet.
Alongside shipping updates across Firefly, Lens, and Web3.bio, the team has been actively engaging on the ground, from Cannes to Hong Kong,connecting with builders, founders, and communities shaping this next phase.
The message has been consistent:
Decentralised social is not just a product category, nor purely a financial primitive. It is foundational infrastructure for digital sovereignty and human agency in an AI-driven era.
Here’s what we’ve been up to.
Social Buidl Highlights
1. Firefly Polymarket Trading League Season 2 Goes Live
Building on the massive success of last month’s campaign, Firefly continues to push the frontier of social trading with the official launch of the Polymarket Trading League Season 2. This new season introduces tighter feedback loops between trading, content, and distribution, featuring a 3,000 USDC prize pool alongside daily trading rewards, PnL-based leaderboard incentives, and social bonuses for sharing positions and insights.
Details can be found here: Link 1 | Link 2
2. Web3 Social Day Hong Kong Meetup
On 20 April, Mask’s flagship event Web3 Social Day took over Hong Kong alongside the Hong Kong Web3 Festival. Co-hosted by Mask Network, Firefly, and Lens, the meetup brought together an incredible circle of founders, builders, and Web3 believers shaping the next era of decentralised social 💜
Check out the event here: Link 1 | Link 2
3. Suji Yan at Buidl Asia 2026
On April 17, Mask founder Suji Yan took the stage at Buidl Asia to deliver a manifesto on digital sovereignty, framing the current tech landscape as a “digital civil war” against “AI Panopticon” colonisers. Likening Web2 and AI giants to the “East India Company” enforcing digital serfdom, Suji envisions DAOs as revolutionary bases for building a privacy-first Network State. To reclaim digital power, Mask’s strategy is to siphon users into Web3 sovereignty via underlying infrastructure like Lens, Firefly, and Web3.bio, with Lens serving as the ultimate modular infrastructure designed to defeat centralised gatekeepers.
4. Kimmo Siren attended EthCC[9] 2026
On 31 March, Lens Product Lead Kimmo Siren took the EthCC[9] stage in Cannes to explain why the “Cypherpunk thesis” is now feasible, moving decentralized social past “SocialFi” speculation toward actual sustainability.
He highlighted four technical leaps making this feasible: solving UX friction with embedded EOAs, fighting AI spam via infrastructure-level “Rule-Based Social”, leveraging EIP-4844 to affordably bring social primitives back to Ethereum Mainnet, and simplified RPC calls so builders can focus purely on user experience.
Check out the presentation video and summary here: Link 1 | Link 2
5. Web3Bio Product Updates
Secure, wallet-to-wallet messaging powered by XMTP is live on the platform: Link
Meme Reality (April’s Fool Edition)
April turned out to be less of a joke and more of a mirror.
In Web3, April Fools doesn’t just create memes. It stress-tests how easily narratives can move markets, communities, and even protocols.
This year was no exception.
1. “April Fools… or Was It?”: The Hyperbridge Prank That Backfired
Some of the most memorable jokes came from protocols themselves, but not all of them stayed jokes. On April 1, the Hyperbridge protocol posted a fake “Lazarus hack” prank. Less than two weeks later, irony became reality when they were actually exploited by a hacker who minted 1 billion forged DOT tokens. Fortunately, shallow liquidity trapped the attacker, crashing the token to zero but capping the overall damage.
The blunt takeaway: in crypto, joking about exploits can sometimes resemble rehearsing them.
2. Bitget’s “Rogue Dev” GetClaw Takeover
Bitget went all-in on April Fools with a staged “account compromise” narrative that blurred the line between crisis simulation and product marketing.
It began with a fake emergency post claiming a developer error had given “GetClaw” control of its X account and warning users not to engage as interactions would trigger automated commands. The account then fully roleplayed the takeover, with GetClaw demanding absurd actions like burning the logo and redesigning branding 🦞. Hours later, Bitget revealed it was a stunt to preview GetClaw, joking the dev’s “punishment” was losing coffee access.
The campaign ultimately turned a classic Web3 fear — account hacks — into a marketing moment.
3. The “Mass Exit” Meta: Builders Quitting Crypto (Not Really)
On April 1, a coordinated “I’m leaving Web3” prank sparked a brief panic across Crypto Twitter before it was recognised as an ecosystem-wide April Fools performance. Started by a Solana developer and snowballing to other founders and creators, the fake farewells cited burnout and meme fatigue — exaggerated, but rooted in real sentiment.
The true punchline wasn’t the staged exits, but the reaction: people believed it instantly. Even in a trustless system, narrative still travels faster than verification.
Worth a Read
2. A Month on Firefly’s Polymarket: Who Actually Made Money
Link 1 | Link 2
四月向我们展示了一个夹在叙事炒作和实际结构性进展之间的市场。尽管市场的注意力在 Meme 和 AI 投机之间反复横跳，但真正的建设者（Builder）活动从未放缓，尤其是在社交、身份和消息传递层。在此背景下，Mask 生态系统正专注于为下一代互联网奠定坚实的基础。
除了在 Firefly、Lens 和 Web3.bio 上发布产品更新外，Mask 团队还将我们的使命带到了现实世界。从戛纳到香港，我们在线下传达了一个明确的信息：去中心化社交不仅仅关乎金融或一个简单的产品类别。它关乎在 AI 驱动的时代保障数字主权和人类的能动性。
以下是我们近期的最新动态。
Social Buidl 精选
1. Firefly Polymarket Trading League 第二期正式上线
基于上个月第一期活动的巨大成功，Firefly 趁热正式启动第二期 Firefly Polymarket Trading League，继续拓展社交交易的前沿领域。这期新赛季在交易、内容和分发之间引入了更紧密的反馈循环，不仅提供 3,000 USDC 奖池，还包含每日交易奖励、基于 PnL（盈亏）的排行榜激励，以及分享仓位和观点的社交奖励。
2. Web3 Social Day 香港聚会
4 月 20 日，Mask 的旗舰活动 Web3 Social Day 随香港 Web3 嘉年华席卷香港。本次聚会由 Mask Network、Firefly 和 Lens 共同举办，汇聚了众多正在塑造去中心化社交下一个时代的创始人、建设者和 Web3 信仰者。💜
3. Suji Yan 亮相 Buidl Asia 2026
4 月 17 日，Mask 创始人 Suji Yan 登上 Buidl Asia 的舞台，发表了关于数字主权的宣言，将当前的科技格局定义为一场对抗“AI 全景监狱（AI Panopticon）”殖民者的“数字内战”。Suji 将 Web2 和 AI 巨头比作推行数字农奴制的“东印度公司”，并设想将 DAO 作为革命根据地，建立一个隐私优先的网络国家。为了夺回数字权力，Mask 的战略是通过 Lens、 Firefly、Web3bio 等底层基础设施将用户虹吸至 Web3 主权网络中。而 Lens 正是旨在击败中心化“守门人”的终极模块化基础设施。
4. Kimmo Siren 出席 2026 EthCC[9]
3 月 31 日，Lens 产品负责人 Kimmo Siren 登上戛纳 EthCC[9] 的舞台，解释了为何社交的 “Cypherpunk 愿景” 如今已具备可行性，从而推动去中心化社交摆脱 “SocialFi” 投机，走向真正的可持续发展。
他强调了促成这一目标的四大技术飞跃：通过内嵌 EOA 钱包解决 UX（用户体验）摩擦、通过基础设施层的“基于规则的社交（Rule-Based Social）” 打击 AI 垃圾信息、利用 EIP-4844 以极低的成本将社交原语带回以太坊主网以及简化 RPC 调用，让建设者能够纯粹专注于用户体验。
5. Web3Bio 产品更新
由 XMTP 驱动的安全钱包间消息传递功能现已在平台上线: Link
迷因现实 （愚人节特辑）
四月的愚人节在圈子里没光产出笑话，反而像面镜子。
Web3 的愚人节早就不是单纯造梗了。它实实在在测了一把叙事能多快搅动市场、社区，甚至协议。
今年也不例外。
1. “愚人节玩笑……成真了？”：Hyperbridge 的翻车恶作剧
一些最出圈的玩笑出自协议方自己之手，只不过，有些玩笑开了头，就由不得你喊停了。4 月 1 号，Hyperbridge 协议发布了一个经典的 “我们被 Lazarus 黑了” 的恶作剧。结果两周后，讽刺成为现实，他们真被黑客利用漏洞铸造了 10 亿枚假 DOT。更极具黑色幽默的是，由于池子太浅黑客无法套现，币价虽归零却也变相控制了总损失。
教训很骨感：在币圈里，拿漏洞开玩笑，有时候跟彩排没区别。
2. Bitget 的“叛逆开发者” GetClaw 接管推特事件
Bitget 今年愚人节玩得挺大，自导自演了一出 “官推被 AI 助理 GetClaw 接管” 的戏码，还一边拼命警告用户千万别互动。当然，GetClaw 反手就开始角色扮演，发文要求 “烧掉丑 Logo，重新设计一个“ 🦞 几小时后 Bitget 宣布 “夺回控制权”，宣布对肇事开发者的惩罚是：以后没咖啡喝了。同时，揭晓这其实是为新产品 GetClaw 预热的营销手段。他们硬生生把 Web3 经典的盗号噩梦，玩成了一次出色的品牌公关。
3. “集体退圈”风潮：建设者们集体退出 Crypto（其实并没有）
4 月 1 日，一场协同策划的“我要离开 Web3”恶作剧在 Crypto Twitter 上引发了短暂的恐慌。这场风波由一位 Solana 开发者发起，随后像滚雪球般蔓延至多位创始人。这些虚假的告别信纷纷以行业倦怠和 Meme 疲劳为由 — — 虽然手法夸张，但确实戳中了真实的行业情绪。
整件事绝妙之处不是这些 “退圈”，而是大家第一反应都信了。在一个号称 “去信任（Trustless）” 的系统里，叙事（谣言）的传播速度依然快于验证。
值得一读
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