The new Digg is using crypto rails for accounts, wallets
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Digg was an early 2000s news aggregator, predating Reddit, that was dismantled and sold for parts in 2012.
The original site was founded by Kevin Rose, a man you might know better as the creator of the Moonbirds NFT collection. Yuga Labs purchased Rose’s NFT company, Proof Collective, and the Moonbird NFT brand for an undisclosed sum in 2024.
Now, more than ten years after Digg’s shuttering, both Rose and Reddit co-founder Alex Ohanian are back to reboot the news aggregator.
Rose’s crypto antecedents are clear, and Ohanian has also praised blockchain tech (plus Reddit added NFT avatars in 2022).
