Decentralized social media (DeSo) application Stars Arena has caused a major uptick in activity on Avalanche’s C-Chain network.

As network activity increased, so did the price of the network’s native AVAX (

Pseudonymous X user Wale.swoosh described Stars Arena as “superior to Friend.tech in a lot of ways,” with its public feed feature allowing users to be more social than they would on the Base-based DeSo app.

Still, Wale.swoosh and a number of other users across X noted that the application was still quite buggy, with chats being “very laggy,” and drew attention to the lack of information on the team behind the application.

Stars Arena is the latest app to join a growing roster of social finance platforms such as Alpha on the Bitcoin network, Friendzy on Solana and PostTech on Arbitrum. Despite the surge in similar DeSo apps, Friend.tech remains the market leader, with more than $293 million in monthly trading volume, outpacing the next-closest app, PostTech, by more than $283 million.

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