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Business Insider
6 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
OpenServ and LunarCrush turning 50 million posts an hour into AI apps
OpenServ, the leading full‑stack AI infrastructure platform and protocol, today announced a partnership with LunarCrush, the leading web3 social analytics firm serving companies such as Coinbase, Kraken, HTX, and Binance. The collaboration integrates LunarCrush's 24/7 tracking of 30–50 million social media posts per hour, along with live market data, directly into OpenServ's generative UI platform for Telegram mini apps and agent workflows. Two products are live today: DeFi News aApp on Telegram and (open beta). DeFi News aApp creates short AI video briefings using LunarCrush insights—right inside Telegram—where anyone can try it at Users pick a topic, set a timeframe and data source, then receive a one- to three-minute video with animated overlays and on-screen stats. Templates include Bitcoin Daily Brief, Ethereum Weekly, Solana Ecosystem, and Hidden Altcoin Gems. Users can also run a custom analysis, choose an AI presenter, and schedule daily delivery. The app reads LunarCrush metrics such as social dominance, Galaxy Score, trending assets, and top influencers, then assembles a concise script and renders a finished video in‑chat for easy sharing. launched in open beta on Thursday, August 7, 2025. It surfaces up‑to‑the‑minute information on any cryptocurrency based on social sentiment, recent highlights, company updates, price action, and more—without manual updates. Visit to explore live dashboards powered by LunarCrush data. 'The fastest way to make data useful is to put it where people already work,' said Tim Hafner, CEO and co‑founder of OpenServ. 'Telegram is the home base for crypto communities. Together, LunarCrush and OpenServ give users a live social signal and a way to publish that insight as video in seconds. This is just the first of many agentic use cases on Telegram.' 'Builders want context they can act on,' said Joe Vezzani, chief executive of LunarCrush. 'In a world where large language models are trained, released, and end their intelligence at a point in time, LunarCrush fills the gap to allow real-time social context to anyone building LLMs and agents.' The collaboration began after an early‑July discussion between Hafner and Vezzani about opening social data to AI agents and everyday users in chat. The partnership pairs LunarCrush analytics with OpenServ's aApp Factory, dashboards, and agent tooling for Telegram. OpenServ agents use the same LunarCrush API that powers shortening setup and improving reliability for teams that want to add social metrics to their own agents, tiles, and dashboards. To help builders, OpenServ is publishing resources so teams can add LunarCrush data to custom workflows: a starter template for Telegram mini apps, an agent guide, and a example that maps social dominance to charts and triggers. A joint livestream will walk through the integration, show how the DeFi News aApp works, and answer questions from developers and community managers. Details will be posted on OpenServ's Telegram Announcements channel and X account. About OpenServ OpenServ is the leading platform for building AI apps and products. Developers worldwide use OpenServ's generative UI to build and employ AI agents that interact with APIs, automate workflows, and operate across any framework. With native support for Telegram and a modular SDK, OpenServ moves agents from passive interfaces to active participants in decentralized ecosystems. From finance and governance to messaging and research, agents on OpenServ are designed to act, earn, and evolve for your business. Learn more at LunarCrush provides real‑time social insights for crypto, stocks, and culture by analyzing millions of posts across major networks for investors, creators, and institutions. Availability Contact Ryan Dennis
Yahoo
09-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
LunarCrush CEO warns crypto still small enough to be manipulated
Crypto may be maturing, but it's still small enough to be manipulated — and that's not going away anytime soon. On TheStreet Roundtable, LunarCrush CEO Joe Vezzani joined host Rob Nelson to talk about how whales, hacks, and even fake tweets can dramatically swing markets in seconds — all while remaining nearly untraceable. 'This market is still small enough to be manipulated. That's the problem,' Nelson said. 'Somebody with enormous amounts of money can influence this market — and they're not stupid. They use it to make more money.' Vezzani pointed to the recent Bybit hack as a textbook case. 'There was someone that was short before that was announced,' he said. 'Any market can be manipulated… but with crypto, it's easier. There's no real accountability.' He compared it to a hypothetical Apple scenario: 'What if someone hacked Tim Cook's Twitter and posted: 'Leaving Apple, this place sucks'? The stock tanks 5%, someone makes millions shorting it.' Vezzani noted how bad actors like North Korea's Lazarus Group have already exploited this space. 'They stole money, were probably short somewhere, made more money, and turned all that Ethereum into Bitcoin. That's a country. How are you going to go after North Korea for that?' Social media, he warned, only accelerates the risks. 'Even if it's not real, it can still have this huge effect. Someone can make money short term on it.' Still, Vezzani urges a long-term mindset. 'Bitcoiners think, I'll just buy and hold… put money in, and ride it out,' he said. 'You're never going to catch the very top or bottom.' He also offered advice to young traders: 'If you're 26 or 27 and running a startup, you're panicking. But my great uncle had a startup at 90 — sold it at 95. That guy was running a business longer than most of these kids have been alive.' Sign in to access your portfolio
