Paid Cold Outreach: $10 USDC to Reach Strangers

Developers propose making cold outreach paid: sending messages via XMTP would require $10 USDC, refunded if the message is accepted and burned if deemed annoying. The consensus is that cold outreach isn't dead—only free cold outreach is.

2026-09-24 ~ 2026-09-24 · 2 related posts

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