Newly minted Twitter proprietor Elon Musk isn’t letting up on his migraine-inducing grievances about bots consuming his Twitter feed. Now, lower than someday into his possession, he’s reportedly determined to dump a part of that pesky drawback to one of many largest names in crypto.

Binance, the huge crypto alternate that reportedly invested $500 million in direction of Musk’s Twitter takeover, says it would work with the social media firm to discover how crypto and blockchain applied sciences may very well be used to cut back bot prevalence on-line.

Binance defined its early plans to work with Twitter in a statement despatched to crypto publication Decrypt. The firm mentioned it’s creating an inner staff to, “focus on ways that blockchain and crypto could be helpful to Twitter and [is] actively brainstorming plans and strategies that could help Elon Musk realize his vision.” The spokesperson hypothesized Binance may probably construct “on-the-chain” options to handle the proliferation of bots. Binance is outwardly “in the early stages” and nonetheless attempting to determine a plan, which may imply they’ve the inklings of any thought or may actually imply completely nothing in any respect.

Binance didn’t instantly reply to Gizmodo’s request for remark.

The Binance partnership extends Musk’s months-long criticism over bots on the platform, which he tried to make use of as an excuse to again out of the $44 billion deal to buy the corporate. After initially agreeing to the deal, Musk received chilly toes and tried to declare Twitter hadn’t really offered sufficient particulars concerning the precise variety of bots on the platform in comparison with actual folks. He claimed the prevalence of bots, which has been extensively recognized by nearly anybody utilizing the platform for years, amounted to a “clear material breach” of the merger settlement. Twitter caved and gave Musk unprecedented quantities of consumer information to confirm the bot figures for himself, after which introduced him with much more information however clearly none of that was sufficient.

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Twitter finally sued Musk for attempting to bail on his legally binding cope with them. Things solely received worse for Musk after that. During their trial with Musk, Twitter’s attorneys submitted authorized fillings deriding Musk’s claims concerning the bots, “factually inaccurate, legally insufficient, and commercially irrelevant.”

“Musk invents representations Twitter never made and then tries to wield, selectively, the extensive confidential data Twitter provided him to conjure a breach of those purported representations,” Twitter’s attorneys wrote. “Yet Musk simultaneously and incoherently asserts that Twitter breached the merger agreement by stonewalling his information requests,” the social media firm continued.”

Now Musk’s left proudly owning a struggling social media firm that we don’t know whether or not he really wished within the first place. Bots and all.

Though Twitter’s actually not a “crypto” firm by any measure of the phrase, it’s not completely faraway from the idea both. In 2019, underneath former CEO Jack Dorsey’s management, the corporate started work on Bluesky, a so-called “decentralized social media platform” that, in idea, would enable a number of social media platforms to function on the identical commonplace. Dorsey, who was formally kicked out of Twitter earlier this yr, joined Bluesky’s board of administrators again in February. Last yr Twitter formally created an inner crypto staff which was tasked with exploring Bitcoin ideas, alternatives for monetization via NFTs, and different areas. Twitter additionally just lately let paid subscribers add NFT’s as their profile photos.