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This is the latest front in the 'attention war' where Big Tech platforms (Meta, Google, ByteDance) compete for user time that increasingly competes with crypto/Web3 engagement. The concerning subtext—Mosseri explicitly warning that longform video cannibalizes social signals (likes, shares, friend connections)—mirrors the broader structural problem crypto faces: entertainment consumption crowds out transactional/social on-chain activity. Meanwhile, with BTC at $79,957 and dominance elevated, capital is concentrating in the hardest asset while speculative attention fragments across platforms.

Instagram announced a push into longform horizontal video called 'Features'.