{"id":20340,"date":"2025-04-03T03:31:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=20340"},"modified":"2025-04-03T03:31:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:31:32","slug":"onlyfans-founders-startup-and-hbar-foundation-enter-race-to-acquire-tiktok-to-maintain-american-ownership-and-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=20340","title":{"rendered":"OnlyFans Founder&#8217;s Startup And HBAR Foundation Enter Race To Acquire Tiktok To Maintain &#8216;American Ownership And Governance&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Tim Stokely<\/strong>, the founder of <strong>OnlyFans<\/strong>, and a cryptocurrency<strong> <\/strong>foundation have joined forces to place a late-stage bid for the acquisition of <strong>TikTok\u2019s<\/strong> U.S. operations from <strong>ByteDance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: The bid was put forth this week by <strong>Zoop<\/strong>, Stokely\u2019s latest venture,\u00a0and the <strong>HBAR Foundation<\/strong>, which\u00a0manages the <strong>Hedera <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/hbar\/usd\">HBAR<\/a>) blockchain network, according to details shared with Benzinga.<\/p>\n<p>The official X account of HBAR also posted a cryptic message with the TikTok logo and reposted media reports about the bid. Zoop didn\u2019t immediately return Benzinga\u2019s request for a comment.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bQNcWYJ2tD\">pic.twitter.com\/bQNcWYJ2tD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 HBAR Foundation (@HBAR_foundation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HBAR_foundation\/status\/1907502097156755628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>See Also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/04\/44613293\/avax-to-outperform-bitcoin-ethereum-reaching-250-by-2029-standard-chartered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AVAX To Outperform Bitcoin, Ethereum, Reaching $250 By 2029: Standard Chartered <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to ensuring TikTok\u2019s U.S. operations remain under American ownership and governance,\u201d said <strong>RJ Phillips<\/strong>, Zoop &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/04\/44620779\/onlyfans-founders-startup-and-hbar-foundation-enter-the-race-to-acquire-tiktok-us-to-maint\" alt=\"OnlyFans\" founder startup and hbar foundation enter race to acquire tiktok maintain ownership governance>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Stokely, the founder of OnlyFans, and a cryptocurrency foundation have joined forces to place a late-stage bid for the acquisition of TikTok\u2019s U.S. operations from ByteDance. What Happened: The bid was put forth this week by Zoop, Stokely\u2019s latest venture,\u00a0and the HBAR Foundation, which\u00a0manages the Hedera (CRYPTO: HBAR) blockchain network, according to details shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-20340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}