Consumer Crypto

My thesis for consumer crypto is stupid simple: bet on apps that know where their customers are 

The first non-speculator customers are still crypto natives / terminally onchain

These customers are increasingly on Farcaster

Look for the apps that use this distribution channel intelligently

Build in the bear market 

Build in the bull market too

hi can you guys reshare this 

https://x.com/binji_x/status/1777458994484806099?s=46

would love to start discussions around the stuff I covered here especially s we head into the next phase (the age of multiple clients) 

X blocks posts with links so could use the help :(

Portable digital identity ✅

Digital content = blockchain-attested at creation ✅

Funding public goods ✅

Degen Layer 3

Came out of pod host retirement to have @jacek, the founder of $DEGEN and the Co-Founders of @syndicate - @will and @iandaos on The Delphi Podcast

- Why are we L3ing and when it makes sense
- $DEGEN and the future of DEGEN Chain
- and much more
https://members.delphidigital.io/media/degen-chain-and-l3s-whats-next/

@jacek “Tipping has, for a long time, been ingrained into crypto as a kind of distribution mechanism”

Great talk with @will and @iandaos as well.

Co-founder of @syndicate. Creator of $AGLD, Core Team at ConstitutionDAO. ETH since the 2014 presale

11 years in crypto. co-founder of @syndicate

higher

I was already thinking a lot about the aspirational economy and decided to answer @jihad's prompt. 

https://jamesbeck.mirror.xyz/5QkrHusMclOWsa9sKH4MQhG8UXMJZvi7iKXFy64YYTY

Really enjoyed these two reads on tokens, good perspective on emergent distribution models.

@jamesbeck 
What happens when the creative class makes their own currencies
https://warpcast.com/jamesbeck/0x8a2c1892

@beylin 
The Token is the Product
https://m.mirror.xyz/gyyuM1OocVmptHYvl4jR6G3fWYsOutCgu19RDGjzGqc

Crypto product builder, pre-seed investing @ Boost.VC

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Really enjoyed these two reads on tokens, good perspective on emergent distribution models.

@jamesbeck.eth 
What happens when the creative class makes their own currencies
https://warpcast.com/jamesbeck/0x8a2c1892

@beylin 
The Token is the Product
https://m.mirror.xyz/gyyuM1OocVmptHYvl4jR6G3fWYsOutCgu19RDGjzGqc

crypto

Most ppl conflate memecoins. 

But memecoins vary across factors like code safety, community, accessibility, economics, utility, etc. 

Most ppl see 1 bad variation, miss the full set of variations, and conflate all to “bad”.

Look at the full set of factors and variations to escape conflation and the noise.

A taxonomy of memecoins, based on how they start / emerge

@li dives into my memecoin variations point below in much more systematic detail 👍

investing & writing about consumer tech since 2016. FID #30. hosting /web2web3 

https://www.lisnewsletter.com/

@li dives into my memecoin variations point below in much more systematic detail 👍

https://warpcast.com/li/0xa75c1c9b

Memecoin hatred is the latest episode in a long running series called “I’m not wrong, the market is wrong”

Warpcast

Anyone else like the weekly “this is what you bookmarked” email from Warpcast? Thought it was cool to get a weekly recap by email.

The crypto industry’s main fuel is attention

That’s why it relentlessly churns out new narratives when old ones tire

A month ago it was parallelism, now it’s L3s and tiering. This stuff won’t get built or destroyed in the order of months

Best thing you can do is to question everything from first principles

This is a good take from @androidsixteen.eth, would also argue that  all secondary markets’ main fuel is also attention.

friendly neighborhood shitcaster / building @pinetree

Degen

Re-upping my post from 1.5 years ago on "layer 3s":

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2022/09/17/layer_3.html

The summary is that layer 3s don't magically improve throughput even more, though they can reduce some fixed costs of batch publishing and deposits/withdrawals.

L3s:
(1) “Rollups on top of rollups” for scalability shouldn’t be default L3 use case
(2) L3 as a “layer for custom functionality of different use cases” = ok
(3) /degen chain on @base - implements Arbitrum to switch native token and support smart contract dev in more languages (eg Rust), aligns with (2)

Farcaster

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

my notes on consumer crypto are up! this week I looked at...

- @drip gamifying onchain media collecting
- @seedclub SC07
- @beylin on why your token is your product
- degen chain
- Sofamon's tradable tg sticker product
- @zora erc20 minting
- a new trump memestock

enjoy
https://paragraph.xyz/@joshcrnls.eth/mar-29-24

“Many of the largest consumer internet companies came out over a couple year period in the 2000s when everyone was coming online and infra was finally good enough to build new apps cheaply and easily…that’s the [next] few years in crypto.”

$DEGEN Chain: We're live! Degen L3 is up and running. More info coming soon on Degen.tips. A big thank you to @syndicate for making this chain happen! Also, a special shoutout to @conduit and @airstack for their tremendous work behind the scenes. For more details, check out: https://syndicate.io/blog/degen-chain.

Will be exciting to see the use cases that launch here.

Anyone else catch that Coachella is minting NFTs on AVAX for special lounge access/perks at the festival?
https://opensea.io/collection/coachella-vip-keepsake/overview

This is pretty cool. The mint purchase process via OpenSea, however, still has LOTS of steps to complete - bit cumbersome for average ppl. But it’s nice to see more experimentation. 

Click on the OpenSea link and scroll down to the bottom to watch the tutorial video.

nook

We have transaction frames working now with both WalletConnect and Coinbase MWP for the most part.

This is a super clean transaction frame window showing domain info, active address, and chain. H/t to @slokh and @emo.eth

prev: /nook, protocol @ opensea, co-author seaport & stuff.
professional @slokh and @0xalexander fanboy

Great collection of Farcaster vids from @andrewhong5297  / @ilemi @christopher  @awkweb

Great collection of Farcaster vids from @andrewhong5297  / @ilemi @christopher  @awkweb  

https://x.com/archetypevc/status/1773032230538887498?s=46&t=vA3uzQhJQs3G_7mYIEH4aA

farcaster/social graph based token distribution is going to be the norm vs big one-off token launches

it’s a significantly better way to incentivize and run a community because it integrates a social layer

all tokens and currencies are social instruments that ossify, social graphs allow for that to truly take shape

Open social graphs add a new fun element to the distribution + token design space

Nice to see a few Farcaster tools represented in this a16z crypto startup school cohort

Congrats @launch @rish 🚀 

https://x.com/jasonrosenthal/status/1772581772384948571?s=46&t=vA3uzQhJQs3G_7mYIEH4aA

@jasonr

building farcaster infra @ /neynar 🪐 | casting @ /rish

Discover the best new web3 projects /launchcaster · https://nf.td/launchcaster

Operating Partner & Head of Crypto Startup School 
@a16zcrypto. 25 years working on frontier tech. 2X CEO, 4 exits & most recently VP Subscriptions at Google.

2 weeks ago I tried an experiment in bounty based research. Could a $1k @bountycaster bounty successfully solve a research question?

TL;DR: Bounty-based research worked pretty well!

This is an awesome win for incentivized crowdsourcing and an equally awesome share. 

Thanks @fehrsam for sharing

Thanks @linda for building

Thanks @jeremybatchelder @lxn @michaellwy for writing

Developer ecosystem @farcaster, co-founder @bountycaster. Previously: co-founder of Scalar Capital, product at Coinbase, co-producer @ethereumfilm

@MaelstromFund | Prev @PretzelDAO, @areta_io, Crypto Research @Cambridge_Uni

Eco @ Monad.  Writing Ceteris Paribus - musings at the intersection of crypto, econ, and policy.

https://michaellwy.substack.com/

founding team @HashKey | high fid | casting into the void | ur fren

Ben

@ben-el-baz