the problem with these "fun" crypto apps and games is the desperation for monetization.

every game has the minimum of a game mechanic, followed up quickly by "claim your $COIN and invite your friends and deposit your funds and get your rewards!"

this exposes the inherent flaw in crypto as a "community." It's a financial instrument. The most fun that money can be is in a casino.

Lazarus of cyberspace. My rank is General Nuisance. My cereal is Frosted Flakes.

the most interesting crypto apps are either entirely nonfinancial (like Dark Forest--but tbh in those cases the justification for running them onchain is thin) or interesting non-self-referential financial mechanics (like prediction markets)

Daimo Pay. Build once, distribute everywhere

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real or token slop?

Strava has 20m+ weekly actives. i'll be very generous: sweatcoin is real if it has one one-thousandth of that.

are there 20k workouts a week, or just 20k trades?

Very well said. I like this distinction. 

Distilled down: one doesn't need to be on-chain, the other is squarely in fintech. 

Feels... limited and boring, no? If one is obsessed with fintech, very neat, but it's not "the next internet" like was claimed all the way back in 2011.