Josh Cornelius

@joshcrnls

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seeing more consumer crypto products keep speculation and crypto mechanics out of the casual user experience and core value prop, but leverage it for the power user / power believer experience few examples... @focustree_app (on twitter) is a productivity product where you earn tiles for completing focus sessions that you use to build a personal digital garden. the rare pieces are nfts but you don't need to know that or care unless you want to trade / speculate on them. they're going viral on tiktok with no mention of the financial benefits of the product. @pumppartyapp (on twitter) is a live gameshow platform where you compete in mini games to win prize pools (think a modern hqtrivia). they're focused on making the casual game inherently fun, cultural, and entertaining, while building more degenerate crypto-based game modes for people that want it. think it's a good recipe for projects with mass market ambitions

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bring your users on a wealth creation journey with you or someone else will

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what gets funded is what gets built and what gets built defines our internet experience and most investors are determined to give us an internet of endless saas products and empty blockchains couldn't be us

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sc creative team is going crazy

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I just donated to Fund Farconnect at Devconnect Argentina Nov 2025

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going to start posting investment memos from the recent deals we've done to share a bit of our thinking behind them first up, Kizzy

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one of the big open challenges in consumer crypto right now is figuring out how to use to tokens to reward participation and distribute ownership to people creating value without entering into a transactional relationship with them i have complete conviction that having skin in the game can strengthen belief and improve internet experiences, but only if we figure out how to structure distribution models in a way that makes earning secondary to the emotional benefits of participating people showing up primarily to make money will always result in low effort participation, shitty communities, and horrible retention

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fwiw the zora economic model feels mostly right to me, they just need to figure out how to scale the network more non-crypto friends, more recognizable mainstream personalities, real possibility of going viral basically i think instagram with zora's mechanism would go crazy

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the simplest bull case for farcaster is that we’ll need an app-native feed as software becomes content, vibecoding becomes the new posting, and the number of applications being released 1000x's

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soon kids are gonna say they want to build viral apps instead of be influencers when they grow up

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so you're telling me that applications are going to capture way more attention, generate more revenue, and be way stronger sources of belief than infra and they'll also be able to vertically integrate and consume infra as it makes economic sense to do so yet there are no application tokens in the top 30? cool, definitely not gonna change

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we've been heads down on some foundational @seedclub upgrades so have been quiet about what's next for our accelerator, but we're still very active and i'm fkn amped on the teams we've backed since our last cohort... @kamigotchi fully onchain idle-mmorpg @fungi consumer defi agents @kizzymobile social media betting @simcluster multiagent social network simulation game @pumppartyapp live interactive gameshow platform @playwithOU streamer prediction markets @narrativexyz narrative trading @houseisthename cultural asset ownership protocol + more through our venture dao (sorry gotta get more of them on farcaster 🤦) can't wait to share more about what's next very soon

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Just completed a sidequest: Certified grass toucher +10 touching grass Start playing at farcam.sidequest.xyz

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too many projects focused on building marketcaps instead of building businesses

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@bracky I want in on the Madness! 🏀

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should be very obvious at this point how inefficient traditional business models are at capturing social / cultural value and how exponentially better tokens are at it

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so confident opportunities at the consumer app layer explode alongside ai - everyone can code so way more gets built - more searching for meaning / belonging creates way more demand for niche opinionated experiences - transaction fees offer a new killer business model that requires way less scale than ads - tokens / new fundraising models remove gatekeepers to capital and break us out of the restrictive & binary ipo or bust startup environment - open social graphs make bootstrapping social products easy - software continues eating money, fashion, entertainment, content blowing open the surface area of opportunities saas is dead, long live consumer

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political parties launching memecoins you say…

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value props of tokens in order of what the average person actually cares about... 1. short term financial opportunity (attention capture) 2. longer term financial opportunity (economic alignment with success) 3. access to experiences (community / product gating) 4. identity signalling 5. decentralization

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