Welcome to my weekly consumer crypto-focused braindump of things I'm thinking about and have bumped into during my internet travels. Here's what I found interesting this week...Friend.techThrough two announcements this week Friend.tech effectively announced that they were discontinuing further development of the product. The product generated almost $90 million in fees over the course of the year it was live, with the vast majority of them coming from the first few months of wild activity, as...
Baseline, Crypto Inflections, EtherVista & Launchpads, Crypto Adoption Phases, PuffPaw, and a bunch more.
Bags App, Slow Rodeo, Nikita Bier, Soundmap, Crypto's Three Body Problem, and a bunch of NFT stuff.
Surprise in product experiences, the consumer crypto paradox, a week into new Zora, Party Sets, and more.
Farcaster marketing, distribution is all that matters, speculation is the wedge, make now meme, and more.
Meltem on cults and lore, Wedges, Pudgies, disrupting pump.fun, shorting memes, and more.
Mochi, Uniwap extention, L3 economics, Fat Bera Thesis, Shape L2, Moonshot, and more.
New creator tool from Party, Pump protocol, block explorers, kingmaking apps, and more.
Things I'm excited about, Zora mobile, Polymarket, Grass, and more.
The why, what, and how of $enjoy.
