Jon Cooks

Growing @kinsuapp | musings on crypto and consumer trends

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

@Kiksman_ @CantonNetwork its a blockchain developed for financial institutions, worth reading up on

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

Why is nobody talking about Canton Network?

Likes of Goldman Sachs, HSBC, BNP Paribas utilising their technology

eg Goldman Sachs' Digital Asset Platform enables issuing and managing digital bonds

Just announced the latest batch of approved validators

With the ecosystem still forming and new apps coming soon, worth a look

And no this isnt a sponsored or partnered post in any way. lol.

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

@brian_armstrong Perfect timing for what we have been working on, already using CDP this makes what we want to do even easier

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

Robinhood releasing whale tracking, can copy/paste trades of anyone

Huge in web2 in apps like Etoro

Not surprised Robinhood are implementing this

And Coinbase releasing agentic wallets allowing AI gents to manage funds, execute trade, pay for services. Easy for other people to set up similar offering

ie you rate yourself as good trader. Let other people copy/paste your agents trade for a fee.

[TBPN @tbpn]

Robinhood CEO @vladtenev says “Robinhood Social” is launching in the coming weeks with "whale tracking" so users can follow and copy trades from politicians and other traders, like Nancy Pelosi:

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

AI can replace a lot of things but not your health - this 💡

Can certainly contribute, analyse data you give it but it won’t make you healthy

Know an incredible health tech team - helping people all over the world. And whilst their users are ok with some digital/AI aspects. The no1 requested product are 1:1 calls with specialists

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

What are people using to execute trades and investments once you get your picks from Grok/Claude etc

Also thinking about how and where you execute these trades in the era of agentic finance

1. Not sure you want to delegate a fist card to an agent

2. Makes sense for self custodial wallet, can spin up and delegate access

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE DON’T USE GROK FOR STOCKS.

Most traders are looking at charts from 6 months ago.
Grok analyzes real-time sentiment on X to predict future.

Here are 20 prompts to find the next 10x stock:

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

@jonahlau_ Would imagine this is your audience Jonah, ie as a builder, thought leaderships

Builders its business as usual - ship, learn, go again

What’s changed is with AI and broader macro, do the above faster than ever. And prio revenue over all else

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

@Loopify They are one of the worst

Such an old school bank

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

@Creek1606 Shaw also poor - mistake cost the goal.

Fernandes after being amazing at Spurs was lost

Mainoo was solid, Yoro v good.

Sesko is a mixed back, superb finish. But until then his first touch was really poor

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

On Carrick

Waited too long to make the changes - having a target man made all the difference

2 points dropped for MUFC

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

Honeymoon over so far for Carrick

Outsmarted by Nuno

Tepid performance, too slow to make changes

No response or ideas from MUFC

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

The top managers aren’t afraid to make changes early when it’s not working

You could see at after 20 mins what West Ham were doing and we kept going with the same approach that didn’t work.

Get Carrick is interim and trying to get CL but at the same time praying that Ineos/Glazers don’t get swept away and take 4 good games and make the Solskjaer mistake by giving him the job.

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

Superb read- the bit that struck is the impact on the next generation

The screenagers. The AI native generation

“Rethink what you're telling your kids. The standard playbook: get good grades, go to a good college, land a stable professional job. …..Teach your kids to be builders and learners, not to optimize for a career path that might not exist by the time they graduate.”

The school curriculum (in the UK) is out of touch with the world we live in now, running scared of AI and offering an education suitable for the last century

My daughter already can use AI and video editing tools like CapCut better than most adults. That’s going to be more use to her than learning a dead language or have an encyclopaedic knowledge of cloud names.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

Honeymoon over so far for Carrick

Outsmarted by Nuno

Tepid performance, too slow to make changes

No response or ideas from MUFC

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

Using Polymarket to bet on whose AI agents out trades and out performs the market

Old model: download Moneybox or Acorns, set risk profile, let fund managers at Ishares, Van Eck manage your funds

New model: go to agent marketplace, pay fee for best performance agentic fund manager to handles your money

Or go to Polymarket/Kashi and bet which fund managers make the most $$

Trading for GenZ is already entertainment ( eg GameStop / Roaring Kitty aka Keith)

AI/agents + prediction markets are going to put this on steroids

[threadguy @notthreadguy]

long speculative entertainment

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

@raidenkrn going for both sides score, and a draw

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

How about Robinhood and Revolut. Or Coinbase.

All genZ need.

Web3 loves to still try and create a need for products for problems that only exist on the TL. If you dive into web2 consumer trend and research.... really not pointing at crypto apps.

Will defer to @fern on the specifics of Robinhood Cash Card, pretty sure its 80 + countries. Use a common standard stablecoin with other fintechs.

[nairolf @0xNairolf]

an all in one app with:

- instant stablecoin payments
- smooth IBAN <> crypto rails
- a card that works everywhere
- direct access to defi yields
- self custody

goes mainstream this year, 100%

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

@HEntechnologue @portalpad_ @FractionAI_xyz 👀

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

Is there an app or marketplace where you can fork or get paid access to someone’s AI agent to trade on your behalf?

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

Actually wouldn’t mind if our infrastructure worked or we weren’t taxed on literally everything

Take the Nordics - high taxes but healthcare works.

Not only are Labour incompetent the even more worrying thing is lack of credible opposition. After the heat on Starmer, the Conservatives or Reform should have been clamouring for him to resign.

Labour talk about looking after working people. Well working people their income, tax, the jobs they create are leaving the country to create wealth and jobs somewhere else.

[Alan Smith @AlanJLSmith]

It’s no longer just the billionaires leaving the UK.

Now it’s entrepreneurs, business owners and young wealth builders earning £100,000 +

Losing these - the highest tax contributors - will have lasting damage on the prosperity of the UK.

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

@Creek1606 Mix of GenZ and millennial

Financially literate
Care about their FICO score
Talk about their financial goals on socials
Live on Insta/Tik Tok/YT
Use apps like Acorns, Revolut, Robinhood

[Jon Cooks @JonHook]

Lessons from Step acquisition

1. you dont need everyone to be your customer, they focussed on 13-21. Teens and young adults

2. which then determined the product UI/UX

3. and the creator/distribution partnerships

Generation growing up in a fundamentally different world to their parents and grandparents

A generation who take financial advice from Tik Tok.

Who will never step foot in a physical bank.

Who will never use the words web2/web3.

Who expect gamification.

Who else is building financial products and services for this audience?

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

I'm so excited to share that we are acquiring the financial services app, @step

Nobody taught me about investing, building credit, or managing money when I was growing up. That's exactly why we’re joining forces with Step! I want to give millions of young people the financial foundation I never had. Lots to share soon :D