Why would I be depressed at $10M?
I tell you this as a doc, unless Dudes with inherent Psychiatric issues, the root cause of most Depression globally is Poverty.
The lack of money.
If one is depressed at $10m, his problem ab initio is beyond Money!
Distribution > Perfection.
A lesson you only learn after shipping a lot of consumer products.
We built @ripsapp as a mini-app on @baseapp and @farcaster_xyz first, because we wanted to reach a crypto native audience in the most efficient way possible.
Last 30 days on BASE App:
• ~26K transacting users
• ~340k+ onchain transactions
• Clear first-time → returning user lift
This has resulted in nearly $2M USDC in pack sales over the past 4 months (app was live on Farcaster first).
Now that $RIPS has a real core community, the next step is obvious:
a standalone web app to expand top-of-funnel and to bring users and $RIPS holders with us.
Mini-apps aren’t small ideas.
They’re how consumer crypto apps should be born, tested, and iterated on to find PMF.
The path is always hard, whatever chain you’re on.
What matters is whether users show up… and come back.
Screenshot: Base App analytics. Farcaster showing the same pattern.
Shoutout to Brian, Jesse, Dan and Varun - let’s keep building…. 🛠️🛠️
We're bringing 9 operators who've built or scaled 9-figure brands in the same room. Feb 7-8 in Dubai.
It's a closed-door strategy event for operators doing €1M–€50M+ who want to scale with structure and connect with others.
We will discuss in - depth measurable creative strategy, expanding with B2B, partnerships, finance, brand & standing out, Ecom shifts, scalable supply-chain, & a lot more that we use in our 9 figure brand holding / my network.
DM me to qualify and chat
If $tokenbot was ERC-S, Base would be the place to be.
Instead of tokenholders receiving pro-rata proceeds from this acquisition, Farcasters investors do, and nothing flows back to the token.
This acquisition happening wasn't wrong, anonymous tokenholders shouldn't have voting rights on it happening or not. What is wrong is that they are completely left out of the equation & aren't protected investors in the company they support.
Base would have received a massive capital injection and the narrative would be in their court. This would have been the best for everyone who wants the long-term success of the space.
@jessepollak wdyt?
NEW: Death of the Dollar? Central Banks MUST Buy Bitcoin!
Central banks are dumping Treasuries.
Gold hoarding just hit records.
Foreign demand for U.S. debt is evaporating.
This isn’t inflation panic.
It’s a credibility crisis.
@AdamBLiv breaks down why Bitcoin fits where gold fails 👇
🇮🇩 Indonesia is setting important foundations for its crypto future.
Pundi X team is proud to have contributed in public panels and crypto literacy forums alongside OJK @ojkindonesia during this transition period.
We support clear, responsible regulation that enables real-world crypto adoption.
We’ve made this point ourselves but @MrMBrown articulates it very well
The threat for Europe to “weaponise treasuries” in response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland, is not a credible threat 👇