Ryan Cooley

Building @townsprotocol, @rodeo

[Ryan Cooley @ryanpcooley]

When every headline can become a position, you need a tool that executes at the speed of information.

We rebuilt @rodeo for that. An agentic platform that instantly turns any tweet, article, or event into an executable trade.

More soon.

[Rodeo @rodeo]

The internet is constantly producing tradable moments.

AI agents are finally capable of acting on them.

Rodeo is being built to show you the move and execute it for you.

More soon. 🤠

[Ryan Cooley @ryanpcooley]

@townsapp 🫡

[Ryan Cooley @ryanpcooley]

I made this retro asteroid blaster game at our latest hackathon. Cheat code: the game view adjusts to the viewport height, so if you're playing on a vertical monitor, you might just win the jackpot!

[Towns App @townsapp]

Towns Bot Spotlight: Beaver Blast 🦫💥

Beaver Blast is an arcade-style space shooter where players aim, shoot, and survive against endless meteoroids while chasing the highest possible score.

Every run adds to a shared jackpot, with entry, score tracking, and payouts handled automatically by the bot inside Towns.

Take the top score and the payout is yours.

[Bankless @Bankless]

Crypto’s social x money wave keeps heating up with content coins, creator tokens, mini-apps, and tipping.

The latest standout? Towns — a group chat app on Base where communities (free or paid) can earn, trade, and run bots right inside the convo.

If onchain group chats that actually make money sound like the future, this one’s worth watching👇

~~ Analysis by @wmpeaster ~~

What Is Towns?

@townsapp is a messaging protocol and app designed around a straightforward but bold idea: Your group chats should be able to move money. Your wallet should be native to the chat. And creators should be paid directly by their communities.

Under the hood, Towns runs on a custom L2 chain for messaging, offchain stream nodes for real-time decentralized chats, smart contracts on @base that handle payments and memberships, and the $TOWNS token, which secures the Towns Network via staking.

As a user, all that complexity is abstracted away. What you see is Discord-like chats with built-in wallets, onchain paywall support, native tipping, and customizable bots.

Why does this approach matter? Crypto activity is already socially driven. Towns embraces this reality by making chats themselves into economic spaces. You don't leave a conversation to transact; you transact inside conversations.

Plus, it's yet another onchain business model for creators and communities to consider. Anyone can spin up a Towns chat, deploy their own bots, and kick off new revenue rails for their audience.

How to Try Towns

Another pro with Towns is that it's simple to dive into:

➢ Head to app (dot) towns (dot) com — Log in via Privy by spinning up an embedded wallet linked to your Google, Twitter, Farcaster, Rabby wallet, etc. If you want funds for joining chats, tipping, or trading, click the wallet icon in the top right to pull up "Deposit" and "Send" tabs for your embedded wallet.

➢ Explore Towns chats — The linked page is the app's main discovery hub; you can surf and join chats via recent activity, featured communities, top earning groups, and trending projects. Some Towns are free; others require a fee to subscribe.

➢ Create your own Town — In the app's left sidebar, press the "+" button to pull up the "New Town" deployer UI. Input your Town name, select from the "Free" or "Paid" options, and deploy. It's basically as easy as spinning up a new Discord server.

➢ Stake your TOWNS — If you decide to go deeper, head to the "Token" tab on the main Towns website and delegate your TOWNS to a node operator. This secures the Towns Network. Review operators' yield and commission stats, then make your pick and click "Stake."

The Big Picture

As social platforms have spent the past couple of decades becoming more extractive and closed down, Towns is moving in the opposite direction: open, onchain, programmable, community-centric.

Whether it can become the "Telegram of crypto" remains to be seen, but it certainly has potential, and if you're looking for a fresh corner of onchain social to explore, Towns is one experiment you can currently jump straight into. Explore a few chats and see what you think!

[Ryan Cooley @ryanpcooley]

On Monday the CFTF quietly greenlit Polymarket US 🚀

They amended Polymarket US’s DCM order, removing the ban on FCM-intermediated accounts

U.S. brokerages will soon be able to route users into Polymarket’s rails. Get ready.

[Ryan Cooley @ryanpcooley]

People don't realize how disruptive @Polymarket is going to be for sports betting. Sports volume this week is 4x what it was 1 year ago. Will be 20x once the US is live. Also, Kalshi is basically a sports betting platform now...

[Ryan Cooley @ryanpcooley]

@0xDesigner @benln banger

[Ryan Cooley @ryanpcooley]

@dwr Kalshi's fees most often making arbing these unprofitable or delta neutral.

[Ryan Cooley @ryanpcooley]

Europe accounts for almost half of global exchange trading volume. bullish. 🇪🇺

[Towns Protocol @TownsProtocol]

Towns Protocol has published its MiCA-compliant white paper, aligning with the EU’s landmark crypto regulation (EU 2023/1114).

Registered with ESMA on July 15, 2025, the $TOWNS token can now be traded across Europe.

Read the full paper ↓
https://t.co/0lC5iePO8v

[Towns Protocol @TownsProtocol]

$TOWNS is live.
CA(Base): 0x00000000A22C618fd6b4D7E9A335C4B96B189a38
CA(ETH): 0x000000Fa00b200406de700041CFc6b19BbFB4d13
CA(BNB): 0x00000000bcA93b25a6694ca3d2109d545988b13B

[Ryan Cooley @ryanpcooley]

@0xdubemm @TownsProtocol @0xdubemm looks like a bug on the checker. We're working on it. You should be good 🫡

[Ryan Cooley @ryanpcooley]

🚀🚀🚀

[Towns Protocol @TownsProtocol]

$TOWNS launches August 5th, 2025
The token powering ownable communication.

[Ryan Cooley @ryanpcooley]

@Chilotete @townsapp @farcaster_xyz hey @Chilotete are you on a VPN? That often causes issues with sign in from social accounts.

[Ryan Cooley @ryanpcooley]

🥳🥳🥳

[Towns Protocol @TownsProtocol]

We're excited to welcome Send It to the growing ecosystem of apps building on Towns Protocol.

A group chat with a shared wallet that you and your friends can buy into. The pot is shared, every move counts, and whatever happens, you're in it together.

Join the waitlist.

[Towns Protocol @TownsProtocol]

We're excited to welcome Send It to the growing ecosystem of apps building on Towns Protocol.

A group chat with a shared wallet that you and your friends can buy into. The pot is shared, every move counts, and whatever happens, you're in it together.

Join the waitlist.

[Ryan Cooley @ryanpcooley]

@Lysss302 @townsapp Great to have you join us!

[Ryan Cooley @ryanpcooley]

@KHFRHN @benrbn hey @KHFRHN - will follow up on a DM to get your issue resolved 💪

[Ryan Cooley @ryanpcooley]

We've opened three core roles on Towns. You'll be responsible for building the infrastructure of the next generation of social platform that gives value to great communities rather than extracting it.

[Towns App @townsapp]

We're hiring at Towns!

Looking for:
• Infrastructure Engineer
• Backend Engineer (Go, Blockchain)
• Fullstack Engineer (TypeScript, React, Web3, Node.js, Go)

Know someone who fits? Tag them below or send them our way.

[Ryan Cooley @ryanpcooley]

@MonkeyMeaning Congrats! 🔥🔥