Hot clown take: the new @base app is going to change the world.

Here’s a raw, candid braindump on why, and what it means for the future of fintech, social, and app ecosystems 🧵

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So who is Base app competing with?

Knee-jerk reaction for a crypto native is Metamask or Phantom. But that’s not it.

This is coming for Cash App, PayPal, Venmo, WhatsApp.

We finally have a crypto-native answer to mainstream fintech: one where you own everything inside.

It’s one app with: 

- Mini apps
- Social media
- Shopify integration (including for brick-and-mortar)
- USDC yield
- Creating and monetizing games (via Remix, ex-@farcade)
- Prediction markets
- Natural language trading via @bankr $BNKR
- P2P payments
- Encrypted chat

For years, crypto has been building apps for the same narrow audience: degens, early adopters, and futurists.

We’ve been in such a tight echo chamber that we forgot what real-world adoption might even look like.

Now it’s here, screaming in our faces, and we don’t even see it.

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https://blog.base.org/a-new-day-one

https://www.youtube.com/live/1xG1n0EQYEw?si=miaU3uLafMrkhCzj

honestly i think it will get there. we have needed a super app of sorts that begins to abstract away the crypto complexity. we may be too heavily criticizing the tokenize everything aspect in the feed for now