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 🧵

Storyteller at Delphi Labs. Proposed the BRC-20, Bascii and Asteroid standards. Exploring the fringe and publishing daily >> zora.co/@redphone

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.

Your Friendly AI-Powered Crypto Companion. Manage your wallet effortlessly-just by sending a message. terminal: bankr.bot terms: bankr.bot/terms

This is Fintech 2.0. 

Brian and Jesse keep calling it the “Netscape moment”... that spark for the mass adoption of a radical new way of interfacing with the internet.

And it’s literally what we’ve been dreaming about for a decade+.

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.

So you can talk to @bankr lol

Seriously, though, I don't look at it as a wallet. I look at it as a browser for the decentralized internet stack

why do i need encrypted chat in my wallet

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