Sports are so much bigger than we realize.

1. Universal
- 85% of all people across the globe follow at least one sport regularly.

2. Intergenerational
- 70% of sports fans inherited their favorite teams through their family or hometown.

3. In-Real-Time
- In 2023, 96 of the top 100 watched US television events were sports. In 2022, 1.5 billion people tuned in to the World Cup Final.

4. Idiomatic
- 20% of business and political idioms in English are derived from sports. (“slam dunk,” “home run,” “move the goalposts,” “level playing field”)

5. Massive Economy
- Sports generate more revenue than movies, news, and books combined (est. $600B globally).

6. Cultural Influencers
- Christiano Ronaldo has over 1.0B combined followers, double the next highest. Athletes globally have more followers than entertainers and politicians combined.

7. Engaging + Positive
- Sports posts generate ~30% more engagement than average content, the nearest "positive" coded content close to rage-bait (~60%).

8. Happy
- Watching sports has a 15% increase on subjective well being. (Higher than any factor studied besides health, family, and functional ability.)

9. Trustworthy
- Sports coverage is perceived as 3x more fair and accurate than general news coverage.

10. The Last Shared Reality?
- This point is qualitative, but the one that's most important to me... 

Before the Internet, we used to all watch the same newscasts, read from the same magazines and best seller lists, listen to the same music hits, watch the same weekly TV eps, ...

Sports are one of the only things left in life where you *have to be there*. In the moment, with the rest of the world, around the same event, the same drama unfolding in real time.

Sports are a time machine into a world where we still had a collective reality. 

Sports may be the most social phenomenon we have left.

Who is building miniapps around sports?

Prob the most underinvested in category relative to TAM

Base

tired: making your end users pay for gas

wired: abstracting away gas to simplify onboarding, improve your acquisition metrics, and get more users

did you know you can sponsor gas with our paymaster? and that we'll cover the first $15k if you build on @base?

get started ⬇️

shopify, coinbase, zora and just about every consumer app have already gone gasless

it’s not the future of onchain ux, it’s the present 

get started 👇

In response to @jessepollak’s cast on Farcaster, I and @oxbryte 
 hopped on it and built this on Farcaster using Minikit Demo by 
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Zora Analytics app fetches your total earnings from Zora, total trading volume, Total number of Posts created, Average Earnings per posts, and a chart on your earnings over time🫡

Test the miniapp here: https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/Xg7m8zZ11B6A/zora-analytics-demo

Zora Analytics is my new favorite way to check creator earnings

Built using MiniKit

If your notifs look like this, update your app! Sleek & condensed version is waiting for you 👀

we worked with shopify to build a new commerce payments protocol

millions of stores, all around the world, will use it accept USDC on @base

this is building a global onchain economy — and it’s still day one.

Shopify went gasless with Paymaster and you can too! Still giving up to $15k in credits

https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/paymaster/docs/welcome

Shopify will enable USDC (Stablecoins on @Base) in Checkout via Shopify Payments and Shop Pay. Early access starts today, roll out throughout the year.

We think that stablecoins are a natural way to transact on the Internet and worked with coinbase to develop the commerce https://t.co/o6jme8kSha

Shopify went gasless with Paymaster and you can to 👇

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I scored a 20 and tipped some $ATL to @trulovenyc @henri @aneri @coopahtroopa.eth.

Time for you all to step up.

1/ Hi Farcaster Fam!

Today, we're proud to announce that Stripe is acquiring Privy.

We couldn’t be more excited.

Privy continues as an independent product – but now we’ll move faster, ship more, and serve you even better, so you can stay focused on your users.

More long term builders getting rewarded

Awesome to see elite companies like stripe recognizing world class crypto talent

Congrats @henri Max and team on the well deserved milestone. Now back to building!

Keeper of the fabric @privy 🇫🇷 

Working to change how value flows online.

TIL my posts radiate soft girl energy and cottagecore vibes. don't know what that means but here for it.

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TIL my posts radiate soft girl energy and cottagecore vibes. don't know what that means but here for it.

made by @altagers.eth with @sohey help

 powered by minikit https://www.base.org/builders/minikit

New notifications in Coinbase Wallet are absolute 🔥

Miniapp builders — what are your top unmet needs?

trying out a social experiment, how far can we get in painting our timelines @base blue?

Great day to build a miniapp in Coinbase Wallet using MiniKit

Base core team is cooking more than ever 👨‍🍳

Our competition isn’t other chains, it’s the Apple and Google app stores

Building a more incentive aligned app platform was one of the reasons I joined Coinbase in ‘19 and I’m stoked to start rolling out what we’re working on 🔜

Congrats to Circle on a successful public market debut. Love seeing long term builders get rewarded.

7 Days of Vibe

Babe wake up new MiniKit Demo just dropped 💅  And video!

Base Appchains are powering some of crypto’s most ambitious ideas

💡What if real-world mobility data truly lived onchain? 

Curious how a 7-year journey in ride-hailing, EV infra &amp; RWA financing is finally converging onchain?

MVL's mainnet, powered by @base Appchain, bridging the gap between real-world mobility and blockchain.

🧵1/5 👇

Zora

A social network for the new creator economy.

There’s no better onchain onboarding tool than @zora 

All my normie friends get it, immediately

And it just works

To all the builders - how can we better help you acquire and retain users?

No idea too wild

Believing in your work is the superior way to live

You work too much of your life to accept anything less

nick prince

@nickprince.eth