Ryan Cooley

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.

@townsapp 🫡

@ryanpcooley Let's give it a try

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!

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!

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.

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...

@0xDesigner @benln banger

@benln also accidentally included some prompting alpha

it’s still wild to me that i can understand the dev jokes like this and i really do owe it to @cursor_ai. thanks for the coffee!

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

Dumb prediction market question: is the reason the arb is not closed here a function of low liquidity? What's the best tool to see how much liquidity exist in a given market? Impact of a $100 / $1,000 / $10,000 bet?

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

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

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

@TownsProtocol hey man... i think there is a mistake somewhere... 100k+ points and not eligible??? after contributing for your projects for months?? kindly check my page

$TOWNS eligibility checker is now live. eligibility.towns.com/check

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

I have downloaded the @townsapp IOS app but here are the problems I encountered during sign in . Signing in with @farcaster_xyz doesn't work even if you followed the instructions from the app. Signing with email, Google, Twitter,none of them worked for me. The only means for me to sign in was when I linked my apple account to my @townsapp account . I don't know if other people also had this same experience or if it's just me

Messaging → trading → tipping → coordination. Towns is the most composable group chat on the internet. If you're building a community, you should be earning too.

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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.

@Lysss302 @townsapp Great to have you join us!

Late GM 💛 Been having an amazing day at the @townsapp office learning and talking all things Towns 😎 This week has been an absolute blast and a new content creation challenge will begin in the Lyss Syndicate on Monday with big giveaways! Make sure you join us ✨

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

@benrbn Having issue with the sign in, the check in button Isn't appearing, any solution?

We've been shipping some major upgrades on the protocol to ensure long term sustainability. Thank you everyone for your patience . Towns summer incoming. 🌇

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.

@MonkeyMeaning Congrats! 🔥🔥

i've joined the purple chain 🟪 the chain cares about performance, yes, but it also cares about accessible decentralization -- a lot. it makes me feel alive like ethereum did when i first discovered it. this is the chain i'm building on.