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Fomo Co-Founder: The Next Breakout App Won't Call Itself Crypto | Markets Outlook
With Fomo posting all-time high fees in August and with roughly 100,000 daily traders, co-founder Se Yong Park joins CoinDesk Contributor Kate Irwin on Markets Outlook to unpack the Solana-to-Robinhood Chain growth story, why social finance apps like Farcaster and Zora never broke out, and how prediction markets could turn a generation of bettors into traders.
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Timecodes:
00:00 - Se Yong Park Joins Markets Outlook
01:11 - Inside FOMO's Record August in Fees
02:22 - Institutional Era, Consumer Endgame
03:43 - Solana, Robinhood Chain, and the Multi-Chain Effect
06:10 - Why Farcaster and Zora Never Broke Out
08:05 - Prediction Markets Will Turn Bettors Into Traders
09:24 - Advice for Founders: Ship Before It's Perfect
10:51 - DeFi is a Matter of When, Not If
12:39 - Regulation, Innovation Exemptions, and Building in the US