my top low mc picks on base — you're not gonna believe this, but they're all from farcaster
$TIPN
farcaster’s USDC-only like-to-tip app with rev-split. stake up & earn. half of supply staked already. core mechanic is USDC tips but other features include
$DEGEN-style infeed tipping & allocations for community activations & TONs of composability. fully onchain. fully distributed. experienced founders. bubbling community.
$BETR
spin to mint. started on Pods. buy tickets, spin the wheel, collect NFTs & fungibles. jackpots, etc. time-based to create fomo. huge distribution channel & community. partnership activations lined up, including one with
$TIPN. experienced founder building in nouns & NFT ecosystems for years. strong reach. creator pool. flywheeled token with impressive numbers, including strong undistributed revenue. grassroots team.
#CLANKERMON
monster catcher game. OG farcaster dev team. three strong, i believe. founder has built bunch of miniapps before including several games—he may even argue that he coined the term “miniapp.” game was originally built with trading meta but now appears to be moving more pve/game-focused. biggest update coming very soon. team bought aggressively through downturn. cracked media team. slick af front end. if fc catches miniapp bid, could send. stokefire went to $7m last run. also, yes, you will be able to trade your mons. go throw one in the incubator!
$OPSYS
an established design & product studio scaling into farcaster dominance. well-rounded team. leader also runs an enormous design cabal on fc. talent on talent on talent — all on call. the studio works closely with
#CLANKER & tons of downstream eco tokens. v1 token model got them on their feet. v2 will scale the studio into autonomy & beyond. likely to become THE agency token of fc & base.
#LAUNCHER
appcoin crowdfund launchpad. same team as
$TIPN, which was the first launch. team thinking long-term, experimenting with mechanics that reduce volatility & increase value accrual over time. potentially white gloving, adding parameters, looking to frontrun the appcoin era. solid token model with buybacks & eco alignment. tipn community obvious feeder. other things cooking.
$DAU
top funnel miniapp & long-term cook from an OG. need users? DAU provides them. gamified daily quests & rewards. massive partnerships pipeline. great comms. super transparent. very thoughtful in approach. huge eco incentive pool. almost every app you will use over these next few months will run a DAU activation & the founder thinks almost exclusively in value-add. you do the math.
$FAIR
essentially an agentic VC for the fc ecosystem. already made a few investments. all of them up bigly, including
$NOICE,
$OPSYS &
$DAU. launch was a bit rough but the founder is now fully locked in. he also manages a $10m consumer fund...