INTERVIEW: How fomo Grew to 1.5M+ Users | Paul Erlanger
@paulerlanger joins @TrustlessState to unpack @fomo's explosive rise to 1.5M+ users, what’s driving its organic growth, and why social trading may be the key to bringing a new generation onchain. They explore FOMO’s push toward sub-second crosschain execution, deeper DeFi integration, new asset classes, and the bigger vision behind it all: a world where crypto disappears into the infrastructure and users simply get a better financial app.
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0:00 Intro
0:16 fomo Explosive Growth
2:10 Why fomo Took Off
3:32 Who Uses fomo?
4:21 Midwest Moms Discovery
5:25 From Crypto Natives to Mainstream
7:26 Funding the fomo App
8:48 The UGC Growth Engine
10:23 Social Features That Matter
13:26 Scaling fomo’s Backend
15:18 Multi-Chain Expansion
16:42 Routing and Liquidity
18:30 Hardest Engineering Challenge
19:23 Vertical Integration Strategy
22:30 DeFi Inside fomo
24:00 Where Revenue Comes From
26:18 No Token Launchpad Plans
26:34 Retention and Stickiness
28:22 Defending Against Competitors
30:47 fomo’s Brand Challenge
33:31 What’s Coming Next
