Internet Explorers

We sit down with Internet-native builder and creative coder Mike Bodge to break down his newest experiment: AUX, a gamified curation tool for attention, links, and taste.

Described as StumbleUpon meets group chat meets token-powered leaderboard, AUX lets you post URLs that battle for the Internet’s front page. It’s an onchain attention economy that’s equal parts meme-fuel and media archive—designed with taste, not virality, in mind.

Before Mike joins, Jess, Josh, and Peace explore the week’s most interesting moments: Noice, the evolution of creator tokens, and why L1 assets might be in trouble. Plus: MoviePass is back (?!) and trying to make you a fantasy film mogul.

Stick around to the end for a heartfelt goodbye—a big new chapter awaits us all.

This episode unpacks:

How Noice turns Farcaster into a microtip economy
The messy future of creator tokens
Why apps, not L1s, will capture disprortionate value
What AUX reveals about curating Internet taste
How Mike Bodge hides the crypto in his app
Rekt as the blueprint for brand-backed tokens
What MoviePass is building with $100M (?!?)
The difference between novelty loops and compounding crypto businesses
Why VCs are rethinking the startup funding factory
A preview of what’s coming after Internet Explorers

Chapters:

0:00 — Intro: Discussing end of Q2 and Bitcoin's quiet ATH
5:06 — Noice taking over Farcaster world and L1 discussions
15:31 — Introducing Mike Bodge and AUX: Internet attention machines
29:32 — AUX: Curating the ultimate feed for the internet
38:14 — Tokenomics and business model behind AUX platform
46:48 — Exploring AUX's content and user engagement strategies
54:10 — Discussing changing landscape of startup fundraising strategies
58:05 — Brand coins: Capturing social and cultural value
1:00:03 — MoviePass raises $100M for fantasy movie mogul game
1:07:49 — Announcement: farewell (for the moment), teasing future plans

Internet Explorers is a weekly rundown show where extremely online individuals broadly explore (romanticize, even) new consumer Internet experiences.

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