Get Paid for Sharing Good Links | Internet Explorers Ep. 81

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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