The Genesis Post
Yakko aims to bring the next billion users onchain. We will do this by solving the biggest problem in crypto, that the ecosystem is fragmented and difficult for new users to understand. Even the simple act of going from fiat currencies to cryptocurrencies or vice versa so you can use a "web3" app is still too confusing. It requires prior knowledge about the difference between a CEX (Centralized Exchange) and a DEX (Decentralized Exchange) and even what a browser wallet like Phantom is and why you would use one. There is also so many different choices of exchanges and wallets and chains and currencies that it leads to "decision fatigue" for new users without a unified and simplified experience. Yakko's dream is to become the most trusted kayaker in crypto and make the most simple and Zen payments app. He hopes that one day he can make it so simple that even his mom can finally pay him in Solana.
Yakko is starting by building the simplest, fastest, and most beautiful social payments app on Solana (Think Venmo, but better). It allows you to add and find your friends by their @handles, post a charge for your snowboard trip to Tahoe, or even split checks between multiple friends for a dinner or your monthly rent. But unlike many other apps, Yakko sees his payments app as the beginning of something bigger. He sees it as a way to improve the onboarding experience for the entire crypto ecosystem through a meta-echange, a single place that helps you understand, find, and use the most core apps and chains in the space.
Just as Yakko did during his early years as a kayaking guide on the Yoshino River where he also studied the simple art of Zen Buddhism and sumi-e ink painting, he wants to bring his guide experience and this same Zen simplicity to crypto payments and give people step by step workflows to do things like going from fiat to their first SOL, and maybe doing something like swapping it for USDC and paying a friend. He wants to make sure people understand the risks involved with memecoins just like the risks of the rapids in a river, but he wants to guide them to help them understand the fun in Pump.fun and how they might leverage memecoins and livestreams to help sell their products or get word out about something. He wants them to understand why Satoshi Nakamoto's invention of bitcoin is such a big idea, and how you might get some from a CEX and use Dollar Cost Averaging to get it to a cold wallet to help build wealth and fight inflation. He even envisions making a premium subscription where you can access both AI and human customer support to help guide you to do anything in the ecosystem whether it is choosing from several exchanges or buying your friends memecoin.