The following is a section from Delphi’s upcoming Year Ahead in Applications 2026 report, covering fomo — one of the consumer apps we’re most interested in heading into next year

 

@fomo_family represents another attempt to modernize onchain trading, but with a clear emphasis on delivering a Robinhood-level mobile experience rather than relying on crypto-native workflows. fomo abstracts away nearly all of the traditional friction that makes onchain trading with any real edge difficult.

 

Where @Pumpfun‘s core business remains anchored to prebonded memecoin trading on Solana, with its expansion efforts tied to the Padre (@PadreApp) acquisition and its broader streaming vision, fomo has intentionally moved toward a more general purpose, chain-agnostic trading experience.

If the team succeeds, fomo could meaningfully expand the pie by bringing a much wider retail audience into onchain speculation in the same way Robinhood pulled a new generation into equities.

fomo’s team are ex dYdX and ex Uniswap, and recently raised a seventeen million dollar round led by Benchmark. @Benchmark is not a crypto-native investor, which makes the conviction here particularly high signal given their track record in traditional tech venture.

Thrilled to announce our Series A investment in fomo. This remarkable team led by @PaulErlanger and @pseudosey have a clear vision to make digital assets accessible to consumers by abstracting away all the technical complexity. And their growth on all metrics is exceptional. https://t.co/DyUWchDwwW

— Chetan Puttagunta (@chetanp) November 6, 2025