Turning trading into a social experience with fomo
How fomo uses Privy to let anyone start trading any token on Solana, Base, and BNB Chain, instantly
Debbie Soon
|Oct 30, 2025
The best online experiences today are social, and trading should be no different. From group chats to content feeds, the internet runs on shared discovery and collective excitement.
Yet most trading apps still feel built for individuals, not communities. fomo set out to change that, because everything’s more fun with friends.
Designed to onboard the next generation of traders, fomo turns crypto trading into a social experience. Users can follow friends, see what others are buying, and track the moves of top wallets (also known as “whales”). By mirroring their activity, users can spot new tokens the moment they launch.
The magic of fomo lies in its simplicity: a user-friendly mobile app that makes multichain trading effortless — no seed phrases, no bridges, no extensions, no friction.
The fomo experience
fomo is a social trading app that makes it easy to spot, follow, and trade the latest tokens across Solana, Base, and BNB Chain. Built for the speed and culture of onchain markets, it blends the excitement of social discovery with the efficiency of pro trading.
Within the app, users can see what their friends and top traders are buying in real time. This turns insights that once lived in private group chats into a shared, transparent feed. Buying is just as fast: users can purchase trending tokens in seconds with Apple Pay or a card, without ever leaving the app.
Beyond trading, fomo also helps users make smarter decisions. The app offers built-in profit tracking, detailed portfolio data, and curated trading insights so anyone can analyze performance and refine their strategy.
All of this happens on a foundation that’s lightning fast and self-custodial. Deposits are secure, withdrawals are instant, and every user retains ownership of their crypto.
Making trading accessible for everyone
For many, trading onchain still comes with friction. Wallet setup, seed phrases, bridges, gas fees, and confusing interfaces get in the way of curiosity and participation.
fomo, on the other hand, wanted to make onchain trading feel as effortless as using any social app: instant, fun, and safe, without compromising ownership or control.
While many still have a limited understanding of crypto or token trading, they’re far more likely to explore it together. To facilitate trading within a social context, it is more important than ever for the experience to be simple and frictionless from the start.
To achieve this, fomo needed:
Seamless onboarding with no seed phrases or extensions.
Secure, self-custodial wallets for every user.
Fast execution across Solana and Base.
Flexible infrastructure ready to scale across chains.
Where Privy comes in
To build a trading app “for the rest of us”, fomo needed wallet infrastructure that could deliver both simplicity and control. It had to be powerful enough for sophisticated onchain execution, yet invisible to the user experience.
With Privy, every fomo user gets a secure, self-custodial wallet the moment they sign up. Users can log in with Apple, Google, or email and start trading instantly on Solana and Base.
All wallet creation, key management, and transaction signing happen seamlessly behind the scenes, while users remain in full control of their assets. The result is a mobile experience that feels as familiar and intuitive as any modern finance app, while being entirely onchain.
Just as importantly, Privy’s flexible infrastructure gives fomo the freedom to grow. As the team expands to new chains and asset classes, the same wallet architecture scales with them without having to rework or rearchitect from scratch.
“Privy made it super easy to get started, while still giving us access to powerful underlying primitives to build whatever we need in the future. We got set up in a single afternoon.” — Prashan D., Co-founder of fomo
What’s next for fomo
With Privy, fomo has become one of the fastest-growing mobile trading apps on Solana and Base. It has seen usage grow 20x in just a single week, even while still in beta.
And this is only the beginning. Beyond Solana, Base, and BNB Chain, the team plans to expand support to every major chain and new asset classes, continuing to build the most engaging social trading experience onchain.
“Soon, you’ll be able to trade anything on fomo. We’re doubling down on building the best social finance app, period.” — Prashan D.
Privy is excited to power that journey, and to provide the secure, scalable wallet infrastructure that helps fomo onboard the next generation of traders. Social finance, made available to everyone.
Download fomo today on iOS or Android.
