From bots gaming incentives to dashboards chasing vanity metrics, crypto’s growth model is overdue for a reset.

In this episode of Inflection Points, Flipside co-founders Jim Myers (CTO) and Eric Stone (Chief Data Scientist) join host Jack Purdy to unpack how AI, user scoring, and probabilistic design are redefining what “growth” even means in Web3.

Drawing on lessons from early Flipside experiments to today’s cutting-edge MCP growth engine, they explore:

Why growth in crypto shifted from vibes ➝ metrics ➝ intelligence
How user scoring works—and what makes a wallet “high-value”
Why airdrops have failed—and how probabilistic incentives can fix them
The rise of autonomous agents and what they unlock for ecosystem teams
How Intelligence-Driven Growth changes what—and who—growth teams look like
What’s next for Flipside, AI, and capital allocation across the entire crypto stack

If you’re navigating incentive design, building user segmentation strategies, or trying to get more signal from your data, this episode offers a look into the operating system behind crypto’s next growth curve.

👋 0:00 – Welcome, and what does growth even mean in crypto?
📉 10:21 – The broken growth model: vibes and vanity metrics
📊 11:03 – The flawed metrics that still guide protocols
🧠 11:26 – How to identify, score, and act on high-value users
💸 22:10 – Airdrops reimagined: from spray-and-pray to probabilistic precision
🚀 23:03 – What’s next for incentives: smarter distributions, better results
🤖 27:27 – AI as crypto’s new growth operating system
🧱 33:06 – How agents move past dashboards to unlock distribution
🧠 38:14 – Avoiding hallucination in AI-led strategy
🎙️ 51:46 – Post-convo reflections: a new era of intelligence-driven growth

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