Farcaster

The @coinbasedev team took a decades unused HTTP status code and modernized it.

AI agents don't have credit cards. They do have crypto.

With x402; Your API can accept crypto, your paywall can accept crypto, your MCP server can accept crypto.

All in one line of code.

Farcaster Roundup · 9 May 2025

1. Direct Casts now default to one-year retention instead of 30 days.

2. Warpcast adds support for up to ten-minute videos.

3. Warpcast web launches experimental Twitter/X follow-import via settings export.

4. DeepNewz Mini App goes live to aggregate and write real-time news across multiple sources.

5. Rainbow introduces Token Launcher for wallet-based token creation and airdrop.

6. Cura kicks off bi-weekly channel check-ins beginning 14 May at 10:00 AM PST.

7. GM Farcaster hosts FarCon NYC watch party of the Big Shift fireside chat with Fred Wilson today.

8. Alinaferry announces Farcaster Friday on 30 May at Heavy Handed SM featuring Bertwurst.

9. Coinbase publishes Q1 2025 financial results.

Farcaster Roundup · 8 May 2025

1. Monad airdrops testnet tokens to 77k Farcaster accounts, enabling Mini App usage on Monad.

2. Farcaster outlines upcoming wallet and Mini App integration for external ecosystems.

3. Farcaster hosts AMA with Keone, founder of Monad.

4. GM Farcaster will open-source its AI bot, targeting release next week.

5. Edit launches Wickr, an AI tool for EVM and Solana token analysis.

6. Rainbow wallet adds token pages with market stats, quick buy, transaction history, and links.

7. Clanker roadmap: new frontend, v4 hooks for Uniswap v4, and deployment-focused SDK.

8. Builders Garden and Urbe schedule the third Just Frame It Demo Day stream for Friday.

9. Degen announces monthly community call on new dev hires, DEGEN app kickoff, and office plans, featuring Corbin.

10. Empire Builder introduces Ethereum Network Boosters, allowing Ethereum NFTs and ERC-20 tokens to act as score multipliers alongside Base boosters.

11. Ponder adds shareable personalized leaderboard context.

Farcaster Roundup · 7 May 2025

1. Farcaster to deprecate Hubs and migrate operators to Snapchain.

2. Farcaster Dev Calls shift to weekly five‑minute videos and monthly Q&A.

3. Neynar APIs accept micro USDC payments on Base, removing the need for API keys.

4. Mini App URLs now forward paths and query parameters and surface downstream OG tags.

5. Coinbase Devs unveil x402 open standard for onchain web payments.

6. Monad schedules Farcaster Mini App workshops for 9 and 10 May.

7. Amps Mini App introduces Pending tab to retry paid engagement actions.

8. Rainbow enables LP fee claims for token creators in app.

9. Coinbase Wallet beta users advised to resolve avatar sync bug via profile edit.

10. Rainbow appoints Yonfrula as Creative Director.

11. Bettrmint metrics: 4.9 k users, 36 k opens, 1 ETH creator rewards.

12. Yapster daily games return with free ticket entries and a sponsored prize pool.

13. Farcaster Memories Mini App launches to surface past popular casts.

CSS on my blog reduced from 5875 lines to 233 lines.

https://vitalik.eth.limo/css/main.css

Today is a great day for simplification.

All software (incl law) should do this more.

You know what’s missing from Farcaster? A mechanism to natively keep track of IRL meets.

As in, I meet a fellow Farcaster user, we tap our phones via NFC or something, and our FIDs are now linked in a similar way to follows, except instead it’s proof that we’ve met IRL.

And then later we can go back to the app and see the list of people we’ve met and when.

Anyone building this?

Base

Base's gas target just hit 32.5 Mgas/s

The higher Base's gas target, the more onchain activity it can support.

You can make 1000s of transactions on Base for less than the cost of one international wire!

The more cheaper it gets, the more adoption it will receive!

We can't all be @dwr.eth at the club during Farcon.

This collectible is for the casters enjoying /farcon at home. And only you 🔐 

http://harmonybot.xyz/not-at-farcon

We’ve launched a special Data Point for all Farcon NYC participants!

Your Builder Score just got a +12 point boost.

Keep building! 🫡

Preview of a cast is bad UX

Prevents fast replying and adds nothing significant

No social app has had preview. Telling

first time getting paid from @ampsfun 🔥 @phil

I just used my Warplet on the MINI APP addition on the desktop browser. It works really fast!! I bet on some predictions too on @ponder with my Warplet tokens, and it's working so much faster! The transactions went really fast on my browser mini app Warplet.

Thank you, @v, for adding me to the beta testers!! I love this addition, it's working really smoothly.

I have even played /farville claimed some $degen and tried out all the mini apps I had.

One of the things that’s drawing me to the crypto world is how people in nations with unstable currencies use it. I am also drawn to how nations like Ukraine use it as it fights an invasion against Russia. I want to use my role as an independent journalist to better understand how cryptocurrency empowers people in ways that traditional currency doesn’t.

I am very new to this field, so I am very open to feedback from anyone. @farcaster community feels like a friendly one to newcomers. I am especially open to interesting stories I can pursue while I am in Ukraine (starting at the end of May), as well as stories across Europe and elsewhere. 

Reading this at the moment.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-considers-23-personal-income-191526264.html

I voted For Season 8 and 9: Budget Board Member Ratification

is ~$24k in total prizes for devs to build on farcaster in 24 hours a lot?

https://warpcast.com/talent/0x4b57d75c

💧Global Liquidity Watch! 🔥

The global M2 money supply is climbing again.

Now at ~$110T.📈

But the real signal is in the annual change in M2.

After the steepest liquidity contraction in decades, we're once again back in positive territory.

There are numerous reports of mass ethnic cleansing in Sudan that amounts to genocide, but international media are doing very little coverage of it. It’s one of the many ways foreign media show its lack of care for the suffering of Africans. 

Thankful to the Sudanese reporters risking their lives show us what’s happening there. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/24/world/sudan-journalist-reporting-risks/

Just a Normal guy with an abnormal mindset🤭

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Asif Sarker base.eth

@aloneasif