Brian Li 🍊👾

@bli.eth

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Bug bashing week for me at /frens: - Fixing token price charts with better data - Adding data for market caps and FDVs - Speeding up token screens by 50% Deeply appreciating our users for bearing with us through technical challenges ❤️

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For any fellow early stage crypto founders, I'm hosting a Fundraising 101 session with @berk tomorrow morning! Pls drop by for both strategies and shared commiseration https://events.xyz/557a55

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Underrated: founder friends who are willing to call you out for not shipping fast enough. It’s easy to tell someone they’re doing a great job to avoid conflict — it’s hard to care enough to tell them they’re fucking things up. Some of the most helpful chats I’ve had are with friends who have chewed out my team for promising to release something and failing to follow through.

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Got sick this week, a friendly reminder to take care of your health! (Which of course no one will listen to... I wouldn't.) But managed to get out statuses for issues we're currently tracking at /frens so users can be informed. Not knowing what's happening is a scary truth of most crypto products so hoping this helps everyone know that our team is on it!

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This week was a p0 kind of week at /frens, I'm pretty sure I aged a year... - Showing better error messages for scam tokens - Fixing Farcaster login - Fixing flashing messages on chats - Enabling trading for tokens under Token 2022 Program

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After nearly a decade of infrastructure investment, building consumer crypto apps should be easy. Yet, my team still spends more than half of our engineering time just on infrastructure. Some of the complex problems we tackle include: ⛓️ Cross-chain transaction indexing and standardization 🧠 Enriching transaction data with pricing and social context from multiple APIs 💻 Evaluating and rolling out new integrations, such as prediction markets and intents We are looking for a cracked backend engineer to join us at /frens and help us build the infrastructure that powers magical user experiences!

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One of the biggest mistakes I've seen first time founders make is not sending monthly investor updates. It's easy to make excuses like "too busy" or "no major changes", but the truth is those emails help you hold yourself accountable. It doesn't matter if the update says you're struggling or pivoting or low on runway—that just gives investors the context to help you earlier instead of when it's too late. Once someone has invested, you should never be afraid of sending them regular company updates!

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So uh did anyone else see the F.B.I. memecoin ($NexFundAI) to study pump-and-dumps and assume that it was created by Farcaster Builders of India…

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Spent the weekend talking to dozens of founders at YC alumni reunions and realized that we’re in the middle of an inflection for hard-tech companies. (10% of the recent batch of 240 startups are in hard-tech) Sharing some thoughts on why this is happening below ⬇️

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About as SF as you can get, a Waymo gets wedged up against a bus and a bunch of YC founders try to lift it to move it

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YC reunions are magical, listening to Senator Kyrsten Sinema discussing tech policy and ideas for getting startups access to federal contracts 🚀

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Building /frens, shipped fewer visible features this week and spent some more time on performance: - Improved transaction speed by 20% - Added filtering and social features for tokens

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Few people have done more to support early stage crypto founders and create a sense of community than @jayme, congrats on the announcement! Launchcaster will continue your mission at @orangedao 🚀

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Spent most of the week at FC Dev Day but got in a few onboarding fixes at /frens: - Improved loading indicators and error handling on Farcaster auth - Faster profile picture uploads

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Building /frens, this week I’ve been focused on data enrichment: - Syncing transactions from external wallets - Enriching swaps data with token pricing data

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Finally back to sharing my work on /frens, not gonna lie sometimes I just need to bury my head in a hole when working on infra... - Faster onboarding for new users (cut API request time by 30%) - Automatically generate multichain wallets - Improved webhooks for onchain events

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Who else is betting on the debate tonight? DC me for access to a group chat where we're discussing polymarket bets

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Betting on the electoral college margin of victory market on polymarket seems to be a good way to get leverage on the outcome of the debates and election. Many of the +x% positions on Kamala/Trump sides are trading at sub 5 cents right now. What other trades are people taking going into the debates? https://polymarket.com/event/electoral-college-margin-of-victory-in-the-2024-presidential-election?tid=1725985731758

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Can anyone explain @opensocial to me? I tried one of the ecosystem products and the feed looks like it's entirely bots and airdrop farmers...

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Equifax sucks... Trying to freeze my credit after the SSN data breach. Experian/TransUnion have websites and apps that allowed me to freeze within 5 min. Equifax won't let me create an account without calling them, tried to charge me $10 a month, and has my call on endless hold with the worst AI bot I've ever heard...

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