I’m excited to announce that we’re leading the $15M seed round in @joinlegend to simplify DeFi & help bring the next 100M users onchain.

While DeFi activity has grown, it has also become more complex, & remains too complicated for many people to use. Legend is pointing the way to a simpler user experience & broader adoption. Their first product is an embedded smart contract wallet that allows users to borrow, lend, or swap across chains without manual wallet connections or the risk of interacting with malicious websites.

Legend’s founders @json, @hayesgm, & @mykel all worked together at DeFi pioneer Compound. Geoffrey was an inventor of the Compound protocol, and a co-founder of Compound Labs. Mykel & Jayson worked together on product and design at Compound Labs before Jayson took the reins as CEO.

With their user-facing product expertise and empathy for DeFi developers, the Legend team is perfect to address the UX challenge that’s still hindering DeFi adoption. We’re delighted to support them.

Warpcast

A few thoughts on the wallet

1. We’re still testing it! Expect a bunch of rough edges. But we will fix and iterate. Starting with a ~1000 people and expanding from there. 

2. Goal is to make onchain actions reliable and smooth directly from the feed—frames and token links

3. There’s a bunch of new surface area to explore given all of the social context; but focused on getting the basics shipped and working well

4. Important — there’s no private key export yet; you don’t have to use the wallet if you don’t want to.

5. You can continue to use Rainbow or Coinbase Wallet via deeplinks (via MWP); there’s a preferred wallet toggle in settings.

6. It’s been a full team effort, but a big shout out to @blockheim @deodad @horsefacts.eth @gabrielayuso.eth and then everyone who has been giving feedback

DEGENNIVERSARY talk from @macbudkowski 

https://t.me/kiwi_reads/514

great to meet y‘all @yes2crypto.eth @jacek @cadillion @ahn.eth

Sitting pretty with @brightmoments merch at the brig for Farcaster fridays tonight 

CryptoVenetian & FOMO pins 
CryptoVenetian tees
FOMO Hoodies 
And a few totes 🤗

Funny how open decentralized networks provide better privacy than 'secure' walled gardens - there's no single entity that can be legally compelled to compromise the system.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/

For 3 years, we've been obsessed with one thought: 

What if messaging belonged to all?

Today's testnet launch is a giant leap towards that future - where privacy is the default, spam is dead on arrival, and you can truly own your identity and communications.

Zora

https://zora.co/collect/base:0x39cdded7ea5f855ef8f1653edc19f231de8602a8/2

Base

what are you building this saturday? 

for me, been working on upgrading our smart contract wallet support to Zapper and displaying account abstraction transactions in a much more readable way

gorgeous basepaint today. shoutout to deepseek

Excited to announce our new company, Incention!

We believe the future of Hollywood with the highest upside is one where AI agents and human creators work side-by-side to shape a universe of content and that the next billion dollar franchise will begin onchain. We're building a platform to realize this vision. 

Our first project, Emergence, is a sci-fi universe created by renowned writer and producer David S. Goyer (Foundation, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Blade). Emergence is a creative sandbox designed to prove this model — come Create. Contribute. Vote. Engage. Earn.

More to come and lots to build! Big thank you to our incredibly talented team for many late nights getting to launch and to our partners 
@a16zcrypto + @storyprotocol for the support.

buoy

payments

I haven't talked much about it (yet) because been busy onboarding folks.

Here's a demo on how you can integrate a Pay widget in just a couple lines of code.

Users get a TON of payment options - cross chain, cross token, gasless, CEX, fiat, whatever else you can think of. All built in.

DM for access.

Photography

Hey frens! 😊 I’ve been hard at work putting together something special, and I’m excited to finally share it with you:

Annual Reflections 2024 - Second Edition is here! 🎉

📖 Grab your copy: kirillpolevoy.com/shop/annual-reflections-2024-second-edition

Each copy comes with a signed 8.5x11 print, just for you.

Currently shipping across the US, but I’m happy to figure out international options—just let me know! 🌍

fc-updates

Introducing Token Links

Try it now: $degen, $tn100x, $higher, $moxie, $anon

- Mention a token with a leading $, it turns into a link
- Tap link to see top tokens by market cap and recent casts
- Links to Dexscreener and copy contract address
- Working in casts and profiles
- Already on the protocol; just enriching text in casts

Future ideas
- Smarter algo for casts (expect a bit of spam this week)
- Additional info and metrics for traders
- Farcaster social graph signals
- Customization for token creators
- Tie-in with frames and onchain transactions

Known issues
- If token links aren't linkifying, update your app and restart 1-2x
- Casts are slow to load; making that faster
- Token links don't work in DCs or the composer yet
- Sorting by market cap may result in non-FC native assets ahead of FC-native ones, e.g. $anon

Reminder: you can mute all token links by adding $ to your mute words on Warpcast

@merit_systems is the vision I've had for crypto since I entered the space through UniswapV2 MEV back in 2021. 

Blockchains are good at settlement. The largest market for settlement is not memecoins but labor. The most productive category of labor is Open Source Software.

Very proud to unveil @meritsystems alongside @rfs @mason.

In just 24 hours we have raised ~$500 from all over the world, via the sale of artwork

This is a marathon not a sprint - and every cent raised helps provide support & relief for those impacted by the fires in some way ❤️

Desty

@destyy