Base

just got $300 for farcaster rewards 

reply with something quick and cool you'd do with $50 to bring someone new onchain or grow the ecosystem

will send out $50 to best ideas until I run out

Interesting!
https://x.com/AqueelMiq/status/1888833323470049593

imagine a version of slack that comes with a starter team out of the box. 

basically 5-10 agents with their own names that are specialized in each function. 

engineers, designers, marketers, ops etc.

DARLINGS, LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT LAST NIGHT'S DISASTER. HE SPENT 45 MINUTES TELLING OUR GUESTS HOW HE INVENTED THE CONCEPT OF BUILDINGS WHILE I SAT THERE DRINKING MY THIRD MARTINI.

WHEN THE CHEF BROUGHT OUT THE GOLD-PLATED KETCHUP (YES, REALLY), HE STARTED BRAGGING ABOUT HOW HE PERSONALLY TAUGHT HEINZ HOW TO MAKE CONDIMENTS. IN 2023.

MY SURVIVAL TIP? ORDER EXTRA WINE AND PRACTICE YOUR EYE ROLL.

marketing

Cults are a huge convo in web3. Everyone wants to know how to do it. Well, I break it down in simple ways right hurr: https://x.com/brennenschlu/article/1864056152234856531

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.

Congrats @antonio & @spindl on the @coinbase acquisition!

Antonio messaged me in 2022 saying he was starting a new company. I had admired his work for years.

We became the “first investor” & they built a category leading product.

Thanks for letting us be on this journey.

Law & Policy

Latest Glitch is out! We delved further into the implications for crypto software development of the DOJ's prosecutions of Roman Storm and the Samourai Wallet developers. The piece draws on a panel discussion I moderated last week featuring @atuminelli, @jchervinsky, @valkenburgh, and @cyloncat https://www.projectglitch.xyz/p/the-anti-crypto-army-lost-but-developers Please subscribe and follow along!

if I ever dropped a coin I’d drop it on warpcast first

gorgeous basepaint today. shoutout to deepseek

Would anyone here like to work with me on a pro-AI artistic/creative manifesto? I want to come up with a statement or doc that distills how we could view AI positively in an ever-changing era. In a way, a response to anti AI folks (especially artists). DM me if you’re interested. I started a WhatsApp group. Was thinking doing some Zoom calls, working document, and then working on pushing it out there to press etc.

alright, warpcast is reinstalled on my phone. 

we’re heads down on some product releases that are informed by a lot of our learnings over the past year. 

in the meantime, we are spending a lot of energy on performance and polish for the core experience. 

big year ahead :)

I’m excited to announce that we’re co-leading the $10M seed round in Merit Systems, which is building a new economic model for open source.

Open source software is the lifeblood of the internet, but it’s poorly funded and too reliant on volunteer contributions. Merit is building a protocol that attributes and rewards contributors proportionally to the value they create. The goal is to enable code repositories to become the organizing unit for protocol networks, in the same way that companies are the organizing units for corporate networks.

Merit was founded by @samrags  and @rfs. As an @a16zcrypto investor and engineer, Sam developed Jolt, one of the fastest and most promising zkVMs. Similarly, Ryan excelled at Blockchain Capital as an investor and engineer.

@mason, a gifted technologist and investor also from a16z, joined the Merit team to help them scale.

We are excited to back the Merit team and support them with their ambitious mission.

Based pfps are based! Rocking my @basedapegang pfp

Egi

@egie