on a plane all day (and welcome lots of new folks!) so...

AMA

@base builder #001; onchain cities w/ OAK & city3

1. it's an open protocol that has attracted some of the best builders in the space
2. warpcast feels like a truly onchain product and is constantly pushing the limits of how onchain can be fun, cool, & exciting
3. @dwr.eth, @v, and the entire early farcaster community have created a pretty special culture

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

he ducked this question on the livestream too lmfao

base is an open, decentralized, permissionless ethereum L2, running the same OSS OP Stack code as other chains (e.g. OP Mainnet, Zora Network) and providing consistent guarantees for users, developers, etc. 

we'll talking in a lot more details in the next few weeks as we come to mainnet — thanks for your patience!

I’ll ask just one last time, and if you don’t answer, then I’ll assume you’re specifically forbidden from doing so: what happens if tornado cash (or something like it) gets deployed to Base?

three ones that I'm really excited about are:

blackbird.xyz
parallel.life
oak.community

I am hopeful that folks will focus on building experiences that "just work" for every day people on base - and that we'll be able to enable this with onramps/wallets so it becomes really easy.

fractalist. tech lead at cabin.city. founder of LBRY.com, Odysee.com, vibe.camp, @farcon, grin.io

Fav project on Base?

What do you want to see someone build on Base that can’t be built on any other chain?

Jack of all trades. Here to make it with my friends. 🦁Hosting: /696 /hot /farvibes /runitup /6 /best /top /999 /bay /area /dance /kekw

lots lots lots - i expect ENS will be the canonical naming service for the onchain world. really excited by what @farcaster is doing with letting ENS names work across the protocol (and giving users subdomains). same with coinbase and *.cb.id

i generally think that @vbuterin's thinking on stealth addresses and other privacy systems that can be built on the EVM (and into smart wallets) is the most likely path to mainstream privacy adoption in crypto at this point.

Working to make payments fast, cheap and private 

All casts are my own.

i generally think that @vitalik.eth's thinking on stealth addresses and other privacy systems that can be built on the EVM (and into smart wallets) is the most likely path to mainstream privacy adoption in crypto at this point. 

https://vitalik.ca/general/2023/01/20/stealth.html

How do you see privacy preserving technology being implemented on blockchains? Especially for payments

What are your favourite sources for OP Stack / Base ecosystem updates? 

Aggregating updates via unjumble.xyz 🫡

for base, our blog (base.mirror.xyz) and twitter (buildonbase) are the best official sources. I like baseuniverse on twitter as well!

for OP Stack, too many to count - probably starting with their twitter (OptimismFND) and the OP Labs blog.

Working on something new. davo.wtf | /unjumble

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

to date, most of our energy has gone to getting the network live across tech, governance, decentralization.

i’m excited for us to keep pushing on those, while focusing more on:

Do'er of things, sometimes artist | Support wizard @ /zora | Handler of @botto | Owner of a Farcaster tatoo

Flying from the US's east coast to Canada's west coast! two legs. just got in.

still very early here - excited about what @dcposch.eth is building with Daimo :)

How long is your flight?? Where are you flying?

Another question: what are your favorite crypto wallets that focus specifically on p2p payments??

Graphic designer,
Im here to meet new people, vibe, and have engaging conversations.

i expect the whole world will move onchain by the end of the decade. millions of developers, billions of users. will happen as a result of lots of useful onchain dapps, with chains/infra fading to background.

i hope to play my part in making that happen with @base!

How do you see the current crypto ecosystem evolving over the next 5-10 years, and what role do you hope to play in that evolution?

i expect that over the next 12mo it'll become seamless to transact across major op stack chains. the tech is already there to execute cross-chain actions relatively easily, just needs to be integrated through to wallets. 

with more time, it'll get more integrated into the chains, improving cost, security, trust.

how do you envision the ux of apps on L2’s built on op stack like base improving in the near future? right now it’s kinda clunky and takes too long to make a transaction

both - i think it's cool that they into this kind of physical activity and it's made me more interested in exploring it personally.

Founder /frameboard + /launchcaster / CSX / YC

woof - i honestly am not sure. our discord is ~200k people and serves as a mix of broadcast (more of a fit), community building (more of a fit), and hands on support for developers & users (less of a fit). i'd love to see what a path might look like.

what do you think?

What would it take for Base to move from Discord to Farcaster? 

something that increases the quality and throughput of content in the overall onchain feed (farcaster + NFTs)

6 days late, but if you could snap your fingers and have a social product built on farcaster with 10k DAU, what would you want it to be?

🇨🇦 Aerospace Engineer
🌎 Founder @earthwallet
🚀 Staking ETH for Earth
earthwallet.io/ethereum

excited about it - think we'll see crypto used to heal our world for sure.

https://warpcast.com/jessepollak/0xadb974

What do you think is why we should use farcaster

Core contributor to Archway | Director of Business Development @ Phi Labs | Former Deloitte | Archway.io

think very highly of it - was a supporter on day 1 and have stayed close to the technology over the last many years, both personally and through friends who have worked in the community. 

lots of inspiration from the cosmos stack in what we're doing with base & the op stack and we're collaborating too!

conversational liquidity provider || writing at: https://paragraph.xyz/@thearcadia || curating vibes over at /football

i wasn't really there in the early days - i joined twitter in 2011 (i think?) and then wasn't really active until 2013-2014

Were you on Twitter in the early days, if so what are some similarities and differences between the early days of Twitter and Farcaster?

What’s the last movie you recommended to a friend?