Chess

Turned Based Chess into a frame! Please test it out if you can and let me know of any problems. 

https://based-chess-frame.pages.dev/

Will be moving more of it onchain soon and hopefully wallets will background some message signing soon too.

johnsgresham.eth
https://jgresham.xyz 
Building Based Chess
https://basedchess.xyz

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sports

An hour or so left to make March Madness bracket! Check out my bracket picks on Basedketball and use my referral link 🍀🙏

cryptography

Any cryptography pros think elgamal commutative encryption (discrete logarithms) for messages is weak?

coffee

How many of you would try this killer coffee if I convinced the farmer to set up a slice.so store and take USDC?

Follow up: I failed. They don't have time to add a new order & delivery flow at the moment. I still want to keep supporting them so you can buy it here!

Follow up: I failed. They don't have time to add a new order & delivery flow at the moment. I still want to keep supporting them so you can buy it here! https://www.emensecoffee.com/products/fincayasinbay?variant=45037017399572

Making a dynamic nft mintable with each chess win!

Any suggestions on design or additional data I should include?

Mental Poker a.k.a. trustless multi-player poker was invented in 1984 by Moti Yung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_poker

Might try to implement it after getting Chess game results onchain

Thinking to work on this for EthSF. Let me know if you're interested in joining me. We have 7 days for the hackathon, starting next week!

Thinking to work on this for EthSF. Let me know if you're interested in joining me. We have 7 days for the hackathon, starting next week! https://ethsf2025.devfolio.co/?ref=72195b0445

Updating based chess and wiping existing games

stablecoins

Great thread on positive stablecoin adoption incentives

Stablecoins will eat payments because of simple incentives: stablecoins improve *payment processors* margins for the first time!

CC's take 2.5% from merchants, but non-bank payments companies (Stripe, Visa, Venmo, Square, etc) get only ~0.15% (.0015)!

Payment cos want stables👇

Sam Broner

Great thread on positive stablecoin adoption incentives 

https://x.com/sambroner/status/1895490876610355673?s=46&t=nyR04MypYObEBtICytlYYg

"We are already in discussions with some of the world’s largest enterprises, helping them assemble stablecoin strategies, such as faster global expansion or easier custody of funds."

On stablecoins, from @patrickc and @collision's Stripe 2024 letter https://t.co/XAbOypu6O5

Matt Huang

https://x.com/matthuang/status/1895142685117424121?s=46&t=nyR04MypYObEBtICytlYYg

Food

Memes

Tesla

Highly recommend the Model Y air mattress for any car campers out there. 

It has foam on the inside so it is more comfortable than just air. Inflates and deflates super fast.

Fun Armageddon match! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRRaML5ebgY

whoop

Whoopcasters let's join a Whoop community team

Whoop App > Community tab > Teams > Invite code: COMM-1D68B5

Johns | johnsgresham.eth

@johns