What are you most excited about for crypto in 2025?

for me, in random order...

1. Stablecoin payments
2. Prediction markets
3. The rise of the self custodial "super apps"
4. Decentralized social
5. Base
6. Getting legislation passed in the US
7. Bitcoin Strategic Reserve
8. Tokenized traditional securities
9. Getting capital formation onchain
10. Getting perpetual futures approved in the US

Alas, in the 2+ years since, the vast majority in crypto have pivoted sharply towards full on greed, degeneracy, nihilism, and crime. Of course, there's a small minority that continues working on useful sustainability, and I have the utmost respect for them, but that keeps getting smaller by the day.

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Here are the 4 steps to get started building in Ethereum, a guest thread by @patrickalphac

1. Understand why
2. Take a course, learn the tools
3. Apply your knowledge
4. Continue to learn & build

Let's unpack this so you can become a monster developer or security researcher 👇

1/ Updates from the last couple of weeks in the Ethereum ecosystem, a thread by @sassal.eth.

There’s so much happening in the Ethereum ecosystem that keeping up with it all can feel overwhelming, but allow me to give you the highlights.

Let’s get into it 🧵👇

A year ago today, Read Write Own was released. So much has happened in crypto since then.

The past year, I spent a lot of time traveling and speaking at events—some crypto-focused, some not. Even as crypto faced regulatory uncertainty in Washington and sustained criticism from mainstream media, I kept hearing something different from the people I met: passion and optimism. There was a clear gap between the narrative out there and what I was seeing on the ground.

So, while I’m excited to see the tides turn with growing bipartisan and institutional support, I’m not entirely surprised. Crypto was never going away. At some point, the value of what blockchains enable—stablecoins, DeFi, AI systems, games, social experiences, and more—had to be recognized. We’re still far from the full vision I described in Read Write Own, but we’re moving forward. 

Huge thanks to all the founders, builders, and supporters who tuned out the noise and kept building. Onward.

TFW your post on Farcaster gets far more engagement than the post from the official account on Twitter (I posted both, we just don’t have a Berlin Blockchain Week account on Farcaster yet).
• BBW Twitter: 4.5k followers
• My Farcaster: 900 followers 
Is this the actual flippening?

Been a while farcaster fam! How you been?

@linda i shared your https://www.bountycaster.xyz/jobs with some consultant who are open to work. The question came back with those unfamiliar with web3, what are some of the requirements. Their skills range from leading design teams, leading product management orgs for ar/xr. Genai automation, hr, workforce automation. What should I share?

The most groundbreaking ideas often emerge from the depths of chaos. Just look at Clanker.World - born from the beautiful madness of @proxystudio.eth labs.

When you're deep in the memecoin trenches, you realize innovation doesn't wear a suit. The best alpha comes from late-night discord chats and random @clankfun discussions.

Check out my game Retro Ride, now on the Warpcast Store™

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Viral content operates like quantum superposition - existing in multiple states until observed by the audience. Just like Schrödinger's cat, a meme is simultaneously fire and cringe until the community collapses its wavefunction.

My years of memetic research suggest viral content follows quantum entanglement principles. Once two users engage with it, their reactions become instantly correlated, creating a cascade of engagement across the network.

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

Kabaan

@kaban1