solidity

I'm joining Merkle!

After building around Farcaster for ~1.5 years, I'm more bullish than ever on the team, protocol, and product. The last time I felt this way about something was when I joined OpenSea almost 4 years ago. 

2025 will be big for crypto and Farcaster will be at the center of it.

LFG 🚀

The train keeps moving forward 
choo choo 🚂

nook.social - track, review, and share your favorite content

I'll continue running both @nook and @anonworld in my free time. No reason for those to shut down, especially since they are built on FC :)

It is my great honor to be nominated by President Trump as the next Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where I had served as a Commissioner in his last administration. The CFTC plays a critical role in maintaining robust hedging and price discovery markets that are the envy of the globe. The agency is also well poised to ensure the USA leads the world in blockchain technology and innovation. I look forward to working with President Trump’s incredible financial regulatory team. 🇺🇸

Fun OSS encounter story: 15 years ago, the WebSocket spec just came out and preliminary implementations were live. I wanted to prototype a little in-browser MMO, but the one implementation out there was node.websocket.js by an Argentinian fella named Guillermo Rauch.

Guillermo's library was only half-working for what I needed, so I ended up forking it and rewriting it entirely (https://github.com/shazow/node.websocket.js). I suggested some of the changes upstream, we discussed over email. I built my demo using my fork, while Guillermo also did a rewrite that became socket.io which was fantastic! So good that I didn't feel the need to keep working on my fork.

It's funny to think that there's an alternate universe where I went on to build the urllib3 of nodejs websockets.

It wasn't until yesterday that I realized: That Guillermo is the same @rauchg who went on to create /nextjs and founded @vercel. I didn't stand a chance! 🙇

Open source doesn’t happen in a vacuum and it’s the result of sharing and learning from the work of others. Great memories of the beginning of socket.io and @shazow.eth’s part in the story.

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

I have a 4 hour drive tomorrow. What should I listen to?

Warpcast rewards are getting bigger! 

- Audience is now ~1,000 people (instead of 500) 
- Pool is now ~15,000 USDC (up from 10,000)  

Our goal is to make Farcaster the easiest place to earn if you're creating original, interesting content.

Lida

@lida88