the more dangerous competitor to Farcaster is Telegram, and the battleground is mini-apps 

change my mind

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@askgina.eth what has been the impact of the Nakamoto Upgrade?

We're building the Farcaster economic engine. Join us! moxie.xyz. Follow @betashop.eth & @airstack for news! Official contract: link.moxie.xyz/contract

daily @moxie.eth claiming on @supercastis such a relaxed easy little ritual

what's the latest with wBTC? 

@askgina.eth

love that we have a large scale content incentive program on here - anyone have any data on how it's going?

we're down bad on the soup dumpling index

We're excited to announce that Morpho has secured $50M, led by Ribbit Capital!

The funding from Ribbit and other strategic partners further enhances Morpho's decentralization and supports its mission to make financial infrastructure a public good.

Big day for defi - Morpho raised from the best *generalist* fintech VC out there

couple of important points:
- the team has achieved one of the most impressive app -> platform transformation: anyone can permissionlessly build a lending market on Morpho
- that enables incredibly profitable businesses built on top of Morpho, managing vaults like @re7 
- Ribbit investing is a great testament to Morpho's ambition that go well beyond crypto 

we're glad to participate in this round, as we have since day one!

DeFi R&D & Investments @ https://www.re7.capital/ 

@0xantidote.eth explores the history of social media and lessons learned along the way, as well as the potential and challenges faced by newer decentralized platforms. 

"What I do believe is that for the foreseeable future, we won't see any new platform paradigms emerge because we are stuck with mobile phones as a computational platform. Instead, innovation will come from social-native apps, which use these platforms as a means of distribution."

https://paragraph.xyz/@antidote/next-gen-social-apps

great read by @0xantidote.eth on the future of social and farcaster

Building the first trustless P2P fiat onramp powered by zk proofs. Grantee PSE and Ethereum.  ZKP2P alpha is live - try it out at http://zkp2p.xyz!

they've done it again! @zkp2p @0xsachink 

https://x.com/zkp2p/status/1818719072445681944?s=46

Some people here and on X have expressed outrage at parts of the opening ceremony of the Olympics in France.

As someone who is both natively French and a "global citizen" (lived on four continents, visited 50 countries, expat for nearly 20 years), I wanted to share my dual perspective. My goal is not to pass judgment on Friday's performance, but rather set the cultural context in which it was delivered. So, don't shoot the messenger. Also, references are annotated in brackets like this: [i] for further reading at the end.

The TL;DR is that the French brand of secularism (laïcité) is unique, highly idiosyncratic, and part of the core identity of the French republic; it's understandable that it does not translate well to an international audience.

Now, onto the 🧵: 1/9

great rebuttal to many bad takes about the olympic opening ceremony  

loved it for the most part, but also sharing in the criticism that a lot of it wasn't particularly 'olympic'

Crypto projects that came out of Europe:

France - Morpho, Ledger, Sorare

Portugal - Ethena

Germany - SAFE, Cowswap, Celestia

UK - Wintermute, Aave

Denmark - Maker

Switzerland - Curve

Norway - Dune

Ethereum and Lido are difficult to pin on one country, but out of Europe nonetheless

My last word was here, bro. 

That guy looks dumber than shit going to Europe and than wasting his time bitching about it. 

In the 90s and 2000s, nobody in the US bothered to whine about Europe because the US was indeed predominant. It wasn't even worth talking about. 

That same dipshit, next tweet, is bitching about how his car got broken into in NYC/SF/LA, or his public school is run by midwits, or some other piece of third world bullshit Americans never had to face before. It's so obviously all cope. If you're actually the big dog, well, stop whining like a little bitch about the Europooors. What's he even doing there? You think Parisians are hanging out in fucking Nashville or Dallas and making little videos about how it sucks? A. they wouldn't go there because most of the US is a fucking mall, and B, if they were, they'd feel so utterly superior they wouldn't even think of recording videos. 

https://warpcast.com/antonio/0xffcd6975

Minted a gemsbok on Safaricaster. Proceeds go to Namib Desert conservation 🫡 

really cool experience @mattkim

casting wildlife @ /safaricaster, slingshot.finance | prev: South Park Commons, web2 founder, /roastcaster



Writer, podcaster, and commentator on foreign affairs and politics. Loves history, languages, technology, and philosophy. I’m also on X at Mazmhussain.twitter

To me the big question is sustainable peace vs three-year interlude before round 2 (really, round 3). The "peace" proposed in Apr 2022 would have Ukraine's own army reduced to a tiny size, *and* banned security agreements with other countries, which was clearly totally unreasonable. Ukraine needs conditions where they have a reliable guarantee of Russia not attacking again, and people can confidently invest in the country (both funds investing their money, and citizens investing their time by returning/staying) without fear it will all be erased - or else it has no way to get economic growth. Political incentives always lean toward the photogenic short term handshake and narrativizing away medium term issues as "not our problem now".

interesting take - made me wonder why there weren't more conversations about the contents of the peace negotiation

Kicking off EthCC w /higher-athletics crew. 8 am, Monday, day 1 

locked in 🔥

reading the latest research piece on sovereign rollups

Category: Vision
Author: @luc 
Writing: https://luc.cx/monetizing-open-social-graphs
Tags: social, /consumercrypto, /venturecapital 
Notes: Luc is an investor with Cherry VC, a first check fund for Web3, and a Proxy Studio subscriber. i've been reading through his writing lately and its been really clarifying for a bunch of stuff I've been thinking about. He even wrote a post about Proxy Studio itself (unprompted, not paid promo!) that probably does a better job than I ever have to describe what we are doing, and how we are monetizing on an open social graph. Here's a link to that article, and his blog, "perspectives" which I highly recommend as for any founder or investor on FC

The irony of chatGPT's captcha asking me if I'm a human is not lost on me

Investing at cherry.xyz | writing at luc.cx