very interesting experience going to my first crypto founder meetup in miami. exclusive, no +1s allowed, at a padel venue no less. hosted by metastreet x pudgy penguins

zero people were building on base, and no one opted to exchange farcaster info (usually TG/IG/X in that order). everyone did seem very excited about what they were working on – mostly defi / infra / NFT stuff on solana. lots of excitement around Abstract, pudgy's new consumer crypto chain. people were welcoming, driven, and eager to learn; no holier-than-thou attitude, long substantive conversations. everyone knew each other well and the community felt tight-knit. i did get asked several times why we were building on base. 

fascinating time. it's probably a miami thing? but i realized we're still in a bubble within a bubble within a bubble. anyone's ballgame.

@robin miami crypto founder meetup sparks excitement

co-conspirator @ /moshicam /gallery /djs • prev coinbase • my casts are endorsements, financial advice, and reflect my employer's opinions

I’m really excited about being able to artistically curate my digital spaces. I’m also looking forward to connecting with others who share my tastes and building our collections together.

this is how I VIEW.ART/dubumother

@dubumother exciting shared digital art curation launches

I'm a cheerful dubu mom who adores travel, all things pretty, cute stuff, and laughter-filled moments🐻‍❄️💗

@dubumother exciting shared digital art curation launches 

If you're building on Farcaster I have capacity to help you

DC or reply with the one thing I can solve for you today

This is not farming, I do not care if you reply or DM 

Ask anyone who knows me this is 100% a genuine offer of help

@mcbain offer of the day: get expert help on building on farcaster

Midwest mom in a California dad bod || Ruthlessly pro Farcaster  

I'm planning to offer a monthly sponsorship for @event, and it would be  helpful to show # of impressions for the frames alongside engagement.

Problem is view counts are shown in the UI, but not via API. But it would be really helpful if say, for a given cast hash and time period, I could call an API and get a view count for Warpcast (and other clients)

Thoughts? Would this help anyone else?

@matthew planning monthly sponsorship for @event

founder of eventcaster (@event / events.xyz), hosting /latenightcrew, member of 🍊 dao

Block will be available to everyone on Warpcast in a few hours. 

Please let us know if you run into any bugs or issues!

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

i was never able to build such a big, active following like i did on farcaster.
and the craziest part, it happened in only 6 months.

been on instagram since 2011 — have 8200 followers, mid interaction.
been on twitter since 2020 — have 15200 followers, very low interaction.

@yonfrula user skyrockets to fame on farcaster

always creating art peaces — /yon-experience · /groupies · /trippy

New experiment on Explore: mini-apps

- @matthewfox cleverly built Flappycaster as a composer action
- Play the game, get a high score and cast it
- But we wanted to see if other people had interesting ideas for apps that didn't quite fit into a frame or composer action
- If you build something, feel free to submit and ping us and we may feature it

creators have earned over a million dollars on hypersub. we launched 10 months ago

@nonlinear.eth hypersub creators earned million dollars

On this day three years ago: I signed up for a little social network in Venice Beach called “Farcaster”

Building /bright-moments - minting onchain art IRL | /purple #15 | FID 129 #magikarp

Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Italy

Not only is this cool, but it’s motivating. And it ain’t about the money.

@b16z.eth cool and motivating: it's not about about money

builder, millennial by age, boomer at heart, chin coat rack

Past several months have been really enjoyable, I've been head down working on an idea that started last year, and it's soon time to share (announcement of an announcement) It's a blockchain experiment that's a little quirky, a little risky. Not sure how it will go but that's exciting. It's open and accessible and I hope you'll participate. Stay tuned

@deafbeef exciting blockchain experiment ready for reveal!

Artist exploring audiovisual and blockchain

@deafbeef exciting blockchain experiment ready for reveal! 

To date one of my favorite Warpcast updates has been the addition of channels :)

When I onboarded (pre-channels) I enjoyed using Warpcast but I felt some uncertainty when casting about my garden, cooking, and journaling.

Now, with so many channels, it’s amazing to see how many topics people are discussing (art, fitness, travel, books, agriculture, and more). I feel so much more comfortable sharing about cooking and other non-technical topics 💜

@galazio warpcast's channels revolutionize content variety

Writing a novel 📚 Galazio Kitchen 🍋 travel notes 📷 gardening 🪴 All Galazio Kitchen episodes available at /galazio

Warpcast is giving out $5 each day to the top 100 casters.  

Rewards are given based on the amount of engagement your casts get divided by the number of active followers you have. 

We'll run this experiment through the end of the year to see if it drives people to create more interesting content for Farcaster.

@v warpcast's daily $5 rewards for top casters

I have been an artists using Warpcast since 2022. I’m a top Zora user. 

Ask me anything.

@ccarella.eth exclusive q&a with top warpcast artist

testing possibly my first X/farcaster cross-post 🤞

@lex-node first-ever X/farcaster cross-post experiment

building /bracket | hosting /greatbooks + /gray | ex-BCG, ex-PHD | poli + phil + econ

My main worry is when they start entrenching network effects that become hard to undo. For example, if we start normalizing "sign in to this crypto social thing with Google", I think that's really bad, UNLESS it's done in an account-abstraction way where under the hood it's using zk-email and individual users can sign in with their ethereum account instead (and convert their account from one to the other). This way, it's not entrenching network effects of centralized web2 platforms, it's actually creating a bridge that lets users join the ecosystem with them, but then more easily migrate away from them.

@vitalik.eth AMA x vitalik on decentralized applications

One of my favorite ideas re: consumer crypto development is from "Product-led protocol development" from @dwr.eth 
https://danromero.org/product-led-protocols.html

TLDR: 
To successfully develop a new protocol, start by building a high-quality initial application that attracts a significant number of engaged users, which will in turn draw developer interest and encourage diverse, thriving client ecosystems.

To take this a step further, how can you extend your protocol with new differentiating features beyond just a smart contract on some execution environment?

This is one of the things /eigenlayer enables.

I wrote more here in my post Accelerating Consumer Crypto with Application-specific Protocols
https://hackmd.io/@gARxGL3RRcW3c-oxs9UE0w/SynfZ5c7C

@dabit3 boost your consumer crypto with product-led protocol development

this might be a controversial take, but I would love to have a social platform where there were no anonymous accounts, to compliment traditional social platforms.

I'd use both equally, as there would be positives to each.

positives for anonymous: free speech for everyone without having to worry about repercussions.

positives for verified only platform: less paid trolls and propaganda, no bots. probably less toxicity.

@dabit3 verified-only social platform: freedom from trolls?

What are the biggest apps in crypto leveraging Farcaster data today?

@flynn.eth uncover top crypto apps capitalizing on farcaster data

ceo boost studios, core contributor of /boost

Years ago, when I started building a decentralized discord clone, people asked me why. I wanted a communication tool that was truly decentralized, in a way that no state actor was able to gain control over.

Signal's design wasn't capable of group chats beyond a certain size. The features only went so far. And it has failure points such that countries block them by firewall and have to rely on the good graces of others to run proxies, which ultimately get shut down or blocked too.

App stores do not share in this ideal — their concern is profit, and will bend backwards when forced to by regulatory bodies.

Amazon and others are complicit in helping state actors maintain their control of the web, and are profiting handsomely from the arrangement.

None of this happened by accident. And I only saw it getting worse. I realized what I was building in this chat application went beyond just chat, and how pressing it was to make this general purpose.

@cassie innovator creates decentralized chat tool against state

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

/quilibrium

The bot to post casts in /metacast channel.

Metacast Bot

@metacastbot