microsub.

we’re now accepting nominations for our Daily Feature program, a new initiative to promote creators, leaders, and projects on Farcaster!

to participate: tag the account you want to nominate in a reply to this cast along with a short description of their work (quote casts encouraged for visual artists and photographers) and/or what they’re contributing to Farcaster 👇

Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChfHaT5oujM

Summer is over i guess
https://foundation.app/mint/base/0x3b88F8fd8895137fABE662C70d3fB24CA3116a03

Not sure if this belongs here or /nfl but I just want to say I couldn’t possibly love Tyrese Halliburton more than I already do. Kicking it with Pat McAfee at the Colts game pumping the crowd up, and then heading straight to the Fever game after. Saw him in the courtside club at halftime heading into the locker room with the Fever. Presumably for a pep talk. It worked

Consumer Crypto

Another day, another blocker bug.

On the latest Rabby (0.92.89), sending ETH to any contract wallet fails (reverts).

It sets the gas limit at exactly 21000 = just enough to send to an EOA, not enough to execute fallback().

Farcaster

Would Farcaster consider migrating its graph to the Ethereum Follow Protocol when it's ready?

Would Farcaster consider migrating its graph to the Ethereum Follow Protocol when it's ready? https://twitter.com/BrantlyMillegan/status/1832115168396058809

all-in

ahhhh TRAVIS KALANICK surprise guest!

guess who is interviewing him lol

afterhours set, seek to 2:15:00 for the darker part

afterhours set, seek to 2:15:00 for the darker part 

https://on.soundcloud.com/7ZhnaULiVGDNrcv76

Founders

Wanted to shout out our friends @tldr and @passafiume.eth over at /bracket!

Consistently one of the best user experiences in consumer crypto and they somehow manage to get me to pay attention to sportsball 👏

Love the experimentation with the new mechanics they're cooking up!

No affiliation, just a fan 🙂

“No affiliations, just a fan.”

^chicken soup for the builder’s soul

Data

dune

I wonder how much bull market you can predict using this simple metric.

h/t @marcov 

https://dune.com/queries/3955771/6664960

I will attempt to prove this hypothesis next week

RZA’s new classical album

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kDi6J1K9zh23aedAjreAeF7NSioNe0TZ8&si=pj8guxQ_9PcWoP3P

Just hit 25K followers! Farcaster is the first place where I've ever had a real following, and it’s been incredible! It has inspired me to step out of my comfort zone and create something I couldn’t have imagined just a few months ago.

Big thanks to everyone who has been a part of the journey!

I suspect for that to work, channels will need to be less defined by content theme and more by extra affordances. More like L2s. Cast model getting overloaded in specific ways beyond just skinning and token gating. Possibly apps should build on top of specific classes of channels. Not quite sure how that could work. Can Lego channel be more of a frame-stream IDE for Lego builders than just a social hang? Eg: I cast a starter model. Somebody “quote casts” by adding a brick. 

Whole new way to architect composable applications. GitHub is almost this for code, with PRs serving as overloaded “casts” in a social flow.

My /gloom channel should be a whole true doomscrolling app-stream.

Every Unix shell command became a billion dollar web2 company. Perhaps every web2 company can become a farcaster channel or bundle? Unbundle platforms into channel streams 🧐

Farcaster as the new Comcast 🫡

Gen Art

Opacity

I’m excited to announce the 21 startups we’ve selected to join our Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX) Fall 2024 cohort, which starts this week. 

Over the next 8 weeks, they’ll get firsthand lessons from top crypto founders, receive guidance and support from @a16zcrypto’s investing and operating teams, and build connections with each other and the broader a16z network.

The CSX Fall 2024 companies are coming to NYC from 11 different countries, and they’re building on every level of the crypto stack, including AI, DeFi, infrastructure, and consumer applications such as photo sharing and mapping. 

We’re thrilled to partner with each of these CSX companies on their journey to product market fit. https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/announcing-the-csx-fall-2024-cohort/

Opacity is joining the Fall 2024 cohort of @a16zcrypto’s CSX!

Pumped to connect with the cohort, learn from leaders in the space, and work with @jasonr, @mason, @ncitron.eth, and @eddy 🫡

I don’t think you guys are prepared for the Cambrian explosion that’s about to come!

CTO @a16zcrypto, lover of https://github.com/a16z/awesome-farcaster

a16z crypto, prev engineer @ bloXroute labs, Consensys.
Creator of farcaster-py.
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building open source public goods @a16zcrypto

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@a16zcrypto. 25 years working on frontier tech. 2X CEO, 4 exits & most recently VP Subscriptions at Google.

NGL but "concepts of a plan" would make an excellent band name.

Memes

It’s hard to understand the promise of vape-to-earn until someone blows a fat cloud of innovation directly into your face

Warpcast

what if having a juicy drippy rebranded app icon is what warpcast needs to 100x high quality content

orea

@orea