I’m excited to announce that we’re co-leading the $10M seed round in Merit Systems, which is building a new economic model for open source.

Open source software is the lifeblood of the internet, but it’s poorly funded and too reliant on volunteer contributions. Merit is building a protocol that attributes and rewards contributors proportionally to the value they create. The goal is to enable code repositories to become the organizing unit for protocol networks, in the same way that companies are the organizing units for corporate networks.

Merit was founded by @samrags  and @rfs. As an @a16zcrypto investor and engineer, Sam developed Jolt, one of the fastest and most promising zkVMs. Similarly, Ryan excelled at Blockchain Capital as an investor and engineer.

@mason, a gifted technologist and investor also from a16z, joined the Merit team to help them scale.

We are excited to back the Merit team and support them with their ambitious mission.

Live the same

Friends,

To my channel followers: there will always be an excuse to share...

🎁As some of you already know, I have a great connection with art and photography and that's why I try to promote artists by giving away their works.

@adrienne. For you: 1 NFT from @reidtandy. His first post on Rodeo, to treasure, I hope you like it!

@ace. For you: 1 NFT from @777. His first post on Rodeo, a day to remember!

@khadijaali123. For you: 1 NFT from @wackykiwi. First post on Rodeo, I hope you like it!

@aaronrferguson. For you: 1 NFT from @shaya. His first post on Rodeo, to treasure, I hope you like it!

@whateveruser. For you: 1 NFT from @eneftebits. His first foray into Rodeo. To save!

Happy Art Advent Season!

We are distributing 3,333 OP to creators for the next 7 days.

To participate, simply cast a link to your Zora post in this channel. All channel members are curators so your `like` matters!

If you share someone else’s post, the original creator will earn the rewards.

https://rounds.wtf/art/art-advent-season-1

Cute Animals

Had this furry friend stay over last night

I have a new product that is in private beta.

It has a fairly unique architecture that makes it fast, cheap, and easy to do SQL queries over arbitrary events.

Please dm/reply if you are interested in trying it out

gm gmmmmm

climbed mountain yesterday. 

views were *immaculate* 😆

Base

Memes

My beautiful summer is already coming to an end

chef at moxie.xyz | Moxie is your onchain AI assistant—analyzing transactions, unlocking social alpha, and executing trades on your behalf.

perl.xyz is your onchain social arcade, powered by $DEGEN. Join the discussion at /perl

Moxie is your onchain AI assistant—analyzing transactions, unlocking social alpha, and executing trades on your behalf.

@betashop.eth - garry has been revived through @perl battle feed game.

gotta put him on @moxie.eth auction!!

Tabletop

/tabletop games with @ispeaknerd.eth & @priyanka 😍

Photographer • Gen Art Noob /priyanka • Hypersub hypersub.xyz/s/patronsofblue

Gamer, educator, dev translator | building tabletop.xyz | Writings, memes, thoughts, and mints in /nerdery | lead /tabletop /gaming /sobriety

Farcaster

taiwan

Fun fact about Taiwan:

* Taitung (臺東, "Taiwan East") is further south than Tainan (臺南, "Taiwan South")
* Taipei (臺北, "Taiwan North") is further east than Taidong

In order to complete the cycle, this logically implies that we need to build a new city, Taixi (臺西, "Taiwan West") in this exact spot:

Let’s talk about why we believe in open-sourcing everything. Converse and XMTP.

We are building the most open and secure developer platform in the world—one that all developers can trust to build on, unlike the centralized platforms of the past, such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, Zynga, etc.

I spent the past 15 years of my career building on top of the Big Tech platforms. This means I spent the last 15 years of my career getting the rules changed, promises broken, and ultimately getting my businesses killed or forced to sell because I built on top of centralized platforms.

To protect global communication, we must create a more open and secure communication layer for the internet. We cannot risk building on top of protocols owned by a single company or, in some cases, a single person.

We deserve a messaging network that is more aligned with the entire crypto community and our core values of openness, security, and decentralization.

We need a decentralized & secure messaging app built for crypto.
Your messages. Your privacy. No phone number Built with @xmtp https://converse.xyz/ /converse

Big day here... 

Ephemera has acquired @converseapp, and as of 9 am EST, we open-sourced it.

Converse is the simplest and fastest app built on XMTP. The Converse team has been building with XMTP since day one, and with the ability to reach over 2m+ identities on XMTP, we are excited to put more resources into building a better future together.

We need to make using crypto as easy as sending a message. We have already started implementing secure groups into Converse and we have so much more work to do so everyone in the world has a secure messaging application that is native to crypto.

Everything starts with trust.

The world needs an open, secure, and decentralized communication platform. One that everyone can trust to build on and use.

That’s why we are open-sourcing the application layer, which is also built on the open & secure XMTP network.

This Moxie thing is cool 😬 let's see what's coming next 🗿🫡

Max

@pianistpl