Alex

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Deep funding combines two ideas: 1. Value as a graph: instead of asking "how much did X contribute to humanity?", ask "how much of the credit for Y belongs to X?" 2. Distilled human judgement: an open market of AIs fills in all the weights, human jury randomly spot-checks them https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1867600164502089925 (1) has been a growing paradigm recently, for good reason. Contribution is hard to measure in the abstract: if you ask people how much they would pay to save N birds, they answer $80 for N=2000 and N=200000. "Local" questions like "is A or B more valuable to C?" are much more tractable. (2) is based on ideas in my info finance post: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/11/09/infofinance.html#info-finance-for-distilled-human-judgement . Anyone can use any methods (eg. AI) to suggest weights for *all* edges, a human jury does detailed analysis on a random subset. The submissions that are most compatible with the jury answers decide the final output. https://deepfunding.org/

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Been working on something really exciting Like this cast and register at far.quest/v2 if you want to join the private alpha. Will start dropping codes soon

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A few hours ago wallets tied to crypto influencer JRNY saw ~$4M worth of crypto assets suspiciously transferred out and sold indicating a potential private key compromise. Theft address 0xc467150582cfc8eec4132a483c76101d3636f598 0x6fd6c8fd64c7efdb8eec902161d3bbc035430456 0xa2dd5e2ab84240cbecc7beaca9946afef97ae74a

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Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 4: The Verge https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/23/futures4.html

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If you’re an artist on Farcaster, please reply with an example and/or link to your art!

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Today we’re announcing that @a16zcrypto is leading an $80M Series B financing of PIP Labs, developer of @storyprotocol. Story is a blockchain protocol that allows creators to register their IP so they can track and monitor use, protecting their legal and economic rights. The goal is to create foundational infra that can underpin a new economic covenant between creators and platforms. The team behind Story has deep tech and creative expertise. CEO/cofounder @s-y-lee has impressed us with big-picture vision and world-class tactical execution. Cofounder @jasonzhao studied CS at Stanford, dove deeper into AI at DeepMind, and now leads technical development on Story. For AI systems and creative people to happily co-exist, creators need a modern way to ensure they get compensated for their work. Story takes a proven approach — IP law — and updates it for the age of AI. We are excited to support the Story team on this important mission. https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/investing-in-story

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last week @base had an ATH of 4m active addresses minted this moment on @dune.eth on @base

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Farcaster has less price chatter because the user base is a higher % builder / creator than CT. It’s a high agency mindset.

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Join me to play FarTap https://t.me/fartapbot?start=V0374065, the Farcaster tap game, and battle against others for a chance to earn up to 1,500 FarPoints! Also, welcome to Farcaster @louisraskin, @zenzephyr, and @dream3!

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Introducing Explore - A new way to discover apps, actions and frames on Farcaster - Learn more about apps that use Sign in with Farcaster - Quick access to actions and frames - Begin by tapping on the globe icon (where trending was) - Live on mobile, coming soon to web - Developers can submit their app to be listed

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Why are Farcaster builders so optimistic when X, Y, and Z bad things exist? My brother, bad is the default. It’s entropy. Failure is the most likely outcome when building something new. If you’re not a definite optimist, you’ve got no chance in making it happen. Even if you’re a rational person, you have to be willing to suspend belief just enough to make the bet despite all the bad. And then it’s just week of week progress and try not to die (mostly figuratively). For years.

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A lot of chatter recently about Farcaster, marketing and expanding beyond crypto I have yet to see a crisp definition of: 1. What problem does Farcaster solve for people outside of crypto today? 2. What evidence exists that existing at-scale free social networks and paid creator tools / platforms are insufficient in serving these people? 3. Assuming this population exists, what channel (i.e. tactics) do you market Farcaster to said people? I'm not asking for free work, fwiw. It's our job to figure to this out (we don't have an answer for this question ourselves). But hiring a "marketing team" when you don't have an answer to this question is not going to solve the problem. Marketing works great when you have a clear value prop and target market and channel.

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Frames now support Polygon PoS transactions. @polymarket is a great example of this. @0xpolygon is also offerring nearly $250K worth of grants for developers who build Polygon frames.

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Someone was phished for $4.69M worth of PT-ezETH & PT-sz-rsETH an hour ago Theft transaction hash 0x7357787481b25c99b61912af8159f866d4ff2e7d97039425b529e2890b23c4f6 0x26820ddb9aeb9a74ac757be5e182c83ec20443d2273bbd68d1d1fa86f2b131a0 More than $23.2M has been phished from Pendle users since March 2024

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"Warpcast should do X." I agree with you. "Great, then why haven't you done it?" Because there's everything else to do as well.

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My hot take re "too much investment in infra": there's too much investment in *some kinds of infra* and not enough in others, and what's actually going on is, people want to invest in "the casino" but still feel good about themselves, so they invest in the subset of infra that gets spillover profits from the casino.

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Update: Bittensor was halted as the result of additional thefts earlier today likely due to private key leakage

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US government just transferred 3940 BTC ($243M) of funds from the Silk Road hack to Coinbase Prime Transaction hash 0f3f9a7c01d85c5747a3ae6cc9621cc30360390c4b681c1f95573e6bbcffed4f Coinbase Prime Deposit address 3FGcXf5HiPkitjQp4xjGu7Gte6aK7w43su https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/0f3f9a7c01d85c5747a3ae6cc9621cc30360390c4b681c1f95573e6bbcffed4f

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Was hard going through 300+ messages so HR said they may have missed a few folks Payroll will continue through the weekend

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