Farcaster

we didn’t start /farville to onboard the next billion - we just wanted to grow some dumb crops 🌽

but then kids and normies got addicted…
and we realized: THIS IS IT.

onboarding doesn’t need a wallet tutorial
it needs obsession.

/farville is a trojan horse.
and we’re just getting started. 🤝

i don’t want these people in my socioeconomic network. but thank god i’ll be able to discover and exclude them thanks to onchain records of their dopamine addictions.

Zora

there are two distinct coin buyers:

1. collectors - doing it for the joy. to support the creator. not price sensitive, but love a 100x because it funds their collecting.
2. traders - doing it for the money. working to be early.

both are important and base is for everyone.

if this is all that ‘coins’ have to offer, we should all go to the casino or home to our funko pop collections.

it’s fun to be addicted to an app you are working on

the one thing urbit does not fix, in fact.

Base

~$100m in bitcoin on @base from @coinbase customers borrowing USDC onchain

this is the first defi mullet product and it's only been a couple months - this flywheel is going to bring billions and billions of capital onchain

‘defi mullet product’ is an amazing phrase.

@base builder #001; onchain cities w/ OAK & city3

All of your crypto. All of your wallets. All in one place. Your home for everything onchain. wallet.coinbase.com

hey @jessepollak or @coinbasewallet team, trying to learn about how coinbase smart wallet passkeys are used. namely, how the authorized domains that can prompt a signature are managed. is there any documentation on this or code that you could point me to?

Mini Apps

If I had a free week, I would spend it iterating on mini app paradigms as rapidly as possible. 

This is a super exciting paradigm that feels like “slowly and then all at once” 

The everything apps are coming and mini apps will win app distribution

the apple app store would like to speak to your manger

New essay:
The case against conversational interfaces

• Natural language is a bottleneck
• The "pass me the butter" test
• AI as augmentation

↓
https://julian.digital/2025/03/27/the-case-against-conversational-interfaces/

oh thank god. please no more conversational interfaces.

Institutions need clarity as to who/what/where they are trading with, and today they can get that via Verified Pools. Pick up a Coinbase Verification today and try it out!

Institutional capital can now feel comfortable LPing in Uniswap v4, knowing that their counterparties went through KYC.

0x users who have a Coinbase Verifications credential will automatically tap into the liquidity from these pools. The first organic trade already happened nearly 2 weeks ago!

this has to be the least cypherpunk thing of all time.

Reporter at Drop Site News, co-host at Breaking Points/Counter Points

usg shitcoinbros, remember what the point of crypto is. 

cypherpunks write code.

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