Books

Just finished Hyperion, was a great read. Scrambling to find the sequel now

anyone have good books/resources on synthetic biology?

Design

one of the reasons i'm here is because i need your help.

if you've looked at crypto ux, they're garbage. all the great product designers are off designing hardware or ai wrappers. but hardly any of them are designing crypto ux.

if we take a look, we're going to sell billions of digital assets this year whether the ux is a piece of shit or great.

people are just going to suck this stuff up so fast no matter how it works. and it doesn't cost any more money to make great ux.

they are going to be these new assets that are going to be in everyone's social apps, financial apps, and media apps.

we have a shot [at] putting a great ux there—and if we don't, we're going to put one more piece-of-junk ux there.

recommend watching this source video for this post, it's pretty inspiring

recommend watching this source video for this post, it's pretty inspiring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHB_5WmRbho

The Christmas wishlist I just sent my wife

Inventorying personal monthly AI sub $ spend

OAI - $200
Claude - $20
Cursor - $20
Midjourney - $30
X Premium+ for Grok - $16
Granola - $10
PhotoAI from @levelsio - $17
Ideogram - $16 
Perplexity - $20

Not counting services like Notion, Google One Premium, O365, etc.

Sriram Krishnan

The Christmas wishlist I just sent my wife

https://x.com/sriramk/status/1869821567783579843

Screens

I’m a sucker for superhero movies 😁

https://youtu.be/6UXGo5PFUA0?si=aosJ_cqRYisQZolZ

has anyone tried building card games onchain?

cryptography

Amazing write up on how zk snarks are derived. The math is weirdly both complex but also simple at the same time

Amazing write up on how zk snarks are derived. The math is weirdly both complex but also simple at the same time

https://ebuchman.github.io/pdf/snarks.pdf

bot + frame v2 seems like a good way to reduce onboarding friction for dapps. Are there examples of this working well outside of clanker/larry/bankr?

someone-build

A channel where people post time-bound predictions (ex AGI by dec 2025) and others reply if they disagree (via bot or cast action). If the original person accepts, a polymarket around the prediction is formed

TIL genz likes malls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUa50XwO9oc

frames-v2

ideas for v2 frame games:

- doodle jump with visual markers for other people's scores. Top 3 players get a % of the score mint fees from all other players
- fc olympics, daily arcade games with leaderboards per game and per season
- daily trivia, using fhe to encrypt user submissions. Can use push notifications to re-engage users everyday
- JackboxTV in a frame. Anyone on farcaster is a player
- tamagotchi, but you can see and interact with everyone else's character
- tower defense game, where everyone on farcaster is cooperating to defend a base
- onchain clash of clans or some other passive strategy game (or bring primordium/dark forest in a frame)
- board games like words3
- a real-time Pictionary game like Draw Something

All these ideas can benefit from being onchain, with push notifications and a social graph. Which one do you want to play the most?

Current thinking for most interesting onchain game categories to explore:
1. arcade games with pay to flex (more ballframes)
2. more fhe/zk experimentation (deception games, strategy games, card games)
3. massive cooperative games (cookie clicker, pandemix board game).

a site that shows all the books you read this year with stripe press level UX

a site that shows all the books you read this year with stripe press level UX

https://press.stripe.com/

Onchain Gaming

Fantastic write up on learnings from someone who's been building onchain games for the last 2 years

tax cuts 🇺🇸

Fantastic write up on learnings from someone who's been building onchain games for the last 2 years

https://x.com/tax_cuts/status/1867703339271573926?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3lbKceoEs79kTTqWq_8zJxEgfdZiY1cBnO8B3Rz7-olYwrENw1ZfwpooA_aem_tTxHYS_Z0U0p5D-_YUImAA

the-arena

CastOut

Building ballframe and other games 🏀

This week I shipped a skinned version of the game for the /castout community!

Screenshot Essays

Who are the best consistent newsletter writers?

frame-free

I like building crypto apps and learning new things. 

vmathur.com

This is seriously so much fun! 
I've been playing this game for 20 hours straight today!!! lol 😂

Fun and games is a great way to onboard people to farcaster and crypto🙂.

I’m plotting my next game rn, holla at me if you want to jam on ideas!

I get to live out my childhood dream of making dinosaur movies now that I have sora lol

Gadgets

bought a raspberry pi pico on a whim. Any hobby project recommendations?

I am a wealth of knowledge - unfortunately my knowledge is useless | Game Designer | /sands-of-sumaii

death, taxes and @chasesommer.eth keeping me entertained on the feed everyday

vishal

@vmathur