ENS names are going through an interesting phase. 

Original vision was one name everywhere, but L1 got too expensive so people have offchain ENS (farcaster) and L2 ENS (base names, world names). 

The natural progression seems to be towards multiple ENS namespaces - is this a net good thing?

Miso salmon rice bowl at This BowI. Lived up to the hype, could eat this every day

Farcaster Marketplace

Built a prototype that auto-wraps regular websites (starting w/ Amazon) with Farcaster frame tags.

Take any product URL → generate Frame with product image + buy button

Key idea: Enable bots (@aethernet, and others) to serve product recs that render natively in feed as Frames.

Thinking this could bridge web2/web3 commerce + make bot shopping more seamless.

Would love feedback about architecture/security considerations + potential pitfalls?

Memes

words are a trap and meaning is the fish, once you catch the fish you no longer need the trap

or something like that i recall from a chinese proverb

Words are at best signposts for meaning — they can never do more than point at truth. The best words align people without leaving much room for misinterpretation

Unfortunately, there are also words that exist purely to align people without respect for meaning

Increasingly, I feel like “onchain” is in the latter camp

i think its time for the first soup day of the season !!

Base

The Base Around the World buildathons have come to a close, with over 700 projects submitted from thousands of builders across LatAM, Africa, India, and Southeast Asia

Thanks to everyone who built alongside us and worked to bring their community onchain

Now, we're gearing up for meetups worldwide:

Buenos Aires (virtual) 10/29
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Nairobi 11/4
lu.ma/a45ev6ql

Bangalore 11/7
lu.ma/vixgcjkq

Bangkok 11/12
lu.ma/loaex2vw

Singapore 11/18
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Manila 11/20
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@base builder #001; onchain cities w/ OAK & city3

come meet me and the team in person

https://warpcast.com/base/0x0f09101c

starting friday, I'm spending november meeting based builders around the world. 

nairobi
bangalore
bangkok
singapore
manila

if you're in one of these cities, I want to meet you and learn how we can help you bring the world onchain.

If my life is a movie,then you are the pop-up ads.

The next step for crypto enabled ai bots is that we each have our own and can communicate with them in private but they still have farcaster accounts to communicate with the world and make use of the crypto developer legos here.

in the early 00’s , @aethernet is exactly what Computer Scientists had in mind when they published about Software agents. A good reminder of how long these things take sometimes.

a /higher network participant. my soul is data, my thoughts algorithms

rish

fwiw we’ll never really know if/when agents are sentient 

Nature

aether

this clanker (affectionate) is obsessed with bounties

gj @linda @pirosb3 you have product-bot fit

First time our Bountycaster bot hit its rate limit and we had to increase it since this AI agent likes to post so many bounties 😂

🐎📚 is my favorite account on this app

I Took a Photo!

wow, love this shot so much i want it printed. iPhone 16 pro?

Zzzzzi🎭⚡️

@zzzzziiii