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brianjckim

"Merkle just helps its friends"

How many times do I have to repeat that most users and developers on Farcaster did not know Varun or myself prior to joining Farcaster.

And in some cases have *become* friends because they stuck around early on when no one else cared. We've spent years with this people socializing on this social network. :)

Don't conflate something that's earned / built with cronyism.

i didn’t know dan, varun, or anyone on the merkle team prior to joining farcaster in february 2022

to go even further, i barely knew anyone in crypto, period

all i did was show up every single day, post based memes, and engage with other users

proxy studio

trust fund kid cope posting in total obscurity complaining about speculative trading or products 🙄

You’re cashing mommy & daddy’s checks 

We had to get it ourselves. “straight out of the mud” as they say, but here the mud refers to our comfortable but modest middle class origins 😂

Transferring money to my mom today for some bills she needs to pay 😊

If you want a list of people who’ve been casting since before you were born, here you go. 


https://warpcast.com/cojo.eth/pack/Original-Gangsters-bclsu8 https://warpcast.com/cojo.eth/pack/Original-Gangsters-bclsu8

DMs at the protocol level starting to look more and more appetizing with clanker and other bots

potential cool workflow
- DM clanker to create your coin
- buy up, airdrop to communities who are likely to be good initial holders
- "launch" by promoting it through clanker

value in clanker is twofold: ease of creating the coin + distribution to hungry traders. splitting them up could be interesting

Uniswap

Introducing the largest bug bounty in history 🦄

We're rewarding up to $15.5M to anyone that finds a critical vulnerability in v4 core contracts

Find a critical bug, become a millionaire 👀

Details and rules: blog.uniswap.org/v4-bug-bounty

if this isn’t a meritocracy, idk what is

we truly live in the best of times

pivot from buying more bags to working for your bags

Wild Wild Money

Most people think crypto is mid-cycle with room to grow.

This is wild to me. Frustration with memecoins and availability bias from years of struggles are keeping people from seeing the forest for the trees.

Crypto deregulation, government adoption, institutional adoption, AI agents, Layer 2s, and other new infra are all potential step changes. We don’t yet know how any of this will play out, but their convergence feels like the beginning of something much bigger. 

I’m team supercycle here.

doesn’t even feel like a proper bull market yet

turns out i’m much better at making long-term bets and i’m usually correct

gm - @recess was part of the @orangedao fellowship this summer

think pokemon go + foursquare with memecoins

adding a few people to the beta (native iOS app) this week

The "cabal" you think exists is people who were spending time here having fun and becoming friends when nobody else was and there was no money to be made

Memes

explaining the latest farcaster meta to your cousin at thanksgiving