I'm joining Merkle!

After building around Farcaster for ~1.5 years, I'm more bullish than ever on the team, protocol, and product. The last time I felt this way about something was when I joined OpenSea almost 4 years ago. 

2025 will be big for crypto and Farcaster will be at the center of it.

LFG 🚀

OpenSea should become a Farcaster client. Rich social graph data would seriously uplevel different product surfaces. Would be another well-funded company and one that’s desktop-first

Finally got on the /farcade leaderboard for 2048

Farcade

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

I actually like the storage model where everything is an account. Makes it pretty easy to pick up. Haven't written any programs yet though. 

The RPCs don't feel as robust. Using Helius, but calls are slower than on an EVM and have random failures from time to time so have to account for that.

Indexing is a huge pain because of the insane amount of transactions (good problem for the network). Took me about a week to build a token indexer that can even stay at head. Storage, and in turn costs, grow pretty quickly though.

Need to index myself because no good APIs available for consumer-oriented general-purpose token data. 

Before I even started the exploration, had so many EVM people telling me how much it sucks. And overall, it's honestly not bad at all. Most of the people talking negatively about Solana dev either (1) have never actually built anything there or (2) weren't around for EVM dev when it was the same age as Solana.

Posted some thoughts about building around Solana the other day. Only been a week, so I still have a lot to learn about the ecosystem

building @anonworld / prev: manifold.xyz opensea.io

If it keeps going, has the potential to convert more and more devs over to Solana. For example, I'm playing around with some Solana ideas right now.

🚨BREAKING: our next app 10K will launch on Solana!

No drama y'all I’ve always backed the Base community and Ethereum is like family (for my big break in 2020 with $ALEX)

Why SOL is simple: the liquidity &amp; volume win short-term and multi-chain doesn't make sense. I don’t have a… https://t.co/AFtDSRunYZ

Alex Masmej

https://x.com/AlexMasmej/status/1886542478100324354

Los Fomos

Beware, Farcaster 🌶️ we're firing up @slokh!!! Watch 9 min of spice talk with the @anoncast summoner on pods below!!!

https://pods.media/los-fomos-fm/this-is-how-i-get-obsessed-anon-on-fire-w-kartik?referrer=0xCbfcb5Ec0927D692fB827bfa82e61CD343554DbE

had a fun chat with @pauline-unik and @tako-unik 👀

Onchain mixologist based in /los-fomos. Building a portable fan graph, making the best spicy martinis in town

LFer. Based in /los-fomos • Bringing the spice onchain | Building /uniklabs - a cross-platform, portable community graph. /cinema-mon-amour simp

Doing so good in these test Yapster games, hopefully translates to the real games 😭

FarCon NYC

🗽 FARCON APPLICATIONS OPEN 🗽 

Apply here: https://farcon.deform.cc/apply/
Learn more about the application process here: https://farcon.nyc/tickets

TLDR: Same process as last year - apply via @deform, get whitelisted to claim on @unlock-protocol. Two tickets this year (Builders Day and Summit). Better to apply sooner than later. Do not need tickets for side events/other social gatherings!

Can't wait to be IRL again in just 3 months!!! ✨ 

Any questions go to tickets@farcon.nyc -- not DC please :)

Virtuals is Expanding to @solana!

We are beyond excited to announce Virtuals' expansion to Solana, marking a significant step in our journey to empower builders and drive innovation across multiple ecosystems. Solana, known for its speed, scalability, and vibrant community, is… https://t.co/7CGq3rLQwa

Virtuals Protocol

https://x.com/virtuals_io/status/1883107553183162507?s=46

Weird situation where app devs building on Ethereum are making way more money than they ever had by just casually playing in Solana trenches (me included).

Seeing the excitement first hand just makes you want to build there, especially with products like Yapster launching on Solana.

Got my rewards 0.1 ETH , the feeling is magical! Thanks anon.world thanks @slokh its a blessing to be here with you all 

veil.cash

Rewards are now claimable on @anonworld! 

A total of 2.2 ETH is being distributed to 22 recipients who had the top posts over the last week! If eligible, you should see this banner on your credentials page which will take you to /veil to claim your reward.

anon.world/credentials

Didn't make it into tomorrow's Yapster game, my fingers are too slow 😭

Going to be trying "two weeks on, one week off". 

Two week sprint of shipping publicly every day on @anonworld. Then, spend the next week letting it marinate while refactoring and exploring other ideas/apps. 

At the end of the "off" week I want to be able to share something new for people to play with. Scratches the itch to try more more things while letting me process feedback on @anonworld.

First sprint of the year:
1/1 - @anonworld 
1/2 - Notifications
1/3 - EVM Multi-chain
1/4 - ERC721 Credential
1/5 - OpenGraph / Frames
1/6 - FID Credential
1/7 - @anonbot 
1/8 - Pseudonyms
1/9 - Swaps
1/10 - Communities
1/11 - Farcaster Indexer
1/12 - Refactored Post Feeds
1/13 - Profiles
1/14 - Leaderboards

"Off week":
1/15-1/21 - New idea/app

Sprint 2:
1/22 - Rewards

last day off the off week was taken back by @anonworld, but overall a success:
- finally learned how solana works
- started learning rust
- started working on a new app, nothing to share yet
- @ethcast

After two days of playing yapster

Some of the most fun I've had with a crypto app. Good work @salvino @amirbolous and team

i solemnly swear that i'm up to no good ·  salvinoarmati.twitter


Writing code is the easy part. The trick is to just always be thinking about how you would implement something. Then when it's time, there's not much to think about, you just press keys until it's done.