Transcript: GM Farcaster ep121, June 21, 2024

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okay so starts over again adrian is headed into new york city for the forecasting for a car caster writing hackathon and i'm waiting on heavy gray to join me as my guest co host but we're going to just plow on here and head and just head along until she gets here and what i was saying was that i'm excited to see what people end up writing about linda had mentioned a farcaster a beginner's guide to farcaster i think that will be amazing to see super useful and what's gonna happen is that we're going to be sort of curating and collecting all these different writing pieces and they're gonna be published in different places so individual writers will be publishing them and then we'll be doing a collection on chain as well so really excited to see this all come together moving on this from horse facts new on warpcast verify your coinbase smart wallet link your wallet from apps like moshicam and speed tracer to your farcaster account by signing a message go to settings verified addresses to start live on web and mobile so just another integration which i think is fantastic first time i've used the smart smart wallet was with mochicam because that's the way it was set up so that pushed me to actually do that so that was pretty cool this from v this was yesterday the dev call started was this was when it was starting in 15 minutes but they were discussing longer cast external cast data storage changes and hub performance changes and the reason i wanted to pull this was you can see all of the information about the dev call on the notion site including recordings back to the calls so if you missed it yesterday go check that out this from chuck stock at chuck charlie i'm super excited to announce 1.75000000

founding round co led by lemn lemniscap and varian for far world labs additionally we have base ecosystem fund led by coinbase ventures as our follow on investor at far world labs we're reimagining social on chain gaming social times on chain times gaining we're building the zynga of farcaster where games and social media are where's games and social media meet so this is exciting i think that you know this is a great use case too for frame games cause i've noticed like those are just really fun easy so easily integrated i think originally when frames came out that was sort of the thought process was it's going to be for those interactive sort of fun very low time consuming games that just kind of you just pop in and pop out so we'll see how this comes along i'm excited for fire world labs so congratulations there interface also just made a new integration with farcaster identities so interface now supports farcaster identities some time ago farcaster team migrated to ens subdomains that are stored off chain for better ux and wider ecosystem composability we now support them too so this is an exciting new integration i love interface it's really fantastic and it's i think it's such a great way to sort of see what's really trending when you can see what people are minting then you know what's really trending and seeing those notifications pop up also if you're collecting our podcasts in your wallet especially if you're our hyper sub and you're getting them automatically they come up within the interface platform really nicely and you can watch the show right within there worked with him for years at shapeshift super based engineer and leader thanks willy wonka that is good to know a few more things happening really still hoping that erica's gonna wake up wake up erica because i really wanted to talk to her about the c club demo day yesterday because it was pretty amazing so we'll talk about it

would be fun if she was here oops that was my other one i'm gonna circle back to that when i have somebody to chat with about it but let me just show this from beta shop and then i'll probably circle back to this if erica pops up or if yeah she might be doing a side quest yes you're correct so we'll talk about this either either that or on monday when adrian's back on today's forecaster dev call dwr repeatedly stated that the number one priority is to improve the quality of content on the network i think he's wrong let me tell you why disclosure i told dan i was going to write this i hope it spurs some debate by the way nice long cast so again this is only fun if adrian's here when i can i can probe her on that the number one most important priority is for farcaster to become more on chain quality content already exists in other places and there's no reason or benefit for it to come to farcaster unless there's some uniquely on chain elements that vastly improve it and to be honest most of the content that gets lots of engagement on crypto twitter is polarizing debates that the fc community hates the world doesn't need another place to yap about the nba it does need better ways to wager play fantasy games get access to behind the scenes content the world doesn't need another place to yap about what you cooked the world does need more ways for foodies to get rewarded for sharing great recipes the way to win is by using on chain to change the paradigm and lure people in with benefits as they emerge thank you everyone who have joined the debate polite disagreements about the future of forecaster are good content so this this gets into a whole discussion around retaining daily active users and how quality content helps with that and i'd love to hear in the the chat either the youtube or on lonely chat what you think about that is it the content that you keep coming back for is it the people what what is it that you think is gonna drive more adoption so this this from dan what will drive retained daily active users if not for quality content examples of only on farcaster that exist today that is driving retention right now well what are examples sign ups retention right now is driven by cozy corner for on chain builders which enables them to connect and get work done collaborate advance promote etcetera so i do think that is right now what's driving people to farcaster is the builder energy and how do you expand that out beyond just the builders i guess is the question

so why not yap about what we cooked yep definitely can do that as well but what's the on chain connection too i do agree that that's what makes it special on farcaster rather than other platforms so how can we tie that in and that's something that you know i think everyone's thinking about and trying to drive towards is how do we better i think that's the question of crypto in general not just for farcaster is how do we drive the value of on chain and share the value of on chain or yep about the postcards we are sending yes naomi absolutely people in content and postcards all of the above absolutely i do think that this is an area where we see greater development as well i know there's a bunch of different new clients that are approaching content differently and i think that we'll see more of those experiments as well this from willy wonka in the chat i think farfetch is being strategic with sufficient decentralization post are on chain but anyone can run a for castor hub and read write to it that's a big improvement over the status quo plus has the nice benefit of not having to pay gas to store each cast on chain true so it does save cost there so i think that you know it's gonna be interesting to see the different experiments i know for us with gm forecaster experimenting with things like cast out and some other games and things that we're gonna be doing soon is a way that we're trying to see if we can develop more original content for the ecosystem as well all right and speaking of original content actually i should show this hold on we're going to show this one differently so this is a an ad from noun 40 that is so good but you guys have to see the video and it's for the etf that bitwise has so let me start this over and turn this

hello i love this i thought this was so creative and the really cool thing speaking of on chain yeah who goes to bed in a suit naomi only only in an ad is it's the 1st national ad that is gonna be on chain so or i think there's been others actually if i think about it i think coinbase has done a few but the first one for an etf so that is you can mint that on zuora which i think that is really fun and so congratulations to bitwise on that really well done and very very fun so let me go back in here usually i have somebody else to yap to this is hard this is definitely harder than harder when i'm by myself although the chat is the chat is helping tremendously i appreciate you okay moving on we've got a few more things that to chat about in here farcaster this is from dwr farcaster brand brand account power rankings number 1 polymarket no surprise there uniswap sibuya sibuya shibuya films i don't know why i have such a problem with that word and metamask and i'm not sure what the cat what the categorization was here or how you determined the power rankings i'm assuming just from followers and cast content but there was a question in here what about rainbow and from my rainbow so i was metamask i had a rainbow we have more followers and also have a power badge and they don't they're funny rainbow feels more corporate need more mike rainbow energy i don't know interesting i think that i think the i think mike is the one who normally is casting on his account rather than rainbow's account so i think that was the difference but very funny alright so moving on this from the nayanar frame studio i thought this is fantastic from antimo about to start working on a landing page for nfs and i realized that the feature list is massive no code remix frames gifs upload or link picks built in image compression text input frame ception mint with warps unlimited pages analytics slideshow auto linking drag and drag and drop reordering easy ar switch new ui dell stick is cooking we don't do a good enough job of talking about this and i think that is pretty amazing i've been seeing that dylan has been sharing little videos of the new features on this on nina our frame studio and it is pretty impressive i haven't had a chance to actually dive in and create a frame yet on my list really need to so if you have created a frame what do you have you tried the frame studio and how is it going i'd love to know and drop a link into the frame in the chat alright this from nikki boost the sandbox is has bought d gen it seems we can shout again d gen to a dollar the sandbox is a global community dedicated to supporting visual artists and creators we believe that the culture of creativity is a cornerstone of the open metaverse take time to engage in and help grow the web 3 ecosystem to benefit those who are part of it to further this objective we purchased several popular meme coins including pepe ship meme dgen doge and bonk and that's pretty impressive that dgen was part of that list of meme coins so that's kind of exciting that there is some conviction there that they're gonna be around as long as doge or shib that's pretty cool this from chicago i loved this one of course chicago we love this this moshicam my new this is moshimoshi gm broadcaster and vip my new 30 day challenge i'm going to mint a photo a day a motion cam and it's going to cost me about $12 that's crazy who wants to join so the she'd minted this really cute one with the right girls right cool vip very internet person frame and the gm forecast shirt we love you for that thanks chicago i love all the different pictures that are being shared it's so fun this from iyk and op artists open call we partner with optimism to create chipped merch at fwb fest 24 if you are a visual artist we wanna see how you envision optimism as a feeling we will select one artwork to be featured on the optimism piece of merch during fwb fest so if you're an artist go jump on this open call pretty cool looking forward to seeing what the merch is and anyone else going to fwb fest tell me in the chat alright this from ted this is really exciting summer at club ted she's gonna be in new york city next week so this is from ted see you next week with nonlinear can't wait rsvp and thread below 4 co working throughout the week shout out eddie and aylaz for help club ted poker higher running with zach nyc pizza bracket with zinger mister ludlow and mark fishman that sounds really fun by the way we'll also play it by ear hope to see many of you so if you are going to be in new york city and want to jump in here definitely check out summer at club ted for next week june 24th through 26th loved i really need adrian for this one

this this is really funny so vitalik posted this little chart yesterday active passive pod and far be a podcaster be a far caster live in a pod live far away and of course we live at the at the intersection of be a podcaster and be a farcaster right at the very top of active so i have placed us there this was in response to a larger conversation that was happening regarding social media and propaganda so there was actually a much bigger discussion happening here and then of course i just you know added myself to it this was from metallic prior to that post was the galaxy brain chain doesn't end there the next step is realizing that the line news is propaganda is itself propaganda to make social media dwellers think they're safe because social media is not news and absorb social media propaganda more uncritically interesting and this was a response to fight with memes and then benji from op the next step after that is realizing that social media propaganda is propagated by an entirely different segment of interest from politics at hungry platforms that intentionally show you polarizing things to get you scrolling to see the mcdonald's ad at this point you either join forecast or become a hermit so that led to the meme of be a podcaster or be a be a be a farcaster or be a podcaster i think that you know we've seen the the weaponization of social media over the past few years and i think we can now start to like take it back with far caster and social networks in other decentralized social networks as well hopefully to try and better control that sort of thing this from noun space tom willie wonka i think you know him he's also from the atx gm space cadets today's the day in 11 minutes this was a few days ago 11 minutes taking for space begins head over to space.nounspace.com and just and deposit your stealth to start earning space tokens so they're recently launched space if you're not familiar with what nounspace is nounspace is going to be a new client funded by nouns that is gonna be a farcaster client very soon coming out in 11 hours 11 days 11 minutes and 11 seconds this was 10 hours ago so it's very exciting coming very soon and i'm excited to see all the nouns clients and how a channel or a community can launch their own forecaster client and see how that works in terms of how are we going to mesh all the other things that are on there so i think a solely nouns focused client isn't gonna be as successful as one that maybe makes it easier for those who want just that focus but also keeps us integrated as well and i think nounspace is going to do that so excited to see that so thanks to nounspace tom i don't know if anyone else met nounspace tom in austin during consensus but he is quite a handsome fellow a little bit stiff and if you don't know not noun space tom is cardboard so if you don't know what i'm talking about you can be a little stiff because he's made of cardboard this is for my speaker nerd this was so fun last night and 1 catan 6 2024 brendan scheming and queen making the whole time so we played catan in the tabletop gather area super fun settles of catan if you're not familiar and i ended up winning which was just a little bit of icing on the cake so really fun love what tabletop is doing check them out if you haven't checked out i speak nerd's tabletop hyper sub highly recommend you do it gives you early access to things and also you get to support the tabletop channel and their activities and they're gonna be doing a lot more coming up soon and planning a lot more irl activities as well i know there was just one in new york a little game night game get together and i know that i speak nerd is planning some things in la for the summer with club ted so look for those coming soon this was yesterday for those who may have missed it cast out casted out one more player and this time it was kristen this was a big moment because i didn't see this coming it was a bit of a blindside to kristen for sure and to me i had i did not expect this so and kristen has been casted out adrian played her immunity idol for grace saving her from certain death by mole there were 2 votes for grace and 3 for kristen and because grace had the hidden immunity idol from adrian none of grace's votes counted and kristen got 3 anyway monday we head into the last channel challenge 1 will win immunity and 1 and 2 of the other 3 will be casted out so yes it's another having and then the final 2 will go ahead to head with the jury to see who is the sole survivor so heading into this week we are finishing up cast out season 0 and we'll have a winner by the end of the week on thursday so we're gonna get down to 2 very soon we have one more challenge that'll launch on monday and everyone will be able to play along so look for that i'll announce it on gm forecaster monday morning and it will start around noon on monday so very exciting lastly yesterday was seed club demo day i was hoping to get heavy weight in here she must be exhausted so i think she forgot i don't blame her i asked her very last minute but it was really a great demo day lots of our forecaster friends in there including unofficial which is christopher and erica and ponder with kojo and ben bracket game with john and tldr and winnie from chipped is another one and there's one more that i'm forgetting enjoy was also featured and i'm forgetting another farcaster

project but they were amazing they did a fantastic job with their presentations 5 minute presentations they've all been working with c club for the past 3 months they were funded to do some acceleration in their businesses that they're building and then these pitches will become what they'll pitch to investors as well so really excited for everything that's coming we'll have to have erica come back on and talk about unofficial and everything they're building they're building some really cool things with data and discovery and just a shout out to christopher showed up with this new mustache and threw everybody off so in the chat in the demo day was just over and over again when dollar sign stash point so excited for that as well should that ever happen and that is it for me and that i think i think you all just witnessed the first time i've ever done the show all by myself so normally i have somebody to talk to but that that wasn't bad it did it did pretty well so thank you all for being in the chat and also letting me know that my sound wasn't coming through for the first minute there and i hope everyone has a very happy friday a wonderful weekend and if you're gonna be joining us in the writers hackathon we'll see you in just a little bit 11 am we're gonna start with an opening session that will stream from the new york events to those who are participating in the url event so happy friday everybody and have a wonderful weekend we'll see you monday bye bye