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gm farcaster it is monday september 23 and you are here with nowdash professor and adrianne for twenty nine minutes ish of farcaster news to start your day and adrienne you just got back from a little trip and i did see you cast about it would you like to share with the folks what happened really glad you're here today
i yeah good morning gm yeah it's monday i sent you a text message on saturday and said hey i'm gonna be there monday but is it okay if you do all the prep work because i had a little accident this weekend and what my ankle got run over by a car on saturday and how did you not
end up with a broken ankle is the part i do not understand like nothing's broken it's just bruised like how does that even happen
i don't know i got very lucky and i will not be taking further questions at this time
oh my god i cannot get logged in it's unlovely so if you're not lonely hi because i can't get logged in so g m but g m g m to you all and i'm really glad you made it adrianne because that would have been sad but i had a you know i was ready to pull a cohost cohost from the bullpen bring up a relief pitcher but anyway glad you're here glad you're okay glad your ankle didn't break and also yes
i can still see you're
in college new was this caused by a cousin because cousins are
always trouble cousins are trouble my son asked me he's like you're doing gm this morning i said i can still talk
i can still speak i can still talk
and it's only twenty nine minutes
but i did i did say though like i did give her the option that i could actually do this if she needed to take it off but i'm glad you're here
and is there a is there a hurricane heading towards florida
there's always a hurricane heading towards florida
okay because i saw that and i was like oh maybe maybe i mean nobody need to be hosting alone this week
i don't know
it's not that close yet and you know we're used to it i'll let you know what if i need to that would be the time that i will definitely need a fill in because so get ready if there is because i won't have power
potential cohosts if you're out there
potential cohosts and this is the time so generally speaking the hurricanes that i have experienced have happened in september the the worst ones september and october so this is our prime time prime time for for hurricanes okay i got in gm alright let's dive in i did wanna start with this because it was funny this meme i'm going to take a break from social media today after all why not why shouldn't i open norbcast again yeah this is me every freaking weekend going no i'm gonna take a break no but we try so first off i want to thank purple so thank you purple we're honored that gm farcaster actually came in second in this round and wow like shocked with all the amazing applicants they're 104 total so that's amazing that we're funded by purple in this round so the way that rounds works is it's a percentage based on the number of likes from the designated wallets so all the purple members are the those are the likes that counted in this round and congratulations linda top of the top of the heap bounty caster well deserved and kristen coming in at a third which prompted this from our friend chinmay there are no women on forecastr i didn't know that i did not drop in kristen change their gender so in case you didn't know forecastr is for girls just in case you didn't know just bringing that bringing that one back so really nice to see but also congrats to everybody who was funded in this round and one of the things that i mentioned when i was doing the shout out was that it's beyond the funds it's the recognition that hey we see you we know you're contributing to this ecosystem and we appreciate it so congratulations to everybody who was funded in this round so yeah so that was nice to see and i've got my my purple mug for for celebrating today so thank you purple available very soon wow
i don't have a purple mug that's
i know i know you don't i'm gonna get one we gotta get you one i swear to god the shop is like this close again i'm i i ran into one little snag i'm waiting for verification from shopify so that's it hopefully today moving on channels in case you missed it here's a preview of what's changing with channels nothing is changing this week there will be a bunch of communication to channel owners about the changes beyond just cas one point of clarification that i saw come up yesterday membership does not require your channel to have a token can you choose to do that yes are you required no your channel your rules so what that means is you'll be able to go through and actually invite people and i think they said they're building some tools that you can do a like invite all these people or invite all those people so it won't be so manual or you can do it by a token so you could do it by an nft a hyper sub so likely what we'll do is it'll be our hyper sub we'll be automatically able to cast in our channel and then we might pick and choose beyond that so that's kind of the way this is gonna work or you could use your moxie fan tokens which is what betashop is excited about i may be the person who's most excited for channel memberships this is from betashop just to be clear not me here's why if you're if you're not looking at the screen and you're just hearing this here's why i've long argued that the current iteration of channels feels more like topic tags than communities you choose a topic when casting and then your cast goes to people interested in that
organized around common goals lair on on on chain and it's common goals plus collective ownership a big part of our vision is that every channel member is a member owner with skin in the game when you come to a channel community in a couple weeks you'll be prompted to buy a membership via fan tokens which gives you access to the channel partial ownership of it and a shared participation in all rewards earned by the channel this is the way so this is specifically talking about moxie here but he also went on to say apologies to anyone who thought my cast implied that fan tokens are the only way it's not our team is just moving very fast to adapt to the new model so yeah that's really cool
yeah so and i guess and i realized that's probably why dan had to put out his cast to clarify that you don't need a token just because of the way that was worded it was like oh the yeah the moxie protocol is set up very well for channels but it's not the only way
yeah to be very clear that this is not a moxie like it's not designed just for moxie or something like they're not building this for that purpose this could be used for for example the dgen channel could say you need x number of dgen in your wallet and then you're automatically a fan it might be just one dgen who knows you know they could choose any way to set that up so you'll be able to set up some rules to allow for who can and it's just for who can cast and reply everyone will be able to read everything that's in a channel so little little different the way this is moving but you know i'm excited to see how this goes another another iteration in the experiment in the science experiment that that is farcaster moving on so this was this now this is the other side of the flip side of the coin yeah hey all this is from jtgi from automod hey all i've decided to sunset automod channels are changing and automod needs to adapt to work well with the new design i like the new direction for channels and i and think it makes the right trade offs but it requires major changes and a renewed commitment that i don't that don't make sense for me at this point real quickly automod will run until the changes go into effect all remaining subscription time will be refunded automod is now open source with apis to port moderation configurations i've worked on automod nearly every day for the past seven months i'm proud of it and thankful to everyone who gave it a shot and then there's a few faqs in there as well and i do wanna point out a couple things that relate he did put all of his code base is available on github he did cast this with links and went into specific a specific thread that goes into each part of it so i mean this is insane and amazing so wow and did want to point this out from horse facts automod originally used unstable internal apis seeing it work influenced the evolution of channels and mod bots became a first class part of the spec you can talk about why it's impossible to create anything or you can create something that shows what's possible respect to jtdi and all who show don't tell and i could not agree more thought this was a great take and this from christopher seems like some folks rush to perform the rain dance when they see a developer make time for themselves or chase a different thing farcaster will be fine the problems are straightforward podcasting took a decade plus to iterate on rss feeds awful ux and today no one is saying podcasting is dead anymore good ux we need net new content available on farcaster better discovery models originating from on chain identities contracts to scale to 100 x more users we don't need casino engagement games token schemes so few interesting takes there but i think there was a lot of like channels is you know channels killed the automod star kind of thing
but i don't get that take from jtgi i get that take from others seeing that he was moving away what do you what do you think
yeah i think people see it as oh if a dev can't be successful on farcaster in this one scenario that means devs cannot be successful on farcaster and a lot of
and unfortunate i jtgi and there are comments i mean he is one this is jtgi is one of my favorite devs on farcaster agree love for him
he i'm at a loss for words this morning
he's i think he's i think the other thing is that you need devs experimenting because it can't all be coming from merkel because they're not gonna have every idea i don't know you know what they're thinking in the background and i can't speak to that but i know they're doing a dev day this week i think it's today or tomorrow
it wednesday thursday and friday i think
thursday and friday sorry i saw some people were flying out already so maybe they were going early
yeah i was sad i was somewhat sad to read jtgi's cast when i saw it and
i wasn't surprised to see it coming either yeah and i believe him you know so he's i i have infinite amount of respect for him and i feel so grateful that he was building in this space i think farcaster i think automod even after the code stops running remains in the farcaster dna like he had his imprint on farcaster and that doesn't go away even if automod goes away and i'm really grateful for for his contributions
i mean and you know not that dan needs this push but you know i'd i'd hire him if i were you right i'd be like i'd be trying to snap jtgi up and hire him but he probably won't go for it he like do you
know that i think jeff goldberg was trying to create a poly market on whether merkel hires jtgi by the end of the year did you know that's like a side meta conversation that people keep having know that
i didn't even know that but it's obvious right like why wouldn't you wanna go snap him up
maybe he doesn't wanna be hired
somebody's gonna try and snap him up
maybe he doesn't wanna be hired
i think that may be the case which i understand that i totally understand that and i i think i i'm just glad that he's i'm hoping that he's still building you know whatever he's building that we get to see it integrated into farcaster and i think we will
but he's proven alright one last thing he's proven he has kind of the technical chops to solo build a a product that worked within the like how channels were working but also the product thinking and the emotional intelligence to build in this space and so yeah i think his his skills and talent are well known and he'll be okay
yeah oh yeah but yeah i'm excited to see what he does next i don't know if you remember he did that that puzzle that game with the white rabbit one with oh my god shibuya shibuya
oh right
so good and i was trying to get him to bill me one for cast out so maybe now i maybe now i'll have time before the next cast out
i gotta say i think not to i think farcaster is ready for another cast out because i
think it's time i think it's time
i think we need something to bring us together
yep by the way i just need to i need to throw this up here too gmpack is definitely the best way to proliferate fc in the top three oh thank you thank you al okay moving on but jtdi you know we love you so that's the bottom line moving on this is from varun we're launching a new experiment to help users avoid the spam label called spam warnings so there was a big kerfuffle i'm gonna call it a kerfuffle about a few people getting labeled as spam who who really shouldn't have been so i'm sure it's that they were bugging somebody you know it could happen to any of us like we could be bugging people and they could think us think that we're spam we get it so this is a way to be able to change flip that around and i know that some of those folks after bringing that attention up were able to get that spam label removed so good to see so if you're concerned about this go check out varun's cast with details on and an faq on spam so hopefully getting better then this from dan i often see people on farcaster say i often see people say farcaster isn't sufficiently decentralized you're free to define what sufficiently decentralized means to you of course but we but how we think about it is laid out in varun's blog post sufficient decentralization so we've talked about this a number of times on here and it's a it's a full on blog post that you can get into exactly what they see as sufficiently decentralized do you wanna do a quick summary because i know you've read this deeply many times and and revisit
and i think the keyword is just a network achieves i'm doing this by the way from memory so forgive me if if i'm wrong but sufficient decentralize decentralization if two users can communicate with each other even if the rest of the network wants to prevent it right which means think of any social network you have your profile you have your user that a platform cannot make it so that you cannot post a message to the to the protocol so you can create a message and put it on the protocol and another user out there can see it so two people if they want to communicate can that is much much much much much lower on the bar of what i think people expect when they hear what a decentralized work should be
right and they've never said it's fully decentralized like that's never been their claim they're not you know i don't know if it ever will be but what they're saying is it's sufficiently decentralized so and so essentially like better than the better than what we have right make making steps in the future so
yeah yeah and it doesn't so i think that's the and and the reason this is probably coming up this weekend is with the sunsetting of automod the feeling of how can any developer be successful and and it's hard to compete with a very well funded venture backed company and i think dan keeps coming out to say look we i think there's the question of warpcast is not decentralized it's a right for profit company and protocol but but now there's kind of well what about farcast or the protocol and is that decentralized and really merkel is the one controlling but
it's an open invitation for people who want to start contributing but you have to
you mean is it it's an opportunity for another client
no i'm not not an opportunity for another client it's there's many opportunities for other clients but if you want to even affect how the protocol works
yeah
it's it doesn't matter if you have great ideas like you have to actually start proposing them and you can't come in you know and you have to actually start small so you know get involved with fids contribute comments
jump into a different small things like yeah things like that see what's see what's what yeah for sure lots of opportunity okay moving on this from adrian based on data from connected wallets the estimated value of the farcaster ecosystem is a whopping 18,000,000,000 with a b that's a lot of purchasing power over in this small corner of the internet read the full report here so this is from the snickerdoodle report i'm gonna show that one second but i have to i have to shout out this comment from king we should buy keckers a lambo we went too small we went too small this is referring to the 118 page report the state of farcaster from snickerdoodle for this study we this is from snickerdoodle surveyed 6,000 farcasters analyzed 38,000 connected wallets indexed a 40,000 answers to surveys catch the highlights what's your favorite insight so we'd love to see what you guys think and i'm thinking we should run a little round and have people pull out their favorite stat or their favorite quote and post it so more on that later i just thought of that this morning so i didn't have time to actually fully flesh out that thought but i think that could be fun to see what people pull out of there that they found interesting and be able to highlight it so go give that a look maybe they'll maybe you'll be rewarded soon working on working on that so we'll circle that
download the report flip through it there's so much in it
so much in it like this is crazy 18,000,000,000 that's pretty crazy for an ecosystem that's relatively small our cozy little corner pretty amazing this from jesse at base this was a quick overview of frames adding frames to base names how to make your base name your on chain link tree it seems small but this is the start of something big so you can use your base name to add in all of your other information and i haven't had a chance to do this yet but i do need to but i loved this comment from jesse and yes the base team did intentionally launch frames on base names on a friday to commemorate the original frame friday never forget and i just loved that so much so for those who weren't here when frames launched that weekend got crazy with hackathons and all kinds of really cool stuff so and and of course cookies
cookies
is that box of cookies green by any are those thin mints
it's thin mints so it is your green screen
yes your green screen once again is making it hard to see
it's it's you can't see the green yeah
you can
see it
you can
see it
what i think is super cool about the the frames for base names is like we are very much specifically talking about the same frames on farcaster it's not like yeah someone else copying frames and saying oh that's a good idea it is the same concept so just another example of interoperability and composability of and that's super cool i gotta get mine set up
as well
i gotta get mine set up and maybe we can talk about it on wednesday and get our set up and dive into a little more couple more things and then i wanna talk about oh go ahead
we're not quite at girl scout cookie season yet
but i've heard this
canadian thin mints are far superior to american ones did you hear it from someone in canada
i may have heard it from this someone in canada this particular but i've heard that for actually from a couple people but i've never tried them i've never had a taste test so i can't speak to this we need one of those like you know like the pepsi challenge it'll be like the canadian blind
oh a blind taste test of canadian versus
yeah because i don't know i have no idea
american food well just so you know american thin mints are not thinking about canadian thin mints
we don't think about you at all
oh that's funny i still have you realize that i have two sleeves in my freezer waiting to celebrate the frames friday that's how we will celebrate frames friday is with my frozen thin mints that are just waiting i've i put them away almost a well not quite a year ago i guess it feels like it it's not but it feels like it it won't be a year till february but it does feel like it okay moving on this from todie hawk this has been very cool so and thank you todie for including me this week i started writing a new profile series called vips very interesting people of farcaster of course you know well let me just continue on the idea was simple counter the false narrative that there are no interesting people on farcaster by having some of the best and brightest on this app in a daily paragraph mintable on day on base on days one to five i featured chris corella jan furlough burberry mike damaris and nounishprof and you can find them all at paragraph.xyz/@todyhawk or in the farcaster hyphen vips channel so this was really fun i appreciate tody featuring me and he did decide he was gonna shift it to three times a week because he's learned like us five times a week is just a lot so he is now switching it to three times a week what i would say is if you have a suggestion for him of somebody who should be featured go pop it on one of these casts and the replies and give him some ideas i've thrown a couple at him as well what were you gonna say and write your own and write your own yeah
i forget what i was was gonna say
i thought this was a great idea like i appreciated the initiative it's a really good idea
it's so cool and totie just like many of us like you you go from like oh writing is easy i'll just spit these out and then as soon as someone starts reading it you're like oh someone's reading it now and then you have to start thinking and editing and
he's like this has taken a lot more work than i anticipated i was just gonna because he's putting a lot of effort into it and he's actually inter like interviewing everybody too
so yeah i was really really happy to see this i was so happy to see you on it i'm i haven't read it yet and i'm it's in my so i have to i have to read
i get it my reading list was big
i was in the er this weekend i was busy
i know you were busy i do think they're they're really well written he's done a great job pulling together the info so go check it out this from matcha we've secured special ethereum film offer for matcha users if you've traded on matcha in the last six months enjoy a 10% discount on the stream thanks for swapping with us and enjoy the film so the ethereum film the metallic and ethereum story is now streaming but you do need an nft to be able to view it so you can get a discount if you've swapped on matcha which is very cool so nice nice little benefit yeah yeah permissionless discounts permissionless discounts okay this was really really cool this is from naomi aprichics who is gonna be with us on friday and this was really neat okay i'm mind blown askjena eth has somehow scanned all of the books from my photo of my mom's shelf and then give recommendations based on them saeed shankar and urjuta y'all are cooking okay sorry did not get that one so she had posted this picture of her bookshelf and it then the ai went through and gave like a list of like what they were on the shelf and gave some recommendations based on that just by saying they asking the question ask gina any good books you like personally from the shelf which was which was really interesting but i also went through ask gina what are recurring categories or themes from these just based on the photo so that was pretty impressive i think by the way if you didn't if you didn't know ask gina is built is like running on farcaster so think of it like croc but for farcaster so go ask gina some questions it was pretty cool was that i was like wow i wouldn't have even thought to do that that was a really good idea
and it's like that reminder like you're probably not using ai enough yeah and totally
yeah because this was very very cool like it even gave you suggestions for other questions
to ask it so very very cool go check that out this from thomas on farcaster now we're moving into the last part here this was nice shout out to farcaster by fitalik at at eth singapore so he gave a little shout out and also in singapore was the network state conference and ted was dropping gems on farcon at ns conference this is from carlos with a shout out to gm farcaster and nana fraff which was really cool to see so this was very nice of her but also it she did a great job and we're going to show this in just a second and this was from phil for anyone who missed it ted spoke irl at the network state conference about building irl community on farcaster couldn't have asked for a better representative can't agree more i love this hi i'm ted hi i'm ted i'm farcaster that's the way she started i love that and what we're gonna do is shift and actually show her talk and dan's from the network state conference so i'm gonna do dan's first and then hers and then we'll just do a quick little commentary on that wanna show one more thing before we jump into that and that is your background zach lip purple haze background it is amazing beautiful great photography so thank you zach for that before i shift gears anything else you wanted to talk about before i pull up these two talks
no but a lot happened this weekend and a lot going on on the timeline and i we have fomo for not being in singapore and
i have fomo about some things we're not gonna talk about that other thing because i just don't have energy but there's a thing there's a thing that happens and it's been all the all the talk of twitter and just a smidge of a time i'm farcaster and we'll talk about that later but i just can't i just can't but most of the things
we have to
no we don't we really don't but in terms of like there was a lot of fomo of of the cool things that were happening the network state conference by the way looked it it was a little bit of a slow start but once they got cooking it was very good i've watched most of it and highly recommend farcon asia looked great the token $20.49 looked amazing the matcha board i am like i just wanna play plinko i thought it was really it so good job matcha got my attention yeah so i definitely had some fomo for sure but you but there was a lot of really good talks in the afternoon at the network state conference and they were not all specifically like network state related they were kind of all over the place like brian johnson who's the blueprint health guy you know the crazy health guy
don't
don't die the don't die yeah don't die guy he was very interesting like lot seemed a lot less crazy and he normally appears on twitter so
yes i don't think
he appears crazy on twitter people take what he says and make i mean listen you can choose to believe in his philosophy and or not a free country and all that but typically the it's it's like the comments around things that you hear and you don't so if you actually listen to people
he was very very interesting i mean so he was very but there was a few others that were like really super interesting sharing different perspectives on finance and social and you know health and all kinds of things so definitely recommend giving that a look but it is like ten hours worth of content so some fast forwarding might be might be in order so we're gonna just show you fifteen minutes of that ten hours of content so i'm gonna start with dan and his is very short and then we'll chat a little about that and then we'll get into some of the other stuff all right here it goes oh i'm gonna take us off the screen because we don't need to be on here with him hold on always fun when you're streaming to streaming to streaming yeah
not that it's a competition but ted's was better than dan's
no no volume
no volume
mm-mm
alright hold on
oh not loud enough
not loud enough okay
and what's amazing is that amount of work set up if we had to use stripe connect even it would have been like you know whatever amount of time we just like are able like boom we have everyone has a by definition everyone has a that ethereum address
can the volume go up at all on your end
no i got it up at all
is ted's talk louder we'll see any of this is i don't think it's audible
as a social group all the compliments group the group all your
let me let it play out because it might be better on the recording
data and global state level like you don't have to trust anybody else but anything that happens on the protocol like we get immediate feedback like it it we the equivalent of like the facebook group team having to like answer to their users all the time like who are obsessively watching like everything that you do so it's actually a completely different way but let's try i mean you've been talking about this stuff forever right like your whole like hey like the ledger of record and like whatever but just like still subscale but it's like pretty crazy that because the actual system is something like you you you delivered on that part just that like you you get all this like crazy emergent behavior from
and that's it so
sorry if you could not hear that it i have it up as loud as it goes from youtube and i will say that the recorded pieces for the conference were a little the audio sync was off and it might have been a little lower so i'm hoping that ted's is is louder so we'll try but i went up as loud as i could on all my things all the things so hopefully you could hear that i thought it was interesting at the end talking about the immediate feedback you get on farcaster that you you do get it immediately in terms of what's working what's not all of that so i did think that was interesting but it was super short i wanna hear the whole conversation i'm hoping that he recorded the whole thing and that he'll release that separately maybe as part of his podcast i don't know but i did think it was way too short like there was i i had i had more questions than answers
yeah because he only really got to talk about two things so he kind of talked about why they're kind of going all in on usdc and the caster rewards and and that experiment and then he talked about
what did you do what was the second
the it just talked about like the emergent behavior like feedback
oh right and the protocol feedback
yeah and the protocol feedback yeah yeah so it was really like very very quick ted's is much more in-depth i'm hoping because it was live streamed that the volume will be better so let's give this a try but if you guys aren't hearing it at all then maybe we'll just cut it and leave it and all of these links will be in our show notes and they'll start
where it where they begin so it'll it'll bring you right to it so you don't have to try and find it alright so let's give this one a shot and see if we can get this to play louder hopefully and because this one was pretty good that's the wrong one i really loved ted's talk i think she did great it was an actual ted talk here we go
now please welcome to the stage the final speaker before the coffee break ted from farcon welcome
hello everyone this is the last the last session before your coffee break and i know we're over time so if everyone wants to give a quick whoop and a little clap to get energy back in the room nice sweet i am here today to talk to you about farquon a community driven initiative to convene connect and celebrate the farcaster community how many of you have heard of farcaster before by raise of hands nice great you'll hear from the farcaster cofounder later today about farcaster as parallel media but today i'm gonna talk to you about farcaster as a place for parallel community parallel society so it's a little bit different i think every other speaker who's come up here has been the founder of whatever project they're sharing i am neither the founder of farcon nor a forecaster in fact i don't even work for them i am simply a power user what one may call an accidental forecaster influencer and hopefully a story to inspire some of the people out here today in the audience to become a community builder on your own before i worked in crypto i did kind of developing strategies executing strategies for brands celebrities startups and family offices all of whom who had major social followings and so as a result we would often work directly with twitter or instagram or facebook for new features and go to market strategies i worked with these platforms as they evolved from social networks primarily designed for connection as they turned into social media primarily designed for broadcast and distribution this was phenomenal for all of our clients except when the apis were closed or when they decided to delete an account with millions of followers and so when i learned about forecaster i was really excited about the permissionless social graph and the freedom it gave developers to build their own apps and so when i joined back in 2021 when there was only a hundred of us i couldn't wait to dig into some of the decentralized nature of the protocol but what i found to be the most interesting aspect of it wasn't any of these features but actually the culture and the community of the early users how many of you here have internet friends i raise a hand should be a lot of you from the network state conference i have never had internet friends before and i was obsessed i was like here's a community of people who value authenticity who are kind of definite optimists who care about intellectual curiosity who are tree seeking and wanted to collaborate together these are my people and i needed to spend more time with them and i wanted to spend time with them in person so every face you see here started as an internet stranger quickly became an internet friend and now dropped the internet and i consider them just friends and it turns out i wasn't the only furcaster user who had this experience there were two users grin and cameron who last june decided to host a farc the inaugural farcon in boston
the the network was relatively small at the time but they managed to get 50 users who are super excited about broadcaster to fly all the way to boston for two days of connection with the goal of promoting collaboration and it worked it did exactly that if you look at this photo really tiny sorry about that there's two women on the left who had never met before and then after farcon they went on to launch their own on chain media brand called jamfarcaster but the initial farcon was always meant to be decentralized grant and cameron wanted to pass it on to the next members of the community and so my good friend graham mcbain went and asked can i do the next far con and they raised it to him he comes to me with a vision to bring it to venice beach the home of farfetch and coincidentally my home as well and when we announced farfetch on two we had a goal of doubling the number of participants we wanted a hundred people to fly all the way to la instead of just 50 and we thought it was an ambitious goal well done the network 16 x right after the announcement and we received 5,000 applications and so the question switched from how do we get a hundred people to show up to how do we meet the demand of a growing ecosystem while staying true to the culture and the community that made it flourish and grow in the first place and the answer was pretty simple it was just to lean into the community and the technology and the infrastructure that was already in place here's a quick video
so as you can see it covered a variety of interest areas there's art there's music there's coffee everyone loves a good coffee there were talks and this was entirely volunteer driven so no involvement whatsoever from the forecasting team and how exactly did we make this come to life i'll go through some of the apps and kind of the primitives that we used in order to do it so because forecaster is connected to your ethereum or a solana address we were able to use an app like deform that would pull on chain data to say hey did this account put down a 20 usdc deposit to come to archon and then with that because it's an open social graph we were able to pull and look at all of the applicants to see how long have they been on the network are they casting are they engaging are they working with other people so that we didn't have to go through each applicant and double check the the username back and forth back and forth also because all of the data is open we were able to go and see what are the most popular topics what are the most popular activities that we could then find to the people who were talking about the most so that they could put on the art night or the music night or host the surf session outside from there once you're once you got accepted you could that address could then mint an nft and once you had the nft you could then join a token beta group chat and if you didn't end up going to farquhan you could still follow along with all the updates by looking at all the information in the channels all of that can be done within the forecaster ecosystem in fact some of these things you don't even have to leave the app itself or one of the apps itself forecast to do that from there we wanted to say hey there are all of these developers building in the ecosystem and oftentimes i don't know did anyone here go to token twenty four nine or solana breakpoint nice good tokens oftentimes you go to these conferences and they're completely built on web two point zero apps or the traditional or incumbent apps that we're using today and we were like that is not the future that we wanna live in but oftentimes there is a pretty heavy friction or there's a lot of friction in order to use these apps but we are about to have 500 people the most active people in the broadcaster community be in venice and what better opportunity to at least dog food and get them to be in battle test apps like never before and so here are some of the apps that we encouraged everyone to use and everybody did use there's kind of a luma equivalent so a farcaster native events app we have all of the passes we're done with icebreaker which you can think of as an on chain linkedin think of that as a digital business card there's a find my friends app and then we even had for the inaugural farfmon through the wall tournament you could bet on chain on which team you think you would win all integrated with the far pastor social graph and at the end of the first at the end of this mark on the energy was electric and everyone immediately went and said about the next spark on which actually just happened this week in in singapore so kudos to the team that put that on everyone was asking what about the next one what about the next one and the question that i was actually asking myself wasn't what about the next spark on it's what happens in the meantime what happens between these tentpole events that so many of us put on how do we stay connected how do we continue building this community and so what i decided to do was experiment and i launched an initiative called summer at club ted club ted is a kind of play on club med i might be dating myself and anybody in the audience here and it's an on chain membership club think of it as a social club that i started in order to play around with each other and pretty much was like going to support anybody in the forecaster ecosystem who wanted to do the same and it completely took off here you can see photos so club ten meetups then you can also see that other communities decided to jump in as well so we have tabletop communities so people who meet up together online and in person to play board games together and then what we learned from this is that people want a reason to get together and they want consistency and so we recently launched farcaster fridays which is the first friday of every month farcasters around the world get together in their their local city to hang out and to meet up together and another key takeaway i learned is that as the farcaster network grows people want to meet up less about farcaster and more about their sub communities and you might think well isn't that bad for the network and the answer is actually like no that's great that's actually what farcaster is perfectly designed to do and what i mean by that is that you have one social graph and so you're able to log in with your farcaster account so sign in with if you're familiar with signing with facebook you're able to log in and so whether you do an events app like particle or luma whether you wanna follow your favorite creator through a patreon equivalent whether you're into fitness and running and use strava you are able to sign into your forecaster account and bring your social graph and your following with you and be able to connect with people that way it is a completely permissionless and portable social graph regardless of what social or social graph regardless of what app you're using or regardless of whatever your subinterest may be and why this is exciting is because when you pair a permissionless social graph with digital ownership so whatever is in your ethereum wallet whatever is in your connected to your salon address you have a completely cohesive digital experience so your digital footprint your ownership your social graph your reputation your interest all of that exists in one and you can travel with that regardless of whatever app you are on this does not exist with any current social media platforms today however in order for this to be the future we have to be able to scale and compete with some of those incumbents today so if you would like to join forecast i encourage you to download this app it's one of the main onboarding apps but there's tons of other apps and hopefully i'll see you at a forecaster friday for a forecast in the future thank you
i muted myself just in case it was me
i played
around with that too
i was like
yeah that wasn't it it i think there's some kind of setting i gotta adjust anyway so
i feel bad for anyone listening to the recording if you had turned up the volume very very loud to hear ted and then you just heard us screaming in your ears
sorry sorry about that turn it back down yeah we should've i should have whispered like turn your volume down we're back turn your volume down anyway i thought she did a fantastic job loved thank you for the shout outs it was very unexpected love that she showed off so many different of the amazing apps that you social graph and was able to show that how those all connect in and really what the power is of that social graph so loved it great job ted and excited to see you know where else we can bring this so yeah
yes the ted talk was phenom phenomenal
it's a good talk
i wish i was there in person but it's just as good if you if you do watch it and if you i i i love the introduction it's ted from farcon that
is yeah
been and she's that's
so good
just it's been a few months since farcon it was so nice to revisit and we forgot do you remember when they first started it was this small little event yep and then farcaster took off they had to make it big and everything was done through these legos permissionlessly using everything was crypto native and farcaster it was it was really special so i was glad to see her on stage getting to brag about it
yeah they were just hoping they could get a hundred you know a hundred people to come out and then they had 5,000 apply it was crazy so yeah that was a real that was a real thing that happened so hopefully you know i can't wait to see what happens with next year's far con i don't know where the next one's going to be i shouldn't say next year's but the next one because we've already had far con asia which i definitely had some fomo about great job we showed all that last week if you missed it they did an amazing job and i'm just excited to see where the next one is that's a little closer to home that i can actually get to she did mention farcaster fridays and those will be coming up on october 4 is the next one so we're gonna be doing a url one again and we're gonna play some poker so if you love to play poker and you wanna be on screen playing some poker with us and chatting hit me up and we'll see what we can do but we also will have a chance to just hang out and hang in the chat and chill with us for farcaster friday online or you can go try to grab one irl if there's one near you or create one near you it can just be a couple of you so looking forward to that so that'll be the next irl thing that we get to do in a couple weeks and with that anything else adrienne that i forgot
yes
to mention
oh yes on on the irl front next tuesday october 1 we're hosting a little coffee meetup in new york city so if you are in town definitely come out for that and i'll cast a a link to rsvp again
i forgot about that that's coming up too amazing and that's sponsored by base and snickerdoodle and a few other folks so definitely that's gonna be a fun meetup more fomo for those of us who are not in new york
hopefully i won't be on crutches
this is next tuesday is october okay
it is right did i get that right
it is no you're right unfortunately you're right i know it feels like it can't be possible but it is and the other thing i wanna mention so this week we do have a couple special coming up wednesday we have dina from boys club popping by and we're gonna be asking her to give a little critique of farcaster marketing we'll see what she what she would do if she was the benevolent dictator for the day and on friday we have naomi afrochicks gonna pop by and talk about you know what she's doing in terms of her on chain sharing all of her olympic training that she's doing on chain that she's doing that on chain and on farcaster and i'm excited to chat with her and ask her about ask gina that was crazy that was crazy alright and with that i know very exciting week very exciting and we also have oops i can't believe it's almost october yes and exciting week we also have vibe check with dewoofy it will be on wednesday after our show and it is an interview with lamb chop so very fun week ahead and with that we're gonna call it so have a lovely monday everybody and we will see you on the timeline see you wednesday bye bye