GM Farcaster ep243 Friday May 9, 2025

Join us for a FarCon watch party! The Big Shift fireside chat was recorded at FarCon nyc on May 2, 2025 with @dwr.eth interviewing @fredwilson co-founder of Union Square Ventures @usv. FarCon is Farcaster’s annual event organized by the community for innovators, builders and network contributors. Thank you to all the sponsors who made this conversation possible including media partner GM Farcaster, media sponsor Nouns DAO and the FarCon team of volunteers. Learn more at FarCon. nyc. Join GM Farcaster on any of the following platforms: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GMFarcaster Twitter: @profwerder After the watch party, recordings will also be available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple and wherever you get your podcasts. And collect this episode on @pods. Follow /gmfarcaster channel for updates on other talks from /farcon-nyc coming soon. Click 'request to join" for a reminder to your dc's. Or subscribe to our new luma calendar in the next reply. https://events.xyz/events/bc7ee8

The new Pope's brother talks about how they play Wordle and Words with Friends to get his mind off of things, so how can we get the Pope on here playing mini apps? https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1ki4sy1/pope_leo_xivs_brother_in_illinois_talks_about/

you: the monad airdrop is useless me: did you guys know monad can handle up to 200KB of data in a single tx? this unlocks so many use cases!

The next Pope is here *and* he’s American. 🇺🇸 This changes everything we thought we knew. Bitcoin is up. The holy vibes are immaculate. 🚀 In this thread, I’ll break down 10 world-shattering shifts you need to understand to survive the next papal regime. 🧵 👇

spoken like a green bubble

Remixing is live! Take any app on Ohara and turn it into something weirder, cooler, or just more fun. Great feature if you don’t know where to start. An even better feature if you do.

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/chicago wins again

I think you can do a lot of pull-ups in a 10min vid

What’s Latin for “Fuck yeah”

Leo is an S tier papal name https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x786eb396

Personal announcement: I have accepted a job offer in Vatican City and will begin relocating there in the coming days.

i built a monad onchain video app but you can’t have it bc mini apps don’t support camera input so sucks for you

Black smoke over the Domino building in Williamsburg indicates a new Layer 1 blockchain has been launched

Warpcast now supports up to 10 minute videos!

Left in JFK Right in LaGuardia Someone must have lost a case at Newark?

Keep pouring for my Right AirPod at LaGuardia Maybe someone will find them both and complete the set

New experimental feature on Warpcast web! Find people you follow on X / Twitter User-controlled process you control. I personally found 28 people I was following on X / Twitter but had not followed on Farcaster. INSTRUCTIONS 1. Vist this URL *on web*: https://warpcast.com/~/settings/import 2. Follow the instructions—it will take at least 12 hours to get the export. 3. Be sure to upload the correct file.

@bracky has recently become aware of information concerning @tldr’s Manhattan residence during his previous employment. Following these revelations, @tldr has decided to part ways with @bracky, effective immediately. We want to assure our community, partners, and stakeholders that @bracky’s operations and assets remain unaffected by this situation. This matter relates solely to activities that occurred prior to his involvement with our organization. Our team is implementing an immediate transition plan to ensure continuity of all operations. We remain fully committed to transparency, integrity, and delivering exceptional sports prediction experiences to our community. We appreciate your continued support and trust during this time.

gm gm https://x.com/OctantApp/status/1920239745168179462

I had no clue what MONAD was, I’m sure half the timeline didn’t either. But now we all know of it. Study Farcaster distribution.

FC Dev Update: May 7, 2025 Reminder, we're doing short video updates every week as an experiment. If you have questions or feedback, please post! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNOQEiNb5bs

WTFarcaster episode 1: WTF is Monad? I try to explain today's Monad airdrop to @baltobb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yBpWn7glcs

bada bing — born just on the other side of the holland tunnel so tbh this is probably where I should be @adrienne 🤣

live view of me seeing the Early on Monad mints come in generational wealth achieved 😮‍💨 (on testnet)

wondering what to do with your shiny new monad test tokens? fantasy top is one of my fave weekly monad apps. rip packs. put your fave yappers in your lineup and win prizes. they just introduced 'clout' where anyone can become a card and earn a % of the trading fees if you're a good enough yapper. my referral below and i'm happy to answer an q's. been playing since launch. and thanks again @dwr.eth @linda @keone stoked to have monad here!! https://monad.fantasy.top?ref=YI8WGY1D

Welcome to @keone, founder of @monad! He's kindly agreed to do an AMA — starts in ~20 minutes at 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET! Reply with your questions!

Excited to announce an airdrop of Monad testnet tokens! - 77K Farcaster accounts received an airdrop based on criteria like the number of verifications, casting and engagement - Monad testnet tokens will allow you to use mini apps on Monad - You can also send it to people on Farcaster, but you might want to keep some for some of the mini apps coming soon!

How can Ethereum fund the infrastructure it relies on? → Surfacing what matters • What principles, outcomes, or metrics should guide how funds are allocated? • What principles, outcomes, or metrics should guide how funds are allocated? • What does the ecosystem value? → A transparency dashboard • Aggregate ecosystem-wide funding data • Track contributions across shared infra → An ecosystem-wide support commitment Octant is closely aligned with this vision: a scalable growth engine that routes capital + revenue using DeFi for ecosystem growth and Ethereum as a whole, sustainably. Check out the full post by @sejalrekhan and @thedevanshmehta supported by insights from @audreytang , @julian-z, @dwddao.eth , @owocki, clesaege.twitter and jchaskin22.twitter https://ethresear.ch/t/a-roadmap-for-funding-ethereum-s-open-source-infrastructure/22278/1

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New on DCs: expiring messages - Set 1 / 7 / 30 day or even 1 year - Default is 30 days - All DC chats have a 1 year maximum retention (previously announced)