Transcript: GM Farcaster ep251 Wednesday May 28, 2025 presented by Octant

oh what gm hey now gm adrienne like i'm ready here we go yeah

now ready i was not ready we're we're having a day there's like one thing happening but there's just a lot of cast about it

just that one thing happening yes and i have that as well so this is gonna be fun it's it's it's fun when it's like this i like it when it's like this it's kinda fun but we're gonna talk about all the things of farcaster pro we also have a few other things going on like the octant in purple retro round that we're gonna dive into and we will be back with all of that in just

fifty eight seconds we'll see you we'll see you in almost a minute

gm farcaster it is wednesday may 28 and you are here with nounish prof and adrienne for twenty nine minutes ish of farcaster news to start your day give us a retweet give us a recast tell people you're watching i'm we're excited to dive into pro changed our names up a little bit i realized if i just drop the f it's cleaner and i get nounish pro so there

the pro and then tony hawk is tony hawk pro procaster as opposed to tony hawk pro skater just to make sure everybody understands a joke because it's always better when you have to explain the joke i found i found that definitely makes it better so yeah a lot of fun on the timeline we're gonna dive into it all because yesterday 10,000 new pro subscribers came on board plus more than that remember last week like five days ago when dan was like a thousand people aren't gonna buy a pro subscription so the original plan was there were gonna be a thousand nfts i think the nfts were actually gonna be what you were gonna buy and then he was like wait hold on let me let me rethink because we're all like no that's no it's a bad idea dan it's a really bad idea because those are gonna get sniped like crazy

yeah maybe probably would have sold so upped it to 10,000 a $120 annual subscription and for this you get as of right now a badge

we are crazy people more things coming more features coming but literally right now you get a check mark and that's it so pretty much you know what you get on twitter for about the same same price little less actually i think i play i pay 11 a month on twitter for the check so but what will be coming with that is a collectible nft which is being made by our friend miguel who's amazing who does these very cute little animations and just a badge that's it so that's coming as well and that'll be airdropped to the subscribers so you there's no no sniping needed you can still buy a pro subscription even though you will not get the collectible nft for the top 10,000 the first 10,000 i should say not top who managed to buy one yesterday and also very important let's get close for this adrienne you're on would you like to tell the people yeah you know

they were gonna do it because

have and we're gonna talk about that yeah yeah

and it it's it's not your worth it's not your worth people it's all good it's all good yeah very important i wanted to make sure we got that right up front before we dive into some of these other things this is from dan can i still subscribe to farcaster pro yes farcaster pro is bound to your account fid and will give you additional features to your account over time again the first 10,000 subscriptions included a limited edition nft but all future features we're working on will go to all pro subscribers it won't matter if you have the nft or not it's optional does not increase your reach visibility or rewards so there will be other features we add for all accounts it will be a mix so that was the other thing they said so important points the other thing is yeah we sold 10,000 at 120 pro subscriptions for the protocol today with stable coins on base no hiccups for less than $10 in gas fees that's pretty amazing it was very quick very smooth i had no issues doing the subscription seemed like everything went well it was able to be captured on dune very quickly except i think for those who paid in warp's it looks like there were some different things there but other than that all good and the information's now publicly available that others could use if they if they choose to unless you paid with warp's

yeah yeah

i'm gonna guess nonlinear maybe it has like i think goose probably goose goose has like 2,000,000 warps or something insane because people kept sending him warps for no reason and

he would say don't send me warps and people would send more

over six hour period

two to 3% yeah

yeah

worth of yeah crazy

yeah yeah

well we are this only has 835 likes

there you go

i think yeah i think that that part of it is kinda that's why i pulled this cast too it was like this would this is interesting you know this is interesting if you dial it down and think about it like that this is you know anytime something like this happens in web two like a ticket sale of some sort there's always problems there's always snipers there's you know there's many issues always there's huge lines something goes wrong and this went very smooth and it was i mean i wouldn't say one flex situation so that's pretty cool

yeah it literally was one refresh and my little check was there so very cool very very cool my little check got my

you got what you paid for paid for i paid for a badge that's what i paid for that's and that's you know everything else is gravy yeah

you do it half price how about 60 sell 5,000 of them and yep that's funny farcaster pro near term road map this is from dan as a reminder this applies to all pro subscriptions regardless of whether you have an nft the pro subscription is bound to your farcaster account fid ship on chain contracts protocol changes for pro b a new previously unannounced benefit launching in the next day or two don't know what that is c 10 k character cast d up to four images in cast e ability to gift pro subscription to other users we will likely allow monthly i e $10 increments in other words you could gift a month of pro to somebody or the pro or merkel could if they wanted to have them test or you know see if they like it etcetera etcetera so freemium kind of thing again the nft is a collectible there are no other benefits to nft holders all benefits we will work on will be for pro subscribers so very cool and we'll see how that all plays out i'm sure we'll be sharing more as they get announced especially this part okay so now that pro is launched time to revisit the probably dumb but might work after you launch subscription ideas notion doc and then this was funny kristen can you share how you organize your notion doc sometime we literally have a single folder called docs 95% of docs go at our i just thought that was funny in some ways follow me for more pro tips so that dan has said this before that he had a they had a document that said do not open until bull run and they cracked that open like six months ago or so so this is like i i i like i love this kind of thinking of like keeping those sort of and i have notes just like that too of like just ideas that might be crazy but at some point they might not they might make sense so there's like if this happens then this kind of flows and i love seeing this all playing out so funny so we'll see what we'll see what comes next oops wrong one here we go back over here this was also funny breaking okay let me be very clear none of this is true before i continue to read this this is a joke breaking dwr says animated pfps are making a comeback exclusively for farcaster pro users again not true on the misinformedia in other words misinformation misinformedia podcast this morning farcaster founder dan romero said he wants to earn the people's hearts best emails and a 120 agreeing that animated pfps are the only way to truly bring back culture to the purple app with the new subscription model users will finally get access back to the loved feature that's been causing problems for nearly 50% of our guest users that is 17 android phones users absolutely losing it after the news and dan's response was l o l no l o l no not happening it's not happening yon sorry

i know but you know what if you click on them let me see if i can get yon's to come up if you click on the on their profile pic it will be animated you just have to click in that's all

no one's doing that but that was hilarious so yon well done very funny we had a lot of funny lot of funny happening on the timeline badge is shiny though do you feel anything it's just them wearing wearing their check badges that's it that's it nothing else nft badge active badge power badge pro badge that's interesting kinda love the the love the the progression there really fun i'm curious somebody said miguel should do an animation where the badges morph i wonder if that's what he's doing we'll see we'll see we'll see so this is from you your pro farcast or pro number is not your worth ps if you pay in warps you don't even get a number which i thought was really funny

not go through but you're fine yeah

you would also be fine you would be totally totally fine

i i've said this way too many times already to people so i'm not i'm not i'm not telling y'all i'm not replying anymore about it because i already told you so i'm gonna tell you again so this is from zaal okay i know it's not my worth adrienne but it's pretty cool to be earlier on something i am a farcaster pro user two forty two i signed up eight minutes after launch check yours so this was a you can click on the frame it will launch and tell you what number you were and i am 315 and then you can share it tells you how long it took you to get in etcetera etcetera so it's kinda cool and that was the thing that you could not do she fought with warps

this was hilarious from cameron how it feels to be farcaster pro with the little check marks over the eyes very funny i loved that one i also happen to really like that movie this was from sigrider how it feels to have farcaster pro again feeling the power this is like the power badge all over again and this from bertwurst the money keeps moving in a circle this is very very true because rewards so that's the other thing to keep in mind a lot of folks who are buying pro have earned rewards on this platform so a lot of this is giving back to the community and back to sort of into the farconomy that was what burberry said and i thought she said it really well proof of pro spending a $120 on the app that i use most out of any was the easiest decision i made this year if i get absolutely nothing for it i'm happy to support the ecosystem that funds my friends vibes and games and that's kind of how i look at this as well and many others as well so if you've earned money on farcaster it's very easy to put it back in if you haven't it's completely understandable why this may not be your jam right now that's okay it's perfectly fine this is from sayangel this is really funny in the words of dwr.eth if you have a badge you're eligible for the unofficial nft this is the unofficial one that you could mint free limited edition collectible for those who paid with farcaster pro and also he is launching one for where the heck is it he's working on it the anti procaster caster club will be available for those who did not mint a pro subscription it'll be something like that like sort of the anti anti social club so coming soon there will be things that'll be just for those who don't have the pro so there you go so it's coming don't worry few other fun things this was hilarious i would pay $12,000 for farcaster pro if this is the nft art with the board ape the trippy board ape with the crown and then abba said hey dwr please make the collection p f p art ish he just said dan just said no

no there was not even a not even a laugh on this one just no just no and i said i definitely would not pay $12 for that i didn't the first time i'm not gonna the second time that's for sure but this is actually related to some of the joke that was going around so let me clarify triumph's joke so there was once upon a time come on there we go once upon a time and i forgot to pull that one there was a a a post on crypto twitter that said if you're if you're not rocking a pfp for that's worth more than 100 k don't don't at me don't follow like don't talk to me and it was very obnoxious and everybody knew it was very obnoxious and it was somebody rocking a bored ape yacht club pfp so triumph using that copy pasta said if you're if you're rocking a pfp with no pro badge please don't at me or share your opinion on my wall i don't care what you have to say reality is you need to work harder and move out of your mom's basement stack eat soul buy a real pro badge and then share your opinion total joke total joke

it was it was talking about twitter was it twitter

it called wall and i think myspace i think myspace technically had a wall but this was on twitter when it happened right

yeah yeah let me actually grab that real quick so it was not like it it was obnoxious and everybody joked about it so every once in a while this like joke about don't at me don't you know you don't if you're not rocking this then don't at me that kind of thing totally a joke not serious and don't take it to heart whatsoever because it's really just in in good fun and sort of poking at those who actually take this seriously oh here it is so ordinal ordinal verse ordinal reverse found it for me so that was helpful so thank you for that and this was the original if you're rocking a pfp under a 100 please don't at me or share your opinion on my wall i don't care what you have to say reality is you need to work hard or move out of your mom's basement stack each soul buy a few real pfp then share your opinion that was actually real and and really obnoxious so when you see triumph doing that he is he is totally kidding and the same thing from steve here please don't talk to me if your forecast pro number is above 863 just kidding and putting it in your in your profile just hilarious joking it's jokes people this was also funny from deriniti this better get me into farcon next year or i'm gonna go full karen but i love the the nickelback the frame oh it's from nickelback oh that was funny for real though this is from plants don't fomo or feel bad a $120 is a lot of money the pro phase craze will pass like crypto does exactly just do you it's the mfr way the 1,000,000 being raised will help everyone it really will just do you and 100% like 100% that i can't stress that enough this is from alor at this point my home feed only includes pro badges cast the real differentiator is not having it kackers lefteris astromark hair and me are the only members of this exclusive club and you cannot join it since there's no going back from pro are we the resistance now maybe by the way i've multiple times almost gotten this as a tattoo the resistance star wars resistance one of these days i will do that

no that's fine we can't be friends sorry

too late yeah it's not me this is from bradq top five reasons to not get farcaster pro five you want to retain your amateur status for the olympics very important four you're concerned about paparazzi understandable three you wanna stay out of jeff goldberg's data crosshairs that's a great reason two you're holding out for threads pro i mean i can understand that you might want threads pro one you're going to build your own protocol by the way does anyone understand the photo who is under the age of 40 i'm gonna guess no you have no idea who that guy is so so

really last time i'm gonna say this guys if you didn't get pro it's okay it's not a big deal it's fine it's totally fine enjoy people having fun on the timeline it's not it's and we will stop talking about this probably by tomorrow you're probably gonna get one more one more day of it and

debt right

and and yes gregarious nonpro people can watch the show this is open to all we do not limit we do not have a pro feed anyone anyone can join implants including good to see including dogs dogs are allowed

who earn who earned their pro subscription via rewards

it's a circle it's called an economy so funny and plants just we just were showing showing you on the screen you may have missed it alright we have other things to talk about i know this is surprising i have a whole separate group of lynx separate from the bro lynx there aren't many but there are a few things besides and hama lama it was david letterman i just wasn't sure anyone would recognize that man he looks completely different have you seen him lately by the way

his the massive beard yeah it's like a totally totally different person yeah you just like you'd missed it by like thirty seconds anyway alright few more things we did have some rewards go out yesterday it was rewards tuesday good i mean obviously why wouldn't you time it for that if you're then selling something it makes sense to do that on a tuesday so this is from bradq rewards leaderboard results at number one div at number five is a noise reward for their busy week so those are the the folks who launched noise this week and clearly yeah took over the took over the timeline until pro three first timers in the top 10 dwr's out of nowhere to number six drees let us know your secret alex on chain returns after a year away to a whirlwind of three days to number eight blank space takes number 10 after some earlier close calls speaking of whirlwinds neynes yaps and vibes her first two days on fc to number 20 that's impressive abriel rides her onboarding from a demers cross via ted at accelerate to debut in the top 30 so there's some new solana folks i'm guessing and the meme coveted 69 the esteemed and base jesse pollock takes it woah that's funny still seeing new first timers saw a couple this morning casting about trying to get there first also seeing a lot of new tiers achieved so very cool to see all the folks in there also see moon poppy garrett jimmy no rules some other friends bertwurst coming in at number seven phil at nine phil hitting the top 10 after his bit of a crazy week

we call that a w phil that's a w there you

take the w there you go this from v maybe come on why are you doing this to me

link changes have caused me pain here we go don't use your fc wallet keys in other wallets if you get compromised there is no way to rotate the wallet with our key storage model today so be very careful with this it's okay to export your keys and put in a password manager or to send funds out to another wallet so this was in response to linda please be extra careful when exporting your farcaster wallet private keys i've had two users message me today that it was compromised after storing outside of farcaster and funds were drained so be careful v goes on why don't we support rotating keys we will in the future but it's a very complicated feature and can open up other avenues for losing funds rotating a wallet that has funds in it and forgetting to back it up for the time being be careful when exporting wallets so yeah we've seen this happen a couple times folks

no i have

okay be careful

i was assuming they were talking about the warplit but now i'm not sure

i'm so i need to

yeah that's a good question

for sure yeah it was wallet he said fc wallet keys in other wallets so he was talking about the the wallet but good question though i'd ask all of that yeah i've never exported my keys from farcaster

live there

we did i still have

yeah me too i'm not gonna tell you

i'm not gonna tell you either

in your brain it's right here

able to tell you yeah everything's in safety deposit boxes at various at 12 different banks anyway oh my god why is this so slow this happened yesterday as well which might have been some bad timing i don't know was it good timing or bad timing not quite sure might have gotten lost in the shuffle but this was totally cofounder of solana did an ama recently yesterday so go check that out and we are going to have some folks on from solana next wednesday is that that's right we're doing it okay next wednesday at 12:30pm eastern so that is 09:30am west coast time so a little west coast friendly time for you and we're gonna be chatting with some of the folks who are building on solana and farcaster so that'll be fun and linda i think is gonna join us as well and talk about her time at accelerate and what she's hearing from the solana community in regards to farcaster so that'll be fun this from justin on which this was really funny and this is gonna drive me crazy why is this happening let me make sure this is minimized maybe that's why needless to say i really like being on here but i cannot wait for the day when 90% of the content is not about farcaster itself pollute our minds brother have you heard the good word about farcaster pro please i need to know what pro number are you so funny jokes but yeah we it's getting there it's getting there but we do talk about ourselves a lot over here

you know what the other i had a conversation while i was going back and forth with tim from kiwi news and i hadn't seen that they had launched their mini app and what tim had said tim had posted casted something about like oh ted and horsefax both recasted this and then and the number didn't go up and he was upset like about it and i was like i didn't even see it so you have to a reminder you gotta you gotta cast things like seven times before people take action usually so don't don't don't stop but also if you haven't checked out kiwi news mini app you really should it's kinda good so you can now upvote just right from in here which is really nice so nice new features and go check it out mac has moved on from kiwi which that just happened and we forgot to talk about that the other day but tim's still building and if you're not familiar this is similar to like a hacker news you can upvote different articles but the fact that it's now in a mini app i feel like really unlocks some things and makes it much easier to interact and upvote and kinda add things and all that kind of stuff so go check it out it's pretty cool this from rish and i need help with this adrienne this is the one i'm gonna read this and then if you have any idea what it's saying but i feel like it's important we've offered a managed kafka streaming service for farcaster events for a bit now benefit being able to read fully hydrated objects real time instead of raw hub events so far the only option was to subscribe to the full stream or not subscribe at all same hubs now it's possible to subscribe by event type e g get cast created dot created or reaction dot created events only same as webhooks so you end up with a stream that has rich objects with all metadata and only has the objects you need so you don't need to filter also lowers cost when consuming reach out if interested and then there's more information about the kafka data pipeline as well as part of this cast what did i just say

they're breaking up the data the way i'm

alright cool and then hydrated turn ids into data events lots of noise in a hub not you get that types of things you care about okay and then this is definitely useful so that's good so the people who know what this is found it useful

there we go

there we go useful definitely useful alright

yeah i hope we did you did you proud couple fun things and then i'm gonna we're gonna close out with the octant round i saw this the other day and i was like oh my god this is so freaking cool and i i don't know why i hadn't seen this before but this is by uniqueobject who creates like i saw the wallets at one point but i don't think i ever saw this and i think dan had recasted it and he makes different bags and basically like briefcases messenger bags purses like things like that from the interior of old cars and this one was from the interior of a 1974 mercury comet and i went to the website and i honestly just can't decide which one i like best because there's so many cool things on there but i just found it just really fun so there you go if you're looking for content that is not just about farcaster pro go to uniqueobject because it's really cool it has really cool things there and just scroll through because pretty amazing also boldleonidas is back on farcaster sharing sharing his memes and cartoons and such so very glad to have you back bold and this was are you going to work today i'm too tired nudge and it's it's twitter it's the x for twitter fine but i'm only going to do the bare minimum because if you didn't know and by the way didn't know x has been having a lot of problems it's been going down a lot so there you go i thought that was funny the only reason i know that x has been down is because people

they're coming over and talking about it and going x is down and now i'm back over here now so there's been a few people who've made their way back over because of that so that's been always good to see and let me dive into this one last thing we're gonna talk about octant's retro round with purple and i'm just trying to get these to load so i can talk about them and also i wanted to just do a quick scroll scroll through octant's channel they also have an epoch that is open epoch eight but let's talk about this so we have a round that's happening right now submissions for farcaster spring twenty twenty five rpgf are now open grant reward past work that's positively impacted farcaster to enter post your project with hashtag farcaster p g f spring twenty twenty five in the octant channel only one nomination per person important announcement from tayyab if you get caught using amps on any submissions and by the way they're all public so it can be seen you will likely get disqualified we are trying to help the community find what matters stop being greedy so in other words don't do that this belonged to me don't do that don't do this so don't do this there you go but go take a look at this go ahead

no me either

of course people would yeah

the answer the same thought i had the same exact thought it never crossed my mind and then when he posted that i'm like oh yeah

for it don't do this well essentially you're paying if you're if you're doing this if you're using amps you're essentially paying to actually win money in the round and that's not right and you're also then that person is liking your cast maybe without even realizing it and may maybe didn't want to include you in their vote so it's a little yeah just don't and also you'll need to know that they are like a member of purple or a member or have paid for like have contributed to the round otherwise they don't have a vote anyway so you mhmm that's another aspect of this but also just don't just don't this is easy just don't do it the app's closed your submissions have to be in by the may 30 12pm eastern so get your your posts in there soon and also get your votes in so if you are voting in the round go to the octant channel

this is not their channel this is the other thing so go to the octant channel and make sure that you are going through and voting on the ones that you wanna see so just scroll on through and you'll see submissions for cast out from me and for the bot from adrienne but also a lot of great submissions our friend emma was nominated for her work with farcon there's just a ton of great submissions so go check them out and choose the ones that you like and even if you're not a member of purple or you're not a if you didn't donate if you don't have a a true vote in the round you can still amplify the ones you like and share them with others so they get more more visuals there you go okay and i pulled up the wrong thing but let me just shout this out their epic eight from octant is out there so this one is really focused on core ethereum alignment so if you are doing a project that relates to direct protocol improvements consensus execution data availability core networking shared infrastructure such as clients test nets and tooling open dashboards datasets or studies or protocol level research this is the round for you so go check it out and dive into the eligibility criteria for that and i know there's a ton of people who are doing those sorts of things who are on farcaster so make sure you go check that out this is completely separate from the purple and octant farcaster round this is a whole separate thing alright adrienne did i forget anything i think that was everything this is gonna be a short show today that's funny i thought we only had one thing to talk about

thing yeah so that's it i think that's it from us we will be back friday we also have the farcon interviews and keynote and all the things ready to drop we are waiting for one more thing and i'm gonna give it one more day and if we don't have it i'm gonna drop the first one tomorrow we are waiting for the interviews that we did in our podcast space to be able to add them to the other speaker speaker things that came from the main stage and put them together and we just don't have those yet so i'm gonna give it one more day but if not we're just gonna drop the keynote tomorrow it'll be at a west coast friendly time so everyone can enjoy so look for that later today and also one more thing that i'm gonna drop sometime probably in the next hour i'm gonna be putting up a prop to purple to sponsor farcaster trivia which will start next wednesday and we're also going to have an opportunity for eight other sponsors that are gonna be dropped as an nft collection you'll be able to buy the nft to sponsor trivia get your get a question in about your brand your project your coin whatever whatever you want to promote and it will help support this kind of community building activity on farcaster so fun fun coming later and then we'll be back friday what time are we on friday 08:30 don't even know anymore what time is friday

east coast friendly i'm like what time are we on friday we don't have any guests friday right i can't i couldn't remember okay so we will be back and we will have more tulu we'll have a lot more information on the timeline once the trivia is launched you'll be able to register the idea is that we'll have sponsors that will cover the registration and we'll have lots of people be able to participate no pro badge needed to participate just just fun and a chance to win yeah a $100,100 usd see

you can just you can just do things you can just do things yeah we're pros a pro what we're just pro just pro that's it just pro bro that's it alright adrienne and with that i think that's it that is all that is it oh i almost used this as my background so i just wanna show it that was all my all the pro things from yesterday all the pro things from yesterday and then lastly again thank you octant for sponsoring d m farcaster but also for working with purple on this amazing farcaster retro p g f round make sure you go check that out in the octant channel and with that adrienne i think we can call it alright alright alright everybody

we will see you friday and until then bye bye