Transcript: GM Farcaster ep253 Monday June 2, 2025

good hey gm adrienne it's june it's june i'm i'm having a hard time with that for many reasons

this is our birth like our birthday month for me it's a little bit of a like more of a milestone birthday and i'm i'm having a little bit of a freak out which is interesting because i did not have one five years ago so oh yeah so now i'm feeling a little i'm feeling a little something feeling a little something about it but anyway so welcome to june

oh really

and it was beautiful and we don't usually shift over to cast this soon but might as well explain the backgrounds while we have people coming on in beautiful i was like oh where is that is that like it looks very similar to where i go in the summer and my background is this adorable little deer because i just thought he was cute and this was from keckers so feeling very very very summery it's a very summery time so with that we will be back in just forty seconds to get the show rolling we'll see you on the other side of this

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gm farcaster it is monday june 2 and you are here with nounish prof and adrienne for twenty nine minutes of farcaster news to start your day and we'll we'll we're gonna stick pretty close to that today because i have a i have to go get on a plane so you know that helps that'll help us stay on track time wise

exactly

we got a couple in before we had to switch it up

exactly exactly so if you that is a great point adrienne add the mini app and you'll know exactly when we're live and this will be especially important this week because we have a lot of watch parties coming up so i wasn't gonna start here but i will start here we have we're dropping all the farcon content this week we're gonna drop it first as live streamed watch party meaning it's not live it's prerecorded but we're gonna all hang out and talk about it and then it will be available on all our channels so wherever you get your podcasts so today is the keynote with dan and varun and a bit of an interview in the beginning of that that will only be available in the watch party by the way because the recorded ones will be just the keynote on tuesday we have hot ones with cassie and rich which i am calling spicy questions to try and avoid any copyright infringement copyright and trademark problems and we also have an interview that we did with cassie that'll be at the beginning of that thursday community talks so this is the six different community talks that were voted on by the attendees plus interviews with each of the speakers after they got off the stage and then we'll have some of our content from jesse pollock and chin tan from coinbase wallet plus the farhack builder awards and an interview we did with dylan and emma as well as a bonus interview that we did with rachel and toadyhawk rachel w and toadyhawk so a lot of fun content coming your way that's a lot i was like it's a lot but today's the today's the first one so look for this the future of farcaster at noon eastern 9am pacific this is the keynote from dan and varun coming today by the way so while i was editing these and getting them ready i watched a little bit back of the hot ones one i can't wait to watch that with like everybody i i cannot like it was it's fun even better than i remembered like as i was watching it i'm like oh my god this was good this was just very entertaining content so you're not gonna wanna miss that today's also very good especially if you wanna hear what dan and varun are thinking about for the future of farcaster the community talks were all great but really the hot ones thing was a little bit special

no i don't of sweat forming there were moments where you where you saw there were i watched this part a couple times where where they where they get the question from the audience about like how are you feeling right now from the spicyness and like rich is like not great and then cassie's like i feel alive that's hilarious so funny so yeah you guys are gonna love that and yeah so i'm excited to get those out to everybody i'm doing one more tweet out here that we are live yeah and it's gonna be really fun so we're gonna have a fun week also on on wednesday at noon we have trivia coming up which i think is in my other tabs so that's gonna be really fun you guys are gonna it's just gonna be really fun if you are here all the time if you're on farcaster a lot you're gonna know these answers like you're just you just are so plus we'll have questions for our sponsors but we're still confirming that so if you're in purple daw maybe go give us a a vote that'd be lovely alright moving on we have a bunch of stuff to talk about so kinda taking over the timeline at the end of last week was circus.fun so this is from nickysap big day for circus dot fun and farcaster the air airdrop went extremely smoothly hats off to daniel and the team linda coordinated the entire process beautifully making us feel like genuine partners every step of the way here are some thoughts now that the dust has settled and this is where we're kinda gonna get into what was the discussion on the timeline was around airdrops in general but also this particular one it's tough this is again from nikki it's tough to please everyone with the style of promotional airdrop setting criteria that aligns with the demographic you want to acquire is a tricky balance and it's basically impossible to get it perfect some folks will always find something to criticize the selective nature of this type of airdrop definitely creates a sense of exclusivity that can leave some people feeling left out does that hurt brand equity in the long run probably not significantly as most people forget quickly and it likely doesn't affect conversion rates that much but it can leave a temper sour taste given the breadth of the network narrowing the scope to under 2,000 accounts was always going to be a challenge for those who missed out you can still earn the upcoming june 13 airdrop by using the platform and collecting fees so there you go there was a little bit more about that from linda as well just saying thanks to nikki for working with us on this first solana token airdrop this is the first solana one by the way to farcaster users besides actually there was another one that's not true there was one when solana joined there was like an actual solana that was airdropped to everyone by sns i think it was sns so but using this type of flow a solana project this is the first solana project to do something like this huge thanks to daniel for the custom solana work and sloc and blockheim for building the airdrop tool itself we've got four more solana token airdrops lined up totaling $80,000 dm me if you're interested in running an airdrop and that was pretty pretty cool here's the thing that before we jump into sort of the plus and minus of of it all and sort of the other criticism around this you can see the airdrop flow in this video and it's impressive like if you've been here for a bit like and here i mean crypto for a bit you've probably experienced a lot of different types of airdrops most of which are painful and a pain in the butt so this is like click click done and to me that is really impressive especially since this is now solana not just you know optimism superchain stuff so i i don't know i was impressed with that part of it yeah yeah and the mini app is it's good for what it for what they're trying to achieve you know it just depends on whether or not you're somebody who's gonna launch a token on solana but if you are this is a really cool way to do it and easy yeah so thoughts

you can you can still do it

true story

yeah it is fun

we're getting that we're gonna talk about that in a second yeah

yeah really good also before we jump into the next part of this discussion so we have some solana builders who are gonna be on on wednesday and linda so who's coming who's jumping

to talk to her i didn't wanna say that if i was wrong yeah i think he's gonna be on with us so we'll dive more into that aspect of it in terms of solana and that sort of you know launching that on farcaster and get and diving into all of that so that'll be a really good good combo and i'm excited to talk to linda

yeah which is fantastic mhmm like we can't tell that means you guys did an amazing job so daniel who was the other one oops oops oops i forgot there's one more who else slope who else was involved in this slope slope sorry slope i'm like and there's one more slope sorry slope yeah just amazing job with the tool itself and that that part's been really impressive and this is also from linda for the circus airdrop today at least $10 in sole was one of the requirements among users that had at least $10 in sole the circus team optimized for the top 1.5 k users based on a mix of mini app usage and on chain transactions each team picks different criteria plus budget i also included a large buffer for sole price fluctuation so i think that was really interesting to see and the other i don't know if i pulled this i don't think i did but there was a lot of discussion about that it costs a lot more to to deploy things on solana which by the way was super surprising to me and i think this you know if you go back pre l twos it was that was solana's hugest selling point was that it was much cheaper than ethereum so i just think that something shifted somewhere along the way when the l twos came into into play but really interesting because i wasn't aware of that but they're also just talking about you know airdrop criteria what gets you qualified for an airdrop and i think that you know i would not have been surprised if i did not get this airdrop because i'm not that active on solana if that became one of the criteria and i'd be perfectly fine with that but you know i tend to i tend to get along and go along you know

yeah exactly it's and so there's there's that aspect of it and one of the things that and i'm gonna grab a couple of the other comments from some folks but one of the things that i i posted about or casted about was that for me the other part of this like there's one aspect of you're the person doing the airdrop you get to make that criteria and i think that's perfectly fine and you have to figure out what's best for you you're gonna have a limited budget you don't you know you're not giving away millions and millions of dollars you have a set budget you need to make this work so i think it's fine to call your criteria and get it to where it makes sense for who you're trying to attract on the other side of that if you're the person doing the airdrop think make it intentional like think about okay what do i want people to do with these tokens because there was a lot of discussion around if you sell every airdrop that might be a criteria that disqualifies you for future airdrops which i agree with but on the other side of that make it easy to use your tokens like just make it easy to do and if you want us to use your tokens in different mini apps or you want us to hold them and stake them make it easier to do whatever the intention whatever the action is that you'd like to see from people getting this airdrop make it easy to do that thing so that was my only easy

communication yeah mhmm we've had some teams that haven't communicated well most of them have had a pretty good flow some have been better than others like i felt like cello one was just really well thought out like they had specific mini apps it was all in one thread it dropped you right in that thread after you claim the airdrop so and you had multiple things to do so it wasn't even just one thing so you yeah this thing gets if you didn't wanna do this thing you could do this thing whatever and it just it was a really good flow so just kinda look to that as like an a good example

to the other side yeah to the yeah yeah to the brand yeah

it was wct that you're thinking of i think it was the walletconnect one

shit it was the wct i think because i think the sns was just

so that was just was just about solana and it was it was just to give you some solana in your warplet like essentially to have it so that you would have it so that you then could use it on the different mini apps

it was walletconnect but but you were right about the rest of that flow if you want me to stake it make it easy for me to do that like i'm fine with that as the thing the intention you'd like and i'm also fine with if this you know if these actions or if i choose to sell or something like that if that disqualifies me from something else later on then that was the choice i made you know i might you know i can decide that okay this isn't gonna be valuable for me but i need you know whatever the monetary funds are by the way if we're talking pure meme coins whole different ballgame if they don't have a use case like something like procoin where it's not a clear use case and the drop was significant is a different story in my mind so you know there's different it's it's not a one size fits all depending on the airdrop for real

i have not done that yet i don't know what castex is so somebody's asking about castex and i don't know what that is and it got my attention no let us know what that is okay anyway

the other discussion was around the name and that was a big discussion as well and i my thought was you know fardrops is not bad

of the event no the

right because we're calling it airdrops it comes with a certain connotation that connotation used to be you were getting rewarded for activity you already did in a retroactive way but sometimes that activity was just grinding and doing stupid things to get the airdrop like specifically so it really i don't know wasn't the best scenarios or the best experiences so i get like thinking it through and like we need a different name for this so it feels less like that other thing

gonna get more money

it's not meant to

it's marketing so if you think about it in terms of its marketing then that then you think about customer acquisition costs like what's reasonable around that and that's why these budgets are much smaller and it's really about okay i'm gonna give you enough token to go do the thing i want you to do whatever that thing is like use certain mini apps whatever it is but it's not necessarily like yeah this is not generational wealth level airdrops so anyway so this is from linda great feedback from matthew fox angel on potentially renaming airdrops in our program as these get closer to quests campaigns rewards i thought far drops was a good good suggestion but gives you a little bit of both but i kinda like the idea of quests and things like that too we like quests quests are fun

that's funny just warps just warps and this is also another note from linda we can always improve on the airdrops and something we're working on but also can make can't make everyone happy giving out tokens with a set budget usually 10 k i do feel happy though in two months there's been a $140,000 distributed to 10 k plus farcaster users with a 125,000 lined up and positive feedback from teams we worked with so that's great like it's working the brands are happy that are doing it that all leads to we're probably gonna get more and bigger so you know this this is all good it's all good things all good things couple more notes on this this was from tldr and i thought this was useful as somebody who's been around for a while also has done an airdrop with bradq my 2¢ on airdrop selling drama i worked with merkel on an airdrop they didn't impose their criteria on us they helped us set our criteria therefore i think many people are mistakenly taking dan's comment as a threat from tan when in fact this is observation of what airdrop teams will decide for their self interest and i'd say dan's point is directionally correct giving airdrops that seem likely to be insta sold is less appealing to teams than the opposite however selling does not have to overwhelm all other criteria e g if someone is a power user of many apps and tokens like trisel.eth this may be more important to a team than whether he sold a drop or not tldr dan's point clearly has merit but airdrop criteria is a unique decision made by each team not by merkle so i thought that was very helpful and then this from metadavid i feel like there's more of a misunderstanding than disagreement if the dev's intent is to drive usage of a mini app we have to be intellectually honest about that yes your history of what you've done with airdrops and mini app usage matters if the dev's intent is to drive awareness then maybe open rank and historical leaderboard rankings matter more ultimately it's the dev's call because they have different goals for what it's worth i rarely qualify for any of these airdrops so i'm there with many of you just carry on and pretend like there was no airdrop great advice

right true true true

like no we're talking about we have your deer instead

it is it is and it's it's hard if you feel left out in general just

great opportunity for smaller projects to be able to spend a smaller amount still get a pretty good reach like that's huge especially if you're looking for your first thousand users or something for testing i mean tremendous opportunity to be able to get people in there so you wanna you don't wanna blow the opportunity you're being given either

wanna make the most of it so

don't know if you've heard of it

you could sponsor trivia i wanna yes and be a question i i mean there's lots of different weird opportunities for you

and they're getting more and more data the more they do it the more data they're getting they're more they'll be able to almost design i'm sure using ai like these you know here's this type of user and here's what they do here's this type of user and there'll be different users that you wanna target you know depending on the action you're looking for so if you have a game yeah i'm your girl you know like i'm gonna play it i'm gonna try it whether or not i keep trying it will depend on how good it is that's only that's all i can offer you though this was funny from anoushka air drops little treats there we go little treats it is

lots of options in other news this from tayyab and we're closed this is the farcaster retro p g f round with purple and octant we've taken a final snapshot still some of admin items to officially close but votes will no longer count and no more submissions are eligible funds will be distributed in roughly forty eight hours might be a little longer sometimes it takes a little bit longer but you can go to rounds.wtf it does not show well on the screen when it's minimized but it's you can go there and check out who was in the top for the round

so and thank you to everyone who gave cast out some votes and or bought some votes we appreciate it so yeah it was good to see that lot of amazing projects i would actually recommend going to rounds and taking a look because some of the projects i wasn't even aware of or like i hadn't really interacted with much that were very interesting so go check that out this from colin this is kinda interesting thought process here cojo i had this long post written out about channels and did a full one eighty by the time i got to the end here's how i'd like to imagine navigating fc though i like knowing cozy corners exist even if i don't use them often and this was like the farcaster as the louvre with the feed being where you enter and you enter into the you know big wide open space and the channels are sort of these individual gallery rooms areas and that was kind of an interesting way to think about it you can also take that same thought process and think of it you know like a library in different sections and same kind of thing but i like this framing so i thought that was interesting and this is coming around this official channels day which is coming up on june 7 so this was is from cura and open rank and humpty so there's they're planning a whole day of different activities but what they're looking for is for channel owners to cast and pin the top three channel members and let them know why they're appreciated if you have that type of channel everyone else cast and pin your top three channels and share why they're important to you which i kinda i love that so i have to think about that and i think that is something everyone can do and sort of celebrate why we like channels it's a little bit of a marketing campaign in itself i think some people got afraid that tan was taking away channels he's not they're just trying to think it through but it was kinda funny this was interesting and this i'm more showing i'm more sharing this as alpha than i am as like something you should go do but this is from dwr looking for people to test a big new thing for wallets starting tomorrow reply here if you're interested we'll ping 20 or so of you in the morning there's already like a ton of commenters so you're too late

but yeah but but what's coming

the little eyes little eyes emoji like oh interesting so keep an eye out something's coming tomorrow thing

new thing choo choo choo choo here it comes i don't know what the big new thing is this from nmadd over the last few days the number of daily top level cast has exceeded the number of replies for the first time ever and you know a lot of the response was noise saying that maybe that is the reason i don't know but that is interesting if nothing else i guess our reply guys are just not doing their job so get in there guys you've fallen off you've fallen off a little bit any thoughts on that like i thought that was kind of surprising a little bit but

that was yeah

i am i am nothing without you i mean oh my god

yeah just had a little i just clicked the wrong button i was trying to open some links and instead i closed all tabs

new thing i was trying something new it didn't work out great

she's still trying to just do that though now we need a little sometimes i you know things like that happen that was so funny i'm like what just happened and then i realized what i did i hit close i closed too many things so that little plan doesn't quite work good to know good to know that that i was trying something

it didn't work

it's yeah they're in it yeah it's not it's not it's not easy have our

okay

she can do it if she needs to she's done it on occasion alright back to we've got a few more things this is

yeah i am getting on a plane soon but i do have a few more things so let's dive into a couple more things happening this from our favorite pfista yes it's just vista but we always call him pfista what's new with boy in case you missed it we've shipped some exciting things since farcon nyc as a reminder boy is the best way to track keywords on farcaster when someone mentions your brand product coin or community we'll send a real time notification to your farcaster app mobile device web and even apps like slack it's a perfect way to stay on top of the conversation for things you care about here's the new stuff get your keyword notifications inside farcaster via our new mini app boy.club see below get super follow and watch notifications inside mini app get notified in telegram slack discord or anywhere with boymax our mini app is a mini boy search farcaster with advanced filters we retain everything so you can find old cast too we should try searching mole we'll be adding a simple way to create keyword notifications in our mini app in the future migrated buoy to snapchain migrated from warpcast to farcaster.xyzlinks so very cool just impressive building there and shipping so we had to wanted to show that off i those notifications there's a lot of things i would miss without the poidh notifications for sure yeah okay couple more things this from productclank interesting productclank is ready for liftoff and you can be part of it support builders earn when they win join awesome communities of believers productclank allows you to discover new apps and support the builders while getting skin in the game every product coin you own gives you direct upside opportunity for the success of the app so it just kind of an interesting thing where kinda packaging project coins differently than meme coins and i think we're gonna see a lot of that where we're starting to call different things by different terms and this was i thought pretty interesting it dives into different projects rather than just you know just the coin itself but like it's things that actually are building not just a meme coin so interesting thought that was fun mhmm okay moving on moving on getting back to my links here this was so good this is from patricia lee i wrote a reflection about my first month on farcaster honest feedback is welcome don't worry about my feelings i'm more interested in your po view especially if you have a strong reaction so i pulled a couple quotes out from that that i thought were so good and this is a great read especially if you're new here most people don't know how to be interesting even though everyone has something interesting to share i think it often comes from self doubt or fear of rejection so people hide behind safe generic content then wonder why no one is interested only one person on the planet has your exact combination of experiences curiosities connections and tastes so write the casts you wanna see in your feed keep showing up and i just thought that was such great advice like chef chef kiss chef yeah fantastic it's time to go

yeah just really good so i just started following patricia lee

yeah she's fairly new

exactly

yeah i agree i was like oh good it still feels like that to somebody new that's great and and just some great advice in there too about you know i love that most people don't know how to be interesting i thought it was like oh and like just being yourself is interesting and that was the kind of the take of like you're don't try to be interesting just be yourself

just be interesting

yeah yeah

yet yeah you haven't learned how to express yeah you are interesting you just haven't learned how to express the things that are interesting about you we're not that interesting and yet i don't know we'll find our way

we don't have to that interesting just curate what's interesting by the way this was really funny so procoin the project that launched last week that was about pro and didn't airdrop has been doing a little contest and this was hysterical i'm gonna just show it i'm not gonna you have to go watch the full video please because it's hilarious i'm not gonna have the sound on but it's basically a walk and talk where you you had different things you could do you had to post a video for this contest and one of the options was to say who was your favorite barcaster and toady said afrochicks and then in order to honor her and i use that honor quotation marks he actually did a triple jump and it was something it was something here he goes

and there it is dang i i was i lost it i lost it but also i mean the videos in general so good like just fun really fun it was cool to see people different aspects of people tori stories did one the first time i saw her like just it was really fun so go check out like if you go look at the procoin account you'll see them all quote casting it so it'll all be you'll all see it there but it's it's it was funny it was really funny i enjoyed that tremendously so thank you toady for the major laughs and other other fun news and sad news for the those of us who weren't there bertwurst went to la and people got to meet him and this is alinaferry nothing beats meeting the love of your life and she just i'm so happy i'm not sure how bert's feeling but he seems so happy he seems pretty happy

i know like i don't know either but something that look is too much just pure so pure i mean she loves a meme so i would say probably and then this was from bertwurst still riding high from yesterday's friday farcaster friday meetup i got to meet so many nice humans including ted collect an overwhelming number of new smells and ate my first burger full debrief coming soon once i've processed the sensory overload and now it's a beach day but first a walk to a coffee shop in the assistance to caffeinate for the day ahead but this was so cute as well and then this from bradq and i think this sums it up exactly how i felt i had some fomo bertwurst at f c friday in la tonight me erica the dude and many others extend our help but heartfelt joy for this you in la and it's the meme of like really happy for you glad bert could be in la on friday you get the face and licks so funny so i love seeing that though it's so nice i just if you're not following bertwurst like you're just missing out it's just pure joy so go check him out and then this was from 0xbhaisaab i can't say the name but this is really cool this is a nft drop for pro holders i think it was i don't know if it was just in general but it was sort of in honor of that but really fun fun little nft drop so we love those this was interesting this is i was surprised this is from woj gm time to let everyone know i'm no longer working for merkle i'm still a huge fan and a believer in dan varun and the team and the whole farcaster community but in the end i wasn't the right fit we'll be taking some time to rest learn new things and eventually start something new farcaster will know first and he did say that he's gonna take the summer off and i don't know find himself figure out figure out what his next his next new thing is so thanks woj and good luck we'll see you on the timeline but also warning that means he's back in the leaderboard so if you didn't know

exactly exactly so if you don't know woj tended to be in the top 10 there for for quite a while

take a nice little vacation yeah have fun this by the way this is really funny there's a whole bunch of college kids on on that have recently joined who came through i think

to solana accelerate so thanks ted some of them are really good content too but this is funny from goldytalks of all people seeing all the college kids on farcaster now i'm like you're basically their age like what are you talking about

yes and he feels old so that makes us look like this yes seeing all the older and seeing the college kids i'm farcaster now so very funny and lastly as i mentioned earlier we have farcaster trivia coming up on wednesday and if you are interested in sponsoring trivia over the month of june we do have a couple spots available if you go to this thread you'll find it pinned to the fc trivia channel and you'll find some nfts you can purchase should you want to sponsor trivia and get a question in there and with that we're done anything else adrienne

do you remember when by the way do you remember when very early on if i lost power or anything the stream was done the stream was over it wasn't even just

that stream would just be gone

they just 30 i didn't even have time to text you i was gone so quick

it was thirty seconds but anyway everybody alright i am heading to brad i'm heading to my brother's

what was that would you like to do another shout out oh g m s yes there you go give the shout out give the shout out adrienne

and you'll never miss a show alright and you'll find it i've been pretty much putting it in whatever the pin cast is to g m farcaster's channel but also adrienne i think you have it pinned to your profile as well

there you go

that makes a lot of sense that makes it easy and as you mentioned we do have a bunch of the farcon talks coming out this week if you missed that earlier when we talked about this today we have the keynote plus our interview with dan and varun tomorrow tuesday we'll have hot ones with cassie and rich and i'm telling you you do not wanna miss that one it was really fun thursday we have all the community talks plus interviews with all the speakers who did the community talks and then friday we'll have the base and coinbase wallet interviews plus we'll have the when we have the announcements of the hackathon winners and also interviews with dylan and emma and toadyhawk and rachel wilkins so big week every day this week at noon we have something going on and today also this is the future farcaster keynote and that will be today's at noon eastern 9am pacific so there you go and i'll be in the chat from the airport i should be at the airport by then so i've i've timed this i've tried to time this so that i'll be sitting at the airport watching and

with you all yeah and there's always there's a lot of like fun moments within all of these but today has some fun moments in the q and a and tomorrow the whole thing is just really fun hot ones one is just so fun so you're not gonna wanna miss it alright anything else

happy monday everyone thanks for hanging with us in the chat and yeah and we'll see you hopefully come join us we'll see you in the in the key in the watch party for the keynote and until then let me just find my thing here we go alright bye bye