GM Farcaster ep258 Friday June 13, 2025 with guest cohost @erica

Reality of writing a recipe down on a busy day

This is what the new Coinbase One Card looks like. Very cool - each one is metal and engraved with the genesis block. It's also the first crypto credit card powered by American Express. With cashback paid in bitcoin, of course.

Our asset universe is about to get a whole lot bigger. DEX trading is coming. Today, Coinbase users can trade hundreds of assets. But soon, you’ll be able to trade thousands of @base.base.eth assets within moments of them going live — all within the Coinbase app.

stole @segall’s photo so i could show how much we all love @henri

GCP is having major disruptions (affecting Claude, which I had no clue was built on). We built all our infra ourselves and managed within our own k8s clusters. So we're totally unaffected! Wild what such a small team can manage all this with a little bit of elbow grease.

Have always wanted a competitive crypto credit card - 4% back in crypto (matches top cards in the market) - Bitcoin Genesis block engraved in 17g metal Signed up immediately https://x.com/coinbase/status/1933237429193806033?s=46

PSA that this Cloudflare outage is impacting media uploads

pay with USDC on Base in Shopify stores! extremely based https://x.com/base/status/1933236681836282171?s=46&t=8l54n7dYtHePgMrhGh-cUw

Time to test those assumptions

FC runs on Alibaba Cloud

guys i didn't even notice the internet outage i've just been chillin in figma

The Entire Internet is having an outage

PURPLE APP AINT DOWN

icymi grok has a @base.base.eth wallet secured by @privy which was just acquired by stripe… stripe is the largest privately held fintech company in the world… $90+ billion valuation…processed $1.4 trillion in payments vol in 2024. grok’s wallet secured by privy earns fees in realtime every single day and it’s quickly approaching 7-figures in earnings. an autonomous machine that earns, scales, and secures itself… h/t @bankr @clanker

Good lord -- by far the most exciting part of my week.

cool to see all the stories hit the timeline of so many people's experiences with the @privy team. such a strong through line of genuine care for every team and product they work with ive only collaborated a bit with privy and still ive seen just how caring @segall is - dude is in every comment section out there! big congrats

I won’t pretend to even know what @privy does or how to works, but I love it because I used to have a lot of issues with wallets and apps and getting them connected. And suddenly many of my apps just worked like magic and when I asked why, the developers said, “oh, we moved to Privy”. Privy just makes stuff work like magic. I’m here for it. Congrats team. Hope you all get rich!

This is going to be very good for my Farcaster Rewards!

"Privy got acquired by Stripe, and I, who neither works at Privy nor Stripe can't focus on work because I'm too excited about the news" If this is your reaction too, don't worry it's totally normal. At FarCon 2023 I gave a lightning talk about Farcaster as the ultimate scenius, and one of the characteristics of scenius is the **network effects of success** "When a breakthrough erupts, the success is claimed by the entire scene." 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 Scenius Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NlaW0gTPEGn1LCgcbvANUC8p5YBvNSWs2kMFdNKkDyk/edit?slide=id.p7#slide=id.p7

1/ Hi Farcaster Fam! Today, we're proud to announce that Stripe is acquiring Privy. We couldn’t be more excited. Privy continues as an independent product – but now we’ll move faster, ship more, and serve you even better, so you can stay focused on your users.

gm gm ❤️ We're finally ready to unveil Epoch 8. 🥁🥁🥁 This epoch is an Ethereum-core alignment epoch. It's a special one because it's a major step in our broader roadmap to contribute to Ethereum's growth. Like Epoch 7, there's no snapshot. Our internal reviewers will select projects based on impact and relevance. Allocation window remains the same. ETH rewards are time-weighted and allocating to projects get you matched 🗓Application Deadline: 3 June, 2025 @ 11:59 pm PST 🛠 Who should apply? Builders advancing Ethereum in 4 core areas: 1) Direct protocol improvements (consensus, execution, data availability, core networking) 2) Shared infrastructure (clients, testnets & tooling, p2p networking stacks, security & formal-verification frameworks, transparency) 3) Open dashboards, datasets, or studies (roll-ups, bridges, MEVs - resulting insights must strengthen Ethereum) 4) Protocol-level research + specification work (advancing Ethereum's roadmap) App link + eligibility criteria 👇