ETH Dives, Talent Arrives: GM Farcaster ep277 Friday, August 15, 2025

Check your Creator Score by @Talent 👇 We’ll be talking with @juampi on @gmfarcaster today about creators

We’re pumped to see @coingecko rocking the hat on Farcaster! 🎩🔥 It’s a perfect example of what our community can achieve together. We’re building strong connections across the DeFi space and spreading the hat far and wide. The hat stays on. Always. 🚀

I brought more Farcaster invite codes tonight. I think it speaks volumes of this incoming cohort at USC that they are so curious and so open-minded to new technology. The future is bright. ✌️

running the numbers and it turns out 5.4% of Farcaster DAU are currently at the "Gathering of the Juggalos." that's 10x more people than have ever used a "composer action" https://farcaster.xyz/drivenbyboredom/0x6e2418cb

the day my kids don’t want to hang, i’m going to die

Trying to build our twitter/X account (yes, finally giving in -- just have to) so can all of my 42k followers and @adrienne's 64k followers please go follow @gmfarcaster on Twitter? TY!! wly https://x.com/gmfarcaster

Slides from my Farcaster app demo at the World of Apps event today (thanks @chaskin.eth for the invite). Covered what Farcaster, embedded wallet, mini apps, and channels are https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1E1yMgK782lQrO5uxZo-GBju4pylCWwpOLbwu3nC18S4/edit?slide=id.g35a072582fa_0_0#slide=id.g35a072582fa_0_0

Had the best day ever demoing /nounspace and blank.space (🔜) at @ethereumfndn x @nouns’ World of Apps event today ⌐◨-◨ Can you guess what question I asked the audience?

First event in the books and I’m so happy with how it went Huge thanks to everyone who came out and @latsko.eth for making it special This won’t be the last World of Apps ⌐◨-◨

We're excited to share our plans for much larger groups on @xmtp and are opening up the conversation to our community to give feedback on which types of groups we want to build first. Join the convo below with @nickm and others building on XMTP

Got our first @wakaflocka sighting.

gm gm folks! Now for our BIG news. Since we launched, two years ago, we've always had asks about when we would do an epoch like this. Well it's finally time. Time to make Ethereum's narrative stronger. Time for creatives to shine. Time for Epoch 9. In an exciting collaboration with @ethereumfndn Strategic Funding Coordination team, we're bringing you Epoch 9: Ethereum Stories. It's time to fund the journalists, storytellers, content creators, and researchers who’ve helped make Ethereum legible, credible, and engaging to audiences. It's time to fund high-impact marketing, educational, and journalistic content that push @ethereum forward. It's time to fund folks who are making Ethereum smart, clear, impossible to ignore, for audiences. It's time to fund your vision for how Ethereum’s stories should be told. It's time for you to take the stage. It's time to grow Ethereum. Show us the campaign, series, or investigation you’d run to make Ethereum a part of everyday conversation. To apply 👇

in 2023, @nouns voted to make @nouncoffee possible. now every yes vote is part of the shop forever.

Who’s leading in @zora earnings? Who’s topping @farcaster Rewards? Who’s deployed the most smart contracts on @base.base.eth ? Find out on our new landing page 👇

All agenda for Farcaster dev calls available here: https://farcasterhq.notion.site/b08fed5cbf884e6a80b3acc2dd0666b2?v=4b51e7442af14b48a69871299c22e288 Recordings of previous calls available here: https://www.youtube.com/@farcasterxyz

Agenda for today's developer call

Where are we in the crypto cycle? Warning: astrology 1. BTC and ETH at / near ATH. ETH wealth effect lifting many EVM assets. Stock market also at ATH. 2. No hard data, but my gut (from multiple cycles at the biggest retail onramp) says majority of inflows are from ETFs, treasury cos, and institutions—not new onchain consumers. 3. Economy is wonky: weak jobs, inflation signs (today’s PPI), yet market expects a September rate cut. Rate cut is good for risk assets, bad for stablecoin revenue. 4. IPOs are back: Circle, Bullish, and Figma (non-crypto) all saw strong demand. Expect more crypto and non-crypto filings in the next 6 months if markets stay strong. 5. Stablecoin rules are here (hence the new stablecoin L1s), but no clarity yet for network tokens. The CLARITY Act is moving through Congress and likely to pass this fall. Market / entrepreneurs will need 6–12 months to absorb what new GTM models it enables. 6. Where are we in the cycle, though? No idea. Probabilistically: a barbell -- either early cycle (hurray!) or final innings. 7. What this means for you: a. Active traders – No advice. Too many variables, always a black swan risk. Godspeed. b. Builders seeking consumers – Nothing’s changed yet. Avoid the noise the best you can, find 10 / 100 / 1000 users who love your product, and iterate before the big consumer wave arrives (tbd on timing!). c. US-based teams thinking tokens – pay attention to the CLARITY Act. Feed the draft (and final) text into tools like NotebookLM to explore implications.

Of the top ten assets: - six digital companies - one digital currency - three physical commodities So, the 20th century American economy is nowhere to be seen. It’s been deprecated in favor of the virtual 21st century and the physical 19th. The future and the past, together against the present.

Is it possible to create a smart contract “vault” wallet for NFTs that rejects all other assets except NFTs or assets sent by a specifically allowlisted set of addresses?

Protocol fees were safely transferred into custody. The transaction is here: https://optimistic.etherscan.io/tx/0x7be526cd777f0163c522d2cfc31699fa0caec465aab2130e1adc745f1a2c37fc Shoutout to @horsefacts.eth for a smooth process! Here's a quick picture from @sds's command room.

I have made it to the land of the juggalo…

Alright ladies and gentlemen, as promised, the purple hat goes on my pfp for a week with the 1k likes! Thank you for the very warm welcome! I 💜 you guys from the $DEGEN community. Do download our GeckoTerminal app as we love purple in GeckoTerminal too 💜

we interrupt this scrolling session to announce that bitcoin has reached new all time high altitudes

1 like = 1 min of sleeping. I'm putting on my pajamas now, turning 8 sleep all the way to -5 for deep sleep and I will stay asleep until people stop liking this cast.

🏃🏃🏃 running activity tracked. Points earned. +8 for showing up with @griv

Life Update: I've joined @farcaster full time! I’ve seen this vision one too many times now to not act upon it. I’ve never felt more aligned than this mission I am about to embark. Crypto’s promise has always been about undeniability– that no two willing parties who desire to communicate, transact, or exchange are denied. Farcaster for me has always been about this undeniability. The core promise that your social graph is yours to live with. No platform can take away your connections, your voice, or the communities you’ve built. And in that permanence lies a quiet kind of power: the kind that refuses to disappear. For me, this plays out on my natural curiosities of experimenting with social and finance, visible from all the fun I've been having on FC over the last couple of years (/intelligent , Obedience Cipher– Still unsolved 👀). I am now excited to use everything I've learned to make it better for everyone else. I'll see you around on the timeline 🫡

We did half a marathon, thanks for tuning in chat 💪 If you’re an everyday athlete, comment below, we’re working on something @griv

0x powers all of our Ethereum swaps on FC. Great product!

C.R.E.A.M. (clanker) 🤝 D.R.E.A.M.

Just launched in @baseapp.base.eth larger video uploads! Update your app and share your creations, even that 20 min video 1080p or 5 min 4k cinematic masterpiece.

0x Swap API now offers best-in-class coverage for @zora and @baseapp.base.eth coins. - Flexible routing that let's users swap how they want. - Coined in the Zora app or TBA? Doesn’t matter, with 0x it just works. Builders rejoice

but basil blah blah blah > the answer is distribution but what about blah blah blah > it has always been & always will be, distribution but muh “flywheel” and attention markets thesis > yes, that’s literally distribution but tipping is so useless > no, it’s distribution you’re wrong nerd, it’s users — everything is downstream of users! > bro that’s distribution but what if all the apps were one big app? > doesn’t matter if there’s no distribution but bro creatorcoin, contentcoin, fat app, yoyo, incentivization & alignment! > is there a question? where does the community come from? > distribution what about the team? > distribution the capital? > distribution wake up thinkboi

rip fat protocol thesis welcome back distribution rules everything around me thesis D.R.E.A.M.

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