Locking In September (But Halfway, Because Horses 🐎): GM Farcaster ep284

29 Seconds of Farcaster ... What did you miss this (long) weekend? * An era of $DEGEN has ended as allocations are finished and we move toward the mini app & client era. Thanks to @jacek for an amazing run and here's to the future of the hat! 🎩 * @betrmint released a $BETR staking rewards claim with daily spins of the NEON wheel to get your daily rewards & a shot at a jackpot for anyone with 10M $BETR staked. s/o @toadyhawk.eth & @netnose for the design & @burrrrrberry for keeping the FUN in staking claims 🥩 daily available in the mini app * $BRACKY stepped it up with Football--College & NFL and is headed to X/Twitter this Fall. There were some serious Bracky sessions Friday night after the football release * @bertwurst.eth held a Labor Day 'Toy Draft' for the ceremonial exchanging of 'active' toys for September and live-streamed it. Bert seemed thrown off at first by the new format, but eventually 'Roadkill' was the winner and @erica & @laurenmessner had the top brackets and received face licks, tail wags, & generational wealth * A bit more niche, but @mcbain shared some videos about his inspiring work trying to turn his neighborhood into a community--which may be useful for some, but also shows off why Farcasters are great. It even led to Presidential campaign rumors from a certain /gmfarcaster host. * Speaking of /gmfarcaster @adrienne & @nounishprof are on today at 11:30 AM EST/ 8:30 PST to catch you up on all things purple (and blue)

Why mini apps over websites? Mini Apps in Farcaster’s context is much more than accessing a crypto service with your wallet baked in It’s also your connections, your history, your content, your entire context— what you prefer, how you interact, what tokens you hold, who do you respond to, publicly Mini Apps that build on Farcaster get to leverage their user’s entire context to make them highly personalized instantly (results in higher conversion) I wrote about it a few days ago— Apps fit well because Farcaster acts as an operating system for the ecosystem https://farcaster.xyz/tanishq/0x972e8fee

I created a list to record prominent posters here who still actively call them frames. It's not complete and I'll add to it over time. People have their reasons, but also it's worth knowing who is and who is not contributing to the survival of frames and lack of mini app growth.

top 10 on farcaster are all women

I 💜 Roadkill! Big congrats to @laurenmessner and @erica for knowing me best. Bragging rights secured + $20 of $BERTWURST.ETH. 🦝 Thanks to @retake for hosting! https://farcaster.xyz/erica/0x2337ab4c https://farcaster.xyz/laurenmessner/0x6f02227d

Many ppl are asking for the full and complete restoration of the original farcaster leaderboard

represent, they say 🫡

Gm farcaster Wearing this awesome shirt on my meetings today! /gmfarcaster

october feels like a good month to lock in again

october feels like a good month to lock in again

I just changed my @cobuild coin to $cbBTC so if you are using cobuild and you interact with my casts you’ll be buying yourself a little bit of coinbase wrapped bitcoin 🫡 cbBTC is an easy way to get bitcoin exposure without leaving the eth or base ecosystem @rocketman “X raised for token-name” is a little misleading because i haven’t raised any for that current token yet, the $16 was for my Zora token that was set earlier

1/3 Hey Degens, today marks the last ever $DEGEN airdrop. Over the past 19 months, we’ve given out over $50 million to content creators on Farcaster, making this one of the largest airdrops in crypto history! 🎩

Ok this is nuts. @avneesh sends me some $BRACKY via X (!!!) and then I get a Farcaster notification that I received the shares in my @bracketgame wallet. Choo choo @tldr

Feeling uninspired today. Does anyone else get in a funk sometimes? Can you do me a favor and show me your favorite piece of irl art you own? Just hold me up to it so I can see it. (and maybe cast a picture of it so I can show the Assistants.)

🔁 New small UX feature added to annotate swaps for gas If you’re low on ETH but have a token balance, you may prompt you to convert up to $1 for gas. In the past, we did not annotate this, and some of you were confused. We fixed this now, and a gas swap is appropriately annotated! Thank you @tanishq for the design and @horsefacts.eth for the idea

If find it amazing how much onchain activity is generated every time I react to a cast: - @noiceapp sends a tip in $lemon3 - @tipn sends a tip in $USDC - @cobuild swaps an amount of $USDC to the cast creator's coin These "social emissions" are a mind-blowing phenomenon that we take for granted just because we are used to it. (Not to mention tips in $DEGEN, recently $BETR, etc)

If you’re a @farcaster maxi, have you: Met /founders on here, and helped them with their projects and provided them feedback? Did the founders appreciate it? Did they continue to ask for your feedback? Did you end up getting burnt out because it was taking away from something else you were doing? Would you have continued to provide that feedback if you were recognized for it / paid for your feedback?

We did it 🙌 - Wildwood amusements - Ocean city for salt water taffy and mini golf - Ventnor beaching - Crabs and buffets - more candy - movies and memories - tons of laughing - "Good Job" Jar paid out I love these monsters so much 🤍🙌 But please go back home. I'm broke and tired now 🤣😬 @warpc0st prepare my beanbag and fun thing today 🔥 BACK TO BURR BEING #1 PRIORITY 🤣

Haven’t done one of these in a while. AMA!

A lot of my replies have been going unliked recently I wonder if we’ve signed ourselves up for so many pay to like services that it’s having a cooling effect on engagement It used to be that basically every reply was sure to get a like from the OP at least Something something skin in the game, revealed preferences, etc Or maybe I am just not posting good posts

Nobody tells you these lil mfers will steal your chicken nuggets. And people wonder why I don't have kids 🤬👿

you know @patriciaxlee.eth I actually have a mobile office when my wife is fishing

I held out for a long time, but I’ve finally accepted it — liberally muting people is the only sane way to use social media Used to think everyone deserved a chance to be heard. But some people are resolved to be negative / victims and it’s not worth joining them in the drama triangle as the persecutor OR rescuer

🚨 Today at 5pmET. 100+ Football markets open for trading. 🏈 2025-26 NFL Playoffs? 32 teams. 🏈 2025-26 NCAA Playoffs? 67 teams. 🏈 Games of the Week. 6 games (below). Bracky is going to 𝕏... but FC eats first! More details below 🧵↓

I won! Amazing to earn actual money for my writing and to be recognized in this way. Thank you for the support 🙏🙏🙏 Bullish @paragraph 🚀

will add a $100 bounty on top @bountybot

With our new integration of @farcaster’s social graph on the Matcha homepage, your trades just got a whole lot friendlier

any open source devs interested in tackling this? high impact task, many users have asked to schedule long casts. we have scheduled casts in @herocast, but Farcaster app has long casts. https://github.com/hero-org/herocast/issues/602

Announcing: Zora Top Trader Competition A weekly trading competition rewarding the top traders on Zora. The first week is a $100K prize pool for the top 10 traders.

I come back to this app because of interesting conversations + most people here don’t just want to dunk on each other. Insta: no interesting conversations + no dunking Reddit/HN: interesting conversations + dunking keyboard warriors X: no interesting conversations + dunking olympics (fun to watch tho 🍿)