so funny yeah now we're live amazing we were just say sorry we were catching up because we haven't talked to each other in howdy howdy instagram now we haven't talked to each other in a couple weeks
i think it's the longest period of time since we started gm farcaster that i haven't talked to like literally so it was weird yeah so we were like we could just sit here and just talk to each other for next hour but i was like you know we should probably let them in we should probably let them in we're gonna give some retweets here make sure people know we are live adrienne's doing notifications so i don't have to now which is nice doing everything is really difficult i don't know how these solo people i don't know how these solo streamers do it i gotta be honest you guys get yourself a cohost especially someone like adrienne it's amazing and we're gonna be talking about all the news in farcaster including some of the we're gonna touch dad on some of the drama just a little bit and excited to
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gm farcaster it is friday happy friday september 26 and you are here with adrienne and nounishprof for twenty nine minutes ish of farcaster news but let's not kid ourselves very excited to have you back look at that beautiful background by the way it's gorge
it's so nice like your photos were incredible incredible
okay i have probably a thousand photos in my camera roll and i just sit there and scroll and i'm like oh this is one is more beautiful than the next and i love sharing them and i also brought my mirrorless sony camera which is like a better camera
cool yeah yeah
you haven't even looked at those yet oh okay i can't wait to see those you should dare i say coin it like so say or create a collection actually i'd rather see them as nfts just so that i don't know
how should i yeah so at some point i need to go and create like a gallery somewhere i'm gonna blog about it like i'll do like an actual recap somewhere and then someone did tag me and said like okay but can you mint
them as nfts so we can collect them
probably highlight highlight is good i like highlight manifold's another option you can create collections on there and i think those are the best options right now if there if you guys have other suggestions and you're in our chat drop in what you're using we'd love to know but those are the ones from folks that i've talked to who are minting regularly or using there's also blueprint which is fairly new i don't know enough about that one so can't speak to that too much
you definitely like zora but that's you're coining it's not an nft so it just depends on how you wanna put it out in the world i'd rather collect your these as nfts personally but that's me surprised to hear you say that it's me you know you know how i am you know how i do so i have to shoot a note one more live alright i am so excited to have you back though and i loved our guest host our guest hosts were amazing we had so much fun but i do miss i did miss like having you in the cohost seat team collect nft
waiting for you guys to get to go team coin
where's jesse's team coin in our chat for sure for sure
very much appreciate them so thank great job love you
did you get a chance to listen to the base camp recap by the way
oh yeah i forgot about that
so i couldn't download it for the plane like i listened to that today oh you could've down
oh you probably maybe you don't have premium you can download it on youtube no i don't but you need like the premium or whatever yeah so i do that just make it collectible already they don't care how they just want it collectible or maybe a little combo but yeah the base camp recap was a lot of fun definitely you gotta give that a watch and i will get that out there i just kinda when we do those gms in the pm sometimes i forget to like put them in all the places i just kinda go okay that happened and move on with my life i really need to do that so well
the funniest part is that like rachel and i were on the mountain like right before that like we got down just in time before all that chaos happened like we probably were crossing them like they were on the way up when we were on the way back so that's wild that was so wild because i would have missed my plane which which wouldn't have been a bad thing because then i would have been there for c c cj's i know engagement so anyway but yeah it was a lot of fun and i will get that out on all our places so everyone can enjoy wherever they get our podcast okay so we got stuff to talk about so let's dive in we've got some news and we've got some things to chat about this from horsefacts we were psa seeing elevated swap errors related to gas estimation on base especially for wallets with low balances investigating so it was really weird because i was getting some weird errors that kept telling me to try lowering the mount the amount to and i was like okay i went down as low as like
know 50¢ or something and i'm like this isn't working i'm like something's broken and then it was found the cause released a fix to mobile and web wallet if you're still seeing swap errors quit and reopen the mobile app or hard refresh web and just make sure you have the most up to date version as well but it was very weird i did love this too if you're in line stay in line if you're swapping keep swapping so i do love that
pax has
he really does he really does it runs in the freaking family is all i will say uncle horse uncle horse has shared with his nephew well okay moving on this from dan from dwr fact farcaster team priorities design doing a light re light brand refresh this week and next and that they had hired i don't know if you saw that did you see that they had hired a team okay wasn't sure if that was before or after you left mhmm wallet focused on per asset p and l tracking thank god and better price reliability so i would love that because there's so many times when i go in and i'm like i don't know what i bought this token at and if i have to go through my my activity feed i'm never gonna find it and i just wanna click on the token and be like oh okay i bought it at whatever you know hold or sell kinda thing so that would be super helpful onboarding experimenting with algorithmic free onboarding don't know what that means looking forward
what does it mean what does algorithmic fee free onboarding mean
i guess you could say smart free onboarding so basically they will on the fly make a decision whether to offer someone free onboarding or whether they should pay and it'll be based on a number of different input factors so if they like if you know if it's like if if they think it's you're likely going to be a valuable contributor
yeah
yeah so an example of something where you wouldn't get free onboarding is if you're using like an android simulator oh to sign up like you're not actually on a phone but you're like a developer kinda spinning up okay we opening the app on it on a simulator that's one example okay yeah
interesting interesting i was curious because and i'm curious to see what the factors are too so i'll be looking you know forward to learning more about that because i think that would
right alright
i think they're trying to increase up to they wanna start giving out up to i think like 500 free invites a day or something
okay
it's just how do you get the get the the most bang for the buck get the best content for that free invite
okay oh well that's good i didn't realize i oh i meant to go see if dylan had done a recap and i forgot so good you can give us a recap let me just finish this rewards new referrals system shipping this week well let me ask you do you know anything about that did they talk about that at all
okay so i assume that's like the invite yeah who stays to give something like that which you couldn't have done that at the beginning of my semester when i onboarded 30 in one day that would have been good
can i get retro please i would like retro for that thank you very much
for everyone in my class
there we go new user experience ai generated news summaries of what's happening in crypto interesting any do you know anything more about that
is there a trending feed
it's a little
in in that they wanna create a page using ai that one will give you kind of like the top stories or like the top three metas that's happening on farcaster but i think it's not just farcaster they may be pulling in from just kind of crypto in general as well i did ask v if this was kind of like oh is this building off of the previous trending feed like is this next generation trending it's gonna get prime real estate so not just kind of like trending was like a channel
yeah
but this is a i mean trending was a channel and a tab it had some tab too it was both
of a channel
this will end up being like this will have prime real estate and it's kind of a way of yeah because i do think that
the trending the ai trending thing they've created is pretty good it doesn't capture everything is the problem so if you don't use like specific words it doesn't capture it whereas like trending will just show you the cast that are trending
yeah but it'll be interesting to see
and yeah and every chance we can get we can like sneak in a passive aggressive comment to v that we miss the trending app
i haven't found a good enough replacement yet like i've been using what did i miss it's great it's really good oop dog and it's really great but it's not the same and same thing with neynar i've been using neynar and asking for the top the neynar ai and asking for the top cat the cast with the most engagement to try and get to see but it's still it's still not the same it's just not know what
i know that'd be great can i get one of those yeah
do that that'd be great
i did tell and i did tell v that this whatever it does sound like this will be helpful for us as we yeah oh definitely care like
definitely this sounds great so all in favor of this this sounds amazing can't wait do we have any time frame on some of these things like when is that happening
it's okay you know
it's done when it's done these are the priorities that's what they're working on so it could
be my new day be today could be next week okay mini app bug fixes and protocol app based storage app based storage is interesting so okay cool
anything else that came out of the dev call that you wanted to mention
i went to a dev call like years ago and i haven't been to one in in a really long time so i don't know if this was light or heavy it felt light to me like it was a pretty quick varun going through the agenda kinda giving updates few people asked questions added comments but it it was pretty quick
pretty short okay yeah i think maybe there's not too much going on i mean these are pretty straightforward there's not a whole lot happening i think it's been i think everyone's been fairly slow for a little bit and i think we're starting to see the uptick just starting to happen so alrighty well that's good so there is our updates from that moving on this from linda very excited to do a livestream showcasing farcaster mini apps with chaskin and ethereum foundation next week so that is gonna be monday at 6pm utc whatever time that is i think that's two one or two pm eastern but i'm not positive i don't remember for four or five hours right now and also she asked for a boost on of this over on x slash twitter so if you are over on there give this a little boost for linda also i think they have their mini app show today and i can't re i forgot to pull that i can't remember who's on but i think i think they're they're doing that as well but i could be wrong but i'm pretty sure they are this from phil welcome tamara winter tamara is the commissioning editor for stripe press i'd like to think of stripe press as distribution channel for the most interesting ideas in the world she has kindly agreed to do an ama reply with your questions so this was yesterday and it was really pretty interesting go take a peek of this i did post about their website design which if you have never seen the stripe press website go check it out i just find it very pleasing is the best way i could put it and all those sites that they build for the individual books i just find it to be very well done and just in general like even their book like everything they just have a very good design style but she did say that they're redoing they're redoing it and i'm like oh no and so i did say please don't use i said please avoid whoever worked on bracket barrel and she said and jaguar yes i agree yes don't don't rebrand that way but yeah so it was really interesting ama go take a peek i did love this one if you were trapped on a desert island for one year and could only bring three books which would you bring probably notes from the underground the rise of theodore roosevelt which i thought was interesting and white teeth but i'd probably have a completely different list on another day so i don't know i just thought it was a very fun ama i love the books amas i think they're different and fun and tap into like a different part of farcaster but i also really love the founder amas and i wish they bring them back as well i know they started to but then they kinda aren't on a regular basis so mhmm would love to see more of those alright moving on this from bradq have you noticed the at derek trend is now spreading and
why yes why yes it is so we have top nine snoops from moon poppy which was like okay and then siege had top nine video games after 1999 that's very specific very specific thing and this came from derek's top nine emojis i think was the first one he did and what was
what has he done before this or this is the most this is recent one
recent conversation mean i think he's been doing these for a while i'm gonna do a quick search
and this one kind of popped up where then all of a sudden there just were a lot of
yes it did okay and then this was really funny because tldr put top nine unicode characters and it was just the one through nine and i highly disagreed because noggles are noggles are also a unicorn so i wanted to debate that i beg to differ and then also this was funny bracket of beetles and he has an asterisk they're all terrible
it's like how do you hate the beatles but also he had paul and john in the same bracket and i just could not live with that whatsoever i can't live in a world where ringo wins anything that involves the beatles like no no no not ever honestly if there's a bracket of drummers he is last it's like
no he's horrible they literally had to replace him and bring in a studio drummer on let it be i'm just saying so anyway i just thought that was funny and i've seen some other takes on this version as well and it's just been a fun a fun little meta so enjoy and then also he said ringo was on name alone and i'm like okay still still i can't accept it this from you but over on twitter because i did not find this mentioned on farcaster so i assume that's why we're on twitter only super excited to be part of the devconnect creator crew i'll be in buenos aires for the ethereum world's fair in november to meet with and interview people who are working to create a freer and fairer internet and this was from devconnect we're launching the devconnect creator crew a creator first collective of storytellers and amplifiers working together to capture the energy of the ethereum world's fair so this is fun love this love to see this and very excited to see and watch you capture all the things in november very exciting
there's a whole group of creators and different kind of storytellers so it's like visual storytellers and bloggers and interviewers and short form and long form and they're yeah they just pulled us into a little group chat yesterday so we can coordinate
love love it i'm pulling up my other oh did i lose one i lost my base one where'd that go okay pulling up my other links i've been using the google tabs and it has been working really well for the problems we were having so thank you netnose for getting me through that okay
be you very
know he was very getting very frustrated with me not frustrated with me i shouldn't say it that like that but just very like it was just funny because we couldn't i couldn't quite get get it to work the way he wanted it to alright couple things from base or base related this is from talent protocol it takes three simple steps to start earning walletconnect builder rewards base name builder score greater than 40 integrate walletconnect in your app get started now so very cool walletconnect has been out there doing some more rewards they're also doing for mini apps as has arbitrum so look for those opportunities if you're building with any of these tools very interesting i had my students using walletconnect the other day because rainbow wasn't one of the wallets that was an option i was like oh now we get to learn how to use walletconnect and then this from chompix i posted this through the base app so is base app another way to access the farcaster app i'm so confused and then tagged gm farcaster
yeah fur but i saw it anyway okay and this was his his first post from base app hello base world so we've explained this a few times but i you know put it in here and i realized that there's probably quite a few people who don't know the differences so i had laid this out in another cast because of other converse similar conversations that was from ignis serious question what's the difference between postname base app or farcaster so just to sum up two different front end clients that are accessing the same protocol with differences so one if you post in the base app your post can be coined on zora and collected as a coin if you cast on farcaster or base app you opt in and you opt in on farcaster your cast can be collected as an nft if you cast on farcaster you qualify for farcaster rewards if you post on base app you qualify for base rewards four videos are highlighted differently this is kind of a big one there's a very obvious video feed on the base app there is a video feed on farcaster it's just a little more hidden it's a little tiny icon in the top right if you're on mobile or if you click on a video in either app and then just keep scrolling up you'll see more videos it kinda brings you into a video feed five different algos very different algos i always see different things anytime i go back and forth like so different algos i suggest having both because it does give you a different view as to different parts of the ecosystem and the one that i left off and i can't believe i left it off of all people channels fuck up channels completely oh because i even i posted this and i said what did i forget and everyone's like channels and i was like oh duh like that i literal that's why i post more on farcaster right now because i do post a lot in channels and you can't do that on base so you will see the tag and you'll see what channel it's in but you just don't it doesn't work the same so any other things that you can think of that i may have left off i think that was everything that's the differences between the two
you have do
it really well and i think it's a you're right like i i take for granted that that people may not realize what the difference is or or that there is and it is so cool that yes you can cast from the base app and you can see your cast in farcaster and vice versa
yeah
real yeah and and i yeah there's a lot of people who don't realize it i also answered a similar question for austin who used to work with doodles and he's now doing his own project austin hurwitz over on twitter had asked that question a similar question and i was like laying out hey this this is what it is and also was asking like why what's the benefit like is it worth our time are we gonna reach enough people and i said well right now it's fairly small but here's who's on the waiting list and you know it's gonna be a go to and if you're doing anything on base you absolutely should be thinking in terms of a mini app and a presence and all that if you're not building on base i still think you should but it's probably less priority i think it's high priority if you're building on base if it's if you're not building on base i think it's still a great place to especially capture early adopters so still great to do it depends on your other priorities so but also if you are building something and you have questions you know reach out we're available for for strategic advising by the way i watched south park last night it was so funny this is a strategic adviser joke i don't if you haven't watched it this week that part was funny
i'm saving it because i watch it with my son now it's our favorite show to watch together south park has been so good
so funny
stuff so funny chatty pt stuff so i mean there's like the political stuff is funny too even if that's not your thing there's so much other they're making fun of many things
prediction markets were this week one i was oh i yeah well i saw on twitter the the the screenshot so i can't wait to watch it
it it was funny but strategic adviser yes we're happy to be your strategic adviser that's gonna be many things
curious i'm going back and forth but i still am using farcaster more and that is for two two reasons why that's happening for me personally one is channels because i like if i'm posting anything about gm farcaster i want it all on the channel it's just easier just for even myself to go back and reference so that's a main reason second is honestly rewards once you get sucked into the game it's hard to it's hard to pivot out
so that's that's a and you know what's really funny is we were having that discussion at base camp and i mentioned this to dan i'm like we're at base camp and there's so many people going yeah but if i post on base
i'm gonna
so base has their own rewards base has their own rewards too but i think it goes down to creating habits and digital habits like when you're used to opening up right like the forecaster app even like smallest little changes in the ui if you're going from base to forecaster make it so you're less likely to change i mean switching like like yeah so that's the whole network effect
yeah exactly yeah and this is a good and i see what you're and they they do have a different spam you know whatever i'm looking for like the spam indicator that farcaster is using to hide some of those folks that are super super spammy is not necessarily being used by base so they might be slower to pull some of those out and that's why you see different numbers also on all the protocol all the clients you're gonna see different numbers of followers depending on how they limit yeah spam
think the way only only down it's the the the least amount of followers i have is on farcaster itself
like i have a little bit more on the base app i have way more on the ones that don't do any filtering whatsoever for spam filtering that was the word i was looking for yeah so i'm using
yeah i find myself only using farcaster look because i was away so i was i don't know if you guys have heard but i was off the grid in western were
you gone were you not around
i missed that
and so we did have starlink with us and we had a generator that would power on at night so we could charge our devices so i i had but in my limited time i had to be very choosy so i was really only using the farcaster app i didn't open the base app while i was gone however i want to use it like i because i because i also wanna open zapper and i wanna open uno and i wanna try everything so now that i'm back my intention is to kind
of go back i haven't done enough with yeah
i haven't either it's like even the zappers and beta like it's still in test i think it's still test net so yeah
i think it is too so but i but but
but i do intend to to use them all except by the way speaking of you know i don't care about the leaderboard because yeah i'm not i refuse to allow yeah i refuse to allow someone else to you know direct determine your work yeah
but oh my god i'm so high up on the leaderboard this week that i i might i might be a convert
it's so funny because like you came back with a bet i haven't checked this morning but yesterday you were at eleven let me let me just do a quick update on that right now because you came
like after year
as soon as you can see another tier in sight or you hit that tier it's very hard to walk away you get like then you're like okay
this is i was talking with burr about this too because she when the week started she was at number one it's you normally can't stay there like it's very very hard but she's like okay but i can make a run this week like i'm gonna make a run for it and you know and it was because of that like early okay i'm already way up here i know i'm gonna cross down but if i let me see how i can push this
and start to make it that game and there's enough of an incentive that it's worth doing so it's you know it's not your worth blah blah blah but also it's kind of fun it's kind of fun to put also some of it's just like can i push myself can i do this within the way i like to cast not just for engagement farming and all that kind of stuff so it's yeah it's a little bit of a challenge so everybody's coming for the dog is what we're all saying i don't know if bert's bert's not awake it's too early for him sometimes bert's hanging out in the chat but not today i do need to yeah i definitely this is sappering clanker rhyme
was that in joke someone posted that i saw that and oh was this about the oh this was the the letter the open letter
the letter
they don't they don't yeah he was just memeing oh that was so funny
weird yeah they were too not really this is interesting i actually prefer using farcaster more because the base app kinda looks complicated and has lots of issues i i think it's just there's a there are a lot of pieces to it there's some complexity to it you're also going from two different approaches here you're taking a wallet and adding a social feed and vice versa farcaster you started with the social feed and added a wallet and honestly i think the adding the social feed to a wallet is harder i think the i think it's easier to add the wallet yeah
so and listen and farcaster only has 37 users so yeah exactly free to build to like they can mess up in public it's really hard for coinbase to mess up in public because you're gonna have millions millions of users in so
and that's why it's still in beta it's still in beta if you find any report any feedback for for real
and they are excellent at receiving feedback they appreciate it they know they're not perfect they're listening learning so just give the yeah be absolutely send feedback
yeah absolutely alright few things from some of our builder friends this from okay banger next tuesday september 30 8am 11am eastern 8am pacific 3pm utc okay so four hours i was right it was four not five kristen and cameron returns with a whiplash so okay banger is coming back they've been off for a little bit so excited to see them our friends kristen and cameron back this from cardno planning your trip to devconnect and have questions you want answered by experts actually this would be great for you adrienne join warthalter and sasol on the eat staker youtube channel at 5pm eastern october 10 for a friendly review of what you absolutely need to know before coming to buenos aires for devconnect if you didn't know patricio cofounder of poap is from argentina and from buenos aires i think in particular i don't know about sasol but maybe sasol is as well sasol's also very big within ethereum in the whole ecosystem so this will be a really good session if you're going to devconnect highly recommend that you give this a watch and jump in with your questions for them this from sahil and this is related to cura's updates they've made a few updates they're doing some new things here this is from sahil excited to onboard javaboo to build and grow a home base for poidhics on cura we're going to support him in curating the best poidhics related conversations feed onboard new user net new users and enable crypto native incentives and mini apps for the politics channel and i think part of what cura is trying to do where we were just talking about channels a little bit is to allow people to onboard directly to a channel to more easily find their people so creating ways to to do that so check that out as well and the poidhics channel generally speaking i find it with a few exceptions to be a good place to have those discussions where they tend to be respectful and interesting so there you go in farc in gm forecaster news whatever could this mean cody and garrett and jacy and question mark adrienne what could this possibly be
okay if you don't know where have you been okay i'm tony garrett and jacy are the winners of cast out season beta one and two
correct
i am i am exactly that would be the correct guess so yeah so we have cast out which is our game that highlights different things that are happening on farcaster different builders different mini apps and in a survivor inspired competition with tribes that compete in these different challenges to earn some prizes so we are very excited to bring that back next week we'll have some more details exactly when it's happening some of our sponsors that are or at least one sponsor that's coming on which i'll mention that in just one second and then we'll also have sign up start in terms of bringing your tribe together we may expand a little bit we're gonna see how the demand is but we'll have somewhere between eight and sixteen tribes that will play the game and excited it's always fun awesome very excited it's gonna be a lot of fun and also adrienne we don't have time for this we'll do this offline but we need a mini app i have thoughts
i have thoughts so we need a mini app so we have one so i did mention that we do have one sponsor who's already on board and that sponsor is also coming on as a spotlight sponsor so you may have picked up on this from my background but you may not have so here's the full background oh drum roll drum roll i forgot the drum roll and we maybe the gong too clanker is coming on board as of monday as a spotlight partner so on mondays every monday we will have a special segment that'll be about halfway through our show about like thirty minutes in that will be a clanker spotlight for the next month we're gonna experiment with this and we'll have about like a five minute like where we kinda focus on what's new with clanker like the protocol itself what's new in terms of new projects that are coming out that look interesting that have some you know have a clanker token attached with them what are people doing that are interesting and then we'll also be highlighting some of those projects and doing some interviews with folks that are building and incorporating clanker into what they build so we're looking for folks who are doing interesting things with clanker yeah so i'm very excited and they'll also be our title sponsor for the next season of cast out so yay yay and i'm still finalizing a name i'm back and forth on things i gotta talk to you about that i have ideas but i'm i'm
yeah we have to talk about that because i'm not sure what to where to go with this i have a couple ideas and then i'm back and forth on it so anyway so we'll have all that announced next week and then we'll start going into that it will cast out will be at the end of october it'll be the last week of october first week of november eight days of fun and look for that and there will
yes so last week of october first week of november
you know usually the first couple days are the busiest is what i'll say
it's funny because what you said the first time you ran it is you don't need to take off time
from work of course you don't
it's not that time consuming you
your spare time
still have but like i guess it depends if you tokens it depends if you wanna win oh yeah
that is good because something something next week is all i'm gonna say to that
clanker early clanker very
like the first week it came out mhmm it was our it was the first token i did i think it was the first token i did on clanker so it has a very different mechanic than the current clanker do with that what you will i'm not gonna say anymore right now next week next week more to talk about alright adrienne we've got one last topic to get into so here we go sky castle launched yesterday
congratulations it's basil and garrett have launched skycastle i'm gonna read through a little bit of this there's a lot of detail in here there's a great paragraph post i did dive into it was it helped to clarify a few things so today we introduced skycastle and our network token dollar sign sky skycastle is the tokenized incubator for the base and farcaster ecosystems we help early builders become credible founders and unify our network under one token it goes on we're here because the token landscape is fractured thousands of micro tokens launch each day most underperform eth and nearly all fragment liquidity in communities too often build or ship alone with broken token models and poor distribution while users burn time and capital rotating across narratives and chain result speculation without alignment a liquidity carousel and a dead end skycastle unifies this chaos into a single compounding network we do this by incubating apps and taking a fixed 5% of supply to our treasury we then defend that treasury with automated buybacks should our market price fall below our net asset value okay gets into detail about all of that it gets into the network it talks about a network our network is anchored by 30 partners bringing expertise across tokens product engineering marketing distribution community and capital beyond that we expand to a council of 64 invited by partners and aligned via shared incentives to broaden reach perspective and support including our two founders and four senior advisers the network extends 100 deep all working for and committed to the success of the project a little bit more detail here on the token itself 30% of supply was allocated premarket to 30 partners there is a lockup with that invested over eighteen months and then a few other pieces of the puzzle here okay
couple things this from jeff goldberg cabal member there is no cabal me i can see you with shoes poking out which i thought was very funny and then this was there is no cabal just a bunch of insiders casting images of skycastles who clearly knew sky was about to launch okay you know cabal this cabal that but there were part this was in planning for a while there were partners who were part of the launch so you know yes there was some known known things that were happening and some of them did i think some of them did buy themselves because most of it was locked up the ones that the percentage that they're being allocated and i think that was also to support the project so do with that what you will but this has been one of the criticisms that has been out there regarding this launch and here's the other one this is from our friend jacy i think skycastle is a great concept it helps focus liquidity caballing becomes somewhat more public and transparent and there are clearly some very strong and solid names backing this project for all these reasons i bought some sky both on my fc and non doxxed wallets that said i'd be remiss in not mentioning my disappointment in the lack of diversity in the partner network forgive me if i'm mistaking here but as far as i can tell debbie is either among or the only woman on this partner list if the expertise offered by this group is strategy pmf product build comms gtm brand ux and tokenomics then i can assure you there are plenty of bright experienced women on base and farcaster who fit the mold i could tag some of them here but the list would honestly be too long i also had that same thought i also wanna be really clear i personally know a lot of people associated with sky skycastle to be terrific bright and inclusive individuals so this isn't run of the mill fud aimed to tear them down i just think the optics here matter and i'm not sure if it was intentional or an oversight but either way i'm disappointed that a project with so much promise and visibility missed the opportunity to set a stronger example on diversity and representation especially given how central inclusivity is to building long lasting communities okay and there was a response from to this post we hear you three of four said no i know it's still not great but def wasn't supposed to be one good news is our council has 64 seats that aren't filled yet appreciate the support j c okay i'm also gonna mention this from burr like jacy i also bought sky and believe in the concept honestly i never even checked the men women ratio because i consider farcaster pretty inclusive it's definitely disappointing to see only one woman among 30 advisers as dad burr would say when i was younger i'm not mad i'm just disappointed and then we have this from derek and i think this is a good take on both of these issues so i wanna read this my takes on the categories of sky critiques i've seen well asterisk i'm just one guy i don't speak for everyone in sky nor should i these are my opinions and are not likely to be shared by my fellow partners
derek is one of the partners in this okay just one of the 30 one of 30 yeah lack of diversity i don't believe in quotas and i believe that diversity is more than external appearance gender otherwise but this is a real shortsighted failing i'm guilty and i'm sorry i will speak for myself and say that i'll strive to do better here okay cabal accusations cabal in modern parlance is just a mid curve word for what's referred to as mafias paypal y c etcetera n s p in silicon valley short of a solo founder doing a fair
yeah pretty much yeah just a network of people
short of solo founder doing a fair market launch like native this will be a perennial barb that said a true cabal would not be as visible as this group is you know who's in it you know how it works the docs are available on day one it's a token on the open market yes it took premeditated coordination and planning that didn't involve posting every decision to the feed see daw's rainbow m and a department etcetera but that's how the real world works i love the rainbow m and a department the nav model very fair sets of questions here my assessment in joining sky was primarily around this my answer the nav model especially when tokenized aligns our incentives with founders and token holders from day zero it puts the onus on us to a pick great projects with plenty of room to grow and move the needle for our entire space and b help add value to those projects through effort and elbow grease okay
okay i think you know you covered the cabal stuff very well and i'll just we'll just leave it there like you can be upset if you didn't get the earliest of early i will say that this was one of the first big tokens i think that had the new sniper tech built in like that had just gone live wednesday there's been a i'm sure a bunch more there have been a bunch more and there's a funny i forgot to pull that one a funny cast from ramsey about a token that he launched and it had it was the day of the sniper tech had just gone live and the person who sniped and got hit with the tax asked them to reimburse him which i just thought was hilarious hilarious but anyway so there was that you know that was wait
so there's a new sniper tax yeah
but the first
yes because the first fifteen seconds of the launch has always been the bots who are buying a ton of supply and then they dump as soon as there's any volume so that and it's very it's all automated it's not they're buying like everyone or they're buying them from certain like sometimes they build in like the neynar score or something like that sure to just pull the ones that they think are gonna pop so that is now getting taxed so there's that part of it with any of these launches so you know that was helpful but also i think because of the visibility of who was sharing the token who's involved as partners of course there was gonna be like a big hype and a big buy and so there was some concerns around that but i don't think the cabal stuff is that big of a deal okay so now on the thing that everybody has been pinging me about we're the partners yeah not a good look not a good look is is the best way i could say it like i feel icky about this i really like i like the folks who are involved here i like you know a lot of these people i have worked with or i know well i'm friendly with who are on this partner list so no shade to them whatsoever
and you know debbie's amazing but like we can probably find more than one i appreciate that basil was like we did ask but three of the four and i was like oh you asked a whole four but okay i appreciate the effort
so here's why some women in the space might be just a little put off by this and i'll actually i'll speak for myself i'm not gonna speak for all women because that would be dumb this like threw me off a little bit i didn't i didn't see this until i'd already bought the token i didn't digest this until later and then i kinda just i kinda just let it sit because i was like i think i need to process this a little bit because i don't wanna overreact because knowing especially knowing these particular crew of guys i don't think this was intentional i think it was very much a we didn't even realize i really do and
i'm i'm pretty sure it's always it's never intentional it's never intentional no one ever no one ever
listen that's not true that's not true there's a whole host of folks that are literally trying to take away our nineteenth amendment rights so some but but that is that is the that
is the minority when when you're launching something like you're building a team exactly i mean it's it's it's never lack of it's never intentional
it's not intentional but sometimes that's the problem right so this and this is kinda i think this was the best way i could describe my feelings was this jiff she's not dead she's just having an existential crisis so there's a point in the barbie movie where she just falls to the ground because she just is like she's just like i'm just so over like having to you know fight for for my rights kinda thing that it's just like it's exhausting so when you put it into the context of all the other things it's just like oh one more thing it's like ugh one more time where it feels like underrepresentation but also i appreciate that like you're building a project you're building with the people that you wanna build with that is 100% you're right you're pulling people that you feel are bringing the right expertise to the table it may when you're pulling from your own networks a lot of times those networks might be the gender that you are would i have liked to have seen somebody like a maggie love being you know reached out to to pull into something like this absolutely because even if she was not available she's the founder of shifi even if she wasn't available she could definitely have pointed you in the right direction of quite a few people if you weren't if you didn't know where to go with this and you it may have led to some filling in some holes that maybe you have within the groups that you have so just you know another reason for diversity there
but it's like i am in a different place than i was even four years ago on this topic and it's the exhaustion of it all where i've kind of given in a little bit to like this is just the way it's gonna be in tech and crypto for a while until there is just more women period like as users as everything as builders as everything because it's just less visibility you end up networking with them less and that way it just becomes this like self fulfilling thing that just compounds because if your network is mostly men then you're gonna be pulling more men into projects and more you know more men are gonna get that opportunity and and that's like it just continues because i've been fighting this for a while and i'm like i'm tired i'm tired so i'm not going to fight i'm going to build my own thing but also just know like when i see something like this it it's giving me an and that's now a you problem because if it's doing that for me it's doing that for a lot of women unless there are gonna be less women inclined to okay you have this council you're expanding to but there's gonna be less women inclined to want to participate when they feel a little slighted
that's actually what we should talk about which is like why why right like why does it matter right so yeah one so much talk about who's on the partner list and and the feelings associated with it but go back to like what are you what are you even building so what is yeah skycastle what's the
what's it called like castle yeah
yeah
so my critique about the announcement was there was so much talk about token stuff like it wasn't even clear to me exactly what you're building there wasn't as much focus on who you're serving what your vision like that that
you mean there wasn't enough focus on what the token would do
not in the way not in the way you'd like to see
i did channel my inner i was reading the announcement i channeled my inner random random arrow and i was like i don't understand it by the way i did not get a heads up i'm not in any cabals i didn't know this was coming i barely saw you know like yeah and when you're doing a launch it's normal there's two ways to launch right yeah you can kind of go out on a launch day when you're planning getting people to help you spread the message you need to then have your group chats and your cabal to help get that message out or you can you know do more of a slow build in public i didn't even see basil or garrett no put their names on this
that's true it's not
in announcement it didn't even say who the founders are so this was a little bit of a it it was a little bit of a mystery to me so
i would used more clarity it could use more explanation
it felt like the launch announcement was talking to people who already knew about the launch announcement it was like too insider coded so as a someone who was reading it from the outsider i don't know who's behind it tell me who's behind it it helps you garner more trust because i like buzzing garrett and i've seen you like i you know instead it so tell me who's behind it tell me what focus more on what you're going to be building and who you're serving and when you talk about the token it it too much you know it it felt more insider yeah like here's how we're gonna benefit the holders not the people we're serving
here's what we're trying to do here's here's yeah how we're trying to build up and be an incubator for things on farcaster which by the way i love the idea crossroads was another approach to this like that didn't get really get off the ground but was a concept so this is something that's been kinda percolating for a while and makes a lot of sense so
launching within a social network is trickier than launching outside because guess what we're a network we have friends yeah that is one of the reasons why people take it personally when they're not if you're not included in something like it's different than it's like oh some you know i don't know some by
the i'm sure there's a lot of guys who feel left left out too like as much as we're talking about the women i'm sure it's a ton of dudes
why didn't you ask me
right this is like we're all friends so we we're gonna feel oh okay yeah but the reason is it's like okay so farcaster we love farcaster and we believe in farcaster and we believe there should be more companies built on top of farcaster we built gm farcaster on top of farcaster like the so and we believe in growing the pie so the more founders the more developers the more companies built in this ecosystem the more everyone benefits whether you hold sky or not like you know i'm right good
yeah absolutely i mean
i can make a joke about the farcaster token but i know we have new people in the audience so i don't wanna spread thought
don't don't do it
let me let me just get this ready really quick quick pause
sounds okay anyway continue on
no reward okay but here's why representation matters right is if it it's who you're going to attract are you going to attract and their you know human psychology one zero one women founders feel more comfortable often not not a 100% right with with women mentors when they it's like this whole idea is like you can't be what you can't see you wanna be like this is why it's important to show many different types of paths and we've gotten this feedback just about our show there's people who like to watch news about farcaster from women yeah because they're women and they don't see themselves in others our audience
most of the other content is 20 bros it just does like it's crypto yeah like crypt yeah like crypto crypto content tends to be very you know gen z dude coded and it's like so when you bring something different then those folks who don't feel like they connect with that have an opportunity to like dive in so yeah
your cabal membership is not your worth
by the way there's cabals happening right now there's other people launching things my other critique on the launch announcement and i guess i'll
read you second yeah the gm farcaster cabal and that's why i said you are all the gm fc cabal seriously if you're in our chat on a regular basis you guys get a lot more insight and like alpha than most others like even if they listen later on or aren't listening at all you definitely do because we we are always sharing stuff that's very early very early so like yeah i agree anyway continue
i know there you go shill shill shill
okay so shill but it is i just say there's a million things that are oh that i wanna go back to critiquing the announcement yeah
sorry go back to the announcement
critique and i'm allowed to do this because garrett nor garrett texted me dm me to include me
the announcement right was the launch of a token and a concept and they're going to be building by the way i truly from the bottom of my heart i do want you to succeed i love you guys same i do want you to see it i want a farcaster incubator to succeed so what you know hit me up if i can help you i'd i'd that would be great you should succeed my my critique on the launch announcement was more on a stylistic perspective which is how you're communicating so again it sounded like you're talking to insiders not outsiders like but two there was a lot of talk about this is what we do but you haven't done anything yet so it it wasn't a aspirational this is our plan and this is what we hope to do and this is how but it was like we incubate but who have you incubated yet so that was my my other i haven't done anything
yeah i haven't done anything yet
so you captured attention sadly you captured attention sometimes you know for the wrong thing this is but also guess who's guess who's spent the last half an hour talking about skycastle
we have we wouldn't have we would not have spent this much time on it so there you go
on your launch congratulations on your launch and also yeah kinda where you know my first i have to tell you like i had to fight my first reactions my first reaction was to cast a list of all the amazing women that are on farcaster i started typing it and then i'm like first of all too many i'm gonna forget people and also chill out as i'm talking to myself and then my second one was to launch pink castle or like princess castle or something like that and i was like okay just don't it's necessary it really isn't it's because it's not that big of a deal but i was so i was like i don't have time i'm like i don't have time for this like i don't have time to like try and do something you know but also i'm gonna just point again to shifi great organization check them out really supportive of women especially supportive of women who want to learn about defi and crypto and providing a space that makes it comfortable to do that so
yeah
i've spent the last three weeks in western mongolia off grid i would say touching grass but there's very little grass because it was pretty desert like although the goats were able to find like the tiniest little pieces anyway i digress my nervous system is in a completely different place than it was three weeks ago
so in other words she thinks i should in mongolia
yeah
i honestly have had the the most calm reaction than i normally would so i'm pretty proud of that it's literally yes a spite incubator honest
and yes got the curb your enthusiasm reference and wouldn't farcaster be so fun with a larry david
oh my god please we'd love that we would love that but i really was like this close and i'm like you don't have time to do this well don't do it like stop you don't have to do this but you know we got feelings
like i 100% agree with that
yeah
yeah it's 100% like and that's
it's that's why i posted this it was just really like i'm just i'm exhausted need i just need i just needed to stop i don't wanna fight anymore but yeah so anyway okay thanks
yeah welcome back adrienne welcome back adrienne one last thing go check this out from our friend thumb i'm not gonna play it but he finally got his inside base camp trailer that he was putting together it was taking him forever to do go check it out it's so good and he took it it he was getting you could see him getting frustrated live yeah there we are live on the timeline just being like getting frustrated
of trying to create this and i really appreciate like you put a lot there's a lot of effort into this so go check it out
yes and can we just take a minute a thumb appreciation because he's ours as in yes not our like g m farcaster ours like a farcaster native really talented video creator
yeah
and he exhibits like all the good qualities of what makes farcaster special in terms of like good values and human and we love what you're doing thumb keep it up my favorite part about this video is the from the people who brought you a new day one and a new day one correct me out that was really funny
it suck
and i think all the other people saying base camp were ai generated newscasters and he threw us in yep and literally made my day so thank you
yeah it was it's just really good it's really good and this is the part of the is the part so funny going from the careers a new day one a new day a new day one
wait can i just say sadly i'm gonna jump back and forth because in the chat is saying the list of amazing women on farcaster is a good idea i think someone did that yeah prof did that the last time there was a the last time the last time that happened like and it wasn't that long ago like two weeks ago there was another against women it was like oh there's no women on farcaster actually there's a handful of talented women on farcaster
just like i can't that's why that's why i'm exhausted that's why that's why i'm like i can't i can't keep doing it
but it's a part of that listen i'm gonna my perspective is i casted something i also casted something recently like there's a million setbacks for women happening these days
the farcaster rewards leaderboard exactly
yeah but we don't deserve it because we're just casting like lifestyle slop yes to crypto
pictures of dogs i you know it's so insulting when somebody says that bert is just casting pictures of dogs of okay you clearly aren't paying attention but anyway go ahead
anyway all i'm saying is i believe that there is we are is progress if you zoom out long enough yes on a long enough timeline there's a 100% progress and in between then trends will come and go and pendulums will shift and pat like and it's gonna feel it's it's turmoil and chaos and it can feel very dark when you're in it but what i always do is i look back to like what were the opportunities my grandmother had and what opportunities do i have today
exactly
and i as a woman i would never have asked to be born at a different time than i do today yeah and all i can do is like live my life and try to make the world you know better but it just how do i make the world freer fairer and more opportunities for my granddaughters and that's i'm living on that timeline and it's you know it's cope and guess what i go to bed at night
let's cope
welcome back adrienne on that note
amazing and aqueous yes yes absolutely and that's why i was like you know what i'm not putting this list out there because i'm gonna forget too many and i'm just not gonna do it but there are ton
you know what good point if you're in the chat and your name doesn't match your farcaster name please just give us a little quick little hey i'm so and so because i like to tag people and there's been quite a few that i just can't find so if you're not getting tagged on the thank you post that is why because i can't find you alright monday we will be back with a fresh intro fresh outro and a new sponsor very excited to welcome clanker as our latest partner and excited to work with them excited to work with them on cast out and some other things we're talking about so very excited for that that'll be monday and we will thirty minutes in have a clanker spotlight where we'll highlight and that'll be happening every monday where we highlight what is happening in the clankerverse and that's it that's it that's all happy friday man
i'm really excited i'm excited to launch this with clanker we have loved every single one of our sponsors we say we're choosy because we really wanna align and work with partners that like whether they're paying us or not we're happy to talk about what they're doing and can't really i'm super excited because clanker is farcaster native and yeah
love the team and love the team love the team so very excited to be working with them
and hey thanks for coming thanks for being here first episode welcome
oh nice oh that's nikki saap that could be nikki saap alright everybody thanks so much we will see you on monday 11:30am eastern this is really funny by the way i'm gonna be in a slightly different location in my clubhouse in a conference room because monday they're testing all the fire alarms in my building and it goes off like every nine seconds and i'm like thank god i thought about this ahead of time because otherwise that would
you know why i went on mute earlier do you know why i went on mute earlier now it's my dog
oh it wasn't a dog oh
it's my washing machine oh i'm washing some of my shoes that i had at my campsite that had caked in yak and goat shit in it like the soles of the shoes are just it was just shit
no immediately just go and garbage
last shoes not have brought it home
but it is like you know the machine was like starting to do the clanker clank clank clank clank
speaking of clanker
i think i was do it again but you're good okay that's so funny i seriously would not have they would not have made it i would not have brought them back they would have stayed in mongolia no question in
my all there was shit in our tents because like half the the gers don't have floors it's not a tent that has a floor so it's just on the grass and then some of them would have rugs on them and they were wonderful and then some were just like grass there's so it's all herding animals so like there's literally goat and yak and sheep shit everywhere but guess what they're all like they're just grass eaters so very healthy shit
okay great but also no no no but then you don't get
to come home with a glow you'll never access this i have access this glow you can't reach top 10 on the leaderboard this is totally worth it
100% you can have it i don't want the action i just can't i just can't i don't camp i won't camp i'll never camp and yes the yak shit glow it's what adrienne is sporting
oh i'm gonna get this one
oh my god i should do a i should do skin products or something but it's actually not there's not shit on my face just so you know
i can't even oh okay and with that everyone that was hilarious
hey cardno we missed we talked about you already yeah
i don't know if you saw it but anyway alright everyone we gotta go we've been we've been hanging for a while we'll see you on monday and with that everybody