Token Feeds, Twig Wisdom & $degen Kickflips: GM Farcaster ep294 with @dwr Dan Romero

38 Kickflips. 1 Minute. Yes, he literally did it for $DEGEN. World Record broken. Bounty collected. What a legend. @davebachinsky https://farcaster.xyz/davebachinsky/0x8dcfe9e6

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@dwr on virtual stage at @balajis.eth’s /network-states conference in /singapore

I hope I can also accomplish or build something amazing like @kenny did today. A $30,000 $degen bounty to break a world record and accomplished it with the farcaster network (impressive with only 37 people) 🔥 It didn't happen overnight. I remember joining farcaster and immediately being met with /poidh from @kenny in my mentions. His championing of /poidh has been unwavering since that day. When I grow up I want to be like Kenny.

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Ironic that the success of embedded crypto wallets has been driven by new apps pursuing the same set of cryptonative users (at the expense of more traditional crypto apps and wallets) vs. meaningfully onboarding the next wave. That's not to say it won't happen, especially with the coming stablecoin fintech era. But if you told me in 2020, most new wallets being created were email-based auth, I would have assumed we had finally reached the onboarding the masses stage. Not yet.

what are some of the best fc native physical good products? planning some early holiday shopping using my fc rewards. top of my mind is humankind by @samantha and merch by @mintedmerch. would appreciate some more suggestions!

Just over six months ago, netnose and I came together with a plan to build an app that would use the unique viral potential of Farcaster mini apps to give creators real opportunities to get paid for their creativity. The result was @betrmint, and its native community clanker $BETR, and we had no idea the ride we were in for. Fast-forward to today, two seasons later, and the numbers really do speak for themselves: 🩵 77 rounds hosted. 🩷 64,000 spins 🩵 $180,000 in tx volume. 🩷 $60,000 paid directly to featured creators. 🩵 Over $130,000 worth of reward tokens distributed to players 🩷 Consistently 10,000 unique users per month and Top 10 Mini App Leaderboard for several months running. 🩵Over 65% of circulating $BETR staked and $3,000+ in staking rewards paid in month one alone. 🩷 A healthy $1M market cap for $BETR with one of the strongest token communities on Base. 🩵 App has been featured by farcaster, TBA, 11am, buildonbase, splits, ethereum foundation and many more. This season, we also collaborated with so many projects and communities we love: $DEGEN, @ripsapp, @tipn, @dau, @ponder… each bringing their own flavor into the neonverse. We became the earliest active community on @rocketman’s Cobuild App, with 470 people voluntarily setting $BETR as their token, fueling $800+ in buybacks. Our new Karma Quest feature kicked off strong with in-app @matchaxyz swaps driving $6,000 in volume in week one. Burr somehow ran hundreds of poker tournaments and kept the community in good spirits at all times (does she sleep?) We also hosted NEONCHAIN Summer, a full-blown onchain festival featuring 15 rounds, $15K in rewards paid to artists and 14,000+ mints of bespoke neon art from some of the most talented creators in the space. We believed the timeline would be much BETR with more art, and it was. Behind the curtain, we turned every dial and fiddled with every lever: finally extending round lengths from 10-12 minutes to 20–30 for more inclusive participation by adding more games, larger prize pools and additional mint friction to balance supply and demand. If you tried to play BETRMINT in the past and got frustrated because the rounds were over so fast, please give it another try. If you’re paying attention when the round goes live, it’s a LOT easier to get in now and try it out. — So that was Season 2 in a nutshell. And now… we are about to begin Season 3 and I’m very excited! Here just a few of the things we are thinking about, working on and planning for in the next few months: ⚡ Pumped-Up Karma: in season 3 you’ll earn double for minting, spinning, and winning, giving new folks a chance to climb the leaderboard ranks. 🤖 Clankers Do It BETR: a month-long collab starting next week and spotlighting clanker communities with market-bought prize pools + live streams, courtesy of @dish and the amazing Clanker team. ✍️ BETR x Drawcast: weekly neon drawing contests every Saturday with $BETR + $DRAW rewards, with a custom interface cooked by @tamastorok.eth 👀 A custom neon Spin-to-Claim staking implementation built for a partner mini app / token community coming this month. More soon. 🎨 New collabs with lots more mini apps, tokens, protocols and projects. 📱 A fresh UX update rolling out soon. 👀 📜 More exciting Karma Quests with new partners. 🏆 More ways to spin and more Staking Stackpots on the wheel. 🏰 @skycastle: I was excited to join this incubator as a founding partner and will be helping new builders find their footing and explore mini app token distribution strategies leveraging @noiceapp, $tipn, bankr, Rips + more. Our big hairy audacious goals for this season: 💪 Refine our systems and processes so that we can scale to 5 rounds a week (which will scale all our metrics up by 25%) 💰 Surpass $300K in volume and grow $BETR organically to a $10M MC by year end. 🩵 Surpass $100K in creator rewards paid. 📺 Expand reach to values-aligned X-native communities with targeted airdrops and collaborations. 🟦 Grow our presences on @baseapp.base.eth via Spindl’s beta in feed onchain ad platform (which we were recently accepted to.) — In conclusion: Six months in, BETRMINT has proven that when you combine a compelling mini app experience with thoughtful tokenomics, strong community, creator focus, and a little serendipitous speculation thrown in for good measure… there’s no telling how far we can go together. And after all, as we have been known to ask, what could be BETR than winning together? — Ok ok To that point… From the BETRMINT team, we want to thank you all so much for the constant support and enthusiasm. It’s the reason we do it and this community surprises us every day. You’ve all been minting, spinning, winning, questing, staking for months, and like the neon flywheel, what goes around comes back around! Our BETR Bomb Community Airdrop #2 is loading now, with over 1.75 Billion tokens worth $18,000 going out to our most loyal and active app users and community members. Minimum 69 Likes and 25 Recasts on this season 2 recap cast, and I’ll ask Netnose nicely to release the Spin-to-Claim wheel… the ball’s in your court, BETR Believers! Keep on spinning, toady out 🫡

We have a Farcaster AMA from @spencerdinwiddie, an NBA player and cofounder of @calaxy which launched on Farcaster recently! The AMA starts in ~1 hour at 10am PT / 1pm ET Reply with your questions below!

32 teams. 1 champion. Claim your spot at Uniswap Cup 🏆

gm everybody a Farcaster and a DEGEN has broken the kickflip world record lfggggg @davebachinsky! 🥳🥳🥳🎩 🎩 🎩 @jacek get in here sir https://poidh.xyz/degen/bounty/1167

I’ve never done so many kickflips in my life 🫡 This was such a gnarly challenge trying to beat this record ❤️‍🔥 We made it happen !!

We're excited that @farcaster is joining the Ethereum World's Fair at Devconnect! Meet @linda, @horsefacts.eth, and other team members IRL in Buenos Aires, and we've heard that some builders will be able to do live demos of their mini app at the space 👀 Get your ticket for the first Ethereum World's Fair: https://tickets.devconnect.org/

More details on Neynar scores https://neynar.com/blog/neynar-scores-under-the-hood

got farcaster? (accuracy on sora a bit to be desired, but you get the idea)

Join us tomorrow, Oct 2nd at 9 AM ET for a Degen App Beta Live Stream on Telegram. I’ll give a first look at the DEGEN app, highlight new features, and answer community questions. Come hang out, explore the app, and drop your feedback. 🎩 TG: t.me/degentokenbase

Farcaster is moving toward becoming the best wallet for trading tokens - Lightning-fast, low-fee swaps across multiple chains - Token Links and Token Tags with “$” - Token Pages packed with rich context - Token News - Token and Trade Alerts - And now, Trade Ideas and Top Stories All of this makes discovering, understanding, and trading tokens faster and better. Love seeing this progress and more.

Ok this is fun — follow me on Sora! (nounishprof) and let me know if you’re over there

Introducing Blueprint... not your average strategy.🟦 A few Day One founders on @base have been cooking to bring a new experiment to reward holders and support Based projects. Today we start with the real OG projects on Base.🟦 -Tiny Based Frogs by @dailofrog (First NFT collection)🟦🐸 -The @based_fellas (First 10K PFP collection)🟦 -@basednouns (First DAO, early PFP collection) ⌐◨-◨🟦 - @WeMYSTCL(Very early collection by @0xvsr)🟦 -Last, but certainly not least @OnChainDinos (Another very early collection by @apex777.eth ).🟦 🦖 In the coming days we will announce further details on our strategies that will include more collections & much more than solely flipping NFTs.🔗 http://blueprint.cooking Be sure to follow @blueprint-token X: @blueprint_token

New on Farcaster mobile: trade ideas and top stories The search tab now has a feed of trade ideas -- cryptonative news stories and token collections to start and more coming soon. The top story will sit at the top of the feed. It's manually created right now (by me) and will be a mix of Farcaster native and major assets. We use AI to generate short summaries and when available link out to the sources. The one requirement for a story: has to be tradable.

We finally launched a GeckoTerminal Farcaster mini app! Try casting any GeckoTerminal link and see how the chart looks! Let me know what you think of this

This month’s life lessons from my twig, who now resides at /thenextwave. 1. Look within during rapid growth. You may be thriving on the surface but tangled underneath. 2. If your surroundings don’t support your growth, it’s time to move. 3. Be gentle with change, however necessary. Transplant shock is real.