The Great Tortoise Stampede: GM Farcaster ep299

NFTs in 2025 (will explain on @gmfarcaster )

I will be at the @nodefoundation opening in Palo Alto this January … if phil gifts me a cryptopunk

I like turtles 🐢

37 followers? yep. checks out.

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now we're talking

If someone's first crypto wallet is Farcaster, they might not realize how complex, time-consuming, and expensive bridging usually is. just one small example of how easy Farcaster wallet is to use.

we are evolving from "what's the CA" to "what's the thesis" very soon we may even be able to read books again. i have faith

Gmfarcaster is also on TikTok if you want to give us a follow too https://www.tiktok.com/@gmfarcaster

Building a mini app? The Base team cooked up a mini app demo that you can use to test the latest functionalities / capabilities in the Base app and a mini app asset generator to help you easily generate manifest-compliant assets for your mini app Try them out below and see what’s possible! https://frames-v2-demo-lilac.vercel.app/

New on Farcaster: swap comments - Comment when you swap - Your comment appears on the asset page - Under-the-code your comment is a cast on the protocol - Other clients like Zapper and Base can integrate permissionlessly Farcaster is the largest protocol of publicly linked Ethereum and Solana wallets with 100,000 funded wallets in the main app. Social + trading is our DNA.

New Feature: Swap Comments! Swap at least $10 of a token and you can write comments that show up on the token page. Restart your app a few times if you dont see my comments on $HYPE

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We’ve reached peak media. I think people will continue to shift towards more social-first platforms around their friends, family and communities. People yearn for connection and humanity. Too much of technology subverts these two key things and I think people will continue to seek out human connection over content/media.

CLANK ON MAINNET The OG L1 is there for provenance and ultimately offers a different trading experience than L2s with a public mempool We think it’s important to extend clanker’s reach as well as support anything when it comes to deploying a token on EVM now available via clanker world and clanker-sdk v4.1.26

mini app and website to bridge your Farcaster OG from Zora to Base 1) the mini app can also be used as a website. most token holder don't have their OG NFT in their warplet 2) the $FARSTR token and airdrop for it exists, but you don't have to do anything with it or care about it _at all_. we made some changes today to separate this out better. If you held the Farcaster OG and didn't sell it you got an airdrop https://hellno-fogstr.vercel.app/bridge

Looking for to talk to people with a lot of experience with video clips / Whop / etc. Bonus points if you have done so in crypto. Reply or DM

we've built a vibe coding studio specifically for miniapps: text input -> mini app output - understands farcaster context - signs manifests on your behalf - gives you a url you can share with your network This said, it's early and will have bugs / corner cases (as things go) If you've been waiting to build a mini app, we'd love to onboard you and get feedback. The Studio will be a paid product. We'll enable free access for everyone alpha testing with us :) If interested, please respond to this cast or DM @calvino 🪐

DEGEN started in 2024 with a simple idea: to reward content creators and turn social engagement into real value. In the early days, every new wallet and every interaction mattered: 5,000 wallets joined within days. & today over 1 million wallets hold $DEGEN. Over $50M has been airdropped directly to users, showing just how much a passionate community can move the needle. We’ve seen firsthand how a tight-knit, engaged community makes all the difference; it’s what turned a single vision into a global movement. As we head into Q4, we couldn’t be more excited for what’s next, and for all the ways our community will continue to shape Degen’s journey.

since i was little i had always dreamed of, when i grew up, contributing to building a bigger and faster casino that could be instrumental in corruption and political grift, and when people complained about the rich eating the poor, i could dumbfoundedly say to them, “this is crypto? no one ever promised it’d be fair, son”

Why not add the ability to view each other’s holdings as easily as we can view each other’s casts? Just add a tab in the same row as Casts, Replies, Collection, Likes on the profiles page. I think I understand the valid argument for why not (i.e. intentional friction for the sake of privacy) but the recent addition of the “Recent trades” section I think implies the deprioritization of that specific type of privacy, if it can help lead to farcaster growth along with other wallet-focused changes. The information is already public. What happens after it is made much easier for the masses to follow, I don’t know. People may value privacy more then and choose which wallets they connect to their socials more carefully, etc. But I don’t see a need for fc to delay the inevitable at this point. Open to changing my mind. In navigating various pages and wallet things here, especially recent trades section, it just no longer feels like a material add-on as much as it feels like something that is actively missing. Seems very on theme with recent changes in prioritization.

he is probably the grittiest, most intense, most productive person I know. when I met everyone in person for the first time our small talk went something like: "so did you study programming?" "yeah, CS at Texas. I played football. I was a walk on." "oh, wow. so how did you join Merkle?" "I read about Farcaster on a blog. So I looked at the hubs repo and opened some PRs. Then they hired me."