here we go gm gm i'm sorry we have a lot of links a lot of things so i was curating blame it on the new arch exactly i was curating and let's just zoom out for a moment just to give the folks a peek at our backgrounds
yeah i mean i'm as soon as i saw mine like i know exactly what my background is i feel like i need
to position myself accordingly hold on
you need to move a little bit yeah
that's perfect can you slide a little bit to the side for a second too so they can see which one that is yeah there we go yeah that's a bit it's amazing that's amazing the og token in there we are gonna get rolling please retweet recast share the mini app let everybody know we are live and we are gonna be back in just forty seconds after this little intro see you on the other side
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gm farcaster it is wednesday october 22 and you are here with nowness proff and adrienne for twenty nine minutes of farcaster news to start your day plus we're gonna have zoll better call zoll on to chat about zoll and it looks like we're not okay it is showing that we are live on twitter but it's not giving those nice little prompts that it does to tell people so if you're over there give us a little retweet because i don't think we're getting some distribution right now so anyway
we are rolling here we've got a lot to chat about mostly about one thing and we'll get there but we have a couple other things to catch up on first and let me just let people know we are live one more second
okay here we go all right we've got so many things to talk about but i wanna start with this because this was like a full on everybody in crypto twitter everybody on broadcaster talking about this so kobe
okay for those who don't know kobe let me let me let me jump ahead to cj's comment here i'm afraid to ask who the fuck is kobe so and then zinger did a nice little lore here the weird lore of kobe born in the uk studies computer science at bristol university works in tech and fintech including monzo bank as a product manager buys bitcoin in 2012 when it was under $10 joins early crypto communities fascinated by decentralization it goes on he had a podcast called up only that was very very popular twenty twenty one-twenty twenty two during the height of all the things last big bull run during covid and all that and actually really solid podcast like very interesting one of my favorites so i was watching the day the the live stream with duquan and martin shkreli the day that like basically everything collapsed with ftx and they were just like sbf is going to jail kind of thing and it was wild like watching the live stream was wild to all of a sudden see martin shkreli pop up on the screen i'm like what is farmer bro doing here and he's talking about there he's talk he's giving advice on jail he's giving advice on like how to get the virus
in jail i kind of vaguely remember this it was
it was it was just wild it was wild and so anyway he had posted this back in may this nft because somebody had asked about are you ever gonna live stream again and he said no and then he did this nft and he said okay if somebody pays me 25,000,000 i'll i'll live stream again so that's what this nft was and it says the holder of this admission ticket can compel kobe in ledger status into performing like monkeys eight episodes of up only tv it does not convey any sponsorship rights and we are allowed to call you idiots for buying it or ignore you completely with zero mentions of your existence during our episode episode season we get to pick the guests but if you like if we like you then we might ask you for some suggestions okay so this was posted like like i said a while back in may it's been listed and not listed off and on and it was relisted like two weeks ago i did a little hunting here just because i was curious so yesterday
coinbase or not the day before day before coinbase announced brian armstrong tweeted that he bought the nft and then tweeted again that he burned it and kobe's response is i'm too old to have a crypto podcast i'm a be out here looking like gary v so what this all turned out to be which i was like in the back of my mind i kept thinking there's more to this there's more of this story there's no way that a public company if this was binance if this was pretty much anybody else in crypto like literally any private company in crypto mhmm who just did this on a whim i would not have been like i would not have thought oh there's more to this it could have just been like we're just gonna give you know shoot our shot kind of thing we have money to blow and we'll just shoot our shot possible but with a public company in fiduciary duty i'm like there's gotta be more to this and there was so coinbase has acquired echo so kobi sort of left the podcasting world started echo which is an on chain capital raising platform it's even when it started there was a lot of like concerned around us regulatory issues that it may wouldn't be able to take off because of that and and things like that but now in the current environment this seems more and more to be a really good bet and so coinbase has acquired them for i think it was $250,000,000 somewhere in the ballpark and this is kobi's you know main company so this was part of the deal essentially and the podcast the buying the nft was a marketing piece that worked brilliantly i think he's still doing the eight episodes right but you know it wasn't brilliant it wasn't like on a whim you know it wasn't like coinbase it's like you know it's this morning i feel like brian arson knew i could go i got 25,000,000 burning a hole in my pocket what am i gonna do oh you know what that image that nft i've been looking at no no no no so this is really exciting very interesting i think there's echo is very interesting in terms of their approach i think that is a really good acquisition and i'm excited to see what i just am excited to see kobe come back and do what he's gonna do i don't know what he's gonna do but it's gonna be good so well look out for that alright so that's who kobe is and that's what's going on there moving on actually let me stop this video so it doesn't drain okay moving on we had an aws outage as well and this was v's comment the ongoing aws outage is causing issues with our wallet you may see some errors while trying to use your wallets today until this is resolved funds are safe and you'll be able to use the wallet fully once aws issues are resolved lots of comment in general not specific to this about how web three is a little too dependent on web two right now because because a lot of things went down in the world as well but also just like things like this there were mini apps that were having a lot of problems and it came down to mostly vercel seemed to be for web3 seemed to be the core thing that a lot of people use that was running aws and that was a big problem so spotify i was having trouble uploading to spotify oh did i even get our pods up i don't think i got pods i have to do that as well i didn't get our last episode up on pods because it was not working for me and i think it's working now so i'll get that done today yeah so that was interesting and then viet said this farcaster the social network continued to work smoothly through the aws outage despite running on aws a lot of credit goes to simple design of the system which made it less reliant on parts of the aws stack that failed it's also easily distributable and we can run validators on gcp in the future to prevent downtime lots of credit to dynamite sanjay and adiapat for their work on this the far and then a doubt said the farcaster wallet had a few hours of trading downtime the failure was that but we had reliance on specific services which went down we're making a lot of improvements here so that it doesn't happen again so then there was a little bit of pushback on this that hey there were a lot of things that were down but in general it seemed to work pretty well compared to other things that were down absolutely you know really so and adrienne i know you were looking at doing something different with our bot and i don't know if this was related or unrelated okay totally totally unrelated so okay awesome so i saw you post something about like i don't know doing something new and this from the dynamite rolled out a new faster pricing system for our wallet prices should be a lot more accurate and closer to real time please reply if you see any issues by the way i almost replied to this at one point i all my balances were suddenly hidden and i so i updated the app yesterday and a couple things happened one of the things was i was in immediate dark mode and i was like no no no i can't no no no and then i for some reason all my balances were hidden so i thought i was like do i have to go through and unhide them all and then i finally realized that no i just have to tap on the balance and it changes it all but for some reason i thought it was related to the outage i didn't know what was going on and it was just a weird little thing so if for some reason this has happened to you if you suddenly find yourself in dark mode you can go to your settings and change that if you suddenly find that your wallet balances aren't showing click on the top bunch of asterisks and it should change them all back and i just forgot that part so yeah i was having a moment if
you suddenly find the app won't open at all go to the app store and and if you're not in and update
it yeah that was the other i had a couple little issues that kept and i was like oh i bet i'm not updated and as soon as i updated it was fine so yeah if you're having any problems and you don't have auto updates on like me i do that
for many
reasons you can just make sure you have the most up to date and this from v deposit bonus update we're paying out the first deposit bonuses this week this wednesday as a reminder you get 1% each week for qualifying deposits for ten weeks deposits qualify if they were sent in when the deposit program was open so don't try now you can check this by tapping on the usdc in your wallet deposits will be disqualified if we detect that a single person has created multiple accounts with no activity on the network for the sole purpose of farming rewards about 25% of deposits are being disqualified under this criteria and you'll get a notification and email tomorrow if this affects your account so you'll should see that today finally if you didn't qualify for the deposit bonus and you are an active user we are working on a new iteration of the program to help you earn help you earn for keeping usdc usdc on farcaster more on this soon so very cool good to see different things rolling out like this i did not get my stuff in time so i'm out i i didn't make it and also i spend my usdc this is the problem like i don't
it's the farconomy
it's the farconomy yeah i can't i can't i i do okay when it's elsewhere but when it's on farcaster it's a problem so i don't i don't know what to do about that so i don't really wanna put it over there because i literally had to move some over last night and we'll tell you
what what have you bought this week anything good
yes i bought something yesterday with crypto
are we not talking about that yet i bought
yeah okay not yet
i bought candles this week
oh did you oh nice mhmm i have mine oh it's too far away i can't grab it okay let's dive into some more news we are gonna get to the rebrand i'm just saving that for for for the end here this from base from the base team this from wilson cusack excited to wear a new hat came back to coinbase to work on base because i had a feeling it could be the defining work of my career and it hasn't disappointed onwards lots to do so if you don't know wilson he was with coinbase way back when and then went out on his own for a little bit and then came back to work on base it's right from day one or pre day one he was you know working on the developer stack early early on jesse used to joke about wilson being locked up in a basement working on things when they were first before they launched officially i know wilson through nouns so by the way early nouns ridiculous people like just ridiculously brilliant amazing devs and just incredible people anyway wilson's one of them and so this is exciting there's also going to be some new product lead a new product lead is going to come in i guess but he's now head of product for the whole chain so and he bravely said on twitter you can tag him with your complaints so don't be shy don't be shy tag away but you know our recommendation is make it constructive and this from aniri just launched aniri on base base app why because i believe anyone should be able to earn from what they create i've spent several years building products for creators and coins are by far the most useful most powerful creator tool i've seen i'm committed to continuing to onboard and empower creators and their communities to earn together i'll share more soon on learnings and where we're headed from here but for now here's a first look at this experience in the base app so she launched her token and that was it so i was like okay i thought she already had a token so i was like a little confused but i guess she didn't i guess she hadn't launched it
okay so it's could she have one on could she have done her zora one like on her people had been launching the zora yeah creator coins this is now on the base app and base app is rolling them out permissionedly so it's kind of thoughtfully this is really only the second person who's been able to launch a
creator coin
it's not the base app
okay so this is i think this is where i'm confused so i saw nikki do hers by the way mem i don't know if you remember this when we were at barclays and i went is that nikki walking by and i went oh that's i know her from miami and through nouns that was the nick it was nikki and it was nikki from miami who launched a token so i'm a little i think there hasn't been a lot of clarity on this because to me it felt like isn't it just the zorik creator coin what's the difference and i feel like they haven't clarified the difference and i guess that's where i'm confused i'm very confused so that's why i thought oniri already had a token but i guess she didn't so this is specifically through the base app through the base app yeah okay but it is a zuora
token i imagine yeah yeah
so that's why i'm it's a little confusing but anyway okay
is there any protocol or is there the app base the chain or base the app forecaster
i can't i can't
forecaster the app i can't anymore it's yeah
all the things alright we've got a few more things to chat about but i think i'm going to hold off on those
one second and i think i'm gonna skip over to our rebrand chat and then bring up zoll and we'll circle back to some builders stuff in a little bit there's too many things there's too many things today okay because we gotta we gotta just touch on this real quick because we had a big rebrand which you can see in the back of our in our backgrounds today we are sporting the new arch there's a lot of feelings feelings is a good word about this and
mostly by mike demaris mike reba no just kidding he's very excited actually he thinks it looks more like vance he's never been happier okay here we go this from dan yesterday from dwr today we're starting the rollout of the new farcaster brand we worked with primary studio to refresh the brand in late september we have a new logo wordmark typography colors and brand elements later today you'll see the new logo on the mobile app and everywhere over the next coming weeks so that did roll out yesterday and we have a new arch new everything new color so here's the new logo and the old logo
okay and then we had a lot of other other things in here this was a little peek at explorations essentially things they can use for marketing in different ways and i had seen we had seen some of this already they had posted some similar things those are public figma if you are looking for the logo to be able to use that or the old one they're both there and they have the also the hex color and all that kind of stuff if you're looking to be precise this also from dan as a reminder wait oh that's not it as a reminder i designed the original logo and picked the purple the attachment to it is to it as a function of time familiarity what you associate with that barcaster with the logo was a modified cc zero stock icon and the purple was terrible to use in product especially on mobile so that was a big part of it we saw that when they went to dark mode there was a lot of issues with the purple so doing the darker purple was a better approach oh i guess i already shared that i thought i had a different one there this from blockheim who kind of gets into a little bit more on the design decisions thought i'd shed a bit more light on some of the design decisions here a brand system has jobs be clear at a glance feel approachable scale from tiny icons to big moments work in product build trust and still carry personality the new purple is not just louder it's tuned for contrast dark mode and print which the old purple didn't handle well the arch is designed to hold up in different environments tiny avatars low bandwidth screenshots decks ads print etc fewer internal edges mean fewer chances to break at small or large scale we're bringing the curves of the arch into the system more consistently when those shapes echo across the logo buttons icons and imagery the brand feels familiar without being loud we introduced a secondary palette for the first time before everything leaned on one purple now we have a hierarchy contrast flexibility and we avoid purple fatigue we plan to explore motion in product and marketing it is new for us but the goal is for motion to feel functional and consistent not distracting the arch and curves in the new system will guide how it comes to life the system is more flexible but consistent consists of a small set of elements that can be used in different ways without things feeling messy or off brand remixed better than chaos fewer choices faster shipping more consistency as a reminder the brand is a living system not a finished artifact it will keep evolving as the product and community do so keep the feedback coming and this from tanny it's coming we're going to have a lot of fun some experiments along the new lines so this was some of the things they were playing with and yeah okay
how do you feel adrienne
about the new brand about the branding it's great it's great here's why it's it feels a little more grown up i for i love everybody's like for all the hate on it i love how blackham came in like as the adult and was like it was like listen people listen people like here's all the things you're not considering yeah like the grown up in the room mic drop you know my my thought is everyone people really don't like change we get attached to brands like we love the old logo great i i think it's fun obviously one of the reasons i also love a new a rebrand is because it gives a chance for the timeline to meme
it does and we will it's fun we have a few of those to share it's fun i'll just say like i the color 100% no issues as we'll see from the memes the arch i need time i just need time that's
fine i don't hate it
i don't hate it and i am very critical of rebrands but i'm critical when they're just bad like when they're just like unnecessary bad jaguar cracker barrel there's certain
right where's the soul behind them where's the personality exactly
like if they don't make sense twitter doesn't it never made sense sorry never gonna let that one go you threw away a really well known brand and then to the point how many people still call it twitter anyway like it didn't it didn't it didn't feel thought out like when it feels thought out and it feels connected and it feels like it makes sense then i'm not as critical but so i'm not really critical of this i think the colors are fantastic i think all the direction looks great i'm just not completely sold on the arch but i don't absolutely hate it either you know it's kind of like i'm in between
same same
i did wear this today
nice
yeah
so that's where i'm at let us know in the chat where you guys at so a few other things on this because there was just a lot the meaning memeing jaguar's rebrand was absolutely horrendous like the dumbest thing i've ever seen and you know they spent millions of dollars on it i prefer the old logo the arch is weird i think they're right down it feels like something there's i mean it's pretty much fifty fifty split it feels like pretty close this from ted and now i can't unsee it by the way it looks like a squatty potty to me if you don't know it's like a little stool yeah and i felt that as soon as she said it i'm like yep i see it and now i can't unsee it but overall still like it golf divot yep repair tool
potty is not a stool by the way and i'm sorry to say i know what it is
i know it i mean it looks like a squatty potty it does look like that but i was i was giving context if people don't know what is what that is
it's it's fine okay
golf divot yes as well oops i think i already got that one mike demaris probably had the most fun yesterday with the rebrand or monday if this would ever come up come on
so for those who don't know mike has been talking about that the arch looks like pants since it was launched and there is now a pants channel i think he had a pants i thought he had a pants channel but i guess maybe he just added it so yeah this so this was in response to gp jp ferreno thank you mike damaris now each time i open it i don't see arches anymore and you are all welcome and by the way if you've never really looked into mike's pfp
i might i you know there you go so that was during the farts moment but yes he's already made the original archpants i don't know if he'll be rebranding as well maybe we'll see we'll see this was also fun so this was trending on twitter farcaster launches new logo and purple brand identity not really
so okay let's explain quit trending for
a moment
yeah okay because also and i also saw a nari cast about
yes
lee for everything okay yes okay yes i was like we need a little moment where has personalized trending searches
hit them with it adrian
okay here's okay so twitter when you go to the search and they show you trending topics it is personalized to what your interests are it is not global global twitter is not talking about the farcaster rebrand but if you have been shown to be someone who likes farcaster or talks about farcaster engages with people who are in the farcaster circle twitter will tell you farcaster rebrand is trending
yes exactly yes so thank you for that because i was like i don't think that's what's happening
it is this the way the internet is going which is you
know is for many people who follow farcaster you might have seen this as trending when you when you jumped in there this was funny from miguel gorest and it doesn't move by the way i thought that was really funny because most of his nfts and his images are moving this one's dead the arch is dead so i thought that was really funny there is a ponder poll that does not want to show for me right now there is a ponder poll about the arch so you can decide if you know which one is your fave i haven't looked to see if this i don't know if it ended yet let me see if it's over let's see how it's going it's thinking come on alright we'll come back to this oh there we go
oh yeah we had the old one won okay i'm a boomer i'm a boomer and
i just have a problem with like predictive polls i just want pure poll i wanna be able to answer just want a regular poll purely
we have those
no one talks about them anymore because you can't gamble on them
okay that's true and but i mean they do
has moved yeah but no one cares about them and the world has moved on and i saw that poll and i'm like okay i'm gonna answer and i was like no i'm not because what you're really asking me to do is bet on the outcome and i don't wanna do that because i'm not a gambler and i love you ponder
oh that's funny oh no i just realized someone's gone okay my favorite cast is gone that's a bummer i don't know why that's weird this is really funny if you don't get this this is like the cracker barrel rebrand this is missing and this is in carter's eyes in carter's carter has a old school arch tattoo from far con so that's really funny and it's gone oh also okay this is really i don't know how many people notice this but i went and looked at the new because i was updating my app i looked at the new images on the app store and this one was really funny if you know if you don't know it's just a normal like screenshot of a chat but for me like it was hilarious because it says hey hi are you going to the conference next week and this is supposedly dwr answering or talking i am when do you arrive my flight lands on thursday morning wanna grab coffee near the venue i'd love that 9am at java express perfect see you then if you know dan you know he doesn't go to conferences that's why that's what made it funny to me like i was actually laughing when i first read this i'm like this is hilarious and it was so then just randomly cj had posted an image from her morning she was talking about the spelling of her name on this cup which is s i j a which is really funny oh oh you found it
sorry yeah sorry and i thought i could share a screen without it changing a nurse
that's okay oh you found it amazing yeah so there's carter's yeah tattoo hilarious
that's an actual tattoo
actual tattoo and he's like what do i do with this now so funny so so funny alright let me go back to this one
i can
get oops there you go
so anyway and then it's and then realized she went to java express which i thought was funny and then if you saw this from horse facts now you know what the heck it was referring to come to java express at 9am if you want an ass kicking just
funny this and then okay there was also a lot of discussion about the language that was on these screenshots in the app store because it said sign up requires in app purchase and and i'm like the only reason they put that like i didn't see dan's comment about this but i saw this and i was in a discussion about it and i'm like the only reason that makes sense is if they had to like they just had to and yes they had to and he he did comment somewhere else that yes they had to put this language on there and then christopher had mentioned fun fact so he's talking about uno adding this disclaimer is a major reason why we couldn't make make to the app store and the gatekeepers refused to tell us what was non compliant technically every cast is paid content so therefore that's why uno had to add this type of disclaimer as well so it's yeah you have to do this to get in the app store and it makes sense also thinking back to when dan said something about we're going to be adding more crypto features etc some people are going to be limited as to where they are so they must have just figured out all this was this was happening so this was funny from linx this logo is fine this logo is fine this is the midwit meme no whereas the previous logo evoked the roman empire thus representing the intellectual user base the new logo looks like a soulless spaceship and the purple hurts my precious peepers
funny this from chase summer my computer's struggling is the farcaster toking dropping next no efficiently decentralized rodeo is my bet so the pants it does kinda look like you know the bow legged cowboy walking as well and then i loved this from estes dodge estes with the dgen hat the base square and the pants so there you go alright we have a few more notes but we're gonna circle back to them after we chat with zal so let me get i have to get some other things up so i get to talk with him and we're gonna bring zal up to talk about the zao and then we'll circle back to some more builder stuff at the end as well as some cast out announcements but here is zal welcome
how are we doing guys i just wanna say thank you and i appreciate the opportunity i'm super excited to be here with you guys
we're so happy to have you and you have lots of love in the in the chat too
yeah i made sure to made sure to made sure to get the squad up up and ready at this early time for my pacific coasters i don't know if any of them are up on my list there
sorry guys sorry if you're on the west coast this is an east coast and you're poor i've shown today
i moved from portland when i started my blockchain journey i moved from portland oregon to the east coast and i noticed a significant difference in my crypto like usage of just like being online of like how it how different it was
yeah totally and and we you know i always we always try to adjust and things like that when we have guests who are on the west coast but the the earlier time in general works better for us yeah me that's why we started doing just one later show week just to just to give the west coasters a a moment i have to shout out your hold on hopefully it's coming up you you have posted wearing the shirt a few times and we appreciate you for sharing that always so i have one
of me asleep with my girlfriend on the boat on like the way back of one of the trips that my parents caught it and i was thinking about posting that so i'll try and get it in at the end so we could definitely share that out
i love it i love it i love it and let's so i also wanna just kinda level set and talk about like what let's start with like the beginning what is the zaodao or zao
for sure so i mean if we if we're gonna start at the beginning we gotta start a little bit earlier
okay bring
it so like i said i was in oregon for a few years and that is where like the initial start of my crypto journey like really came in when i was down the the rabbit hole but for me where it like all started with understanding the challenges with their current financial system was 01/28/2021 when brokers stopped allowing the buying of a certain stock that's what got me into and interested in why you know you could sell but not buy a stock even though there should be someone else on the other side and it just got me interested and curious in what we could do to potentially change the future of if that was gonna happen again so i've been kinda like interested in in that for three years gamestop is actually what onboarded me initially into web three i got the gamestop wallet the gamestop
that's wild
marketplace both of them completely deprecated and that and that was like six six ish months before i went down
the road were you active in wallstreetbets reddit subreddit
i was a lurker i'm not a poster on reddit okay i'm a vet like reddit is my my favorite social media that's also kinda why i like i i think i like farcaster a lot especially the channel side of things because it was the first thing that i felt like since reddit came and got that energy of the like i like social media of communities and like topics as opposed to like following people and individuals just like that that vibes is like my opinion of how social media should be and like how we should enjoy it a little bit more than like putting people on this parasocial relationship versus like on reddit i don't know most of the people like i see posts every single day right i i do don't know who they are so it's actually cool for new curation if you're looking at like social media we look at all of you we see daily on farcaster so yeah reddit is like was my go to was definitely my highest screen time for a long time until you know forecast is now taking that equation in 2025
and gamestop did like make a jump into web three because somebody asked like the dude said gamestop had a wallet they all said they had an nft marketplace like they i had a student who was deep down the rabbit hole and he was so insistent that gamestop was gonna be that was gonna be his generational wealth and i'm like okay like you might wanna diversify there buddy
well when you guys met ryan gagion i was like oh my goodness i know ryan from my first my first intro to web three because he was the gamestop like lead for them and he actually told me he was like the only person in web three doing all the community management and how challenging that was
i didn't know that that's hilarious
you just deprecate everything and you're just like there to you know tell the community what's up right so it was really cool to see him on your guys' podcast and then i reached out to him connected with him and that was my like comeback full circle moment but kind of a little bit after that i saw at ironically enough our my religion is very small religion so we don't have a lot of people around the world it's called zoroastrianism it's one of the first monotheistic religions but basically i went to a conference where people from all over the world came from our religion to talk very similar to crypto conferences actually and someone there said this is the first zoroastrian nft project and i was like oh okay i know about nfts but like the classic like i've never seen a legitimate reason for me to get one and this was you know very simple like you you you buy it and you get the game the the pass for the membership and she was very focused on how we could help loving relationships because she didn't see that from her parents and she wanted to build that so it was essentially couples therapy is really expensive you know you get three minimum free sessions if you buy the nft and i was like okay i see the utility that's cool i asked her a little bit for more info she connected me with her brother who was the nft person and created the smart contracts he gave me three things to research and then from that day on it's it's very much down the rabbit hole every single day beginning i
think this is the first time i've heard somebody be onboarded to crypto via their religion that is that's this is a first
right so
like and she honestly gave me the mutual connection to one of the best communities i joined which was the best communities i've realized are these hybrid communities that have local communities but are part of web three so they can leverage the international marketing but they actually meet in person so you have just like an additional layer of verification that's where i felt like i made the most like strides and improvements because i kinda so all of this was february '23 so you know two months after the bottom of the bear i was very lucky when i initially kinda was thinking about web three stuff it was beginning '22 so it was it was that that top of the bull but you know i was dealing with my own health issues and and dealing with that and you know it was a little bit of a godsaying you know wait a little bit and join a little bit later because when i did join all of the folks that were there were unbelievably helpful with wanting to help support the tech and the the journey of how can we build this decentralized network and that definitely helped improve my abilities really well especially being in portland oregon i was part of pdx dao that's what got me starting to think about daos and that was one of two failed daos i've been a part of which taught me so much about my
only two
exactly right well so i joined the 22 when people were already like daos are dead and i was still trying to do it so but pbx dao gave me that real opportunity to meet people who've been in the space you know pre eth right like this like long term people who've been trying to like find this vision and continue it through not a lot of the people who came in in 2021 the people i've been working with are a lot more on the musician and artist side and a lot of those people came in from the nft boom so they have a little bit of a different ethos and yeah i think the portland group gave me the ability to a say okay i can ask all these people all my dumb questions as for the first time in a while one of the dumbest people in the room which is my favorite thing to be because you learn so much same and being in that room and just asking questions and having people excited about what i was thinking about made me like passionate about pushing forward my goal essentially i got onboarded in 2023 i spent all of 2023 doing my due diligence joining a bunch of different music communities because for three years at that point since college i've been working with a musician he was someone i met in college just saw the creation of music and it was the first time i'd ever thought of creation instead of consumption and little did i know that would start my entrepreneurial journey but helping support him as a musician was the first step in understanding how to become a founder for helping creatives so ultimately i guess we'll bring it back to the zao at the 2023 the other failed dao that i was a part of it was just me and candy toybox who's down there in the chat
hey candy toybox
two people and and she was like you know what and and at one point it was one fifty people i joined when there was only five and she was like you know what let's let's attack your thing she's a mother of three with at that point a six month old so she was like you know i love everything i do but i don't have the bandwidth to be like the founder but she's an unbelievably hard worker and she does a lot of the design stuff i'm i got my lecture engineering degree so i'm math science analytics focus so her coming in and taking all that design work after three plus years really took a lot of that load off my back and that's kinda what started the delegation process and the start of the zow so we like to say the zow is all about bringing the profit margin the data and the ip rights back to independent artists that's why we're here my goal is ultimately to build open source tools for musicians to use to get a 100% of the profit margin and to be honest with you then no one can kinda beat us because they can't come in and say you know we'll middle man for less so i love that part of this space i'm excited about the protocols especially everything here with farcaster that's what got me super excited here and it's the first social network that i've got the at zoll username so that was a big one for me because i've i've been trying to get the instagram one for eight plus years but but yeah so that's kinda like what started the zow and then the 2024 is when we were a collective and working on progressively decentralizing into a dao
amazing and on farcaster you guys have been making some moves so you've got a little you got a goal here so this is q four our farcaster season for the next thirteen weeks the zao is running an experiment push members into the leaderboard top 10 aim for a top three prove collective play is better than solo grind we're calling it zabal like cabal a ready ready player one style clan for the internet join the zow channel and group chat to be a part of it and then there's a full write up here on paragraph that kind of dows dives into what you're trying to accomplish here so you guys can take a peek at that and learn more and you've been pretty in terms of very active in terms of like doing letters newsletters and updates and things like that as well as you started streaming on i know you're streaming on retake are you streaming anywhere else like at the same time or
yeah so i'm actually working one of our musicians spent this year 2025 locking in on streaming he spent eight months after building an x community traveling the world and was like you know what x isn't it let me figure out what i'm gonna do on jan first he decided every single day i'm gonna stream that's what got me interested and excited about streaming especially seeing him build his community and some of our people kind of start to transition to twitch so he was pushing that twitch twitch angle i'm still seeing how we can onboard web two creators there because there's actually a lot of cool streamers over there but i'm also streaming the retake recently pine tree so shout out android 16 and then i'm trying to go everywhere a little bit of everything flicks.fun rebranded from omniflix recently as well we're streaming over there we're also streaming to youtube and okay and x but but but the challenge is like all of the chats commingling all of these other things so i've been watching and i wanna help
let's talk about that for a second yeah because i think there's a lot of new streaming platforms coming out for web three we do like retakes been around for a couple months you have pine tree now you have zuora that's starting streaming there's den that's supposed to be coming out soon and then you have the web two point zero ones and here's the thing that's challenging that a lot of people don't realize is that you're using a streaming software like streamyard we can see all the comments coming in from certain platforms so we can see everything that's coming in from twitter for example and then we can see the things that are coming in from youtube and we and if we had if we were on twitch we would see those as well but if they're like these other platforms that aren't directly integrated that aren't essentially web two point zero ones we can't see those comments unless we're in the native app so it becomes really challenging for the streamers to be able to jump into all these different platforms and that's the other reason like we we were set we're set up to stream to retake we're set up to stream to abstract and i stopped streaming it to abstract because i'm like i'm not giving that audience enough attention and i feel like what's the point if you're not like actually interacting and it's really hard so when you're doing all these different ones how are you managing that are you just focusing on what's coming in that you can see or are you going into each individual like streaming app to like interact
yeah that's a amazing question that's like been the conversation and challenge of onaje b and i have been working on that he's been rocking out the twitch side i've been trying to take the angle of multi streaming and the challenge that you're saying is anything that's a custom rtmp stream that you're bringing in as a third party like you're just bringing in the stream url and the stream key they aren't set up for comments to automatically come in because when you log in with a twitch an x or youtube on something like streamyard you're actually allowing permissions for them to like connect to your account so it's a little bit bigger of a permission that you're giving so they can do more with that so we do have to have each native app up that's one of the challenges i'm working on solving i've been seeing some live streamers build their own open source tools to bring in those chats into an obs style thing so from obs you can see everything maybe and then display it on the screen that's kinda where i see the potential you know it's not there right now because a lot of these platforms aren't completely open source with the ability to do that so that's why i'm really excited about pine tree working with android 16 and supporting them in making those type of integrations more compatible one of the reasons i really like pine tree is that they don't force you to make a token to stream like that is one of my hesitations with retake i'm not gonna lie because like i hadn't created a token period and then i streamed on retake and i was like oh shit okay well i guess i i guess we created
many such cases
because the zow how we work is we have illiquid soul bound governance token so you can't buy and sell it you can't send it out of your wallet you just earn it and you earn it by joining in our weekly meetings every single week on mondays but you can join in at any time as long as we have four people participating you share about your week in a group of six or less between four to six people you share about what you've been doing what you've been contributing to the ecosystem in the week and then the group of six reaches consensus on who's done the most for the ecosystem and everyone gets a little bit of zow just by participating so that's how we've built our structure to build social capital where i've seen a lot of daos fail because they're focused on financial capital first as opposed to social capital and when you do that and you have people you know buying in it you know eighteen months before something happens and then they're just like not as excited about it versus with our system eighteen months later the only people who have good governance are the people who've been participating for eighteen months not just someone who bought a token early eighteen months ago so that's been our focus is like how can i support creators in learning about tokenomics and learning about the challenges and structures that are there good workflows bad workflows just like knowledge sharing as a whole and networking is our ultimate goal so the zow itself is all a community and then we are creating an incubator within it of different projects where anyone with zow tokens can request a proposal and essentially say i think this is a good idea for a project a brand a song an idea and i need help making it happen i am a content creator i am a developer i need help with x y and z and we have other people that can kinda come in and and support that so let me pull up
and i just noticed i'm like how do we have people chatting from twitch and then i realized you would yeah so we have the option for our guests to be able to add two of their own their own locations so so this is the first time gm farcaster's ever been on twitch there you go
yeah we're live streaming to my channel as well
hi twitch why not
what are
you doing out there i've i've considered it a few times like should we be because it is so integrated into streamyard it would be easy but i just wasn't sure
really good for clipping and sharing to other social medias it is actually like i was like super against it i'm not gonna lie because it's like going backwards to me like i've been watching twitch streamers since and using discord since 2016 because i've been a gamer through and through so like that's why i loved web three and it was really easy for me to jump in and everyone's like all upset about it
because everybody was already
because they were talking on discord more discord i love it because i had created so many different channels and tried to like oh i'm gonna create a discord community i'm gonna become a moderator and they tried it a bunch of times but never had like the people and now we have all the people but no organizations that's great i love it but but this is a little bit more of what i was explaining some of the different projects within the zow so our hat we're leveraging hats protocol to create an on chain organizational chart so you can see at the top that the ztalent.eth owns the zow as a whole and then our governance council is where all of our projects are under so in these first two projects these are asynchronous projects that anyone can kinda join and just show what they are so this first one is you know we don't have i haven't been too active with getting people on here but just randomly from hat's protocol 66 people have like grabbed the entrepreneur thing over the last like year year and a half of just like cool randomly seeing it i have never pushed this don't know who a lot of these addresses are but i will 100% reward them in the future at some point i don't know when or why but i will and then like we also have a location you can kind of show where you are but then every single one of these other projects is managed by a manager so we have our zao fractals as i had mentioned earlier that's our weekly governance meetings and then one of our first projects from our collective before we were even a dao was wave wars one of my community members came in and said you know there's not a lot of competitive energy in the music space let's make music battles so we started our b one with onchain music battles very simply like you buy a $1 nft and it's a super vote and from that super vote you get an option to be one of the three judges that makes a difference in the in the in the program and from that on our fifth episode someone came to us and said you know i think it was like $15 they they made they were like this is the most money i've ever made on in music like more than ever on streaming and that realization for us was like oh wow we really need to like we we have something here we can really lock in so our founder developer and musician hurricane ike who's who's the leader of this love
the name
wallet right there he started to develop he was not a developer he also has an electrical engineering degree with me but he isn't a coder and just learned everything
amazing oop did we lose you so of oh there you are
oh there we go
we lost you for a second
and in the span of about seven months to a year the last three months was testing and auditing he built our current wave wars application that we are working on right now and i'll switch over to a video real quick of how it works but essentially we have we have we have a temple token that lasts during the round of the battle so each time we spawn up a new battle two tokens are spawned for each artist sorry one per artist and people can trade on the artist because we've built everything else 1% of the volume goes right into the artist's wallet not at the end of the battle but instantly while you're trading and essentially at the end of the battle whichever pool has more wins the sole vote and the sole vote is one of three different votes we also have our human judges that are also participating and then we also have our twitter poll vote where everyone can participate so
very cool
that's kinda how the battles go now and the cool thing is we built everything in house so we actually have the ability to give you know that profit margin right to the artist so it's our version of creating a new vertical for musicians to show off their catalog and earn money you know potentially we we have a very small community and have been doing about eight to 10 battles so far and we're already getting you know tens of thousands of spotify streams worth of fiat or you know crypto actually sent sent solana technically sent to them and essentially at the end of the battle you withdraw whatever your artist tokens are they get burnt and you get it back into solana if you're on the losing side you still get 50% of whatever was in there so you still have some more to play with for the next battle and that's kinda how we've set up wave wars as another project and opportunity for musicians to get paid in the space
very cool the battle the token battle thing reminds me unlonely did i don't know if you remember that adrian where you you launched two tokens at the same time and essentially like only one survived at the end and i was like it was a good idea just didn't get the right execution and to me this makes a lot of sense with the music and having that be the battle and that's a really cool approach to that and i feel like we've had like the music industry has been so like lined it's been it's like a perfect industry to be disrupted by crypto but i feel like we just haven't quite got there yet but it's like primed right and i mean even snoop put you know death row death row on on chain so it's but it's really i love seeing that that's very cool i like that yeah i like the idea of the wave battles that's really cool
the music on chain space is absolutely insane it's got its own market which is crazy yeah and yeah i think for me the music on chain space hasn't got the light of day that the visual art space got in 2021 and music has potentially even more of a reason to wanna be on chain in terms of like lights all these other millions of different things that are challenges with the traditional music industry today and i think the challenge in crypto has always been either musicians trying to do everything on their own and like thinking that they can and like and getting money and funding to do that but not doing it like a start up and then you get music industry professionals who say that they're here for musicians and people but then are like okay but i'm also still gonna take a cut off of every creator so it's like this weird conundrum where like those people are for profits the artists are way too much for artists and can't understand that there needs to be a business so like there is a middle ground where a lot of people have been working towards but it just gets shut out by like headlines whether it be crypto music industry right or both
it's really hard to disrupt industries period like any kind of industry especially one that has such a you know like a hold but it's possible it's just i think we haven't found the right you're you're trying you have to interrupt the dis it's the distribution it's distribution it's always distribution that becomes the problem but i feel like today artists definitely have more control over and more options to go independently and and succeed it's but anything you can do to help with that i think is amazing
it's never been possible more possible before to make it successful without a label than it is today and i think that's the coolest thing about this space especially like my offer has always been to like any musician or creative out there not only my i'll build you a website and help you build a smart contract but i'll show you how to do it so you can do it on your own
that's awesome
and replicate that and like that's like the biggest thing you can tell a web two person that like doesn't understand anything about the space is like not only can like we build like a custom website for me that's like whatever i want but then also like i can keep on integrating on that on my own and i think like teaching them that like not all developers like just like you had that experience with many apps like you don't need to be a full fledged developer to just get something hacked up and started right and and once you get that idea going if you get it at 95% and then you give that to a developer to tweak up and make you know good workflows in these other pieces it's like it's a lot easier of a lift for them as well sometimes you know if you don't do a great job with your five coding it's a whole different story but but but that's the part of the like
well yeah
understanding how to like i mean all these software engineers that are augmenting their coding with ai have learned these new strategies on how to prompt prompt all of it so it's a really interesting space as a whole and yeah i see candytoybox came in here and said come judge the finals so yeah we let whoever comes up to our twitter space whoever's kinda up first come be the judges for
oh cool
so anyone is welcome to come in we we love getting that community support we're really focused on how we can leverage our community and right now we're a team of three me hurricane ike and candy toy box and my goal in the next month while we're here on forecasters is actually to build out the wave wars creator dao especially using tools like empire builder retake and some of the others that i've been seeing on here and more to help create a monetization in another like treasury where we can just pay out creators that are supporting supporting the cause and now it's like back to this whole dao versus company and like how to manage all of that but i love the whole dao conversation i'm really interested in it i don't think it's even gotten i know you know from the nounsdao side yeah you've got your own space i'm actually recently been been pushing a lot for the nounsdao africa squad to get a little bit more light out there so definitely if anyone's interested they're like one of the more active other other than little nouns and it's really cool to see like energy of like a dao that like was not having a lot of participation and people were just like hey like we have this structure here we have this here we just need some more like participation and then people came in and participated and they're doing a really good job with like starting to onboard new folks from nigeria starting to onboard and create some of these lessons and these lesson plans and it's really fun to just like see some resurgence in something like that where there's it's just a decentralized entity that's permissionless that people can jump in at any point and and come support
and yeah and i know zol from little nouns so i had to i just popped the i just changed out the logo there give little nouns a little bit of love there and so one last thing before we let you go are you playing casto
i definitely am that was my like i think biggest like push to getting more around farcaster farcon randomly out of nowhere i was in a little noun's chat talking about little noun's funding and they told me that ben laskow was doing a house of nouns event so i talked to him i chatted with him a little bit they weren't gonna do a speaking session but he was like you know we'd love to have you speak if we end up figuring it out and i was like okay this is cool i didn't know anything about farcon other than that so i was like i applied for a ticket didn't get a ticket and i was like you know what i'm going anyways it's new york i'm blessed that i have friends there that i can stay with and it was the best experience of my life it was the first conference i've gone to where i actually earned enough to have said data profit as opposed to spending because of the on chain creator house with muppete i was able to earn two of my first like bounties ever in the space and i was like wow this is cool it was on my birthday on may 1 this year too which was really cool that's when i got this shirt
shout out hun
all the amazing folks out there and it was just like that experience really got me back into farcaster back into understanding why farcaster is so important why decentralized social is so important and i'm excited in the future my goal and the reason i'm so like invested right now in farcaster is i wanna eventually build a music client that for our community for zow people to interact with the farcaster protocol something that is musician first and something that they can leverage as a way to like be on the music industry on farcaster right so that's for for the next bear run you know we're gonna we're here to just like do all the do all the studying and the due diligence right now and see how you know all these platforms work their work their challenges out right now and you know we're there to to help take the models of what's worked and and understand from people and and take those lessons lessons from other people
no and i'm excited to have the zao tribe it's gonna be fun so i'm really excited to have the zao tribe participating we're gonna talk more about that at the end of the show zal we've got a few more things we gotta cover so we're gonna let you go this has been incredible it's been great to chat with you and get to know more about the zow last like shout outs or anything you have coming up that you definitely want to highlight real quick
yeah i'm just gonna shout you guys out like i have loved being a part of watching and community here in gm forecaster meeting you guys in person was a big part of that and like honestly the the ryan cagney special was was big for me i'm not gonna lie because it was like that
oh that's amazing
like the the like i i the spider man thing and and and that was like what what really got me like excited about you guys as guests because sometimes i i watch the news and then like skip over the guest because i was so behind on my podcast but now i don't because every single guest is a guest
you never know
so no i just wanna shout you guys out
now that he is a guest he don't he wants to encourage everybody not to skip the guest parts
yes exactly
but
i love that and i love that i have to to show i'll have to make sure we tag ryan in today's show because he'll love to hear that and ryan
what is ryan's what is ryan's username again
it's i think it's r kaggy r k a r k a k y yeah i think it's r kaggy and that's the base creators and the creators if you guys are not familiar but we've had them on a couple times they've been amazing supporters of the show as well so so zal thanks so much
thank you guys
for having me on the line it's been a pleasure it's been
a pleasure season four
super excited season four the second episode of season four amazing
thank you guys for having me on the thumbnail was really cool the animated thumbnail with my logo i thought that was really cool
that was cool so i'm
trying to see you guys i'm not gonna lie i take a little bit of what you guys do really well and and like you saying like model that for what we're doing with our live streams and our podcast so i just wanna say how much i appreciate you guys shout out gm forecaster and let's go
thanks saul this has been amazing and you're gonna be on the cover of the episode too so there you go you'll see your face your smiling face on there alright thanks so much saul we're gonna drop you down appreciate you and thanks for popping by we loved having you here that was amazing
i love this thanks for grilling zal did we grill did did we should we get him back up and do we need to grill
let me jump back we've got a few more builder updates that i really want to share because we do not have a show this week on friday by the way we are not going to be on friday adrienne is going to dev day in new york and i am going to be hunkered down finalizing cast out things so we'll be back on the following monday so anyway got a few more things to share otherwise i would have just waited till friday but we got to get these in they cannot wait this from open sea over on twitter a hat tip birthed a counterculture movement heard of dgen they're tippers of creator culture join us on spaces this thursday 10/23 at 12pm eastern with their team as we unpack how it all works set a reminder in the post below so very exciting jacek and crew will be over on spaces with opensea so very exciting this from octant you have well now it's probably only a few hours left like maybe two i think we have two hours left now for the last the epoch nine you can allocate eth rewards till till today time to shape ethereum's future with your allocations some amazing folks who are up there natalie crew is one of them i saw her in our audience i don't know if she's still here but natalie good luck riley beans who we adore we've got maggie love in there of shefi so lots of great creators who are part of this 30 and you can if you have the token what's the name of it i forgot the name of it you an ml no anyway if you have that if you have the okton token you can go i can't think of the name of the exact token you can go allocate you can go allocate your eth rewards but you only have a little bit of time left so get in there okay this from rachel w she has started something new called creatify and this was her first interview build on base and this was with nikki from miami for episode one of creatorfy on the build on base account scooped up some of her creator coin too you can watch the replay on twitter so very exciting and as we mentioned nikki is somebody that i've known for a while through nouns and exciting to see her be the first one to launch this token this creator token that i'm still a little unsure about and i would i think i need a like better explanation so we'll work on that for next week get you a better explanation as to how that's all happening this from tldr some advice to avoid getting social hacked by the way this almost happened to me about i don't know like a year ago now ideally don't take inbound meetings without a trusted referral if you do take an inbound meeting in other words somebody jumped into your dm so you did not know and said hey can we meet to talk about yada yada require them to use your meeting provider of choice google or zoom ask them to turn their video on do not download anything from them under any circumstances two people have tried to scam us even by the way even if they're not asking you to download things there's some weird things you can do with zoom two people have tried to scam us in the past last few weeks very elaborate but sticking to the rule these rules rebuffed them pretty easily i expect this stuff to increase with our token value crypto not awesome in this way but it's hard for people to do much to you if you control the terms of the environment be a little paranoid and i would agree with this good advice here from tim sometimes they also will pose as journalists they'll even have the actual handle because they've somehow hacked into it etcetera so be careful out there this from our friend willy wonka introducing channel spaces a customizable space and mini app for every farcaster channel tag a channel owner that needs a new homepage mini app if you already own a channel visit it on nounspace.com today to customize it for free so this is the noun space client so more iterations on that which is exciting and cura also is doing some really cool things with channels so we have lots of fun things happening on channels that's good this from linda shout out to dub at w will for the great customer support we use splits on the merkle team when i made one a one off request but it wasn't possible he hopped on a quick call with me to explain why obviously doesn't scale long run but at this stage shows how much he cares also jonathan has been on top of responding to issues and then this led to more love this was from limone builder's garden uses teams by splitz as well to manage all of our on chain banking and accounting incredibly simple clean ux and top tier support from w and abram if you're running an on chain business happy to intro you to them and help you get set up and this from us quoting quoting samantha saying i use flitz for human guide then adrian we use flitz for gm parkhasseter if you have any part of your business on chain you will definitely wanna check out their team's product for managing on chain finances world class ux and security and the best team w and abraham care deeply about earning your trust so yeah can't say enough about them they're amazing very responsive like very quick to respond with issues and just been really impressed
smart too they have and by the way sign up for their blog they're doing tons of writing like in really thoughtful
like it's not necessarily just about splits yeah
yeah it's not promotional like it's just like if you have a brain and you're in the space and you like it's
i don't know this is only for you people with brains
it's a small percentage of us but excellent writing and like just it you can see how they think i know for me like i'm obsessed with the splits the like the teams product that's still in beta but you can get access to it if you have on chain
i think that it opened up the public it's a public beta right now i think it's open
public beta okay
yeah so go to the splits account and you'll see the information there
yeah i can't recommend it enough like it's so highly usable like it it feels like a modern like what you'd expect from any kind of new app
i like even that we can have different like we we have different accounts or different wallets for different things just to keep it better organized like for example our funds that are coming over from pods or our funds that are coming over from hypersub and just being able to have those in different places and kind of i don't know a little more organized we used safe for a long time i still like safe safe is a good product however it's not as like you can't put memos in you can't i mean it just this just has more functionality
and they're not building it i mean like this is a beta product with a team with a funded team that whose goal is really i think to kind of be the mercury for on chain companies so it's like full fully featured banking
but right
none of this matters if you don't actually trust your funds are
safe exactly yeah so so and they're very i i trust this team and i feel yeah so i feel like we've been it's been a great switch for us
that's what i was gonna get to the trust is like trust
yeah you gotta trust them
yeah yeah
so yeah i understand so we have some things happening so with cast out so this is our last thing we're going to talk about very excited we cast out is coming back on november 3 cast out is our survivor inspired game that everything is played on farcaster so what that means is every game every challenge everything we do is related to farcaster and it's a lot of fun and you'll have a chance to win some money so we're
excited about actual money actual money
actual money money from our sponsors so let me start there
so oops hold on so let me get my hats ready so we have first up our first title sponsor is clanker just want to make that very clear so very excited thank you clanker and very excited to have them on board and yes go ahead hit it i hit it it's it related to that oh i thought you're gonna i thought i did twice i i didn't hear the first one so related to that we have a new token that just came out yesterday and let me just speak to this because i know your question is what would the token do and the token will do a couple things one thing is what would the token do what would the token
by the way and i don't have the audio on for this one but this actually has the clank clank built into the beginning of it just for just for your tits and giggles so we dropped the token yet we had dropped the token when we first launched the very first cast out and it it's one of it's on the v zero of clanker so we wanted to be able to do more with this token so this is now on the current one and we did airdrop to a bunch of folks including past players and our hyper sub and it is going to be streaming which you can use purple rain to do that claiming if you'd like or you can go to clinker.world to do that claim as well so i was having some issues getting that set up yesterday but my original idea was that i was going to drop it to the top holders of season three except something weird happened on base scan where i could not pull the holders and it was making me crazy so that's what i was doing yesterday and losing my mind so couldn't pull the holder so i have a workaround now but didn't have it at the time so i'll be dropping some holders of three shortly as well i'm going to be dropping more airdrops and we're also going to be using empire to i've kind of added some boost to the castout empire the original castout token we'll be doing some airdrops to them as well as using it for the new token to kind of play around with that so check that out if you have played previously or if you are a hyper gm forecaster hyper subholder you have some buff waiting for you also this token will be useful in this we have a new capsule collection dropping with minted merch hold on hat two hat number two minty merch working on a capsule collection very excited and it includes a hat a shirt and a bandana so very excited it's available now and if you're holding 25,000,000 of the new buff token you can get a 20% discount on any of these pieces so there are the pieces there you can go check them out posted them this morning they're in the minty merch shop so you can go in there and you'll see all of that in there and if you have i would say one thing that was really interesting because this this i haven't used the use mint and merch where they have a discount built in like this so it did like it does this little wallet check and if it's taking a little bit of time it's because i didn't realize this part it's also checking your external wallets that are connected to see if you're holding enough so you don't necessarily have to be holding it in your barcaster wallet but you might have to just make sure it's checking your external wallets as well so very exciting so that was big news and then we also had a couple other folks join in for sponsorship yesterday and we have aptos here's my aptos hat that's because i don't have another aptos do
you see my hat
yes i did shelby is one of the aptos things built on aptos so we have the aptos crew is joining us as well as a title sponsor and they'll have a tribe as well and so very excited about that and then lastly the people who were just giving some lovely words of praise which we would have done anyways but the splitz team is also sponsoring and no i don't have a splitz hat so i made one last night using by the way i'm so i i repurposed garrett's base hat with
you're like as crafty as peachy's mom
i'm not she is much better than me so i and in other words also i would like a split hat thank you please and thank you split's team by the way when i first went to print it out it printed out way too big i was like no
oh you could have put that on the top hat though oh no you have a small top hat
i would put it on my
big top hat
that would've been mine yeah it's like my whole head i was like wait that didn't fit right so very excited to have them all on board as sponsors for cast out it's gonna be so fun really excited we start november 3 you're gonna see a lot of announcements a lot of information popping out make sure you're following the casto channel adrienne one thing i didn't bring up do you wanna show the mini app
yes can we
yes do you have it let's launch it you wanna do it show it i will i wasn't sure if it's still in preview or if it's ready
no it is ready it is ready to go so alright
let me stop sharing and let you share so we have a new castout mini app it's going to make it a lot easier to follow along that's been one of the things you know the the big thing that we hear when we've been playing is that people have a hard time following along with what's going on because they are like if you're not following the cast app channel sometimes you miss things so we have a new mini app for you and it's very exciting
why don't we
oh she's gonna launch it yeah
she's gonna
launch it right now here you go
peak it is cast out by the way i bought a new url for cast out
oh fantastic
and i'm gonna cast this i bought it on i use aws for domains don't ask why and it's been stuck in in progress like requesting for two days i just checked while we were on the call now the domain's still available for purchase on other platforms oh i shouldn't even say this because someone's gonna go buy it and then squat it and then make me pay don't do that anyway i have to go buy it castout.com is for sale for $24,000 i think this thing is
oh cool yeah driving that
okay anyway so let's check
oh this is not sometimes just refresh it it it does that sometimes sometimes the embeds take a minute i've seen this a lot on farcast lately it just takes a minute yeah it takes a minute to embed so very cool and okay shall we go
to meme coin island shall we enter the island
enter the island through the old arch we do have to add aptos at the top there but right now clanker and splitz are there
and yes and anyway so countdown is there professor you've got eleven days to yeah
shut up
yeah and i actually thought you
were able to say i'm like i love the countdown i love the countdown but it's giving me a lot of stress a lot of stress
but i love it anyway learn more or apply i don't know if if you're still taking applications
yeah
but
yeah
okay
yep
so it's gonna be a fun little app where you can we do a daily stream where we rehash the challenges and now onto the next ones and do live vote off so we'll put the recordings here this is the channel feed the cast out channel feed that you'll be able to see what people are talking about
so all in one place amazing
i have leaderboard and contestant status to see everyone who's playing whether or not they've been eliminated so and then the list of all the challenges that we're playing will be revealed here so that is that on the home page as well amazing links to the buff token clanker that professor launched yesterday i know you wanted a nice little pretty graph and i didn't really wanna open it out but this is integrated with the forecaster token
page so you
official merch so our mug on our merch site you can get a cast out mug as well as the capsule collection from minted merch and that'll take you there okay design question for ux people when you click the capsule collection should it open up in a new window as a web browser or ask or close our mini app and open the minted merch mini app
i think it should do that i think it should close our mini app and open the minute because i think their mini app is really well done and then you also get like the spin and all that so you wanna and the discount so yeah send them to the mini app yeah
okay
for sure
obviously love to our sponsors clanker splits aptus we're waiting and then we still have some we there's still some small room for additional sponsors
so oh yeah we got room well let's see we got room anyway i'm putting i've been slacking on getting the purple prop up so i'm gonna be putting that up today to get purple hopefully to sponsor as well so if you're a member of purple the dao i'll be hitting you up in a little bit so look for that
and do you know what this top button does does it share it yes so we're gonna make it so obviously we appreciate you sharing the mini app
share the mini app and we'll be i'm adding the new buff token as a tipping for a noyce so i'll be tipping out a lot of that token so we'll have other use cases for the token by the way we'll have some opportunities to vote during the game it will unlock some rewards if you're playing along so if you're holding enough of the token there'll be certain times where we'll have benefits to holding that so for minted merch you need $25,000,000 for that discount we wanted to make it significant and we picked 25,000,000 in honor of kobe and his new is a new deal his new podcasting deal there'll be others that'll have like a less amount you might just need one you might need you know 10,000 something like that so just be just be on the lookout for that it's gonna be a lot of fun and
he's he's leaving purple
we can call you guys something else you know maybe we can just let people know we'll we'll just won't let them know who you are that's hilarious ice toad was amazing by the way we had trivia he was one of the trivia winners along with was it kyle patrick was the other one i think it was i think it was kyle and it was it was amazing so yeah it's a nice deal it's a nice deal but it's basil also rec it said that merkel should pay gm farcaster 25,000,000 for eight episodes i'll i'll say this if they want to give us 25,000,000 we'll give them even more than eight just like we can negotiate that number like it doesn't have to be just eight that will keep us locked in probably for the next i don't know how many years so you know up to you all right that's it everybody i know this is a long one what a great chat with zal thanks for popping by aquius later this week i'll be reaching out to players i'm finalizing so we base sort of how many tribes we have based on our sponsors or a tribe can pay to play so there's but we try ideally i'd love for players to mostly play for free if we can have the tribe sponsored out so that's what i'm just finalizing and we'll get that done but very excited to confirm the players and we'll have more information about that next week if we have any spots left we'll let you know but you can apply now to play or to sponsor that link is available in the cast out mini app there you go so now we can just share that fantastic
can i give a shout out to farcaster and mini apps yeah and i don't think this is talked about enough but the fact that like for any project or brand how do you not have a mini app what is wrong with you and this idea of like once you get used to like of course you're gonna launch something on farcaster and of course you're gonna have a corresponding mini app to think that like you can't do that everywhere it feels wrong like it's just like what do you mean i can't have a mini app on every other platform out there and you you scared the shit out of me when a month ago you're like we need a mini app and i was like and you're like no it'll be easy like it
doesn't need to do anything simple yeah
just like a brand companion
yeah
and
just a place where people can find information was really what i was looking for so that it would all be in one spot and just make it easy for people to share and like all that so yeah
it doesn't have to be complicated yeah and it was super fun to make and it really wasn't that complicated took me a few days to pull together but it's so cool so now it's like we're launching everybody right now if you don't wanna miss announcements add the mini app like yeah add the mini app and then and
you can add it on the base on the base app as well so you can either add it in the base app or on farcaster or both better yet both love it
many apps
love it and like we said we're not gonna be on on friday adrienne's gonna be at the dev day farcaster dev day maybe even tweaking the mini app who knows she might come out of it with like a whole other who knows what that thing's gonna look look like by saturday so i'm excited to hear more about that so we'll have a report back on that on monday i will be heads down finalizing all the rest of the cast out stuff so amazing and what time does this amazing show start so listen sometimes we're on at a west coast friendly time on mondays we're usually on at 11:30 a m eastern 08:30 a m pacific most of the time wednesdays and fridays we're on at 08:30 a m eastern so it's a little early for you west coast folks but perfect for the year of poors
and and the east coasters but occasionally we change that up if we have a guest who doesn't want to wake up up that early so anyway amazing thank you all this has been fantastic make your button to add mini app bigger okay
okay thank you for the feedback
thanks for the feedback
and good feedback alright yes thank you thank you aquarius alright everyone we're gonna let you go it's been a long one thank you for hanging and we will see you next monday and with that everybody bye bye
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