Zapper’s Farcaster Client Arrives: GM Farcaster ep316 with @seb from Zapper

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PSA -- We're doing our first Clanker Presale this week. - Starts Thursday at 9:30am Pacific - The presale will last for 7 days; anyone who participates in the presale gets the same terms. - 24 hours after the presale is over, the clanker will be live for trading. - We will be highlighting the project and team across a few channels. - Expect us to iterate on how presales work

I've used a number of communication templates throughout the years in a variety of capacities. Here's one I've used that I hope may be helpful for fellow leaders: [yes/no] [he/she/they] [work/doesn't work] for [company] in a [part-time/full-time/contract] capacity. [he/she/they] are [responsible/not responsible] for [product/engineering/growth/operations], specifically [near-term area of responsibility]. per our general policy since [year of founding], all [casts/tweets/posts] are their opinions and are not [financial advice/opinions of [company]/contractually binding/etc.].

The best collaborations check two boxes: 1️⃣ You genuinely respect the other team and want to see them win 2️⃣ The result is totally positive-sum This one nails both. @netnose and I are huge fans of what @svvvg3.eth and @katkartel.eth have been building with @mintedmerch, and our communities already overlap in a big way. So when they mentioned exploring staking rewards for $mintedmerch holders, we were happy to jump in and help. Over the past month, we’ve worked together and adapted our native $BETR staking terminal + Spin-to-Claim game to power daily rewards for $mintedmerch holders, starting now! ✨ Stake any amount to earn daily revenue-share rewards ☸️ Spin daily to claim rewards and win fun merch package jackpots 🔁 Restake instantly to keep the flywheels flywheeling To celebrate this launch, @mintedmerch just kicked off a NEON TICKET NFT quest, starting today in their app and concluding on tomorrow’s BETRMINT round. You’re going to want to complete this one. Full details are in the post below. Time to put those $mintedmerch tokens to work! What could be BETR than winning together? 💪

Thank you everyone who's been sharing their Wrapped25 miniapp thing! I've never had so many great feedback I've never had so many active users I've never had so many requests to prepare their Wrappeds... this is AMAZING, way better than i expected quick update: So far i've pre-generated 2.5K insights My initial goal was to pre-generate for 6K users... gonna take a while, because sometimes it's very slow (some users need 30 minutes of a script to download all their casts!) so i'm lagging behind.. but i love that as long as it's December it's not too late to do it! I've had 653 "priority requests" since yesterday. 60% of them completed already! (but now i gotta notify everyone and maybe i need to do that manually.. fml.. i'll do that tomorrow with patience) seriously i have no words to thank you for all the support and love this miniapp is having. i'm more excited than ever to keep building and trying things!!!!! fc.lensie.xyz

Minted Merch - Where Staking Meets Merch ✨ We’ve teamed up with @betrmint to build a platform to reward our stakers: Spin-To-Claim once per day for a chance to win the Monthly Mega Merch Pack, one of four Mini Merch Packs, the 1M $mintedmerch daily jackpot or the 100k $mintedmerch bonuses! Stake any amount to earn daily rewards! Stake 10M+ to qualify for larger jackpots. Stake 50M+ $mintedmerch to become a Merch Mogul: unlock exclusive collab partnerships, the ability to place custom orders, group chat access, and 15% off store wide! Start staking NOW - rewards go LIVE in 7 DAYS To celebrate the launch, we are dropping an exclusive quest 👇 https://app.mintedmerch.shop/stake

Wanted to clear a few things up. 1. No one at Merkle is getting paid to "shill" tokens. 2. I'm the only one at Merkle who approves token-related news stories. 3. Our internal guidelines at Merkle: don't do anything where having access to our codebase or data would put you in a privileged position. *** That said, if someone on our team is trading or talking about tokens on Farcaster...that's fine. You don't have to follow them. You can also mute or block them. If something they are trading or talking about ends up trending -- that's algorithmic and the result of other people finding that useful information.

Leaderboard updates ----- WEEK 2 WINNERS @m00npapi.eth (#1) supplanted @nomadicframe (#2) at the final hour, driven by the success of $m00n @horsefacts.eth, @jesus, and @nounishprof placed (#3), (#4) and (#5), respectively REWARDS Winners from a range of ranks (#1-10, 500-504, 996-1000) receive a gift for themselves and the creator of their choice through @giftr by @shira We will reach out to the winners directly with additional details on how to claim their gifts. FUTURE REWARDS This week, the top 5 posters will receive handmade, crocheted beanies courtesy of @nanah COMING SOON - Token evangelists leaderboard - Traders leaderboard - Token leaderboards - Trending tokens page

we're updating base app miniapps discovery and will now show screenshots and more info. so make sure to add screenshots to your manifest!

farcon is coming to rome 🇮🇹 we’re gonna meet you soon in one of the most iconic cities in the world, and we’re so hyped to bring the purple energy to the eternal city 🗓️ may 4–5, 2026 - clear your calendar for two days, creators, builders, founders, artists, and all kinds of farcastooors will gather in rome to celebrate the ecosystem, share ideas, hang irl, and shape what’s next 🎟️ tickets drop later this week, follow /farcon-rome so you don’t miss it (ps: if you donated $100+ to the initial crowdfund, we’ll airdrop you a ticket ❤️)

hope y'all know what team you're on and if you haven't yet, better take care of your onboarding before tomorrow https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/tFX1m7IyozRk/hexmas

these should be your real stats @nounishprof it was just giving an sdk error, and giving out my stats to everyone! should be back live soon, thanks for testing!!

Might be my favorite Beeple every day ever 🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩 https://x.com/beeple/status/1995719177194098712?s=46&t=N80rptBytKhSU-csz4Akrg

HELLO PLEASE IF YOU TRADE $m00n do it on farcaster wallet (or matcha if you can’t import) Uniswap front end isn’t indexing monad well so this user hit a pool (not the main one) that showed up and it only had $100 or so in the pool so this user got slipped like 95%

@adrienne, you asked @horsefacts.eth the "wrong" question :-) Yes, censorship cannot happen at the client level. Which is amazing, it's the "openness" section in my post. But if you asked: "MM and Neynar validators refuse to include my casts in blocks, how can I post to Farcaster?" The answer would be "you cannot". :-(

State of Farcaster, December 2025 (I'm going to be writing a series of casts this week on this topic.) Varun and I have been working on Farcaster for over 5 years. The goal has always been to build an at-scale decentralized social networking protocol with 1 billion people using it every day. This is a hard problem and while we've made progress, we are still many orders of magnitude away from achieving our goal. Since the early days, we’ve believed two things matter most: sufficient decentralization and product-led protocol development. (Links to both blog posts below.) That’s led us to make pragmatic, not dogmatic, decisions about the low-level protocol and make a lot of iterative changes with our own app. We were never going to make decentralization maximalists happy. We spent the first 4.5 years with a social-first strategy. We shipped a working version of the protocol that was sufficiently decentralized and allowed multiple independent teams to permissionlessly build on and integrate it. However, despite many different attempts (and a few short-lived spikes), we haven’t been able to find a sustainable growth mechanic for the Twitter-like social network, i.e. no product-market fit. *** Earlier this year, we launched a wallet in our app. It has scaled quickly and we think it's the closest we've been to product-market fit in five years. But how does a wallet help grow a social network? First, every user who signs up, funds, and starts using the wallet is also on the protocol. The more people that find the wallet useful, the more people using the protocol. Second, because there’s an existing social network, we can more easily build social features for the wallet that leverage the protocol. It’s far easier to add a wallet to a social network than a social network to a wallet. Finally, we believe the best way to grow the number of people using the protocol is a “come for the tool, stay for the network” strategy. (The wallet is the tool, the protocol is the network.) See the post from Chris Dixon below. *** Does this mean the protocol is now a casino? No. The protocol is a collection of casts, follows, reactions, identities, and wallets. As a developer, you can use whatever you find most useful. The system is open. Our app is leaning more into the intersection between wallets and social, but there are other clients like Uno, Recaster, Cura, Base, Zapper, and Firefly taking different approaches. As a user, you have control over your experience by choosing your client. And if you still want to use the Farcaster app, you can use the following feed and keyword mutes (e.g. try muting $) to shape your experience.

Fun little Farcaster feature is new accounts get a Warplet pfp by default if they don't set their own

Update on Clanker Spotlight We're going to iterate on the format. A lot of feedback: 1. People liked seeing new projects highlighted 2. There were too many 3. Existing projects weren't getting the same treatment So for now, no more new spotlights. But will likely bring back with a set of guidelines / clear criteria.

Who’s going to be in Miami next week? Anyone going to the pudgy penguins event? https://x.com/pudgypenguins/status/1993005329169498404?s=46&t=N80rptBytKhSU-csz4Akrg