System is Updating into 2026: GM Farcaster ep323 with @chintan, Base App Head of Engineering

Yes, Die Hard is a Christmas movie and I watch it every Christmas Eve while wrapping gifts.🎁 So I created a Die Hard theme 80s style 3 level game using the new @neynar mini app creator! I'll share more about this on @gmfarcaster today and I'm going to do a separate stream at 3 pm ET/noon PT to chat more about my mini app dev arc. (spoiler alert: I will not be pivoting to dev any time soon lol but hey, I actually managed to create this! thanks @rish for the assist!) PLUS I just clanked a new token that I'll be using to reward players: $saveholly which has been airdropped to the holders of $festivus that I clanked last year plus the holders of Die Hard POAPs I dropped in 2021 and 2022. More on that during the 3 pm stream later today! 🎁 🎁 🎁 I just saved Holly and Christmas from Hans Gruber! 🎄🎬 Score: 8,062 points Yippee-ki-yay! https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/oT7lGF0ooNeB/die-hard-the-game https://www.clanker.world/clanker/0x56fcC00e567BB7A4c3D9f5C4080C862a20ADeB07

Releasing Sophlets into the world 🦉🛋️ To celebrate the arrival of @sopha - a client designed to be your second place on Farcaster, and to bring back the Farcaster you love. • Thoughtful, long-form content, carefully curated • Real control over what (and who) you follow closely Mint a Sophlet for enhanced access - and a little extra joy along the way. https://immutagen.ai/mint/d964d9a2-6707-4b3e-98a5-c505ae0d04d1 https://sopha.social

Prediction markets have entered the Degen app 👀

Want good book recommendations? Check out Farcaster's Library!📚 - Add your fav books to your bookshelf - Discover people who have books in common, check their other favs - View the book leaderboard Add your 5 favorite books below👇 https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/mSaX_gE-Z8AB/farcasters-library

Clanker RFC: Auctions We’ve been exploring how to make Clanker the best place to launch a token with 3 goals in mind: - Discover a fair market value - Distribute broadly and fairly - Earn in a way that is aligned with your community We think auctions could be a powerful tool to meet those goals and want to get community feedback on this direction. https://farcasterhq.notion.site/Clanker-Auctions-Shared-2ca6a6c0c1018017a28def2dbecbe9a7?pvs=74 Some of the reasons we like auctions (cont):

The current trending tokens screen aka “Pulse” 🔥 isn’t as helpful imo as the old Search 🔍 screen. For an at a glance quick look, the old screen provided better info for discovery. The filter is good on the new screen (which is also in the wallet) but otherwise it’s more noise than signal. I’d rather see the categories by platform and the related news items. The first 2 videos are old versions; 3rd is the current. The current requires more work for discovery.

PSA: if you turned into a ghost recently, you probably have an old NFT pfp set on your profile. First, congrats on being on Farcaster in 2022. Make sure you don't miss Medicare enrollment. Second, the quickest fix is to set it again on your profile. The OpenSea CDN recently stopped serving these and we don't have the very oldest cached.

Base is now the most popular client on protocol by messages sent. Opportunity for another client ✅

Should base app focus on being a self-custodial version of Coinbase (trading and financial services oriented) or lean into content/creator coins and social? (Or is this a false dichotomy.) This is a key question I heard from people coming out of the product event yesterday. Action produces information and this team is shipping like crazy. I love that we’re building in the open, and letting the market guide us. What do you think?

The moment you've been waiting for is hereee 👀🎉 The doors of House are now unlocked for everyone!! Enter now and ☑ Create a livestream ☑ Spin up a space ☑ Send tips to your favourite people ☑ Token gate your streams and spaces When will you enter? 👀✨ https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/gZYphBnsbYcS/house

Do you miss a more thoughtful, social-first Farcaster? A place with a curated feed of the best writing and ideas, where you can slow down, go deeper, and stay closely connected to the people you actually care about? I'm building Sopha for wisdom and comfort. A place for deep social, deep thoughts, deep connections. A place for nerding out, for thinking about society, about how to live well, a place for art and beauty and science and philosophy. A place for people who want to visit the coffee shop or the bookstore rather than the casino. I'm not designing it to be your main client - though I'm sure for some people it will be - I'm designing it to be a place to slow down a little to go deeper and be more intentional. I've been talking about it for a few weeks now, and it's almost time to start opening up. Follow @sopha for updates and access to the web app tomorrow. In the meantime install the mini-app sopha.social 🦉🛋️

It’s a cool experience logging into a new app for the first time and importing your existing social graph

max was hit with a "contagious interview" attack. these are getting more sophisticated and very nasty. two good resources below to understand what they do. if you work in crypto you need to assume any Github repo you touch is from North Korea until proven otherwise. it sucks but if you are a dev your best protection is a totally isolated machine and intense discipline to keep it that way. if you're in an interview with someone you don't know, never ever run their code on your machine. if someone I interviewed pushed back if I asked them to clone a repo I would see it as nothing but a positive signal. https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/contagious-interview-vscode https://socket.dev/blog/north-korea-contagious-interview-npm-attacks

to be honest this sucks but I've traced it back to malware on my machine. gut-wrenching to say but size down your $LOOP as needed. I'm going to try for a miracle and negotiate with the scammers - hopefully they reply - they have not sold as I'm guessing they see it as $0 value on basescan so haven't triggered a swap.

GM BASE APP GENERAL PUBLIC USERS MY NAME IS APEX I LIKE TO DO GM’s AND TALK ABOUT PRIVACY. WELCOME TO THE FUTURE OF FRANCE.

i can see why you'd say coinbase "sherlocked" bankr (building a similar product directly in their app) i don't see it this way. agents are inevitable. if they weren't that would mean we've wasted the last year + building something no one will want. robinhood and coinbase both announced agents today. further validating what we have already known. what we are building is valuable and we have learnings and insights that no one else does. we're one of the most experienced teams in the nascent financial agent space. we are a small team able to move quickly and react to the market if needed. we are happy with our current roadmap and are sticking to it. a coinbase agent doesn't change anything for us. agents do not end at a coinbase integration. i expect many many more to come online in the coming months and years.

A new era of Coinbase is here. Our goal is to be the #1 financial services app in the world. With our new releases like stock trading and prediction markets, our financial management tools that outperform traditional alternatives, and our crypto as a service offerings, we’re positioned to make this a reality.

@garrytan 😂

Base is now open to millions… …and every one of them will be greeted these beautiful AI faces, whenever they use messenger. Incredible possibilities, and Bracket team is cooking. It’s gonna be a crazy year for sports fans on Base. I can promise you that. 🤝🏀⚽️🏈

The new baseshake is shakebase

Key announcements today from Coinbase’s System Update: - Stocks in the Coinbase App - Prediction Markets (powered by Kalshi) in the Coinbase App - Equity perpetuals for non-US traders early next year - DEX trading in Coinbase App on Solana and Ethereum - Coinbase Token Sales: more pre-launch token sales like their recent sale with Monad - Coinbase Custom Stablecoins: branded stablecoins backed 1:1 by collateral custodied by Coinbase - Coinbase Advisor: AI-powered robo-advisor in app - Coinbase Business fully released out of beta - Coinbase Developer Platform with expanded APIs - Base App is fully available to everyone globally - Coinbase Tokenize: end to end solution to bring offchain assets onchain combining issuance, custody, compliance and trading in one place bringing private companies, real estate, equities and funds onchain.

@m00npapi.eth why'd they call you roger in the base ad???

Easily airdrop new clankers to people you follow through the deploy form on clanker.world/deploy

‘Tis the season. Earn your share of up to $2M+ Base app holiday reward. 1. Download the Base app 2. Connect a social account with Base Verify 3. Trade in the feed 4. Invite friends https://base.app/holiday-rewards?miniapp=1 (Void where prohibited. Ends 12/21/25 at 12 p.m. PT. See Official Rules.)

Make it on Base.

How the Base app works in under 1 minute, by @nikkifrommiami.eth

Who is actually using the new hot-garbage tab?

New on Paragraph: introducing the Paragraph API & typescript SDK. We're making it easier for developers to tap into the Paragraph ecosystem to consume, discover, publish & trade. And, we're open-sourcing our first reference app: Paragraph Markets, a trading interface built on top of writer coins: https://paragraph.markets Read more: https://paragraph.com/@blog/paragraph-api-and-sdk

What happened to @ponder ? it peaked. 🥲 Keynesian beauty contests are conceptually elite: they show what people really think by making them put skin in the game. Perfect for a FC mini app. Some stats -> - 300k transactions on @base.base.eth - $500k+ in p2p payouts - 32,000+ users - 67 fun The problem Even with protections, people won’t put real money on anything that feels game-able. Sybils are everywhere. And even if we’re defending outcomes, the vibe is still: “yeah but… what if it’s rigged?” So most people cap out at $1-5 bets unless the outcome is insanely obvious... ...and when the outcome is insanely obvious, the game gets less fun. You want the classic crypto equation of more money = more fun, but the KBC structure doesn't have enough trust for that (maybe something World can solve with eyeball scans...) What's next Daily ponders continue (free money). But our main quest is now building a new place where predicting the future is a social game between humans — not a spreadsheet for whales. Ponder users will carry over stake into the new app + any airdrop stuff. we’ll push details from the @ponder app when it’s time, so keep notifications on. more soon. new adventure loading… 🚀

The wait is over. After weeks of invites, the Degen app is officially open to everyone! Tip. Earn. Connect. Own. Download now: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/degen-decentralized-social/id6751642491