anybody else to take a break yeah we're just saying we're ready we're ready for a break
we were just talking about how adrienne's very excited last show of the year i'm i'm mildly excited i'm gonna do a stream later today but i'm like i'm ready for a break i'm ready for the the little break in the daily grind but capex apparently mikado is not where can i submit my objection to this being the last show 2025 sorry but you i'm gonna do a little stream later today that has nothing to do with gm farcaster but kinda does because i'm gonna talk about the mini app that i made and how i made it and all those fun things so that'll be fun alright but we're gonna get started we've got a lot going on today we are going to be talking about all the updates and there's so many things going on we're gonna be doing that and then we are going to have chintan head of engineering for the base app is going to be with us to talk about all the new updates all the exciting things that we heard from the system update and we will be back on the other side of this forty seconds with all of that and see you on the other side
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gm farcaster and gm base app it is friday happy friday december 19 last show of the year and you are here with nounish prof and adrienne for twenty nine minutes of farcaster news to start your day plus we will have chintan from the head of engineering for the base app joining us at the thirty minute mark so if you're over on twitter please retweet if you're on farcaster please recast if you're on the base app repost i guess repost recast i'm confused about the terminology over there
well did you see for the very first time base app has a little bit of farcaster branding in it there's a section for casts
yes i did see that i saw that last week yeah oh maybe
exactly yeah so there's coy yeah posts and casts which is really interesting what did you think about that do you think that's helpful
that i agree
so yep i'd rather see everything together with the ability to kind of highlight the ones that are collectible or coinable
yeah collectible and then the
i'll what i do really like is the trade and talk feeds i do appreciate that because it does help to like sorta separate and let you just get in a different mindset when you're looking at it so i do really like that and we'll talk we should probably pause this and come back to that right before chint when chintan gets here because
we don't wanna like talk about all this while he's not here with us so we will do that in just a bit and i will not acknowledge you aqueous i'm just saying
no i'm sorry i can't see it canceled so i'm just gonna i wasn't gonna start here but i think i i think i shall i think i i think i shall so i created a mini app using the neynar mini app thing creator thing so in the neynar mini app now you have two options you can chat with the neynar ai or you can use the mini app creator you it is a paid service the chat is not but the mini app creation is so you do need neynar in order to use it they will give you i think it's a seven day free trial but it is $29 a month so just letting people know before you jump in there so i wanted to create a mini app and decided to do this so it's a die hard christmas mini app with three level gameplay and i recommend you watch the movie first because it will help you especially in level one there's some easter eggs in the level one lobby directory adrienne you should go poke around there and because you'll find your you'll find yourself in there as well as a few other folks so i had had it add some custom folks to the directory and it was just really it was really fun but very frustrating and not as easy as it will be a year from now is what i'll say like i know that like i know it's still early days but it's amazing that i was able to create this at all and it does you know it's it's hard to still hard to get my ideas into prompt form and have them come out the way i think they're going to on the other side so it's a matter of like me getting better the tools getting better both of these things have to happen so a dev using this tool is gonna have a very different experience than a nondev using this tool so yes you can do it it's just gonna take longer it's gonna be slower it's gonna be frustrating all those things so
now i feel like i'm gonna need to do yeah i wanna do one because i wonder how i would approach it and when you're prompting and you're saying you must have an idea of what something looks like yeah right and then is that what you're primarily prompting like from a
pretty much or like how the gameplay is gonna go and things like that so just all the things like even just so one of the things if you are using this if you make sure you click on there's a little hamburger menu type of thing three dots on the left hand side there's one at the top that's the normal one for mini apps but there's another menu it's kind of hidden i didn't see it for a while mhmm and that is where you can like upload images and things like that so i was like that took me a while to figure out like how am i gonna get this image in here because it was creating images and they were kinda not the best and so things like that so it's just a lot of trial and error but it works it has three levels my plan was three levels first level's the lobby second level's a pac man game that you're going through the christmas party and ellis is chasing you around if you don't know who ellis is in again watch the movie first it'll be helpful make it a lot more fun and then the third level is like a donkey kong style game where you have to save
climb nakamori nakatomi tower and save holly from hans gruber so i clanked something of course to go with this and it's save holly which i'm gonna be dropping to various winners and i've already loaded it up at my noise so i'm tipping i'm gonna be tipping as you play and i'll be tipping on the leaderboard so it's fun go play it it'll be good it'll be fun and i also did an airdrop to anyone who is holding festivas which i claimed last year you're still holding it and there's only like i don't know 50 maybe and then i also sent some to i dropped two die hard is a movie is a christmas movie poaps back one in december 2021 '1 in 2022 so the people who had collected that most of whom i don't even remember anymore they just got this airdrop as well so it's gonna i think it unlock the airdrop unlocks tomorrow symbiotech you were one of the ones who collected one of those poaps so you're in there and then adrienne of course i sent you a little bit alright so you know had to so anyway more on that later i'm gonna do a little stream around three i'm gonna walk through the game i'm gonna walk through the creation process like talk about how i created it and how i use neynar ai the mini app and like take a look at that mini app so pop on in i'm gonna also try to use den dot show for this so i can play around with that and do some money gunning and things like that so alright that's that moving on to actual news this psa if you this is from horsefacts if you turned into a ghost recently you probably have an old nft pfp set on your profile so you used to be able to just pull your nft from open it would basically ping opensea and pull it in there first congrats on being on farcaster in 2022 make sure you don't miss medicare enrollment thanks horsefacts 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 so there you go few of you got had this issue nonlinear did ted did so
i just can't it's not i give up i i actually never had mine is not an mine's an nft that's been enhanced as an image so it didn't even like mine's not even an nft so i didn't really have a big a big issue with that i i like the nft feed that's different that's different okay yep now you did you ever have yours as an nft
did you okay i also had the hexagon for a hot minute for for yeah twitter hot minute but i must have at some point i did connect it as my nft and then at some point over the years i've now re i've changed it so i uploaded a screenshot of my nft so i am not a ghost yeah
yeah you are not a ghost so yeah if you see any ghosts this is the reason or if you're a ghost this is the reason this from dwr this is crazy to see base is now the most popular client on protocol by messages sent opportunity for another client check mark so this was always discussed for a long time whether or not any client would surpass farcaster aka oh hello aka warpcast so it was interesting to see this finally happen and i don't know if oh god i hope we're not having problems okay i was having problems this morning there was a little cloud flare issue this morning for a minute but then it was fine but it was cool to see this chart where all of a sudden we have we have base taking over so there you go it'll be cool to see the newer clients and see where they land after a little bit of time this from dish easily airdrop new clankers to people you follow through the deploy form on clanker.world/deploy and i asked if you could limit it in any way and then he did end up adding neynar scores so that if you i'm like i got a lot of people following me i'm like i got a lot of people i follow k that i follow i follow like 4,000 like i wanted to be able to narrow that down a little bit if i wanna use that i didn't use that for this one but i think that's a really cool feature so that is available now at clanker.world go check it out this from deodad regarding clanker rfc auctions we've been exploring how to make clanker the best place to launch a token with three 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 some of the reasons we like auctions why isn't he just using you've got 10,000 just use them auctions discover a fair market price instead of guessing one when tokens are sold at a discovered price distribution is fair and value is captured to support the market and project distribution is broad and not about being the fastest finger buyers have time to buy at roughly the same price distribution is relative to commitment rather than timing participation doesn't need to be restricted to a small set of users or in in or a cap to an arbitrary limit proceeds don't get extracted they support the market and creator trading starts in a deeply liquid market at the discovered price over time the team can access a portion of the proceeds when the market maintains or grows and then you can read the full doc for a better understanding how the auctions work and i would recommend that because it does have some good visuals and a bit more information let me see if i can bring it up regarding what they're planning or what they're looking at and it will give you more surface area to give feedback on so but yeah it's interesting not sure but i think it's worth the experiment yep any thoughts
no because i haven't really rent went through the docs yet it's like i'm not formulated
i haven't even been on vacation i went on vacation you are one of those employees aren't you you went on vacation december 1 that is it
just kidding you know there's always people that you worked with though in a corporate setting who seriously checked out like thanksgiving rolled around and they were done wow
for the you're really you're really accusing me you're really accusing me of not pulling my weight
not you at all i'm just kidding it just you just gave that energy just now not before this but just now
anyway no i'm sorry i haven't no but i i have not yet i haven't i'm saving opinions on auction clanker auctions until i can read the docs because i
not docs it's fair
i'm not one of those talking heads that you know talks about things that i am not an expert in
like me
so i'm a little distracted prof because i'm chatting with my bot my a our ai bot right now
oh my god
show all the time
i'm good i know and you're getting tagged so like now i can't hide it because after the show ends you'll be like oh what were you doing what were you doing it's not working i'm gonna put my phone down and okay warpee is not getting a christmas bonus you guys
warpee what are you doing
that's hilarious
product feedback resize the control buttons okay you can also just do this on your laptop and use your your arrows this is what i'd recommend but i feel you okay i i will do my best to see if i can adjust that but we'll we'll see
no it's not me
mean you're practice you are but you're not you're you're not
i think you just made a face earlier it's probably while you're talking warpee
oh so many you know i don't know if you know fubar fubar is actually if you go look over on crypto twitter he's actually a dev and he's like a smart contract kinda really awesome dev does a lot of like security stuff so i'm assuming that's why he pulled that name or just maybe it was the actual fubar from you know various things the other the other foobar alright moving on okay max jackson posted who is actually using the new hot garbage tab and this is the pulse tab that is the new trending tokens feed and there was a lot of discussion so i'm not gonna get into the full discussion but zinger said what would what would make it more useful and there was a lot of discussion here about that but i think what is more helpful is to sort of see the differences this was my feedback was that the current that current pulse so when you click on that little the little fire emoji little flame what you get right now is this third one which is let me pull this up let's see if it pops up no it does not wanna this third one which is pretty much all it's trending tokens but it's all of i cannot get this to just play it's all pretty much pump fun because that's what has the most volume i guess so it's not to me as useful as the previous one that we had so we had a previous one couple different versions of it and it had it broken down by platforms and as well as recent and other like
forget recent and top stories so that to me is much more useful in that form than what's there now so that was my opinion if you have feedback on this feel free to drop into either one of these threads and let zinger know what your thoughts are on if these are useful especially if you're a trader and this is like if you're not if you're like i would never use this tab in its current form here's what would be more useful to me like let them know because that's what they're looking for in this feedback and that's the last i'm gonna say about that i have said my i spent way too much time yesterday talking about that subject
it was not received well i'll just put it that way the gift was not accepted
it was returned for store credit okay this from maxbuidl.eth this is in response to here's what happened and i don't know if it fully goes into that he lost all of his account got compromised lost all of his i think it was the loop token and said this is what he was saying 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 zero value on base scan so i haven't triggered a swap however i believe they did swap after after he had posted this and then what he reached out horsefacts help and he said more info on the attack in hindsight i should have known better and force and for once got caught with my pants down i'll be likely taking a break to focus on op sec and shake this off so what happened was max was hit with a contagious interview attack these are getting more sophisticated and very nasty two good sources 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 so this has been done in a lot of different ways like i ended up in one of these situations definitely they were not north korean but it was they were pretending to be a crypto journalist who wanted to do an interview so it was the same kind of thing i managed to avoid any issues by some you know luck and starting to figure out like this doesn't feel legit this seems like it was like a job interview where it's like here clone this repo do this thing let's see your skills kinda situation so this is like a different approach to it mhmm so just be super careful out there it's yeah not fun not fun so sorry to hear that max and hope you recover from this this from jacek the wait is over after nine after weeks of invites the degen app is officially open to everyone tip earn connect own win download now and then this was the other big news from jacek prediction markets have entered the degen app so it now has prediction markets integrated so there you go if you're looking for that in your client you now have it probably coming to more clients very very soon just give it a minute they're coming you can already see them in the zapper client but you have to it's basically take if your wallet that you're using or your farcaster any of your farcaster connected wallets if you're using those for prediction markets it will bring in that it will show that in the feeds in zapper but it it doesn't have an integrated prediction market directly so just to be clear on that and of course our friend bracky is everywhere on the on the flip side of the client coin on the exact flip side this is from chriscocreated do you miss a more thoughtful social social first farcaster a place with 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 for some weird reason i'm hearing the theme song to cheers like in my head as i read this i feel like this should be the background music building sofa 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 book store rather than the casino so the lower or actually the upper levels of the resort i'm 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 and a little go a little deeper and be more intentional i've been talking about this for a few weeks now and it's almost time to start opening up and it is i i think it is now open to everybody so you can use it as a mini app it also goes out to a web app if you're curating still very you know very new but you know what it's got do you know what it's got
do you know what made me so freaking happy it has the trending feed
it does it has the trending feed and i forget where to find it but it has it it's here somewhere if you go into the feeds of filtering options here it is and you can find i think it's somewhere in here where the heck is it i forget but it's here somewhere somewhere in here is a trending feed i don't remember where it is now more oh it's under more maybe i don't know it disappeared but it's here somewhere and it's glorious and it works exactly like the old trending feed so i was looking at it this morning and i found some things so that was fantastic so go check this out it's a new fun client also chriscocreated released this this morning releasing sofflets so sofa is the name of the mini app and or the client and sofflets is the little mascot to celebrate the arrival of sofa a client designed to be your second place on farcaster and to bring back the farcaster you love thoughtful long form content carefully curated oh that's the other thing there's curators so there's curated feeds real control over what and who you follow closely you can also you designate a 37 that you wanna follow and it's called my 37 and then mintosoflet for enhanced access and a little extra joy along the way and this is similar to a warplet where it brings in your pfp dna and updates the little owl so yeah it's cute
i'm impressed how much chris has put into like the early initial mvp beta launcher or whatever that he's done with
it's really good
yeah there's my softlet it's very cute it came out great so i love my softlet
when i saw softlets on the feed i immediately it made me think of the sofan sofan from the three body problem did you read three body problem
i saw a fiction show oh so i know what you're talking about but i don't remember that
to remember what that is it's been a
go read the book been a while it's been a while
yeah i'll have to i'll have to look back on that alright a few more things before we start diving into all things base and coinbase this from farhouse the moment you've been waiting for is here the doors of house are now unlocked for everyone enter now and at and create a livestream spin up a space send tips to your favorite people token gate your streams and spaces when will you enter so it is now open we talked with ranjan from farhouse last week last monday and so it's cool to see this all all happening so go check it out yes did you have some
no i was just thinking of the when we did our watch party and we kind of used our own infra infra for it but that's kind of what farhouse is meant for
yeah
so that would have been a great platform to do this and it was not yet available to everybody alright few more things this from limes wanna want good book recommendations check out farcaster's library add your fave books to your bookshelf discover people who have books in common check their other faves view the book leaderboard add your fave five favorite books below this also in the vein of of the slow of the of the sofa you read the books on the sofa so there you go i have not added anything but i know that you did so let me find yours real quick and you can search and find folks in here and see their bookshelf and yeah it's pretty cool i thought it opened but maybe they don't i thought they did for some reason and then it will show you like who you have connections with as well if you have books on your shelf and they have the
yeah which is that's very cool i have not added any books yet so i will do so i will do so soon yeah oh you heard him yeah mookie says hi bert worst always hears mookie i think he hear he's the only one who really hears him mookie burtworth says hi this from colin new on paragraph introducing the paragraph api and typescript sdk we're making it easier for developers to tap into the paragraph ecosystem to consume discover publish and trade and we're open sourcing our first reference app paragraph markets a trading interface built on top of ridercoins so go check that out that's fun and this from cojo this is a little long i'm gonna shorten it so what happened to ponder it peaked kinesian beauty contests are conceptually elite they show what people really think by making them put skin in the game perfect for an fc mini app some stats 300 k transaction 500 k in p two p payouts 32,000 plus users 67 on oh $6.07 got it he just wanted to throw $6.07 in there the problem and then it goes on to kinda talk about some of the challenges that they've had in building and what's next so what's next daily ponders continue but our main quest is building a new place where predicting the future is a social game between humans and not a spreadsheet for whales ponder user users will carry over stake into the new app plus any airdrop stuff will push details from the ponder app when it's time so keep notifications on more soon new adventures loading so that's fun to see and again go check out die hard the game it it's fun you'll enjoy it alright i gotta switch over to our base stuff and coinbase stuff and there's a lot of things that happened this week so we're gonna get started chatting about that and then we'll be joined by chintan shortly who is the head of engineering for the base app and adrienne if you can just double check and make sure he has the link yeah i'm on it fantastic i see megan in here who's who's sitting in from the from the team and i'm just pulling up my there are many many things that happened this past this past couple days so let me see if i can grab the right links here so we did a watch party for the system update coinbase did the system update on wednesday december 17 where they shared all the updates to the coinbase app and the and what coinbase is off plus the base app so the base app was towards the end and here is chintan so i'll bring him up in just a second make sure he's ready and so we saw let me just show this real quick we saw jesse come on out and talk about the base app and all the new things there brian was sort of the host of the show keeping things rolling and bringing out different product leads to talk about the different different things happening within the coinbase world this was a really good summary from garrett that i'm just gonna throw out there and then we'll bring chintan up to talk about all the base app specific things but there was a lot that was announced and a lot of it was at the coinbase level so stocks in the coinbase app prediction markets powered by calci in the coinbase app equity perps for non us traders early next year dex trading in coinbase app on solana and ethereum coinbase token sales more along the lines of the prelaunch token sales like monad coinbase custom stablecoins i thought this was really interesting branded stablecoins backed one one one by collateral custodied by coinbase coinbase advisor ai powered robo advisor in app and by the way deployer did drop a note and say no i didn't think no they didn't steal bankr this was obvious it's all good people relax there were some people like that's bankr and i was like oh bankr yeah i mean i did think the same thing coinbase business fully released out of beta coinbase developer platform with expanded apis base app is fully available to everyone globally coinbase tokenized end to end solution to bring off chain assets on chain combining issuance custody compliance trading in one place and bringing private companies real estate equities and funds on chain alright let's bring up our friend chintan here welcome nice sweater
i love it that is actually part i don't let's see if i can i can move us over so you can see the background whoops let me move that off the screen for a minute
so we have the sweaters in the background
yeah
across the top
the lore aneri designed this she did an incredible job it's like ethereum ornaments the base word mark there's candlestick charts lower down
there's g m g n
yeah so good she did a great job it's so good
love them so you had a massive like build what do you call it locked in you're like locked in a couple weeks ago you're in new york for a surge week that was the word
looking for
with the team you had everybody together how did all go and then you led up to this opening up of of the app to everybody so how are things going let's start there
i think things are going i think it's you know it's been a year long like grind rebuilding coinbase wallet really changing a lot of our tech stack the ups and downs of the market integrating with awesome partners like farcaster zora xmtp but then really like narrowing down and just going hard into this this new bet this new sort of experience we wanna deliver for consumers be early trade instantly earn from everything and anything you create like you have value right and i think a lot of it is just like navigating that idea maze and so it was cool because we got a we got the whole team together in new york it was like the first week of december and i kicked it off everyone was pumped and really we had one one goal that week which is like get the app ready for this launch and the reason it was so critical is like we have to submit to apple early and it has to go through reviews so like we we wanted to make sure we had plenty of time and so the search was like super fun and i think maybe from the outside like you get the sense of like okay the team's grinding cool cool but are they like really working that hard or is this just a bunch of like content no this surge is not for the faint of
heart a lot of content which i appreciated there was a lot of talk i mean while you have people there you might as well right
yeah like we wanna just show what happens like behind the scenes and i i really think just the team is so special because everyone just kick off at like 9am we'd stay until like midnight every night and the cool thing is like you didn't have to ask anyone to stay and if people needed to leave early to go do something like that's fine but everyone is there because they knew the goal get this this puppy ready right and it was fun because we were with each other we could talk to each other we could get stuff done so much faster a team member had their wedding on wednesday and they showed up monday and tuesday and we did like a cake celebration for them but wow we missed him by five minutes because he left early for to go to the airport so we facetimed him and said congrats and then we wheeled around cake for everyone like a like in an airline i was i was serving cake but it was good it was such a good feeling of fast rapid communication shipping testing out the product we did a little cafe in like i don't know if you've to our new york office if you haven't we should bring you but it's like beautiful
you've there oh i thought you've been there adrienne right
so you're you're invited yeah thank whenever you're in new york even if i'm not there we can we can make that happen but we had like a in the the lobby area we had our team doing a base feedback cafe and just bringing in both internals external folks to just like hammer out the app give us the feedback and it was good and then we just take those issues those bugs we would get in real time and like just fix them right then and there like i think that was just like the best thing where just like everyone was there pushing hard and the app got significantly better both on like the the functional side but also it's gotten like a beautiful design facelift and there's more to come so it was great
yeah dylan mentioned a few things in the mini app he mentioned there's more to come like there's some things that you're you're changing and and adjusting and like the mini app menu is what i mean yeah yeah if you if you're listing something like that yeah
yeah we we've leaned in pretty hard into sort of making it easy for builders to get discovered give give them that distribution so if you look at the like the search tab it's actually search plus like almost an an app discovery store right and so you'll see trending picks top picks there's actually like you know another sort of layer screen that shows like all the cool mini apps and we're we're leaning in really heavily on two things with builders is one like just helping them even more to create like world class apps so that when someone comes into the base app they have something awesome to do it's a great experience
yeah
and these builders can discover it and then two we're focusing a lot on just like really curating which apps we're showing right now because we wanna keep up leveling the bar and then also just making it easier kind of on the technical side making some of the the high points of friction that used to exist with mini apps and builders like just making them optional right you can like create a mini app on the base app and it'll just work with a simple zero x address if you need a social layer you can add it optionally and that's cool too so we just kinda wanna identify those friction points and just make it easier
so i created a mini app yesterday
using neynar ai so it's the first time
yeah so i finally created something because i'm obviously not a dev not close so this was a really cool experience and one of the things i noticed this morning is when i casted it like it's not easily discoverable anywhere right now because it's brand spanking new but when i casted it and looked in base app it's there it's linked you can open it up you can play it in there so without me having to do anything so meaning i did it i set it up signed the manifest and it's available anywhere on the far farcaster protocol where mini apps can be viewed
if you go to my profile it's called die hard the game and if you go to my proto if you just go to my profile nounishprof profile you'll see it there yes
christmas movie
your phone just a really little a quick little three level very eight bit kinda style game like a little pac man game a little donkey kong lay a level so it's just fun but it was
so it's fun
it's fun and i i had i had a lot of fun doing it it was frustrating as a nondev it'd be so much easier if you know what the heck you're doing if you're better at prompting like but i was able to do it and i was able to do it in a day so that's kinda crazy and it was a lot of you
this is awesome thank you now i'm just gonna like go and play with this and figure this out
i can't say things to you two people because you just then you get distracted and you're off doing stuff
stop doing cool stuff but it was really it was really fun to and it was great to be able to just see it it works everywhere like it works in the base app without me having to do anything so glad you're a lot of work on i know on the back end because early on that was not the case
it was you had to do
yeah so that's that's i know there was a lot of work done to make that make that look easy
what we want we want like my you know the the way i i think about stuff a lot with like base app and and what we're trying to do is like my my metric that i care about the most is like time to x right and x can be time to make money time to build your first app and and have it go live right like in this world where attention is like very scarce and and also just people don't have it and that people wanna like get that quick dopamine hit but to make that don't quick dopamine hit have some long term benefits you gotta like build with quality too right so i love the fact that like the time for you to take an idea and deploy this mini app has gotten so much better and now my goal with base app for you and other builders is then how do we get you distribution how do we get you your first user then your first 10 users then your 100 and then thousand right and so even though you had to put the link for the die game you built and then cast it out also in our feed we'll be adding soon like new content types like so if you and adrienne and me started playing die hard it would pop up in the feed and say hey you and two other friend or whatever you're like adrienne and two other friends just play die hard and died see if you can survive so we we wanna like take the actions of the mini app and actually distribute oh that's cool organically into the feed because what you really wanna know is like what your friends are up to what's interesting all that kind of stuff
so this is like a trading your you know your friend just traded this token but it's your friend just played this mini app
stat it's it's powered by social part
right yeah right it could be a builder coin it could be diehard the token that's required to play the game like there's also
holly we have saveholly as the token but
the ideas are there it's taking the idea to actually creation if you would ask me to do this a year ago i couldn't do it see you've got your brain i've tried
that the time from idea to creation yeah right and like you know i've been toying around on the side with some ideas around just like what if you can voice prompt like i wanna make a die hard game it does these five things literally just do it inside the app and then it sends that prompt to the back end the back end cooks and then returns back the game right i believe like remix has tried to do this too and then and like it's just a really cool model
it's i think it's getting there you know you you could basically get close to doing that right now with neynar except then you do have to debug you have to okay this doesn't look the way you know i envisioned it and things like that and if you are if you have any coding experience this is gonna be so much easier for you or if you're just a really good prompter if you have a lot of ai experience so either one think you're gonna be able to like take your idea and put it in and have it become a mini app going
to the gym yeah yeah even without even without like you've now built one so if you build a second one even with no coding it gets easier and then the third one absolutely so yeah
you'll yeah it's just like a a just like you said the gym yeah it's the reps yeah yeah you get you get stronger yeah it'll be much easier the second time and then it it's you know but it was also an accomplishment it's like oh i can see this thing i built it's not you know super slick or whatever but i did it you know i was
yeah
like not everything everyone does is gonna be a runner and you just gotta get shots on goal yeah
yeah very it was very fun it was very fun that's awesome so what are what are the things that have been incorporated into the base app over the past like with this new release that you're really excited about that you want people to know about maybe some you know things that are on the way that that haven't shipped yet that we should be on the lookout for for sure that's the real you know that's the real stuff i want i want that's the real stuff and like there there's nothing like already there
yeah and okay so you know we did we did the beta launch in july we learned a lot thank you both for so much feedback and using it and to just the whole community like look we're trying something new it's hard and we love getting roasted so roast us but be nice and give us the feedback so we can make the the product better and so that's what we've spent the last six months doing right we learned a bunch we learned that you know there's confusion
there was like a whole adrienne you missed it there was a whole two nights of roasting sessions at base camp where they just that they were people were invited to come roast the the open base
yeah i mean that's to me amazing because to open yourself up in that way is is really refreshing and that kind of level of transparency and you probably gave you so much better information than if you were you know if people were either not feeling like you're open to it or if you were pushing back so i thought it great
yeah i mean i i think you can just learn so much just by listening listening with an open mind and just asking the right questions and that's what we've really been trying to do and so okay what what do we what do we do with this launch what do we make better i think if we just look at what we're trying to achieve for new users it's honestly time for them to get their first sort of on chain earning right time to make money in whatever sense and some of that can be from trading some of that could be from posting like great content and and then the flywheel working like oh that's cool like here's a couple pennies or here here's a buck like i i kinda love you as a creator and i just wanna support you and and look i don't wanna like debate like is that the thing right because we are so early we are seeing pieces of that flywheel really picking up right and know i was talking to to the european kid right great content really funny he posts on tiktok and instagram and all of that stuff just gets automatically cross posted he doesn't have to do anything it gets cross posted into the base app so that's one big thing we launched which is this integration where if you are a creator you can use this integration we have with repurpose that cross posts from tiktok instagram automatically into the base app and like the moment for many of these creators is wait a minute i posted yeah i got a bunch of like likes on instagram and tiktok but i just got a thousand bucks here on base app yeah right so like that's one big thing how do we make it easier and more digestible
right now we we wanna make it available to everyone but right now because we want that experience to be really really good and we're gonna find bugs along the way we're opening it up to select creators if you guys want it just let me know yeah
we need it
send it out to twitter and tiktok but we don't this is the platform we're mostly invested in
i love
can i just double click on what you said though because it reminds me of like where i had been for kind of years understanding cryptocurrencies and blockchains at a theoretical level it was when i first got my self custody wallet and minted an nft where i was like oh and i had this like moment of kind of the ownership aspect and openness yeah and i think you're right like so if you join a social media app and even if it's pennies but the fact to see some exchange of of value from a financial perspective when you did not have to set anything up like you didn't have to connect your stripe account or you didn't have to connect your shiny account
millions of users and right yeah
yeah and you know i'm so glad you said that because what you're describing is is is like the magic moment right i spent a bunch of time at uber and for me what i learned there was like pushing a button on an app and having a car show up is literally magic right because there's so much working behind the scenes same thing here like what is the magic we wanna deliver and like the magic is just like expressing yourself in whatever way you want and someone on earth valuing it without you having to do extra stuff is like honestly magical because there's so much behind the scenes that's also working to move that value so we we did that to make things easier for creators right second thing you you
touched i wanna can i just pause on one thing there and one of the things you did was add this double tap
which is fantastic it's fantastic so within your settings you can set an amount like a dollar so i set mine for a dollar for a double tap and if i wanna buy more of something i'll just go in the regular way but if i just double tap on the post and it's and it has a coin it's gonna automatically buy a dollar of that yes without me doing anything else like it's yes really cool
it's really cool are you are you get when you do the double tap are you seeing the passkey prompt
i think so cool i don't remember have to look i think so
i think i am probably are okay i wanna talk about that because yeah this this double tap we call it quick buy this double tap experience is like yeah the actual new sort of mechanism we're pretty excited about we are seeing even with this just like small interaction change so much more like five x more training going on right or or like buying of content so you described the double tap you like double tap on any content on the trade tab you set a value $1.50 10¢ whatever it is and like boom it's sent that's magic i love that we're also adding some cool stuff so i have i don't think it's live yet it will be in the next release but if you double tap you'll do that $1 quick buy if you double tap again it'll go to $2 double tap again $3 so you can sort of like scale a little bit based on the content you're actually seeing
too which is
kind of fun we have introduced a little heart icon in sort of the right side of the content with the dollar sign that should be out and so also in that what you'll see very soon might need to update again i don't remember and we're like the team team is just like constantly
do that last night
or we we may or may not have but we're actually like doing our cut today so it should probably go live like monday for everyone monday tuesday if all goes well but you know today instagram a like means nothing it's just a like right so we just really wanted to play into that concept and the design team came up with some really cool awesome stuff and one of it was this heart with the dollar sign you just tap it and it mimics the same exact behavior as that double tap so it's still like a little quick buy right but the last sort of piece of friction is that passkey right that passkey prompt that pops up like you just wanna scroll
checked yes i got it
can't remember
yeah so you wanna like scroll tab scroll tab you don't wanna like this passkey to keep prompting you every time and that's honestly like it's because when we launched in july we started with passkey onboarding but i'm so excited like for brand new users we have email onboarding oh and it is so simple you just click create account type in your email you get a little like otp code you know via email that you punch in and then boom you're into the app and there's no passkey prompts it's just really seamless it just feels like a web two app but all the transactions are happening behind the scenes and for folks like us who are you know early that have passkeys we will very soon have the ability to add like an email signer in so then that passkey sort of pop up that shows up sort of fades into the background and you're taking like a new signing approach and i i think like that's just what we're obsessing about is removing that friction over and over and over and over so that's that's like a big the email onboarding that little quick buy and then like throughout the app and you know we did a big refresh on the wallet tab it looks better it works faster the trade tab has different sort of trending topics creators post memes etcetera and we can add more in chat yep we've gotten so much feedback on chat that it's just
chat chat is great
yeah we had it was a lot of problems but it was like you knew you knew it was gonna be good yeah like it had cool like that was another magic thing like adding bracky or adding bankr into a chat and being able to have like go hey bankr send everybody in this chat a dollar is another moment of magic that mind blowing it's fantastic like yeah just being able to do those things yeah or flaunt being able to launch a token right in a chat like all these things very cool
and the thing like why why chat why we believe chat is important like one we cooked a lot with the xmtp team they're like such a good team and it was i think we're solving like some of the hardest problems in end to end encrypted decentralized chat out there and like the one v one chats they work pretty well and they have been but once you get to the group chats things become really hard so like bill with late night on days he has this huge group chat and we call him in there
zero and he has been roasting us and i love it because it's just forced us to like look deeper and deeper and find more ways to improve the chat mhmm and i think it's it's gotten like night and day difference and there's still room to go but the thing why chat matters especially in the group setting is if you think about like a group chat it is your private social network it's where you ship shit it's where you post bracket your bets whatever you bought etcetera etcetera and like there's a lot of stuff that sort of almost organically originates within your chat as you're talking to folks or seeing what folks are trading etcetera etcetera and then we want folks to be able to easily take that sort of information that alpha in a private social network and push it to the public network which is the feed and then that that sort of loop keeps going things in the public feed like oh did you just see what prof just launched this diehard game pop it into your chat play around with it have your you know your friends have fun and be like that's cool i just won the game let me go brag about it and then that that flywheel sort of keeps repeating and we are we wanna see that flywheel and and we're we're working towards it but i think group chats are a big part of this too
absolutely and i yeah i'm i'm right now letting the the group know that they just got a shout out
in that group chat in the late night on base group chat yeah the one of the other things is also if you have a group chat invite invite shane in there because shane mac will just periodically drop money to people because you know i can see that
he is in that one yeah that's what
in a couple of my group chats and every time he's like hey drop everybody $5 in here and i'm like yeah i love this group chat
it it is it is magic like yeah the the stuff like we're look we're not going to compete head to head with telegram and whatsapp we're not trying to like reinvent chat we're actually trying to get the basics right but then add all the new primitives like bankr right
like flowr cool ai stuff yeah like that's the thing yeah
it's totally a hat with a wallet that's connected to it yeah where then agents can act on your behalf like it is insane than what you unlock
absolutely
i actually tried this with my students as well so i onboarded all my students last semester how did that go this past semester good but we had some we had some rough moments it took a little bit but this was early days of of base app i think it would be much easier today well with
but it was still very easy compared to january 2022 when i started the class so anyway but one of the cool things was dropping them into that group chat and then being able to say hey bankr do this you know and and have them watch that magic was very cool so it is a mind blowing kind of moment yeah what other things have been improved or what other things are coming that you're excited about
yeah on improvement like we've had a huge design facelift new icons coming in new illustrations it's just the the look and feel is has gotten so much better and we gotta keep pushing we're still not fully there yet team has cooked a lot on like the app performance it was slow as anything before so we we actually just brought in the entire new react native architecture like new architecture and they did that so fast like it was cool and that's been really forcing us to make the app faster and better and to unlock a bunch of stuff so things just load better token like i'm excited about sort of our asset detail pages i don't think we do a great job right now of providing like contextual information why is this asset up or why is price down right and you can see like you know some some apps out there like give that contextual information i think a lot of it is just like folks pop into the base app there's so much going on how do we sort of smooth out those rough edges with like context with useful information things that are actionable so i'm i'm excited to like start going after that we launched this holiday rewards also get know 'tis the season which is pretty fun just go and do a couple things like just do a base verify which is honestly just connecting your social to base app like x or instagram or even your coinbase account that that that is cool because
this is the invite one right
yeah you can you can on your profile see like oh you have 50,000 followers on your base app profile you have 50,000 followers on x so there's a little validation there it also just helps us like manage the bot problem a lot better right we we wanna reward humans and real users and then do a trade and and just go and invite a bunch of friends and the price pull right now is like 2,000,000 so crazy that is exciting very exciting very exciting
that i was not expecting yes yesterday or day before on wednesday that was new i was like oh but it was funny because i went to double check my make sure i had the latest app the latest base app and i and i then i in in the ios app store i was like oh i see something coming like what's this yes it was in there before it
it was good yeah there was some alpha in there i was like oh that's interesting
there's always alpha and now going into like next year what am i excited about or like next even next quarter i think still like pushing just the facelift on the app right and just just really rounding out that polish and feel i think that's huge we don't what we really wanna really just like focus on next year sorry next quarter years are too long yeah quarter is like stabilizing
next year is next quarter so it's all the
same thing
it's it's like we got the thing working we've gotten it pretty fast we just need to deliver the delight and so we really wanna focus on growth
like that like the delight
yeah deliver the like how do we just get users using it more coming back to it focusing on growth we are actively looking at prediction markets popping into the feed and so that's like a great new asset class we want to allow issuing
you already have bracky so you do you i mean bracky's already out there at ai agenting so there's there's that so for
for those looking for sports bracket there is a little something
providers out there that we just wanna aggregate into the app and show like properly and nicely throughout the app whether it's natively or in the feed itself i think that's just a really important sort of asset class we wanna focus on perps are coming aventis is there
oh great
and then also we're just looking at things like with when you're buying like creator coins content coins like we really want the creators to feel that moment of actually earning and we all know the only way to actually earn is is to like take a sell right and and not just hold forever necessarily like you know you you shouldn't be taking profits over time do not rug your your users
don't rug your people
yes please don't do that but there there is there is part of all this like in any consumer app you wanna minimize decision fatigue and money and when to sell is probably the most anxiety inducing decision fatigue point you can imagine so how do we just make that easier like potentially auto selling based on some tiering like that would just make it easier both for that would be curators and creators
it would also create a an an an expectation so when you're buying like you know this is gonna happen so it wouldn't be so abrupt or i don't know yeah normalized it'll be more normalized go ahead
sorry just yeah just to abstract away kind of the complex because i think that's what i've it seems like a lot of the creator's feedback was like oh now i need to manage the token right and i don't wanna do that i wanna connect with my audience and i wanna make content and i wanna get paid but then it becomes this like a whole new skill set for how to how to manage so i think that's a great idea
you're right and it's you know thematically what we wanna focus on is also simplifying right like there there are parts of the app that we probably should look at consolidating simplifying as we get more and more feedback like we're gonna get a whole new slew of feedback given that it's gone so bad right and so like we gotta just take that all in stride and really focus on delivering the maximum value as fast as possible to our users
how many users are on base app now as of
since wednesday i think i think it's 100 k plus at least that are active like actually active okay on a date on a some recurring basis and then i forgot how many folks have like signed up in total but more more way more than that we we let everyone off the wait list people are coming in we saw do you remember maybe it was at devcon or base camp but like there's a slide that jesse stands in front of where it's like the curve here and
then we are here
hockey sticks and it points to we are here and then we looked at our our graphs our base app graphs from launch and it's so funny the curve just matches that hockey stick and so it's like flat flat flat and then poop right up into the sky and like yes the volumes are not in the millions to billions yet but it's funny to see like how that foreshadowed what the right curve would look like so we're excited about that too we're we're getting a of good feedback
how's the load so far like is everything handling well it's i haven't seen too many issues
so load load has been pretty good we did a ton of load testing before the team really focused on that i i for everything we launch like i sit down with the team and like grill them in these launch reviews it's really fun but it's it's a very good pressure test on like making sure things are right and going to be handled we are seeing some issues like on media upload like sometimes folks have challenges on video upload
cloudflare yep
cloudflare issues cloudinary issues but also like when when someone takes four k video on these really nice new iphones yeah then it's like a 500 meg file that they're trying to upload so we're we're literally like i'm just seeing the prs being put up on adding better compression yeah and then doing background uploading too so there there's that that piece around media we wanna get right and it's what's the
what's the size what's the file size maximum right now we don't just went up didn't it
there's a there's effectively like a time out on the client itself so after about two minutes of uploading the client like is like yo what's going on right and because like it's also not just the upload but coining the content as well right right and so to coin it we need the file to be uploaded so we know the link to the file to include as part of the metadata so we're basically just breaking that all apart now right okay let the coin happen optimistically with like an image thumbnail so we can get a link back and then adding compression so it can be faster than two minutes and so we i i feel good about like delivering a tiktok like experience
that's great because i i was having issues with i tried a couple times to put some video up and was have running into that issue where it would just time out it would fail i couldn't and i was like okay let me i'll circle back to this later yeah like this is it just wasn't it wasn't gonna work and i think that that's great to hear that yeah yeah hopefully that's great
what what do you wanna what do you both wanna see like next year on the app or in q one in the app like what would be your dream feature
go ahead go ahead adrienne yeah she's been thinking about this
get a
that was a question i have
road map maybe you don't have to you don't have prompt anything but i'll tell you my yeah i'll tell you my wish list as a desktop app and part of this is we would love to be uploading more clips
yeah
and videos but i only have it on my mobile app and we do a lot of our stuff on my laptop
a very very good clear user journey of i create content the content i create like where i create is desktop make it easy to just upload from there
okay perfect well i i and another
and another reason is what we show on the screen and on the show you're always gonna see the base app posts on farcaster because we're showing the web version so that's ideally we'd rather be able to show like the whole base section of links coming from the base app does that
yeah makes a 100 sense
i understand make a very limited reason a very niche
use limited reason i i think it's like a really good use case like you know i i hit that problem too looks like i'm creating content or trying to just get something from desktop like if i'm trying to create some ai slop image right right i'll do it in gemini or chatgpt then i'll have to open up that chat inside my mobile and then post from there yeah so yeah i i hear you okay what else
i'm cracking up because also people in the chat are just throwing in all of their requests as well so we're gonna be
we'll go through those and stuff about we'll you we'll get you all in a minute
stuff thinking about kind of like base are you thinking about kind of base app for brands in terms of like multi account support letting multiple people manage an account scheduling things like that more of like that's probably
for brands brands could be creators like a creator tool set tool suite tool studio yeah you know it's it is important we deliver that it's i think it's right now in the thinking phase
think about your brands who have who have interns who right now it's very you is there any way to share an account right now i don't think there is
awesome feedback would email email would fix that
right would fix that what we need to add in the the actual ux of the app is just account switching
yeah right that would be ideal to go
log into mobile exactly and that's the reason we don't use gm farcaster on base app yet because we're able to share it on farcaster but we can't like we can't both use it only one of us would and we'd also need like a separate a whole other
iphone i have multiple yeah and i have multiple chrome profiles like one that i opened that has gm farcaster logged in one for me one for warpcast
about lots
of things you guys thought about channels or cozy corners from like a content perspective
i think that is like a natural thing of natural evolution of like as i think step one is the feed exist step two get the quality of the content to be like a 100 x better so like whoever is making content keep making great content and then i think naturally we'll start seeing like how that content gets curated whether it manifests as like a channel or if it's just manifesting as like better algorithm that is a discover algorithm and then a for you sort of type of tab that is more personalized for like topics you care about or topics we figured out that you care about i don't know if channel's exactly the right expression of it but i i think there needs to be like a personalization there
yeah we'll say that channels is helpful also from brand perspectives too of having another place for people to post but also a good place to pin things that make it make it easier for multiple people to to manage we did some some folks mentioning four four embeds because four embeds please
yeah because when you're posting on farcaster you get four embeds if you're a pro user and then only the first two show on the base app so that's just the
you know you know what i know is happening right now behind the scenes because i think dylan's on this it's gonna be a race between me and him who fires off the the pr for this and we're gonna go ask our little agent to build it
oh that's funny yeah i love it another thing is is
that dylan's set dylan's dylan's dylan's set by the way can we just tell you how amazing he is i don't know if you know
blub dylan
i don't know if you know but he is like just a delightful smart incredible generous human being and we love him
i saw him pop in here he did say hello earlier
he definitely does and then oh drafts people would like drafts for posts
yes well yeah yes i know there's like these basic things foreign beds drafts i like that
someone's requesting campaign support and analytics hubspot style features advertising is a question i have i have in terms of is that open now to other like did an experiment with ads as posts in the feed is that continuing how do people access that or is that sort of like on pause for the moment
no that that is still there okay that that's still well sorry we plan to do that there's a little bit of work of getting in the new feed structure that we've created there's a little bit of work we need to do to get those like personalized offers back into it like back on the feed and then also we have mini app called boost that lets a user like honestly just like take some content that they've created or a mini app or whatever and just boost it like you would for a paid ad like you would do on google but it just shows up in the feed so we're working
on a available is right now or is it still work in progress
so the mini app the mini app is available if you search for it the the small gap though is like getting that content that personalized offer to show up in the feed there's just a little bit of work we need to do to take that over the line
okay cool yeah that's very cool and it's this isn't even coming for me trending topics are we having a trending feed of some sort
i think we do
can we just get make a little side note to our production assistant who's in the background to clip that clip it clip it and i'm gonna coin that we're obsessed with the trending feeds how can
we assess the trending feeds
me what what what an awesome trending feed would look like and and like before you answer also just the the context of how we think about it put putting aside the name trade like we can always change names but the whole idea of that feed everything is tokenized right so whatever you see there is tokenized and you can buy it sell it whatever you want and the thinking on how we're doing sort of what you see in that trade feed is really based on capital flow so you take your social graph who amongst your friends is doing what and overall capital capital flow like is moving value money is truth and that's the stuff that has capital flow should be rising to the top and then it's
sort of your trade feed is very good
yeah
i think we're getting confused with like what's today versus what chintan is describing as this future and i and i actually think he's probably right about actually who knows right like who could break the future
clip that part or he's
but no but think about like this is right like when we say trending and it's funny because like i go back to when you're saying like probably the answer is algorithmic like we people want good content and trending for us is like what's happening on the network what are the most important things what's new what are most people talking about
it's different it's different from token trade token
trade today today it is but i do think if there is this future right and you gotta go through so many iterations of of getting there but there probably is a future where like when everything if people kind of have this right fully liquid flow of of value on a network and people create new habits of buying and trading and selling and you know and double clicking like you need so much to change but if there is that case where money follows attention and everything has this ability to capture and represent what that attention is then yeah then it's the same thing
right yes
yes like if money is the truth right then the long horizon implies trending in capital flow all should be very close like highly correlated and and but i i also do think there's there's like a design space to express like tokenized content and sort of i like the word you use like newsy style content there's a design space to express those differently if you need to but ideally like we continue to increase the different types of content showing up in the feeds like i mentioned like mini apps prediction markets right there there's just like take anything any any action that's happening on chain or off chain and like how do we sort of remix it into this is getting attention we know it's getting attention because there's value moving into it let's create this like block of content for you to show you that this is interesting out there and then you can choose what you wanna do with it
yeah and i do think there's a lot to that and i think right now where you where you have wall you know these apps with wallets that's obviously gonna make a lot of sense and that's probably gonna be the focus and sort of what i'm looking for right now is just like what's the news like what are most people talking about they may not be coining it and they may not be buying it but this is what they're discussing and that has value to me as somebody who reports on that stuff but it also has adds value for bringing people into a conversation and driving that conversation forward so from the social perspective so a little different but i i agree that this is the direction we're going so it's it's like solving problem in the end
we can like play with this space a little bit on your example i i like that you you're describing something where you're getting alpha or information about like an early topic because people are like discussing it
i think that's like very true for today's current paradigm now the things i don't know that we have to like test and figure out is the discussion the first point of alpha or was there some other signal i e money that was like an even earlier signal in the funnel related to that alpha may or may not be not everything like right can be traced to the money that's fine but then if it's not like that capital flow then also it goes back into this idea of your group chats are a private network right private feed effectively and so if there's also discussion happening on the billions of group chats out there how does the alpha in those group chats where the the chat the the chatter's happening how do you push that out publicly right and that right yeah it's it's and i'm not describing literally like oh hey you said something cool let me like put in a public
but more like this is the topic that's being discussed and it appears like know the vibe
if if in the late night on base channel someone goes hey this runner is picking up yeah right cool that happened in the private feed people picked it up but then how does that propagate out into a public feed because it was chatter that created action and then you want the distribution of that action
and i can i can also see this type of feed also including activity on mini apps like you were talking about earlier like that may or may not have a monetary piece to it but it might so like that but i could see that as like a different act it's different from trading per se but it's activity that sometimes does lead to trading and does lead to revenue or it leads to nft minting so like that to me could be incorporated in some sort of newsy type of trending feed where it's like you know a 100 people in the past twenty four hours played this game that's interesting that's something that's not being surfaced at the moment exactly anywhere so
and that that is exactly the thing we want when i say like creating new types of content for the feed it's you like your friends plus x people are doing something how do you engage with that how do you make it easier like natively one tap one click so it's taking quick buy or like the concept of like one tap and do something organic sort of information and and getting that out to the feed but then packaging it in a way that's like oh that's cool this is interesting for me let me do something
yeah i think that's
and it could be any content type honestly it could be like livestreaming right yeah it could be games it can be prediction markets
like unity want that we'd we've wanted notifications that we're live you know i love the little bubbles on on twitter you know that says this person or the the thing that goes around the pfp that says we're live
that's a much harder solve and i know that because we could be live in many places but we're not there's no native streaming right now in base app or farcaster anywhere so it's harder to grab that information but that's another signal that would be very cool or yeah
some if you can somehow connect it and i don't know i know that we we're running over couple quick other questions for folks who are have a farcaster account they come into base app they do not realize they're connected they set up a new account is there any way after the fact to get those two things connected and what's the best way to do that
so they have a farcaster account
they go into base app they set up a brand new account because they did not realize these two things go together and now they wanna connect those two accounts together how is there a way to do that at this time
yeah their name is gary tan yeah and by they i mean gary tan and base doctor i saw a couple today
yeah we there is no simple in app way to do that right now but i think what we i think this is a good call to action like what we should do is just publish like if you are in this situation here's how to unstick yourself yeah
that would be that would be helpful let gary know how to do that it was really funny because he did not realize that connection other i think we covered a lot of my my questions one thing i did wanna ask about was creator coins where before they were all zora like created but now there's a native version of this that we're seeing like a aneri and nikki from miami jesse's coin where it was sort of a little different flow can you talk about is that gonna be open up to everyone what are the differences between creating this creator coin on zora versus creating it in like this native way
yeah yeah yeah so we do have creator coin issuance like if you're if you wanna launch your creator coin you can inside the base app the key thing is it's not rolled out to everyone like we wanted to sort of white glove service and onboard creators because there's there's a lot of complexity and this is like perception complexity right what does a creator coin mean how are my fans gonna think about it we wanna do it in a safe simple trusted way other otherwise if like we're not doing it in that safe and trusted way it gives bad vibes and that's not that's like that's just gonna make things harder so that's why we didn't roll it out to everyone it still uses the zora contract it just you can launch it natively and it shows up in the base app it'll it'll get picked up elsewhere you can set then rewards to come in in whatever denomination you want and that's fine and then we'll keep you know improving the the contract ideally overall with things like auto sell etcetera etcetera but we are now now that we've gone ga once we get a bit more stable we wanna expand the aperture of people being able to do what they wanna do with their creator coins and launch it a bit faster but like the you know if you think from a very cynical standpoint if you open up the aperture completely then what you do is you've given sort of a launchpad for potential just rugs right and like that's not good and healthy for the user base so what what
are not good for base app like no to yeah
trying to do not good for anybody yeah
yeah yeah and and also there's like things we need to figure out like do we do auction style how do we better handle snipers right and like what is the right way to launch because launching a creator coin is it can be very simple but it could also be a big deal right yep and ideally we trend towards the oh i launched it cool and like a bunch of cool stuff happened from it great this is fun
and we've been you know both of us have launched our own individual creator coins on zora and have another one on you know on clanker and i'm probably gonna create another new one but we haven't done that with gm farcaster because we wanted to be more intentional and clear and do these experiments first so that we if we do decide to do that it's a little bit more clarity around that yeah so so yeah and i think that's what people should be doing it's really kinda just being a little bit it depending on who you are and what your you know what your goals are but yeah for sure you know sometimes it's just like hey just experiment but then there's other times where you wanna be a little bit bit more focused yeah yeah adrienne did i forget anything oh grants i wanted to ask about grants for builders what's available where do they go how do they access that and if are there particular things you're looking for right now for people to be working on
yeah so cab on the base team leads all of our grant efforts he's on the base app you can go to base.org and learn more about grants i think the things we're looking for in general
literally and simply just great apps and that and i don't mean only mini apps right like avantis launched a perps app which is really good right it helps users do perps on base bringing in more liquidity so apps that are looking at ways to bridge to other sort of chains and networks i think that's great that's great for the users apps that are driving day to day sort of activities and retention for users just like fun stuff it doesn't all have to be like speculative gambling but just like things you can do with friends that you can do before
yes i'll tell you later but it is i have idea i have a i have a design spec but i'm super i i i built my design spec i'm going to build it it's a social gay it's a social game but it's like all you can only do it if you have mini app social fee connected wallet okay so i'm excited so when i yes
i literally don't know what she's talking about
do i i've been talking to that
oh yes i do build it yes i do yes i do
not time yet not time yet
you know just build world class world class apps world class experiences for users in the base ecosystem and and beyond to just like go have fun
awesome adrienne anything else before we let him get out of here we've we've kept him very long
yes and it's just testament to your engineering prowess and leadership that you just launched the base app in ga and you can take an hour and hang out with us and that either means you have built an insane architected un unbustable app that has you know that is handling everything or you're an amazing leader and you've got incredible people you know we're both plugging up doing everything so i'll choose to
do the both option why not both the team the credit huge credit to the team it's an incredible team incredible team couldn't be more proud of them they have just done such a excellent job and yeah we've been just cooking for the last year and we got so much more to do
and shout out to all the team but in particular we love dylan and we love oxfid and we're just gonna give them some extra love but we love all of you
i know i just did those two and that's it i'll leave the rest out thank you so much for joining us today we really appreciate it
it's been so fun go play some go play some die hard the game let me see how you did
happy holidays happy friday happy holidays happy oops oh i didn't mean to whoop i'm bringing you back
the season earnings that's a good good point everybody go go invite the world to the base app
so i'm gonna go make sure
everything is connected you pat i've i've been reading the comments they're awesome love the feedback keep keep it coming
thank you thank you so much we really appreciate you come back anytime
bye anytime bye bye i didn't mean to yeah jump on up there so quickly happy holidays last love of the year and happy holidays to you our friend ryan over on twitter here lots of positive energy right back at you that was so fun he's so great to chat with i could talk to him for like another hour it's crazy we there was a couple things i we didn't touch on that i just wanna highlight really quick and couple things like this was very cool hold on this little video was very cool i'm not gonna play it play the play the sound but within those screenshots that just went past let me back up just a smidge so you see what i'm talking about it's very slick nice slick video so if you are onboarding a creator and an artist something like that i would send them this video along with the link because i think it is a really good way to sort of describe how to earn as a creator on the base app but within there were some screenshots and one of those was moon poppy except except it said roger
it was very odd i don't know why but it was his i mean it's his pfe and it's like very you're like oh but it could be somebody else's node monkey no because it had the the yawn yawn the yawn flirt pearl it's like it can't be it's definitely moon poppy so we thought that was funny like oh what they do that for there must have been i feel like i feel like this is a lawyer who did this i guarantee you moon poppy the lawyers are to blame for some reason
no boy or it's just a graphic it's just like a graphic designer who's like playing around and was like moon poppy what does that mean that's not a name
that's not a name no i'm telling you i'm telling you there's a lawyer there's a lawyer behind this
just said anything there's like any finan if you're putting anything financial change the name
change the name like don't put don't leave the name like just in just so that they're not promoting one token over another i i would guarantee it that that's what happened so we talked about that let me grab a oh this is really cool go take a look at this video this is from how base app works in under one minute by nikki from miami so that's another good one to check out if you are new and wanna learn more and follow nikki she's giving a lot of tips she's walking through people through a lot of things as well as aphrochix who got a shout out during the system update so go take a look at both of them they produce some good com content for onboarding base app got a little icon facelift glow up so which is helpful for to distinguish it from base like the base account because there's a base account a base app account so i thought that was useful and interesting we did see this from pmayr it's a cool experience logging into a new app for the first time and importing your existing social graph so if you're onboarding to the base app there is a way to connect your farcaster account directly to it so you end up with one account that goes to all the clients recommend you do that and this was the gary tan thing we were talking about because real gary tan who was like oh my gods you probably got in there it was like i can't believe somebody has my name already yeah somebody on my name and the somebody was him it's literally him but he knows what happened
when he announced his real gary tan on twitter like hey i'm on the base app and someone's like someone took gary tan and he's like yeah sad face yes it was you it was you
so d so dwr tagged him and he did an he did an awesome like we i still think about the ama he did way back when so for those who don't know who gary tan is he's the head of y combinator and he did this great ama and i always think about that so we even have cast from that from like i don't know a year or two ago a little while ago but that was funny so yeah and this from tldr base is now open to millions and every one of them will be greeted with this beautiful ai faces whenever they use messenger incredible possibilities bracket team is cooking it's gonna be crazier for sports fans on base i can promise you that so you can incorporate bankr and bracky into your base app experience and there was some folks who felt like coinbase sherlock banker for their coinbase advisor but this was from deployer i can see why you'd say coinbase sherlock 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 plus building something no one will want and goes on to say robinhood and coinbase both announced agents today further validating that what we have already known that we are building 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 more to come online in the coming months years that was like a perfect response like and and attitude towards this mhmm 100% be like deployer be like deployer is what we're saying this was just funny everybody was introducing themselves and so this was mine welcome to the future of france and nobody knew what that was about i could guess and it turns out that's what it was because this started with apex gm base app general public users my name is apex and i like to do gms and talk about privacy welcome to the future of france and that was like an old meme welcome to the future of finance but it became france so if you've been seeing that around that's what the heck that means
i think i saw bert i think i saw bert copy pasta it and someone was that the one yeah and then someone's like what does that mean and bert's like they're like i don't know
and somebody asked me and i'm like i don't know i have no idea i'm like ass apex i don't know
dog has no idea what even france is i forgot to show this while chintan was on this my friends know me well is it somebody must have given him the shirt warning may spontaneously talk about crypto i could use this shirt this would be a good shirt for me to own as well and lastly i wanted to mention this so this was a little bit
i wanted to talk about this with chintanon but i felt like we couldn't keep him for like two hours
it was gonna be too long of a discussion i feel like
his calendar invite was only half an hour just so you know i have to talk to the producer when they send out the invites they should no how do they schedule them longer yeah i'm just trying to be you know he seems trying to
be con i figured he was really busy and we probably couldn't keep him that long he had
you could tell he was fun he was fun and we're we're about to finish up because we've kept you guys for a very long time and i'm gonna stream again at 03:00 so there you go
they're all with me vacation has started we're done with work so we're just hanging out today or i'm gonna play
a game and i'm gonna give away some some tokens i mean that's it shit this is from brian armstrong 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 and we're not gonna go through all the replies because there's a lot but it was a great discussion and a lot of really good thoughtful comments in here from people who have been building social trading apps who've been using them all of us have been using them for three years and things like that so there's a lot of really good feedback for brian in this cast
yes and he's no doubt he and you know wider he coinbase yeah is no doubt listening and reading
yeah so that to me was like the i was i was happy to see him if he's if he's having this question i was happy to see him post it here rather than wing it you know what i mean or like decide that you know what i mean like instead of just doing it and talking about it internally mhmm that it was a larger larger discussion from the people who probably know best because we've been doing this for so long mookie's like my my son just walked out the door can you tell mookie's thrilled about that alright we gotta wrap this up because adrian's gotta go on vacation
i'm no i'm fine i'm on vacation this is i'm i'm hanging out with gone i'm hanging out with my friends
i'm long gone
that's an excellent excellent point she can be sipping some spik eggnog and we have no
idea so happy last thing i'm just gonna mention i'm just trying to pull it back up it doesn't wanna open for me i have been having some issues today so i do think there's a little bit of load issue here alright just wanna mention this i did build a cute little mini app i am gonna do a stream later today around 3pm i'll go through what it is and how i built it also launched a little clanker say polly and i am tipping it out i just wanted to show my comment that that's why if you see me yippee ki yay that's why because it is the it's the it's the key it's the the way it actually does a quotecast does a tip and then here's the game so go play the game it's fun and that's it and i'll see you all later if you wanna come hang with me again
yeah actually and i don't know if you know this but dan linda team are hanging out on house right now there's a house party so there's a
house party we gotta get over to the house party
at one eastern so like about fifteen minutes ago so thank you all hanging out with us for fifteen minutes and not jumping to the to the popular kids table
the popular kids table are now hanging out on the house alright we gotta get over there alright everybody this has been fun we are gonna be off until january 1 so go enjoy your vacay we were gonna try and get on you know we really wanted to get bert on at some point with horse facts but we didn't quite get that dialed in but maybe we might have a surprise stream you never know but happy holidays everybody yep that was oh i know we gotta figure that out bert i didn't even see that i didn't even see that comment i just was thinking of it because i was thinking of it so we gotta figure that out we're gonna try and find make that happen but otherwise except for that possibility we won't be back until january 1 and we'll see you then enjoy your time off and anything else adrienne before we end this we'll see y'all next year
yeah no literally i just wanna say i love you all from the bottom of my heart and i guess we're not really doing year end reflections
we'll do that on january 1 yeah
but but if i did it would just be nothing but love and gratitude and i hope everyone has a really nice holiday season
and especially to our chatters like who show up all the time we love you
so much talking to who do you think i'm talking to i'm just making to anyone else they know they know
i'm talking to everybody who's listening to this but in particular the chatters
alright and with that everybody see you next year bye bye and
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