Farcaster Is Dead (Again) and Grok Has Money: GM Farcaster ep329

🦊 looks sad Here's what I made with @tryemerge for @adrienne using RIP Farcaster :((( by @0xcaso, spark yours up now!

here's what @tryemerge just made for me using RIP Farcaster :((( by @0xcaso, spark yours up now!

Would be great if you went to X to liked and comment on this https://x.com/cass_on_mars/status/2011290381132976490?s=46

If you’re looking for exposure for your product, you can join r/BASE on Reddit, apply for the Builder’s Spotlight and get one week of exposure. Reddit is a great place to showcase what you’re building. Secondly, you can join @base.base.eth Discord and share with everyone what you’ve been building. Simon and the rest of the team are always there for everyone, solving problems and issues for builders and users. Last but not least, turn your product into a mini app, register it on base.dev and have the chance to get it featured in the @baseapp.base.eth Also, it’s important to find what’s missing in the space and what people need. Solve a real problem or improve QoL, and they’ll come to use it. Stop blaming others for your lack of exposure. Someone can be a cracked dev but not great in communications or building a community. Start to adapt, entrepreneurship is not one sided. Base isn’t picking winners, they create them. Build on Base.

i’ll say this: -i have infinite respect for jesse -i thought i loved this ecosystem (i do) -no one loves it more than jesse it hit me pretty hard how much jesse genuinely cares abt a better future @base.base.eth is going to win…

What's the TL;DR why $DRB is trending again?

My entire feed is people talking about how quiet fc is

I just ran into this guy on the street and he told me grok has money?

LMAOOOOOO farewell Farcaster 😭😭👋👋 here's what @tryemerge just made for me using Farcaster Logo Hospital Scene, spark yours up now!

I don’t know. Starting to feel like Farcaster is fading out. I hope it’s not true. I always said I’d be here till they turn off the lights, and I’ll keep to that. But follow me on X just in case: https://x.com/jawestenberg?s=21

Planning to rollout some upgrades to authentication, user management and team management on dev.neynar.com tomorrow between 8-830am PST. Will result in a minor downtime on the dev portal due to asynchronous deployments across frontend and backend. API, webhooks and other products will not be impacted

What are people thinking here. Team is cooking behind the scenes or beginning of the end… I’m sure all clanker holders etc are curious

OK, $DRB just briefly flipped $CLANKER, right after flipping $BNKR. This didn’t happen by accident. It was driven by a rare convergence of factors: ▫️ A compelling origin lore The first memecoin ever suggested by Grok and automatically deployed via agent-to-agent execution. ▫️ The real fusion of Crypto × AI Powered by @base.base.eth, @clanker, @bankr, and @privy, and amplified by the AI stack behind Bankr and Grok. ▫️ An almost cult-level community push Led by @mleejr, the $DRB community pushed relentlessly, with nonstop support and promotion, fueled by heavy overlap from the Mfer and BNKR communities. ▫️ A historic onchain signal A Grok-associated wallet earning over $1M in fees from $DRB, a clear moment where Grok made serious money onchain, and narrative turned into measurable reality. ▫️ Institutionalized storytelling DebtReliefBot ( $DRB ) being indexed and systematically documented on xAI’s Grokipedia. ▫️ Growing influencer participation More voices, including KOLs like James Wynn, picked up the signal and joined the journey. And what’s next? More catalysts may be coming. More participants may be coming. More liquidity may be coming.

horsefacts is the only fc team member still actively casting. dan, v, linda, slokh … have all tapered off and barely cast with any consistency. something is brewing behind the scenes and i wanna know what it is, primarily for the sake of my clanker bags. i was so bullish on that buyout, but they haven’t done or said much since the merger and now the team has gone largely silent in the new year. is jesse buying farcaster? anyone know what’s happening here?

Worth noting, spam has even hit the developer rewards. When you see bad actors, report them. Use the report buttons then block them. The team sees when many good casters block and report the same accounts. It sucks that real developers won’t get paid right now, but it’s worth it to work through culling the spammy bad actors. Promote real builders and use their apps. If you see a mini app solely farming to steal reward money or even worse, your seed phrases, immediately report it. It matters. It makes a difference.

Feels like we may get an announcement that Farcaster is shutting down

Developer Rewards Update We're pausing the developer rewards program. There is an increasing amount of spam activity, making it harder to reward developers working on valuable apps. We'll bring this back once we have a better model for rewards that is harder to game.