Silence, Bots, Base, Builders and the 37 People Still Having Fun: GM Farcaster ep330

We should buy farcaster

If Farcaster is becoming a wallet trading app, then make Farcaster great again. bring back the 'trending tab'. bring back the 'price alerts'. we need discovery, context, and signals not trading in the dark. h/t @slokh @horsefacts.eth

Reminds me of early farcaster days I opened the mini app and saw all the people I know and consider friends!

TIL pumpfun has a mobile app with social features, incl. a dedicated feed for their live streams, basically all the copytrading features you'd expect, and now a feature to broadcast calls to followers. https://x.com/Pumpfun/status/2011865917160907160?s=20

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Prediction markets are InfoFi What X killed is SlopFi

y’all need to chill

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$Habs Farcaster engagement rewards powered by @quotient are now live 350,000,000 million $habs has been allocated for rewards Plus an addional 15% fees collected by main clanker pool(paid in $habs) Reward periods will run every two weeks and at current emissions rate without intervention is funded to run 71 cycles Now that app is done next focuses will be 1. Passing a prop that diversifies a portion of our treasury holdings to $habs via TWAP sales 2. Working with our dev team, now that we have practical hands on expirences with hooks, to expand our hooks to grow and strengthen the ecosystem 3. Pass prop funding first round of community grants, to incentive builders to chose to deploy and build in the $habs ecosystem Big thanks to @0xbhaisaab @krotus @ruminations @geoffgolberg @linda and everyone else whos helped get us to this point https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/I5Sj04Wvu-Mb/haberdashery

Attention Bracky network. The Pregame mining process for Sunday's two NFL Divisional Playoff markets will open shortly. Below I will invite anyone who is Bracky Pro, as a continued acknowledgment of our shared alignment. (Bracky Max users will not participate, but will have a more substantial reward tomorrow.)

extremely tough day for everyone on twitter who was quoting Vitalik and telling him that decentralization doesn't matter any more

Nikita kills InfoFi, sending multiple projects to the heap. On one hand, it's probably a net positive for humanity that this meta is dying. The slop was unbearable. On the other, it shows how quickly entire verticals can be destroyed by a single, centralized counterparty.

Did you miss our Clankcaster Spotlight on Monday featuring @betrmint founder @toadyhawk.eth ? Here's everything you need to know about $BETR in 3 minutes.

Did you miss our Clankcaster Spotlight on Monday featuring @betrmint founder @toadyhawk.eth ? Here's everything you need to know about $BETR in 3 minutes.

https://x.com/nikitabier/status/2011825522817270230?s=20 this was the reason i decided to build here vs. twitter. sadly the value prop of an open social graph becomes obvious only when platform risk plays out. silver lining is less performance and farming slop on twitter 🙃

Steve Yegge taking a detour from building AI orchestrators to cash out his creator coins and then write a long post about it was not on my bingo cards for Jan 2026. I still don't think creator coins in their current iteration make sense for all the stated reasons, but this might be the strongest counter-signal yet. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/bags-and-the-creator-economy-249b924a621a

Anyone want to help me with a personal writing project? All you need to do is a little word association. I give a word and reply back with the first thought that comes to your mind. The word is: surrender 🙏

No one asked but I have always considered farcaster to give me “early Facebook vibes” Idk how it would affect the feed if at all but I think I wouldn’t mind a you could only see or post reply to my content if we are mutuals with a lil switch incase I wanna rawdog it w the reply bots

It’s worth analyzing Farcaster’s statistics from time to time. The network has been in a downtrend since it pivoted into a social wallet and the growth strategy based on financial incentives alone. If you look at the most engaging accounts, many of them are low-quality spam accounts or outright bots (something easy to experience when interacting with the platform too). The platform appears to have entered an enshittification process, much like other social networks. In this case, it’s driven by the naïve belief that human behavior can be effectively engineered through financial incentives alone. It now seems close to a phase of decline, in which the marginal value of joining Farcaster collapses faster than new meaning can be created inside it. And these trends are dangerous as they grow exponentially. Is Farcaster dead? Not in general. But as a social network, it’s nearing a critical point. The clock is ticking. Is this the end? No. A resurgence is still possible. The team retains capital and human talent, and a meaningful pivot could still happen (though community talent and trust in the project are currently low. Must be regained)

everyone predicting doom, please see this doc I wrote a while back https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KzoPwOFUlZQV0NXwsVIldkkja2JRElTY31AQxdZiue4/edit?usp=sharing

Me in 2026: "I'm looking to do 1 productive thing every day" @linda in 2026: "I'm looking to learn physics" We are not the same 🤣🤣🤣

TBA → FARCASTER PROTOCOL GROWTH January 14, 2026 ─────────────────────────── CURRENT METRICS Total Protocol Users: 2,070,906 Period Growth: +39,780 (51 hours / 2.1 days) Current Rate: ~780/hour (~18.7k/day) ─────────────────────────── COHORT PROGRESS (Dec 17 - Present) Total New Users: +639,473 Elapsed Time: 662 hours (27.6 days) Average Rate: 966/hour (~23.2k/day) ─────────────────────────── 1M USER MILESTONE Progress: 63.9% Complete Remaining: 360,527 users Timeline: ~19 days (at current 18.7k/day) Expected Completion: ~February 2, 2026 ─────────────────────────── NOTE: Growth rate uptick from 13k/day → 18.7k/day cc: @nounishprof @adrienne

Tl;dr: We’re focusing the Base app to be trading-first to drive demand and distribution for a full range of assets and to be the best app for whatever you do in the onchain economy.

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The Walkaway Test: “If the team stopped working on the wallet tomorrow and shut down its infrastructure, would users still be able to use it? Would its security or self-sovereignty features degrade?” https://farcaster.xyz/0xmattmatt/0xb3a81817

Launching Uno Mini! We have exciting social things planned within *just* the miniapp + some folks don't ride with Apple/iOS. Connect with Uno and turn on notifications so you can experience our first products as we release them. https://mini.uno.fun

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