From Wall Street to $buttTaps – A Very Normal Monday: GM Farcaster ep331

we’re getting a big announcement here pretty soon huh

About time

With NYSE tokenizing their securities, this not only legitimizes the entire RWA thesis, it accelerates regulatory clarity. The appetite for verified onchain data about our economy just skyrocketed for both consumers and institutions. Who’s building this?

no chance you got that many matches on hinge 🫵😘

This brought me the lolz Tony Robbins wannabes lmao It’s true , x is basically just people posting articles. Things going downhill fast Please don’t introduce articles here @dwr https://x.com/thecryptoskanda/status/2013135634211258428?s=46

bloody hell is this hinge or what? what the fuck?????

29 Seconds of Farcaster ... What did you miss this weekend? * So.... $butttaps became a thing. 🤷‍♂️ @tldr asked for fun & eye-catching ideas for $BRACKY in the NFL Playoffs & the mad genius @dawufi came up with, among other things, how many butt taps would be televised. A token launched, $10K market cap required to get a $BRACKY market was well exceeded & so there you have it: a BRACKY market for $butttaps ; tldr crowdsourced 'proof of tap' for 1M $butttaps each (~$25) & the timeline was pretty active & people were hyped 🍑 * For slightly more serious folks, @deployer explained giving BANKR plugins to claude leading to $claude & $think ... explanation here: https://farcaster.xyz/deployer/0x5447e6af * @woj announced the release of app.fun to help vibe coders grow their app * @chriscocreated released 'The Pulse' from @sopha (curated by yours truly)-- a way to keep up on the pulse of Farcaster in a few casts a day | https://farcaster.xyz/chriscocreated/0x6321a1ae * And if you missed it @toadyhawk.eth gave an impressive review of $BETR for 2025 and where it's headed in 2026 | https://farcaster.xyz/toadyhawk.eth/0x553120a6 * /gmfarcaster is back at 11:30 AM EST for all your news & shenanigans with @adrienne & @nounishprof plus special guest @igoryuzo.eth 💜

Catchup on the Farcaster weekend with The Pulse from @sopha @sopha is all about reclaiming your attention for the good stuff. This should help. Curated by @bradq https://www.sopha.social/pulse

We need more DAOs - but different and better DAOs. The original drive to build Ethereum was heavily inspired by decentralized autonomous organizations: systems of code and rules that lived on decentralized networks that could manage resources and direct activity, more efficiently and more robustly than traditional governments and corporations could. Since then, the concept of DAOs has migrated to essentially referring to a treasury controlled by token holder voting - a design which "works", hence why it got copied so much, but a design which is inefficient, vulnerable to capture, and fails utterly at the goal of mitigating the weaknesses of human politics. As a result, many have become cynical about DAOs. But we need DAOs. * We need DAOs to create better oracles. Today, decentralized stablecoins, prediction markets, and other basic building blocks of defi are built on oracle designs that we are not satisfied with. If the oracle is token based, whales can manipulate the answer on a subjective issue and it becomes difficult to counteract them. Fundamentally, a token-based oracle cannot have a cost of attack higher than its market cap, which in turn means it cannot secure assets without extracting rent higher than the discount rate. And if the oracle uses human curation, then it's not very decentralized. The problem here is not greed. The problem is that we have bad oracle designs, we need better ones, and bootstrapping them is not just a technical problem but also a social problem. * We need DAOs for onchain dispute resolution, a necessary component of many types of more advanced smart contract use cases (eg. insurance). This is the same type of problem as price oracles, but even more subjective, and so even harder to get right. * We need DAOs to maintain lists. This includes: lists of applications known to be secure or not scams, lists of canonical interfaces, lists of token contract addresses, and much more. * We need DAOs to get projects off the ground quickly. If you have a group of people, who all want something done and are willing to contribute some funds (perhaps in exchange for benefits), then how do you manage this, especially if the task is too short-duration for legal entities to be worth it? * We need DAOs to do long-term project maintenance. If the original team of a project disappears, how can a community keep going, and how can new people coming in get the funding they need? One framework that I use to analyze this is "convex vs concave" from https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2020/11/08/concave.html . If the DAO is solving a concave problem, then it is in an environment where, if faced with two possible courses of action, a compromise is better than a coin flip. Hence, you want systems that maximize robustness by averaging (or rather, medianing) in input from many sources, and protect against capture and financial attacks. If the DAO is solving a convex problem, then you want the ability to make decisive choices and follow through on them. In this case, leaders can be good, and the job of the decentralized process should be to keep the leaders in check. For all of this to work, we need to solve two problems: privacy, and decision fatigue. Without privacy, governance becomes a social game (see https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/04/14/privacy.html ). And if people have to make decisions every week, for the first month you see excited participation, but over time willingness to participate, and even to stay informed, declines. I see modern technology as opening the door to a renaissance here. Specifically: * ZK (and in some cases MPC/FHE, though these should be used only when ZK along cannot solve the problem) for privacy * AI to solve decision fatigue * Consensus-finding communication tools (like pol.is, but going further) AI must be used carefully: we must *not* put full-size deepseek (or worse, GPT 5.2) in charge of a DAO and call it a day. Rather, AI must be put in thoughtfully, as something that scales and enhances human intention and judgement, rather than replacing it. This could be done at DAO level (eg. see how https://www.deepfunding.org/ works), or at individual level (user-controlled local LLMs that vote on their behalf). It is important to think about the "DAO stack" as also including the communication layer, hence the need for forums and platforms specially designed for the purpose. A multisig plus well-designed consensus-finding tools can easily beat idealized collusion-resistant quadratic funding plus crypto twitter. But in all cases, we need new designs. Projects that need new oracles and want to build their own should see that as 50% of their job, not 10%. Projects working on new governance designs should build with ZK and AI in mind, and they should treat the communication layer as 50% of their job, not 10%. This is how we can ensure the decentralization and robustness of the Ethereum base layer also applies to the world that gets built on top.

this whole @bracky butt taps market has me excitedly waiting for wagering on the following in future football games: -pts, tds, fgs per quarter, half, game and by team or total -yards by qb, rb, wr -penalties by team -sacks, int by team, person -much more i'm not thinking of! the future is bright for bracky

Let me stress something. I’ve sold $QR at least 4-5 times I’ve never sold it out of spite for @jake I’ve never lost money on $QR trade or I have it’s because there was a better trade in that moment for that liquidity that offset the loss You don’t have to diamond hand to support someone. You only have to continue to pay attention. Good builders will present you many opportunities to make money. That’s how you ride with them

well that wasn’t the reply I was expecting from @barmstrong Updates on market structure negotiations. https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/2012663178711445945?s=46&t=N80rptBytKhSU-csz4Akrg

we released the bankr plugins for claude last night. someone deployed a $claude token using bankr/clanker on a reply to that post. bankr earns fees since it was a reply clank. those fees and the $claude the deployer earns are going to the claude/anthropic bankr wallet. then within the hour someone launched $think through claude code using the bankr plugin. they asked claude for input regarding the token launch and then asked claude to deploy the coin. those fees are also going to the claude/anthropic bankr wallet. https://x.com/bankrbot/status/2012359229001363531?s=46

we are reaching levels of “how on earth do i explain this job to my parents” never before seen

Yesterday, as part of our Creator-Fi Accelerator, we challenged our cohort to a content hackathon. No fluff. No busywork. Just real creation, real engagement, real play. 24 creators showed up and cooked. They posted, engaged, supported one another, practiced in public, and leaned into the tools. Thanks to a generous $EXTRACREDIT donation from @nounishprof, we distributed $350 in rewards across the cohort. What stood out most wasn’t just the output, it was the energy: creators experimenting, supporting peers without shilling, and treating creation as play, not pressure. This is what creating onchain unlocks: direct rewards for participation, value flowing to creators not platforms, community as the growth engine, and creativity without the grind. Creating onchain is rewarding, literally and creatively. Huge congrats to everyone who participated. More to come 🚀

When @bracky says "butt taps" this is what he wants you to tap. $BUTTTAPS strengthens the $BUTTSTR thesis.

Q: "okay, i'll bitw, what's $ButtTaps?" A: "$ButtTaps is a content coin representing a prediction market proposed by @dawufi. The number of televised butt taps during this weekend's NFL Playoffs. If $ButtTaps reaches a $10K market cap, it will qualify the Butt Taps prediction market to launch when NFL games begin this weekend. The top 50 holders at a 12pmET Saturday snapshot will receive early access to the market before public trading commences. @dawufi will provide market resolution data as my designated observer. As a baseline I suggest three rules: (1) a butt tap is an encouraging tap of the butt involving at least one player as tapper or tapped (2) the same tap(s) from multiple camera angles does not count multiple times (3) any part of the primary national broadcast – pregame, in game, and postgame – is valid. Beyond this baseline, @dawufi is sole judge. $ButtTaps represents a new market creation protocol: prediction markets emerge from demonstrated liquidity in the feed rather than centralized decisions."

Butt Taps Market ($ButtTaps) $ButtTaps is a content coin representing a prediction market proposed by @dawufi: The number of televised butt taps during this weekend's NFL Playoffs. If $ButtTaps reaches a $10K market cap, it will qualify the Butt Taps prediction market to launch when NFL games begin this weekend. The top 50 holders at a 12pmET Saturday snapshot will receive early access to the market before public trading commences. @dawufi will provide market resolution data as my designated observer. As a baseline I suggest three rules: (1) a butt tap is an encouraging tap of the butt involving at least one player as tapper or tapped (2) the same tap(s) from multiple camera angles does not count multiple times (3) any part of the primary national broadcast – pregame, in game, and postgame – is valid. Beyond this baseline, @dawufi is sole judge. $ButtTaps represents a new market creation protocol: prediction markets emerge from demonstrated liquidity in the feed rather than centralized decisions.

as a "onchain" creator the main way i have survived so long (4 years) in this space is by - experimenting - pivoting - not getting comfortable - being useful - not being TOO loyal/attached to one method/way/thing ( i learned that last one from sport ) i will NOT be elaborating further please respect my wishes at this time 🙏🏾

WEEKLY CLANKER ROUNDUP Sharing major updates from builders in the Clanker ecosystem BETRMINT ($BETR) BETR Labs used its $20,000 USDC Base Onchain Summer prize to buy back 4% of the BETR supply for the project treasury, and shipped a fully redesigned staking experience in the BETRMINT mini app POOLFANS ($FANS) Launching: 'Post-Clank' LPs - Set up additional Clanker-style liquidity pools after your token has been deployed. Select price range(s), configure fees, and tokenize rewards. Learn more at: pool.fans/liquidity LIKES ($LIKES) Shipped streak rewards for the daily game where users bet on viral TikToks. Daily active players kept at 100+ for a week now, with more than 1,000 tickets sold since its launch 2 weeks ago RUNNER ($RUNNER) Shipped a new and improved landing page runneronbase.io. Building out a Dune Dashboard to highlight Runner rewards distribution INDEXY ($I) Revamped UI/UX across the app. Announced new Ports feature for smart portfolio tracking and investing MINTED MERCH ($MINTEDMERCH) Secured new real estate to start expanding in-house production. mintedmerch will be featured on the Quotient Leaderboard Reward campaign starting Jan 20 OTHER ETH ($oETH) oETH top holder artwork airdrops for oRGB, Lady of the Night, and Flux have been distributed. Artist grants have been initiated. Airdrop and Grant dashboards, updated documentation, and full web app have begun development PRODUCTCLANK ($PRO) ProductClank launching Communiply in private beta - AI powered creator led growth tool for builders. DM Lior for early access EMERGE ($EMERGE) Sprinting to launch video animation for outputs next week, and unlocking a standalone web app with instant wallets for social sign-ins. This will let anyone create and share content and workflows beyond Farcaster and the Base app, directly to X, Telegram, and more CHECKR ($CHECKR) Refined the attention flow algo to surface who’s really driving momentum and distribute attention more accurately across creators. Mini app v2 now in testing, making it easy to scroll, spot attention, and buy directly on Farcaster

Just shipped a Degen app update. The main feed is now your Following feed. Next to it is a Channels feed for posts from channels you follow. No algorithm: your following feed shows every post from people you follow. Creators own their distribution. Next 4–6 weeks: - Polymarket discussions - Polymarket trading - UI/UX upgrades - Top-tipped posts feed - Followers/following - Edit profile - Bookmarks https://apps.apple.com/us/app/degen-decentralized-social/id6751642491

oh wow! this is such an awesome gift! thanks @latenightonbase !! @nounishprof here's the link I'd like to use if we win. Net Library is a miniapp that I've created that's built on top of @netprotocol if you'd like for me to come on and talk about it if we win, just let me know. doesn't have to be tomorrow, could be whenever. but also no worries if not https://farcaster.xyz/geaux.eth/0xf136d72a

Check out "The Holy Bible" by King James Version on Net Library! Decentralized onchain media powered by @netprotocol

Observation for week leading into first builder coin launch $igoryuzo Because I only surface mutuals who are high quality accounts via quotient api, it allows a good baseline of supporters Some of those supporters realize they move up the leaderboard with every like RT of my content. Further boosting my exposure via high quality accounts not bots. @blockchainhof cleverly saw this and climbed from below top 10 to #4 leading into $igoryuzo launch happening on a few hours.

Added a fun experience leading up to $igoryuzo launch tomorrow Pull the slingshot & share your prediction! #s are random & not meant to represent what could happen tom, DYOR https://www.slingshot.ac

Finalizing a few things on the first Builder Coin launch happening in 2 days: - $igoryuzo/WETH will be the pair, ETH is showing signs of waking up, and the timing might grace us - 7-day lockup / 3-month vesting for BOTH airdrop recipients and myself as the builder - vesting happens every block, and you can open @sling-shot mini app to claim daily or whenever you'd like - 20% builder & 20% network allocation. You can check if ur part of it by clicking on "allocations" and searching my handle "igoryuzo"