Wi-Fi Down, Vibes Up Building Through the Bear Together: GM Farcaster ep335 with Creatorfi

We've been cooking. For the last few weeks, we went dark to ship something big: 🎬 Animate any output into a video 📱 TikTok-style feed to scroll your creations 🔥 1 free animation per day (for now) 📤 One-tap sharing to X, Telegram, WhatsApp Your @tryemerge content just got 10x more viral. $250 in $EMERGE to our favorite video shared to X over the next week Tag us and show us what you make!

I love how my ray ray runs away lol animated with @tryemerge, workflow by @quitters with @rachelw @symbiotech and @toadyhawk.eth

I agree. I made it happen with candles!

Sharing two important updates that were posted to X earlier today: 1. Foundation has been acquired by Blackdove, allowing the marketplace to continue operating as part of their platform. 2. We’ve made the difficult decision to wind down Rodeo. I’ve written more about each decision, what it means, and what comes next below: Foundation → https://x.com/saturnial/status/2016191684984582614?s=20 Rodeo → https://x.com/saturnial/status/2016212705036939476?s=20

I would have liked to launch a token for Farcaster. Never had the stars align.

Let's try something! I will help you improve your mini app. I've built some of the most viral mini apps on Farcaster including the Warplets mint that broke Farcaster on a Sunday night and brought in 30k Pro subscribers and $400k in pro sub revenue in less than a week. You can see the peek stats below. Beyond weird experiments on Farcaster, I'm a YC founder that can sell and write code to help some of the largest construction projects in the world. I will give an hour call helping you think through the virality loop in your mini app (or whatever else you want to ask) to the highest bidder of this cast. I've set the starting price to $50. You're not collecting this cast, you're buying some advice from me!

ngl that while I 1000% respect/commend all the founders who’ve iterated constantly and through tough cycles, seeing all these crypto startups either wind down or pivot does make me feel some way 🥲

What is the sentiment on collectible casts? How long will you fight with someone to keep the feature in the app? [ Assume no data loss on casts collected thus far no matter the answer to the above question ]

Another wild day inside Anemale Generis ✨ The worlds keep getting deeper, stranger, more powerful than ever. 5 mints by @tatiansa.eth 3 by @nounishprof 3 by @mathew.eth 3 by @lovexit 2 by @0xnobody 2 by @mistershot TOP MINTER with 36 mints 🏆 1 by @genuinejack 1 generation not minted yet by @0xluo.eth This isn’t just minting. It’s a living system unfolding, one world at a time. Come create your own world. https://miniane.vercel.app/api/frame/observatory?day=2

they want us to bring back DAOs

the pol.is poll results are in! thank you everyone who took the time to respond 🙏 highest consensus statements: - "Quality over quantity of users" - "Builder focus should also embrace those creating communities, businesses, DAOs." - "Neynar should embrace user feedback (good and bad)" most divisive statement: - "I'm worried that Neynar's stewardship of the protocol will negatively affect decentralization" ppl were split on whether the #1 priority should be builders, retention, or existing users/communities. as some pointed out in the replies, there's not necessarily a conflict here. personally im interpreting this to mean that we'll have to communicate how we see these things fitting together pol.is clusters ppl in to groups based on similar in-group and contrasting between-group responses. im not sure im reading this right but i think about 1/3rd of you (groups B and E) are very bullish on FC rn, another 1/3rd (grroup C) are cautiously optimistic, a few (group D) are not happy, and the rest are inbetween. all these stances are totally reasonable. im glad the survey results emphasized that there are many valid opinions here. btw this is just my own surveying and thoughts. i dont speak for neynar, that's rish's job 😆 there are fancy charts and graphs and stuff below, and you can export the data and analyze it yourself (hooray transparency) link at the bottom. if you think im misreading the results, i'd love to be corrected. https://pol.is/report/r9bxevpdbrppyhjmfhfje

It's been a while — AMA (Will respond a bit later in one big batch.)

We are removing the PnL feature from Farcaster wallet This is expensive to compute, hard to maintain and sometimes inaccurate, which leads to confusion No other impact to the wallet at this time, please reach out if any questions

This is cool. gg @horsefacts.eth & @linda and @v taking over the top 5 on your final week. Symbolic thank you for your service to FC 💜

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 1. 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗶𝘇𝗲 Farcaster is a bigger circle than friends and family - bigger sample size leads to better learnings. 2. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 Because the wallet is embedded, it's easier to experiment on the core of your product without worrying about the friction of onboarding to the chain 3. 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝗼𝗹 There are phenomenally talented people here to recruit, hire, work with here. They're familiar with the chain, and they're risk-on. 4. 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗔𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 Casters often have presences elsewhere, which makes Farcaster a great place to build a "street team" for when you want to breakout. 5. 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 Between Clanker and the VCs here looking for the next-big-thing, it's a great place to find early capital.

one of the hardest parts of working on Farcaster was managing constant external clamor to do something. (all part of the job, but nonetheless hard). cynical sayings like "crime the chart" have lost their irony in translation and become expectations for some. if you want any of this to survive, the goal must be orderly, fair, open, efficient markets. https://x.com/jessepollak/status/2015965611697090875

Made my first miniapp! ...So many ideas floating around the timeline... - how do you keep track? - prioritize them? The purpose of the app is to help aggregate & rank community feedback on what should be built or fixed next. This first instance is made for Farcaster itself, anyone can add ideas and they are upvoted using Neynar score. Should there be a minimum score to even vote or submit? 🤔 Later, I want to: - Add a bot that can be tagged on the timeline, to add things to the roadmap without having to open the app - Make it so that any project can deploy their own roadmap inside the app & upvote features by spending project tokens - @topocount.eth says each feature should be a prediction market, whether it will get implemented or what the impact will be 👀 Anyway, go ahead, add some ideas & lmk what you think overall! 🙏 🫡 https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/E3LTkrFBr5LH/roadmapr

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 🚀