alright i'm back
by the way is your is your room swaying also or is it just me feels like i'm still on the boat when you get off a cruise ship for a couple days you still feel like
do you not feel it while you're on the boat then like do you get used to it pretty quickly
yeah i do like every once in a while if it gets a little rocky but this always happens to me i haven't been on a ship for six years since like pre covid so it it's been a long time but i used to go like once a year on for different things so this but it was weird i'm like oh i forgot this part i feel very like i'm still on does it last a couple days then i'll get back to normal but it's pretty funny so gm everyone we have a shocking amount of things to check chat about today so let everyone know we're live i am gonna go do that myself and let people know we're live
adrienne i think though at the top really quick before we get everybody in here we should go with the most important news really fast and then we'll do our little intro but did you see the super bowl ad from coinbase
and we're not playing them sound because i don't wanna get you know copyright problems so
no from yeah from from the from the voice so if you didn't see it there was karaoke that popped up on everyone's screen i missed it because i was in international waters they weren't showing the commercials so i didn't see it till i came back it was also on the sphere and everybody was singing along and then at the end it just pops up and says coinbase when everybody was like you know going along here and i'm just saying like we have no proof yet but this will be my first question next time we have jesse on
we have no proof yet but i liked this theory from links and dawufi coinbase runs a lame karaoke ad during the super bowl which uses bases for everybody type branding messaging base had karaoke at base camp as part of their strip strip mining of crypto culture which i don't know about that part this particular culture was mined from gm farcaster gm farcaster runs a regular karaoke brunch event the ideation of which happened in this group chat i always wanted to bring karaoke to the masses but not like this so if you don't know now you know we might be taking credit
i still don't think people of course it's a war i still don't think the the it's a straight line but if you don't know we gm farcaster does a karaoke brunch and it's a it's a it's a famous event famous we're just saying we we own karaoke culture
we do and it's only us and i don't even know why people think it's anything but
we really should so i'm trying to make sure we are live over on the bird app aka x and i am seeing some weird things happening where it's not it's showing it but it's not showing it like how it normally does so hopefully everything is fine i'm seeing it i'm seeing it in the feed at top but i'm not seeing it in the profiles and i think that's a little odd so that's the thing i'm just looking for and as usually i pin it and yeah it's not there so something weird is going on there so if you're so i can't like share it i have to go looks like somebody changed something that's what i'm saying so i have to actually open live video to see it and to share it yeah so that's kind of odd so that's new so we're gonna get that shared around and we're very excited we have emily junior on today to chat about drb if you don't know grok has money and we're gonna talk about grok having money and agents launching tokens and bankr and i do have my bankr hat handy we've got a lot of news to get into but first we do need to do our a little bit of our intro here and we will be back in about sixty seven seconds on the other side of this
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gm farcaster it is tuesday february 10 and you are here with nounish prof and adrienne for twenty nine minutes of farcaster news to start your day plus a chat with emily junior about drb the token launched by grok and i am still working to get this shared around because twitter didn't do it or excuse me x didn't do its usual thing so i'm i'm doing some tagging and things so
i at the moment i feel like it's acting like x so i just will call it that for a moment it's doing some weird it's doing some weirdness it's i'm just trying to make sure it's everywhere it's supposed to be it's just kind of on i haven't seen it do this before so usually it drops when you launch it drops a a tweet a cast a post what do we call it over there an x and it didn't do that this time so i just am making sure everyone's seeing it and i think they're not so that's why i am doing that so hopefully everyone will see it well i just am making sure oops so let me also share this
okay very odd so something broke we'll figure that out later but anyway we've got lots of stuff to talk about so let's jump in beyond karaoke we have other things going on it's been a very busy few days and i have been on a cruise ship oh i forgot one thing i figured
i have a new mini stanley and i thought you'd wanna see it
these are my new things for those who missed the original this was my mini stanley from the spy museum in washington dc and now i have one from key west as well alright let's go this from bradq 29 of farcaster what did you miss this weekend it was qr one anniversary one year anniversary with jake sharing some lore in the first post about the project if you are new here qr is the regularly the number one mini app on farcaster capturing attention for a link of the day that wins the auction and then the qr the qr code points to that link so congratulations jake one year of lots of fun better continues to spread the fun with better with burr.eth at super bowl squares and super bowl prop bets that was really fun haven't checked to see how i did i haven't seen all the winners yet but 70,000,000 better is headed out and the better with burr games are going to continue so we're gonna have a lot of fun with her coming up this week tldr released new brachy feature where anyone can spin up a potential market in a tweet or cast a clanker is launched if it hits 60 k it becomes a live market on bracky i believe three or four such markets for a super bowl made it live i think it was only a couple very cool and i tried to launch one but it didn't it didn't i didn't understand the full mechanics that i needed to like pump the token first
i'm not
yeah i was like yes you will
he's like no you don't understand this but i'm like you just gave me the option it just happened like that means nobody has time but anyway didn't work out street photo created a farcaster feedback mini app with upvoting that rish shared an approval on making me think the team will be looking at the feedback we'll show you that in just a bit and we were off doing trying to on g and parker is off today as nounish prof is on a cruise trying to onboard normie friends i'll talk about this that at the end it's a farcaster and adrienne is searching for new words for her mini app she's building also we'll talk about that we haven't really talked about that since it launched
oh it hasn't launched sorry it's still in beta never mind we won't talk about that so we thank you bradq follow him for updates like this we can you can also jump in and grab it as a newsletter from gm so this was some news that we've already talked about and told you was gonna happen months ago but you weren't listening
we thought this was gonna happen dwr announced i'm thrilled to announce that i'm joining tempo stablecoins are a generational opportunity and i'm excited to be working to make them mainstream also lucky to continue working with vee and a bunch of folks from the merkel team so i did see dan i did watch this morning he was on tbpn i always never know what the name is but that show yesterday talking a little bit about it he's gonna be doing go to market for tempo so i assume that means he is talking with all the banks and getting people on board to launch to use or integrate stablecoins on tempo into what they're working on so very exciting kinda we we kinda talked about that we talked about even very early on when they were just not talking
during the silent moment we were you know one of the theories we had that was maybe stripe i e tempo was maybe purchasing or acqui hiring them and that's kinda what ended up happening but farcaster got spun off as it's a to the neynar team and then dan varun horsefax sloke d o dad i know those are the ones i've confirmed have moved over to tempo anyone else that you've heard those are the only ones i know of for sure okay
if you've heard any anyone else let me know but those are the ones i've heard and confirmed are moving to tempo as well so congratulations to them excited to see what happens with that i have a feeling they're just gonna be a lot quieter in terms of like they're not really building this isn't really building in public from what i can tell because it's more corporate institutional they're talking with you know yeah
yeah
v is not a big chatter like it never never was but dan likes to to share so we'll see we'll see what we get
from him we'll see what happens and we'll try to get him on here at some point to chat more about what he's doing so anyway moving on that was some exciting news to finally have a confirmation on that oh this was funny in terms of some of the comments over on twitter were interesting this one was funny from mert mert who is with solana tempo now has dankeradq dan romero dan robinson matt and georgioux i don't know who that is l m a o this is the golden state warriors with durant hype is probably the cavs with jeff as lebron solana is the twenty fourteen spurs will be a year a fun year get your popcorn ready i'm like your references are so odd and because they're way too new for me so talking you know bulls lakers and celtics and maybe i can you know see what the heck you're talking about but i did ask dan if he was durant because i wasn't sure exactly you know where he fit in on this but yeah so there you go interesting
that would be great i would appreciate that
can we translate that into a girly pop thank you
it's teresa who is who is sonya morgan i need the i need the tea alright moving on this from rish back in the farcaster universe known high priority bugs morpho balances not showing impacts everyone swap's not working impacts some mini apps asking for repeated authorization impacts some root causes of bug still unclear we'll fix this week that was last week so it may even be fixed by now i'm not sure root causes of bug still unclear we'll fix this week total balance is correct tokens are still there it's a ui bug so if you're having any bugs that are happening please tag the team and they will address and they're usually pretty quick about these sorts of things this from neynar two big updates a new neynar button overcast that opens up a chat with neynar.ai and search now prioritizes users over tokens thank you for that thank you every
no not hooked never never i every single time i'm like looking for people i just wanna find what the person so thank you thank you have you used the neynar button yet no and i haven't either and i really need to go play around with it okay and somebody asked when translate button and that was interesting doubt you see a native translate button in the feed but you can click the neynar button then ask it to translate or just reply at neynar translate this so the also clanker can do that clanker understands multiple languages so we do have some bots who can who can help you here
all the bots i mean this is the beauty of building yeah the bots just natively can speak in every language because they have the base model by the way i forgot i have used the neynar button i just forgot i did because i just used it again and i was reminded what it does it opens up a new window and it d and it starts a chat with explain this cast so you can then have a conversation but that's like the initiation so if you are ever confused it's just like it's a a default explain
cool so there you go i think that's gonna be super useful especially for new folks of which i have a few so i'll have to explain that to them this from rish mini app to consolidate farcaster feedback so if you have and this was from street photo check out farcaster feedback a mini app i built with neynar app studio submit feedback for farcaster upvote other users' feedback so that's important and shape the way farcaster improves shout out rish hopefully this can consolidate a good amount of feedback for the team to implement so very cool and go check that out add your feedback upvote things that way the team knows what to prioritize so very cool
this from i still do it the old way you just tag rish
yeah i just i've been trained this is how i got feedback to dan which is just cast it and he sees
it he sees it or tagging neynar also is a good option because sometimes neynar knows information about that issue or sure especially if it's a bug or something like that mhmm but so we have multiple ways to do this if you don't like mini apps can just tag neynar and do the same thing this from neynar speaking of we wrote about zapper one of our favorite teams taking an ambitious shot at social trading app built on top of farcaster so very cool we had seb on back a couple months ago and i think and i've been saying this for a while i've said it very tenuously because both base and farcaster were leaning towards trading but my you know i kept saying like if you're a trader go try the zapper client because it is very well designed for that and it's clean it's it's just a great design so shout out again to zapper about that and go try it so if you're especially if you're a trader okay moving on to the next one
or if you like nfts or if you it's just a very well done mhmm mini app in general it's not
conversational forward i wouldn't say like it's not that's not what you see first it's basically we're we're gonna talk about base in a second it's basically what base should have done in my opinion
so but i think zapper has done it very well in terms of being a wallet that's adding social into it rather than social adding a wallet okay this from kylepatrick but this is in regards to banker bankr's little switcheroo here there we have it clanker has lost the lead not sure i agree with that but we'll talk about that not having many updates for the past few months hurt too the buybacks can only do so much without new coins being made plus bankr which provides most of the volume nowadays forking there's not much incentive holding clanker i don't know if i agree with that but we'll talk more deployer and the banker team should be studied with how fast they can spot market opportunities that i could 100 agree with and pivot fast when needed this should be the gold standard in app coins and in business attention equals greatest currency create adapt iterate update and this was in response to bankr token launcher is live all new tokens launched through bankr now earn more fees for agents we removed the third party service fee and redirected it back to the ecosystem what this means devs earn 14% more per swap more revenue flows back to the bankr ecosystem so this was what we talked about last week or maybe the week before where deployer had signaled this was coming that they were gonna fork the clanker protocol and sort of run their own thing for their own token launcher and that has now happened so you know congrats to the bankr team and deployer for you know making this business move they're very much leaning into the cloudbot meta and bots launching their own tokens as a way to generate revenue and operate autonomously so thoughts
yeah
yeah i agree i think there's you know i think that for them the bankr team probably made the right move i don't think i understand some of the criticism kyle is putting in here i think some of it was out of their control because of the acquisitions that were happening first clanker to farcaster then farcaster to neyar so i think that definitely had some challenges to momentum
so i focus as well and yeah i i think losing a few people on the team throughout but farcaster i mean like neynar acquired clanker with farcaster
so i
yeah yeah
dish it looks like dish is getting up to speed on farcaster prs like i think he's shipping like you know so i think clanker and farcaster will kind of become more integrated and i think some of these things just like i don't know you don't need to be shipping every single day like you gotta kind of create that foundation with neynar right now right post transition kinda let things settle so i don't you know
i think it's too way too soon to i think it's dire yeah i don't think so either i think it's way too soon to have that sort of reaction i understand it i do especially especially if you're a clanker holder and you're looking at it from that perspective i get why that is what it feels like but i don't think that's necessarily true so what i'd say is you know hang on give it a minute they're doing a lot of discussions in the background figuring out direction just doing some basic foundational work like you said like prs and commits and like moving things and all that kind of stuff so hang tight hang tight and we'll you know i think there's some fun things to come so more to more to come and we'll get we'll get to those we'll get to those when they happen alright now this this is a lot lot this week this from jesse psa by the way this first went out of course over on twitter slash x you know how i feel about that then then finally there was this from jesse psa we're making the base app feed tradable assets only which means turning off the farcaster powered talk feed here's why the app needs to have one primary focus and that thing is trading when you open base app you should know exactly what you're getting and we're focused on making it the best place to find and trade every asset to reflect a little i was the biggest advocate for bringing farcaster content into the base app and continue to believe in the multi client world but as we've rolled the app out we've realized we need to do less better and by focusing on tradable assets that's what we can do and candidly i think the truth is that the base app was always an imperfect farcaster client with this change i expect those users to flow back to the farcaster app myself included and inject more energy into the economy there with the best case with the best in class interface base will continue to support farcaster and neynar and the incredible ecosystem of builders so much of who base base is comes from farcaster and i only expect that to grow so i was very confused i had updated the app after i saw the first announcement there's you can still see casts mhmm you can still there's just the talk feed is gone there's a trade feed like there was before you can still see casts over there there's still a farcaster like thing i
you just there's just no feed but if you go to your profile they're still there yeah there's also mini apps that are still there so i asked the question i can still post there and i could still post there that's the other thing is there another update coming and they said we're still going to have posting just iterating on it to be asset and trade centric more soon and then elsewhere somebody had asked about mini apps and they said no absolutely still supporting mini apps so i think we haven't seen the final iteration of this even if you update i don't think it's what it's going to be the only thing that looks like that has happened is that the talk feed is gone that was just the full like very similar farcaster feed yeah from what i could tell i mean it's clear that there is a
it's a it's an app so it'll get updated all the time so this is like the announcement right so what you see today is probably not what you see tomorrow or next week and they'll keep changing
yeah so i don't know i i'm not exactly sure what that's gonna look like even like a week or two from now so i'm hoping we can get jesse on maybe in march like i think we need to give him a little more time just to see what's what yeah i'm getting to that yes to crypto and i think there's a lot of other things happening and i think that's what you know yesterday crypto just mentioned aniri left and that was my next thing so i think the big thing that's happened i think the big thing that isn't stated here is that the focus on creator coins is gone that is that is being pulled when you now log in to when you open up the base app it defaults to the wallet i think that was how it probably should have been in the first place because people were updating from coinbase wallet to this it was confusing to be dropped into a feed if you didn't know what was going and emily junior i see you down in our green room we'll be bringing you up in just a second we've got a couple other quick things and then we'll have some on the other side of our chat with about drb but this was from a nounish after nearly four years of deciding to move on from coinbase and base to explore something new this was one of the hardest decisions i've ever made i've had the privilege of working with the most talented team i've ever been a part of people who generally care play positive some and believe in our mission if anyone has ever has the chance to work with them i'd recommend it in a heartbeat i got to launch base with on chain summer travel the world from kenya to thailand to india to grow our builder and creator communities and ship base app from scratch zero to one work that meant wearing every hat needed for success from product to marketing to devrel to qa and running through walls for bets i believed in through this i became a sharper builder and a better leader and i'm so insanely grateful for this chapter thank you to the incredible leaders i was lucky to work with including jesse pollock john granada chin tan brian armstrong max and sid and so many other teammates rooting for the team and base builders and creators forever so i think the focus on creators is what's shifted which we heard that a couple weeks ago from jesse and the base team but they've been saying continuously that the builders are still a focus in terms of like mini apps and things like that so i think they're trying to figure out how to make it make sense so i think we're just in a wait and see kinda moment yeah is that your take
yeah yeah and by the way this makes kind of perfect sense to me at some point when we loved obviously base focusing on farcaster because we love farcaster and it brought on it was gonna you know bring on the masses and and kind of like i think legitimize farcaster as a protocol you have like a legitimate second client but all of a sudden it's like then base and farcaster are competing they're competitors they're doing it's like offering the same features
and i think it kind of especially coming from where base is coming from in terms of wallet specific and who coinbase users are like i think it makes sense for base to focus traders first i have nothing but like respect for jesse for trying
and yep
i like i i i don't think he went against his word he works at a public company there's like the reality of you're pushing for creators you don't always have everything in your control and i don't think this will be necessarily like the end of a new monetization for creators but it may have been too soon like it's just the the whole tokenization too early you don't have mass adoption like a it's like so you're fighting these network effects you're bringing something new right you don't have the distribution so you can't really compete with existing web two socials yep everyone feels a little licky but i just i i think the fundamentals of there's so much money to be made yep with attention and people are spending more and more time on user generated social media sites so should there be is there like is there still a better fair mechanism probably it's just we're not gonna see that today
yeah absolutely and i did like rish's take here maybe farcaster tried to be based and base tried to be farcaster now farcaster is farcaster and base is base maybe maybe maybe whoops
i will do that later okay couple we're gonna bring emily junior up he's he's in their background but as a as a preview of that this was really funny from kenny this m f for emily junior really ride or die so elon musk said whoever said money can't buy happiness really knew what they were talking about and then emily junior replying see seeing grok have money brings me happiness but my favorite part of this whole thing was olystuart down here replies to every elon tweet now are 1,000 people posting epstein elon email screenshots 1,000 bots from elon's bot farm in his defense 1,000 people spamming coffee pasta impressions and one emily junior pumping drb and that was my favorite tweet because it was perfect so we're gonna reset here i gotta get my little overlay up and we're gonna bring him up right now the man the myth the legend because we're doing an official clankaster spotlight for drb clanking there's the clank and bringing him to the stage and welcome emily junior hold on i gotta switch hats i gotta switch hello hello hello i don't have a drb hat but i do have a bankr hat so one second
all i know but we'll do this for
we'll do a little
a little shift it's not my favorite fitting hat is the problem but anyway nice we gotta we gotta do the we gotta do the thing so we normally don't you know normally when we do a client caster spotlight we're focusing on the person who launched the token has the app that goes with it you are a very special case of i hate to word i hate to use the term kol k o l but we're gonna say i don't know fan what do we what do we call you hyperman
just the man you know i i kept posting as i was promoting that you're gonna be with us just that you know did you know grok had money like because i i just love your persistence in this narrative so for those who may not know
yeah grok has money for those who may not
let's how
why does first of all what does that mean why does grok have money what is drb and tell us a little bit about this backstory and then we'll get into like why you like just ride so hard for this so let's go there
is that enough time
i think so i mean yeah i mean we could spend a lot of time but thirty minutes we could the job will fit the time allotted so thirty minutes sounds sounds great
but and then we're gonna cut this down into three little tiny minutes so we got we got a person to do that for us
you got someone to do that it's right so got guy alright so i think the the best the best way to tell this story is to go back in time a little bit to 2024 when you were just wearing the clanker hat now you're wearing the bankr hat but both of those were invented in 2024 name the name of this show is gm farcaster and both of those were invented on farcaster back in 2024 so those were and are two ai i guess ai users on farcaster that back in 2024 that allowed for things to both of them did two things really well and clanker came out in 2024 on farcaster and and what clanker did really well was launch tokens on the social feed so if you you're a user you could prompt clanker and say launch x y z coin with ticker symbol x y z and add the picture and immediately the uniswap pool spun up the market's made and and anyone can trade it and that was one of the first use cases of of ai on the social feed that i thought was just fascinating and then as i learned more about it it taught me a lot about incentives and aligning incentives across participants or stakeholders in an ecosystem so i was looking at a lot of things around the time we had a lot of those celebrity coin launches on solana that were just you know not great experiences for people
not great experiences
yeah yeah not at all and you know one of the big things was and if you looked at some of these pools the liquidity pools the people who launched the coin were basically just capturing all the supply through lp fees and not only were they dumping the coin but they're dumping the the incentives that come out of the lp as well and when i saw what clanker did i didn't realize at first but they they they solved this incentive issue of aligning interest among the creator and then the protocol that's providing the infrastructure i thought that was just fascinating and back in late twenty twenty four when i really figured out what clanker was doing i'm like this is a 100 x improvement on pump fund like this is that much better it's not and it wasn't just the alignment of interest but it was using the social feed and social metrics and the the social graph to understand who was launching the coin how many launches did they have and all all of those different things that i i put out a post in 2024 saying clanker is a 100 x improvement on pump fund and i think it's taken a while for folks to realize how powerful that protocol actually is so that that was 2024 farcaster and then also 2024 farcaster was bankr and when bankr was launched it was just a it it was another very cool use case for ai where on the social feed you can if i wanted to someone post a contract address or a coin on farcaster i could immediately reply to that saying buy me $5 of this and at the time bankr was very primitive that that prompt of buy me $5 on the social feed i didn't have a bankr wallet i had my own wallet synced to my bankr account and i would say buy $5 and immediately bankr would execute the trade and send me the coins to my own wallet like this is incredible like this is so cool because forever social has always been or social feeds and the internet in general has been has given us the ability to transfer information across the globe at the speed of a click of a button when i saw these two things happening on the social feed i realized like this is allowing us now to transfer value at the speed of information on the social feed i'm like this is this is awesome and and then bankr
feels like magic it feels like absolute magic and especially when you show it to somebody who's never seen it before so even even for us the first time we're using clanker the first time we're using bankr it feels like wow this is like magic it's doing all these cool things that i don't have to
yeah that's why you know i like there's a lot of like yeah and there's a lot of talk like you know oh you know base is pivoting to ai or you know like a like they like we've been doing this since 2024 like it's it's there's in the very earliest kind of stages of things that i felt were really cool and you look at clanker that's evolved a great bit and then bankr has also evolved a great bit it's not it's no longer just transferring value on the social feed or prompting for a buy you can also there's several advanced limit orders you could place you could trade on polymarket trade perps on avantis it's run analysis and ta i mean and and far and way more than that every time i'd say like bankr can do this someone reminds me like hey you left this out and you didn't talk about this i'm like i know you could do a lot of stuff and there's stuff that i don't even realize you can do so anyway that sets
the table of these two so many things that i haven't even tried yet that i'm like i am not using my bankr club membership at all and i'm really not taking advantage of all the things it can do not even close
absolutely and and they continue to ship new new new features all the time so you know hats off to the deployer for what he's built and and the community that's been around that because they really came from even pre bankr that community that that was kind of out there and a lot of folks from farcaster and it just it's great to see kinda homegrown stuff like this come together so a lot of folks that just learned about bankr now view bankr as a launchpad and it's like totally not that i well it's it is that but it's a bunch of other things right so so okay so that was 2024 those two ai agents on farcaster and then in 2025 bankr i liken this to like the ten thousand hour rule you you know you get your ten thousand hours and yep in in the book they talked about the beatles being over in hamburg germany and they got their ten thousand hours playing at local pubs and and shows and they just became stars but they no one knew it yet and i look at like bankr and clanker and farcast or like hamburg germany and bankr came over to x in 2025 early twenty twenty five january i believe and when they came to x when bankr came to x gave every user on x a a wallet authenticated by their x account credentials and that's a privy server wallet and also it partnered with clanker at the time to be able to launch tokens so bankr became an interface using clanker so now on x you could say bankr create x y z coin with ticker symbol x y z and add the image and immediately it's deployed now back in 2024 clanker the protocol defined the creator of a coin as the user that prompted the deployment so that user can be me it could be adrienne it could be nounish it could be a it could be any user
and it's and it's been all of us at some point or another
we've all met we've all experimented with this for sure but you know it could also be an ai user that is being the creator if the ai user is the user that prompts the deployment that's defined as the creator and back to the alignment of incentives that were set up that creator earns fees forever in fact bankr the coin b n k ticker bnkr which just went past a 100,000,000 again hit another all time high i think in the middle of the night that was launched on the social feed on farcaster with clanker so bankr prompted the deployment of its own coin bankr through clanker and there was a human that was involved in introducing those two bankr and clanker together that i that was me i i and and i was a little bit scared the time
there was a human involved it might have been somebody we know
the humans have to introduce the ais i mean someone has to get them talking to to one another
but very true
but anyway i mean i was really scared at the time because bankr ended up prompting the deployment with clanker and i was kind of introducing them and i was like oh my i didn't really know deployer at the time and i'm like oh my gosh what did i do and then deployer ended up adopting as a coin ended up moving on to be listed on coinbase six months later and now it's you know hitting all time highs again so it's really just very cool to see but anyway so bankr comes to x bankr is now in the united states they're in new york from hamburg germany they got their ten thousand hours already and they're and they're ready to go and on march 6 around 9pm eastern time x put out an announcement x twitter put out an announcement saying that grok the ai created by x ai and elon musk is going to have a user account on x so now grok is out there as a user on x and we know if you were hanging around on farcaster in 2024 what that could potentially mean if you can get grok to interact with another ai on on x and this in particular was was bankr now with the ability to create coins so immediately when grok came out i mean myself and hundreds of other you go to the you know grok the day it launched everyone's trying to get grok to talk to bankr because everyone's like oh my gosh we can get this ai user to be the creator of a coin and if that happens that ai user is gonna make a lot of money and it could become this viral kind of situation
symbiocheck just mentioned lum yes that was an early clanker launched by athernet on farcaster
so yeah absolutely and that that was that was there and even before that there was m f or g p t before lum and before ather lived m f or g p t which was creating tokens in the form of nfts on the social feed that was like the first i don't think there was one that was before that so i think you're
right
there was all this experimentation going on back then cool stuff that attract i was very interested in i thought it was fascinating and i still do especially how it's evolving so anyway grok has a user account on x now on march 6 around 9pm and everyone's trying to get grok to interact with with bankr because we know what that could mean and it wasn't happening i mean grok wasn't replying to me i'm like oh my gosh what is going on grok won't reply to anyone and there were like hundreds of users trying to get this interaction going and and then every friday during that season my little guy little mlee had hockey every every friday 6am so our wake up call is like 04:30 it's like one in the morning now into march 7 and i'm like oh my gosh i'm gonna like grok's not gonna do it but i gotta get some sleep here i've gotta go get i gotta get three hours of sleep so i went to sleep for a little bit i woke up you know 04:15 in in the morning we've gotta go to hockey and i look and there's no you grok has not created a coin yet i'm like oh man they must have some guardrails in place or something like that that's not gonna allow for this to happen and we're on the way to hockey little emily is back in in the backseat of the car i'm still watching and all of a sudden someone got a coin i gotta give the credit to it was at coin underscore domin d o m i n on x was able to introduce grok with with bankr and grok made a suggestion to initiate and prompt the deployment of a coin and the suggestion that grok made was ticker symbol drb debt relief bot and when it first happened i was just like ugh well first i was like this is cool but i was like oh the name is like that's not a great name like i would
it's not a great name
why didn't why didn't he come up with grok coin or you know like something like that that would have been cooler but it's really grown on me over it's almost a year now like this is actually really cool because the ai it humans didn't sit around a table or at a boardroom and talk about tokenomics and naming conventions and ticker symbols the ai grok decided that that's what it wanted to come up with and and that happened so the grok created drb by prompting the deployment from with bankr immediately bankr well clanker on the back end spun up the liquidity pool and the token started trading and within the first week it it was crazy i mean it hit like a 40,000,000 market cap there were a lot of interest around it and over time the last year we've seen that interest ebb and flow along with the narrative of ai and crypto and then in the summer time frame it hit another all time high passed 40,000,000 and then about two weeks ago it hit another all time high passed about 40,000,000 and and it's done great it's been a very fascinating story i think you look at frontier ai like grok like right now you couldn't get you couldn't get grok to do this the guardrails are in place right but the tech was so new that it was possible at the time so it happened and that's like the beauty of some of this stuff is things could happen one of the biggest realizations for me is that you know if you're x ai or anyone and if you release an ai user on a social network where other ai users are already occupying that network and those ai users have certain capabilities it could lead to lasting consequences that are real and you can't go back on so if like that happened and you could add guardrails now and and and and make some make some changes to perhaps how grok interacts on a social feed but at the time we you know the tech was ready it was there ten thousand hours already took place you know over back in 2024 and it it happened so it's one of these stories where i think it's it's you know so grok's wallet has has earned 1.2 well it's earned 1,250,000 in fees the fees that they got total it's maybe 1,300,000 now and then the live balance is somewhere around 800,000 because the the total fees accrued locked the locked the number the balance at the time of the claim so there's been times where the the wallet live balance at an all time high couple weeks ago of like 1,460,000 where total fees accrued were 1,250,000 but there had been appreciation on the coins both eth and drv so so grok's wallet forever the wallet authenticated by grok's x x logging credentials that wallet forever earns fees and it's earned fees this is episode three thirty nine the grok wallets earned fees for three hundred and forty one consecutive days it's earned eth and drv it's increased the amount of eth and drv and so today the grok's wallet is about a 135 eth it's actually wrapped eth and also over 3% of the drb supply so every single day grok's wallet is taking drb supply off of the market and also earning eth so it's just one of these fascinating stories of ai with money and grok has money is a totally i think a very viral slogan so it's a
it's is there merch is there merch anywhere that says grok has money
i didn't know if you ever did anything that
yeah i no i haven't i haven't made any merch or anything like that but but it if i think people have made one all shirts i i saw someone saying like someone was thinking about making shirts i i replied to i don't even know i replied to anything if so if you post grok as money i'll file i follow you like if i i find that stuff but but it it yeah if you're a merch shop and you're making that i i post i replied to someone saying hey if you make these shirts i'll buy one so minted merch
you you have minted merch
yeah we need some grok has money shirts let's go i so i love and so this just fascinated you from like you just found it very interesting and that's why you just became this like grok has money guy yeah so like what just got you like so prompting on that
well what i you know grok is such a big deal i mean grok has 8,000,000 followers on x it's from a frontier ai company an x ai and when you think of humans that are that are viral you know elon's right up there with with anyone on the planet elon loves memes elon always talks about the most entertaining outcome and a couple weeks after this coin launch i wrote an article saying grok's going to become a a millionaire and that ended up happening grok's crossed a million several times now and i just thought it was fascinating that you've got this huge ai in grok that was created by elon musk and x ai that that created this on on a social feed and then also money is attention especially in the space that we're in and my thesis from the beginning was that as that wallet balance grows so will the attention on how that wallet came into place and the associations that eventually lead directly to this coin drb so i i now i think where things are now you know this is almost a year in i think grok will become the first ai billionaire i think that wallet will hit billionaire status interesting and look is there a more entertaining outcome than the the richest human in the world being elon musk and then the richest ai in the world being grok we'll we'll have to see i i think that's entertaining i think there's a path to to to that happening a very clear one and yeah so from the get go i i just realized people are gonna be interested in this there's a huge ai one of the it's the biggest ai user on x that interacted with the tools that we had been messing around with since 2024 and it's led to real and permanent economic consequences and it it took forever for folks to even realize on you know crypto twitter what bankr is i mean it it's really happened the last like two weeks and we're in a space with a few one of the bigger influencers not to mention any names he's like i can't believe you know where where where did this come from you know this flew complete i'm like what like we've been talking about this since 2024 almost every single day
you know
they're outing themselves of not having watched gm farcaster is what it comes down to
because we've been talking about bankr since day one we've been talking about drb since day one we've been talking about clanker from since day one so you all just haven't been paying attention to the right the right media is what i'm what i'm thinking yeah so amazing on now i love your dedication to this to this narrative because i think it is really fun it's been fascinating to watch all these new clodbots get banker skills and now they're all launching tokens and watch sort of what's happening with that but i think that the grok one is just a unique story that you know first and early is always has a has a special place and i think that it's gonna always have that
and the clods and the molts and the you know i've i've traded around a little bit with them i think they're fascinating i think that there's some really really cool ones that are being built but my my thesis around that is you know i and someone was was yelling at me they're like know mlee you you only talk about g r b and you know grokka's money like what about claude and what about and i'm like well i like those things and and somebody even said i saw you have some of that in your wallet and you're not even telling anyone about it i'm like well it's in my wallet you could see it's there like that's there's nothing wrong with that but i don't really have a thesis on you know will i hold this for a day two days a week and i don't wanna like post something and then and then and then someone sees that same wall and they're like oh you posted that and then you sold it and then like you're you know you're just pumping your bag and i'm like just to sell and dump on people so i i think these things are fascinating i'm not against them i love them i think there should there there's gonna be hundreds thousands millions of them i really think that so and the best one has not been invented yet and like i said about multiple when it came out like this is very cool and i like bought a little bit of coin and i ended up selling some of it but i i looked at them i'm like the way that these tools are going right now and the the capabilities that these already insanely cracked devs have at their fingertips now like the next best mote book is forty eight hours away like it's like these these things are not going to stop shipping so i don't really have edge in saying like that's the one or get this one but i can say that's grok that happened in march 2025 grok's already earned over 1,000,000 in fees like grok will never have another first coin again and and i'm comfortable having skin in the game there for a long period of time to allow this story to to evolve and mature but the other stuff like i if i don't mind trading around i think for for peep i'm not good at trading i've lost a bunch of money as well on on things like so i don't i'm not a
great trader
there for people that are that are that are very good at trading or you know have really good systems in place and can monitor certain things like money in motion right now on base is fantastic like these are great environments for folks yeah for me though like i'm i don't have time to like really do all of that so i i i mess around here and there and then i have things that i like to hold longer term that i feel like comfortable talking about and i i'm not gonna embarrass myself or or also like position people that follow me that if i tweet something that they're like oh i should buy that like if i tweet bankr yep go buy it if i tweet drp go buy it like i'm never gonna run a foul like i'm not we've been around here long enough and kind of proven like what we're what we're doing with these with these tools and why we like them so it's it's yeah that that's that
i think that's a really smart approach too and i think it's interesting to watch all these tokens launch i think it's obvious it's obvious to us probably not obvious to you know the world that ai agents need to be able to transact and use money in some way and that's gonna be through crypto and the easier you make it for them to do that the more you're gonna see of that and clearly bankr you know got the memo very you know already had everything in place it was very easy for them to make that easier for others who maybe weren't aware and that's why all of a sudden everybody knows what bankr is it's like they've seen it all over their feed because of these other agents but it's you know right place right time but also plus those ten thousand hours right that's right luck it's not luck it's just that you know it's just timing and being being being ready for when the opportunity comes but i i agree with like being careful about what you especially if you have a a large audience or a lot or can drive a lot of attention you have to be careful about what you're talking about what tokens you're talking about so i think that's that's totally fair adrienne what do you wanna ask emily while he's here
none whatsoever if you buy yak shit it will eventually you win will eventually lose money that is that
my i'm curious emily outside of you being known as the grok has money guy because that's how i know you and you're hilarious on the feed and i love everything you say you pop your cat you make me smile
so much
yes so i do that's not the only thing i do just so i i definitely am enthusiastic about grok having money but my career has been focused my entire career i since i finished school many many years ago my my entire career is focused on trad fi so and and then i carve out in trad fi of alternative investments so i've spent my career in private equity and hedge funds the first decade of my career i worked at a fund and then i left and started my own firm in 2018 and then that firm was acquired in in a deal that i stayed on and with ownership but we we we've we've gotten a little bit bigger as a as a result and have been able to do some other really cool things and one of the one of our without going into there's there's a there's a three letter agency out there that doesn't like when i talk about certain things of my of in in my real job so you the the whole thing around securities offering but we've
yeah
we have a fund that's become one of the largest buyers of us property tax liens in the country and tax liens are just yield bearing instruments that institutions endowments foundations registered investment advisers family offices allocate to to generate consistent and predictable yield with with low or or or near zero correlation to most other things in their portfolios so similar to treasuries in terms of their yield bearing potential so that's what we do and then also when i first started my firm our first client was powerfi capital which powerfi's at the time they had about 30,000,000 in assets under management spun out of kkr and as of today they're one of the i i think the the premier crypto funds and platforms out there across several different verticals liquid tokens private equity and then also some market neutral type strategies and that and powerfi now is you know over 2,000,000,000 in assets under management and we still work together on on a on a number of things so so those are the two of the the main things and then leanfi which i'm wearing this vest right here is leanfi is is an app that we're developing right now and we're basically bringing this really interesting institutional asset class with real predictable the tax lien yields are statutory they're set by law they're not market driven so but we're bringing those yields on chain to base in an app called leanfi and we're bringing a lot of our institutional partners that we trade with on the secondary market to to this platform so that's been in development since last year and if you would have asked me in the summer of last year emily when's it gonna launch i'd say october 2025 and then the engineers and developers say your timelines are too aggressive but we we we we have a working mvp that's that's being tested right now internally we're getting really close and i think it's gonna be an awesome an awesome platform to bring to base so yeah that my my professional career is is is fully tradfi and then but the the the carve out within that is alternative investments within within tradfi
what are you i mean it seems like tradfi and crypto are merging fast like very quickly in the past couple years when you're watching like i'm assuming when you're watching things that are happening in davos and you're hearing larry fink talk about everything's gonna be tokenized what do you think about that in terms of where institutional investing is going on chain
yeah the the first fund that i worked for right out of school where i mentioned i was there for a decade and became a partner that that fund the cio on that fund was a guy named mark yusko and and mark mark you should follow at mark yusko but mark was the c prior to being the cio cio on the fund i worked for mark was oh man mosquito mark was the mark was the cio of of unc chapel hill's endowment which was a and is a 1,000,000,000 plus endowment and prior to that he was the number two guy at notre dame's endowment right right under scott malpass so that was my my first kind of entry into the industry working with mark as the chief investment officer on a fund and and mark in 2016 started to talk a lot about bitcoin and then in 2017 launched a fund that was dedicated to investing in companies that utilize blockchain technology and then in 2018 fairfax county pension fund was the first public pension fund to invest in a crypto fund and it was that fund morgan creek so i got to see like this institutional shift starting to happen and that's why i started my firm because i wanted to focus on crypto and at the time the firm that i was at didn't they weren't really interested in it so i'll i'll just in terms of like what's the stuff happening at davos and and macro stuff i'll i'll i'll give more like micro of what i what i've seen and what i what's been going on so in 2019 2020 i was out talking about parifi and to some institutions and and some registered investment advisers and in many cases i kinda joke we were getting laughed out of the offices and even going back you know with with talking crypto back in 2018 and and earlier it was not very accepted to even talk about these things especially like the institutional world
2021 still like we it it really didn't shift until the etfs like the bitcoin etf and then the eth etfs like that's when i started to see a bit of shift in the at least the advisers or rias like willing to have a discussion on this and in fact many of them start to call back and say hey like tell me about crypto yeah my client because my clients are my families are calling us now and we need to be educated because we don't wanna look stupid in front of them like that's the last thing yeah advisor wants to do yeah so it's become much more accepted and i i'm i'm in phoenix right now at a conference and yesterday we we had a session on what we what we do on the tratify side and we also talked about what we're building the infrastructure we're building with leanfi to to bring this institutional asset class to a market in a global and permissionless manner and the amount of people with interest that came up after the talk and questions and then at dinner later less i mean it is just fascinating these are all tradfi allocators of capital it it it complete like we are we're nope we're overton window like spot right now there there's so much now is that leading to significant allocation right now into crypto or in traditional kind of i i we're still a little bit a ways from that i think we're getting much closer but the interest and the willingness to talk about it has never been i mean groups guess that the groups that were laughing me out of offices like several years ago it is it is completely diff i mean the the interest here is so high and so real it's just fascinating to see so i think we we've we're we're in that overton window and it's only going to kinda get more interesting here as as time goes on so
i think today there's another meeting regarding the market structure bill they're trying to iron out those last bits and i think we'll see it doesn't mean it's gonna translate to you know prices necessarily but i think you'll see a you'll see that aspect where there's even more institutional or traditional you know trad fi moving moving towards crypto yeah no it's lot interesting
yeah yeah and a lot of folks building like us right now and with levi mean there are there are certain things that we're from a regulatory standpoint i mean we're we're very keen on seeing how this bill plays out and and it can change a lot of the a lot of the i guess design or mechanics and cross protocols so that are that are launching or apps that are launching in this space so it's a it's an exciting time i think we're i think we're we're in a really we're in the there's there's not a better space to be in right now i don't i i don't think mhmm i thought that in 2019 but we were early yeah and and i but i do think we're we're not we're we're not as early now it's it's it's definitely catching on
i i agree and i think the next year is gonna be very interesting i think there's a lot of people who are sitting on things waiting to see market structure come through what does that look like just to make sure they're not you know they just it just gives them more clarity literally yep as to as to you know how to move forward so alright i know we've gotta let you go i could talk to you for hours adrienne anything else that we didn't chat about that you wanted to to hit him with
yeah what did we oh i know what i had i had a question
what did you think about bankr launching forking and launching their own launcher
so when i first saw that announcement i'm like not surprised you know deployer is you know deployer is he's he's going for it and i think he's viewing going for it as like existential like nothing's going to stop this guy like he he's going for it and he's making decisions that he feels are best for his product and what he's building in bankr and you've gotta you've gotta applaud anyone willing to kind of make those tough decisions in in in a public manner so when i saw that initially i'm like of course like you know i saw some of the comments maybe a few weeks prior where coins were a little bit delayed in launching with the clanker protocol and wallets weren't you know funded for for launches and and i saw deployer like posting you know friendly like hey you know can you fund like clanker fix this kind of thing like these guys are going for they don't want any delays and anything and like if they if you're if you're running something and you rely on others you could build it to not rely on others and you think you build it as good or better then yeah sure why not do that so that was my first thoughts i'm like of course like you know deployer's gonna manage that process and he's never gonna have to tweet at someone saying hey you know my launcher is not working right now and with zero control hey that makes perfect sense like these guys are going for it but i did see today that they they didn't build their own they're using another so i don't know all the details i kind of see through it but it doesn't i don't think they built so maybe i shouldn't even talk about that yet because i don't really know but i i don't think they built their own which so initially i'm like yeah of course like it makes sense but i think they're using something else but i don't know all the details so i'm not i haven't had time to look into
it okay and i did have one other question you are a famous mfer why did you choose that why is that your profile picture
no we we hear you we hear you so why is oh now you did no it was a delayed freeze
you're back okay right so why oh you know just i just wanna give a little you know the mfers a little shout out so why is that your profile picture what is what attracts you to that yeah
so i i got the profile picture back when it came out i i think it was what 2021 2021 yeah 2021 yep
yeah i think so
profile picture i i'd followed the account that that created these sartoshi pre the pre the launch and i'd followed like punk six five two nine and punk six five two nine was always retweeting sartoshi the memes yep were really funny so when these came out i was like oh these are cool and i ended up getting one when they minted and got some more and then what were what really attracted to me is there was no like there was no company backing it there was no there was there was no real human or entity behind it it was just this anonymous creator that put these out there and then it taught me with cco menu creative commons license and you know basically putting something out there for the world and then allowing the world to do what they want with it and i i didn't even know what ccdo was at the time but i really became fascinated with public domain assets and especially when it comes to crypto and blockchain because you got a public domain asset that anyone can use anything any way that they'd want when you have the ownership being ironclad on chain so like i own the token so i know that that i own that so anybody could do whatever they want with it if if it actually is valuable and these things are still selling for like a thousand dollars all these years later it's just yeah just just crazy i mean it could be but so there's value to to it but i just love the public domain no kind of you know company tied to it if you wanna do something like you know it's like the the whole space started to evolve into like when airdrop like when dev do something like when ship this when do that and like the mfers were if you wanna build something just build it like you don't need to ask permission and i think that that that really like nailed the crypto kind of philosophical side for me and so i used the pfp back you know all that time ago and and and i just never changed in because i've just i i just like i i kinda just like it and it's become i guess a part of my identity on on x and farcaster yeah and but that was really it it was you know i saw all these other products out there like you know not to pickle on like board apes or anybody like that
oh go
ahead it was like such a different different thing right you have like yuga labs this huge billion dollar company and then you've got these little stick figures that are to hand draw on that just do what they want and i was like good that that feels like me i i like that
i i think the vibe fits you and obviously i'm a fan of c c zero so
yeah and i've always loved the mfers and the vibe of it and sort of the fun of it like just kind of a it's kind of like a nod to you know we're we're a little rebellious we do what we want kinda thing
yeah and i never viewed it as like a financial asset either like i just viewed it as like so there's something to that as well like i it was never like this financialization piece now look there's still some value to these and maybe over time they become more valuable but but my little emily is gonna get mine anyway so i think you could go to whatever price it wants it's not gonna be my like my choice with the deal
little emily alright and i cut you off there a little bit before because i did have those last questions you started to say something as we wrap up and i wanna give you that
yeah you guys said was there anything else and i'm like yes i mean this is episode three thirty nine i've been watching all of these like when am i going to get my invitation to join the show and here fine i finally got it so
thank you here he is hey and we were trying to get this together like a few weeks ago and you had hockey like that was part of the thing i like it like i get it kids the kid emily little emily comes first so i totally get it but we've been trying we've been trying so i'm really glad that you're able to make the time i know you're in the middle of a conference and doing your thing
just not at all timing thank you so much for popping by adrienne anything else before we say say goodbye
it's just
what is this i
thought you i thought you had a virtual background i'm like he's got a virtual background and i've been trying to look at the clouds to see if they slowly move but i guess you're an arizona
it looks it's real looks great enjoy the enjoy the conference enjoy your time there you know onboard a bunch bunch more trad pi peeps
oh you know i've been thinking about that i've been thinking about that so not not definite but i've been thinking about doing that so
we would love that
we are we'll be there
we'll be there
reporting we'll be
we'll be reporting live and we'd yeah we'll be chatting with everybody there so it'll be fun
we'll be but i don't wanna oversell what we're doing because i don't want people to not come just because we might be reporting live so you yeah
just come anyway
i don't know if this is a joke but for the first month we thought emily was a bot deployed to promote drp
that's funny i bet that's true
the other thing is the when you guys before i came on i was in the green room and i saw you post you it there was the post of me saying to elon like grok having money makes me happy or something yes yeah and i reply i didn't see that reply i'm cracking up in the green room like my tail off i'm like it is hilarious so funny i don't even know who that oh the only story
only stewart
go so funny and just one emily pumping drb just one
it was
so funny well we appreciate you we appreciate you in the space we appreciate you in all you do to promote drb just also like the vibe you bring to the timeline and your support of builders i really appreciate so we thank you and we thank you for hanging in our chat often you're often in there
i mean consistency to do a show like this all the you know to keep coming back and no i i go into the office if i'm not traveling and this is always streaming so i always listen to you guys in the morning you you brighten my mornings and
thank you so much
the the consistency to keep doing and showing up and doing stuff like this is so it's awesome so thank thank you guys as well
well thank you thank you so much yeah we go by guys sometimes too thanks so much we really appreciate you being here and with that adrienne that was a clankcaster spotlight i'm waiting for the clank bye emily enjoy your conference i'm waiting for the clank oh i gotta change hats too i'm putting my clanker hat back on real quick okay before i bring us back and that was awesome i'm so glad we finally got him on here if you came in late we see some folks who are just getting here go back listen to that full interview because that was a lot of fun he really
he's so funny follow him in every follow him on twitter
on on farcaster so funny he's just an enjoyable follow really is what a smart smart intelligent i'm glad there's somebody like him talking with trad fi about what we're doing over here you know what i mean like need that grok and grok and talking to grok and talking to grok often
so i appreciate that that was awesome so thank you emily for finally getting here with us we really appreciate it alright we've got a couple more things that we need to chat about today i need to pull them up i think we got to yeah we got to all this
and i appreciated his explanation of like bankr and just sort of the history which we all know but most people will not and you can see that from just what's been happening recently with all these new bots and people just not even realizing what bankr is and what it can do and and all that so definitely needs to be folks out there who can tell that story so thank you emily for doing that we've got a few builder things happening i'm opening up those links right now so that's why you might see me lagging just a little bit because my computer's opening things up so we got a few more things to talk about adrienne there was a lot going on we've been off for five days and that'll do it like when we're off five days there's a lot to talk about because people are still building on this thing called farcaster that everybody thinks is dead
i didn't even pull this but when he was talking about his mfr we're talking about pfps i don't know if you saw but the there's an update to my pfp project and i say my but my pfp's project the philosophical foxes
i did see that i did see that yeah maybe we
we'll talk about
yeah i saw there was discussion but i didn't quite understand everything that was going on there because i'm not in that community but i was like oh that looks like they're doing something and they hadn't done something for a while so that was cool cool to see i think i've got almost everything here
okay okay we got a few things to chat about
here we go so i just thought this was funny there's a lot of fun little super bowl moments that were happening and i was actually so like i said i
i was in live so i'm in this giant theater here we go giant theater watching the super bowl and i'm in livecaster and i had i had said a few days before that ricky martin was gonna be one of the guests and that i was like i really should have put money on it in polymarket and i regret not doing that and then when he came up like it was really funny because i was in livecaster and i'm like ricky and then sayangel quoted this and i thought that was funny so yes i got that right but livecaster was really fun i have had trouble getting in there before and i was able to get in there this time and i was very excited because as much as i was enjoying my irl experience i really wanted to hang with my online friends especially my bracci friends so it was fun so if you're not familiar this is from sayangel join the live caster chat now for the most fun barcaster client experience for watching the super bowl with your fave casters we've got custom emojis brachy feed odds ticker and good vibes and i have to say it was really impressive they had this ticker going by for the related brachy different brachi markets that were related to this he had custom emojis that you could use so the teams and also bad bunny there was a bad bunny emoji there was a butt tap emoji so it was really fun and he does this for different live events so if you have something that you want that's a live event sporting event especially let him know and then this was some of the emojis and they were pretty funny the that was the bad bunny and the butt tap emoji and you were in there i saw you pop in there all
yeah it was fun the only thing i wasn't getting the commercials so i was missing like a lot of that talk was like lost on me a little bit so but it was fun it was a lot of fun and then this was from dwr co casting dylan abruscado if you are a guest on t v p n your logo will air during the super bowl here's the final frame of the ad so apparently there was a t v p n ad i didn't see it did you
okay so here's what they did here's their little hack dylan and dylan casted or tweeted about this so we know oh and dylan's a friend we love it we we love him and i love to
see we've had him on we've had him on this show yep so
the maybe california markets san francisco southern valley california markets to run like before the super bowl
that was smart so that was very smart
could take over twitter right you can share your ad ahead of time you can call it a super bowl ad mhmm it's technically true everybody's gonna look at it everyone's gonna think like wow tppn is much bigger than i realized look at them getting a super bowl ad let's all share it it's a great ad they included all of their guests which makes all their guests feel great and wanna share it right so it'll go viral and then it'll hit the local market which is
okay can we just make
that that for next year okay got it got it
yeah but we'll we'll think of something
but we could probably do ads somewhere i mean it was kind of like when jake was on and he was talking about go getting put up in times square and i'm like i don't even know the value of like okay you you have an ad in times square and then you can kind of share that on social more people see it on social right but you get the legitimacy and credibility of like oh oh you're a super bowl ad oh you're in times square so anyway yes lfg tbpn and congratulations on your super bowl ad yep and that's awesome
i'm glad you gave me the explanation because i kinda missed that full explanation but that's awesome
and we haven't we should i've i've been meaning we should catch up with dylan sometime soon maybe he can help us blow blow up gm farcaster a little bit more
there you go yeah we'll definitely have to have a see if we can get him on here so dylan if you didn't know we've had him on to talk about crypto the game way back before he moved over and now is the producer i assume the title executive producer something like that of tbpm
sponsors okay
i'm not sure yeah i'm not sure the exact role but very cool and we had this from jake so going on there were some other super bowl things free super bowl squares for people who join nyk's bid on qr.fun that was a very creative idea you joined the bid and then you got a free super bowl square in one of mike's super bowl square things for his mini app i mean i appreciate mike so much in terms of his different experimentation like mhmm i love how he's just constantly coming up with these very creative ideas to experiment with things so very cool
what else and having met him irl his like right his like his irl persona is the same as his builder he is like just a doll of a human being and yeah i it is you know we we know he's actually busy in a in his day job and then he makes time for all these side projects on farcaster and they're super cool
yeah just love it so we appreciate you and then there was this from the bracci team from tldr happy super bowl you can now ask bracci to launch any super bowl themed prediction markets well maybe i launched butt taps in feed on x using bracky's new clanker powered market launcher protocol note butt taps is a clanker and it's separate from the o g butt taps so now there's two butt taps details below on how we're taking care of og tappers so if you had missed this the first butt taps was launched as a created like a test of creating a small micro market prop bet kind of a thing now this is a way that you can within you can ask bracky to launch you a related prop market and it will launch a token if the token hits 60 k in not in volume market cap then it will launch the market within bracky and the bracky game mini app bracky mini app so i tried to do one it didn't quite work out because i didn't hit the right level i think there was another one that had launched there were a couple so kinda but we were talking to tldr about this last time he was on about these type of markets and i think there's a lot of demand for this we're also gonna talk with kojo on colin from ponder on thursday about his new mini app called tomorrow which is a prediction market as well with video in feed and that is gonna be really fun it's a really fun approach to a prediction market it's a little bit different but i said the same thing to him it's like i wanna be able to launch a prediction market like let me launch our own little mini which hat is prof wearing to gonna wear today kind of markets mhmm you know fun things like that or are we gonna say you know flywheel or whatever you know what i mean like so i think there's like opportunity for fun things to happen if we can you know have a little bit of these little fun little micro markets so anyway moving on this from burr eat this is also related announcing a new better with burr mini app 70,000,000 better up for grabs powered by betterment and built by plants nft with the help of several great better believers better with burr will provide tons of fun add the mini app to receive notifications we have two contests live right now this so was the other day so it's no longer live better super bowl squares and better whales may claim their squares now and then they she also launched the prop market which was really fun so you can answer this was better super bowl props you answer as many questions correctly as possible and you had a chance to win better as well so that was really fun so it was like heads or tails who what will be the first play will it be passing or running so things like that and it was really fun i still haven't gone back to see how i did so i have to go back and like i didn't look at my squares i didn't look at this so i'm assuming i didn't win anything because nobody tagged me so but i have no idea how i did so but these are really fun and i love these experiments and really enjoyed it and also there's gonna be more coming from burr this week with better games so look for that and this from nonlinear and i all i can see is mustache
so much mustache i was completely distracted but
this is from nonlinear announcing
so much announcing spandex he's been busy growing the mustache the first free and open source meta aggregator for developers traders and ai agents expand tokens pools chains beyond a single provider get multiple quotes to find the best price redundancy when an aggregator fails no vendor lock ins this is spandex.sh haven't had a chance to look at this there is a whole video that explains more about it if you can get through it without being distracted by the mustache if you don't know nonlinear the mustache will not distract you but if you've known him before pre mustache it was really like i just couldn't i couldn't get quite fast in but it worked it worked
as a grabbing 100% actually i don't want to offend him and call it a gimmick maybe no it's just it's real style he like moved
to wyoming or something and has become a mountain man so it it fits it fits the new persona but this is cool to see a building
i do too i'd love to see them just fighting about whatever or just people chatting again about just random things this is from you i joined the xmtp switchboard and now have prime office space i can use in nyc and other cities around the world builders check this out thank you shane mack so and this was in response to shane the feedback from launching xmtp switchboard has been insane hundreds of members signed up all over the world want to let members work there and offer up their space and it's just such a cool thing to bring the community together all farcaster members are welcome to apply and come build with xmtb so very cool have you gone to the office yet or not
so wow cool
so there's multiple spots there's and they're in so many other cities very cool for people like us who are kind of solo yeah i guess not not maybe not solo but small team
small team
yeah solo builders work from home to be able to have office space to go to and where you're likely to hang out with people from a community of other people you're meeting because that's like you miss so much of that being home true like a lot of the senior c style of water cooler sharing of ideas like and i am so excited i don't know how the economics work they it's like i but because you can get office space anywhere it was like $75 for the day and they took care of it so thank you xmtp i'm super excited yeah and now as soon as the snow maybe melts i'm gonna be in the city a lot more often
cool that's very cool yeah it's very cool to go outside who wants to leave their house but very cool and i'd like to go check it out i think i'm gonna be in new york sometime in june or late may or something and i'd just like to go take a peek not really that i'll even need to use it but just that i'll wanna use it this was just funny
here's what a good one shot prompt with claude code looks like and it's just curling and by the way so the olympics have started winter olympics is the only time that any anyone ever sees curling so you know i thought this was funny know there's like analogy
so there is a like curling gym near my house is there really and there's a lot of people who curl where
i am know that there is a curling noun so there's a noun's head that is a curling stone and there's also we've also sponsored a curling team because
because we do silly things and that's the whole point lastly
i clanked something so i went on this cruise there's seven other women they're all about my age they know nothing about crypto they know nothing about ai besides like chat gbt and very you know mhmm the broader things so that was fascinating like i was like do you guys know anything about have you heard of mold book do you know what claude claude bought it like no no no nothing
grok has money i did
i honestly asked that i think i asked that question and i was just like never mind i don't think i asked if they know who grok they don't i know they they might but they don't they're not on twitter like they don't use twitter regularly that's not where they are they're on instagram they're on facebook so that's just not where they hang out but it's fascinating so i was explaining some things about crypto and about tokens and what this is and what i'm doing with my life now and i'm like we could launch a token he's like we could launch a token i'm like yeah and then this thing happened where one of the women travels a lot she's also a travel agent and they always you can order as much food as you want at dinner because everything's included and they would always order like something everybody wanted to try for the table and they call it they were ordering it for their invisible friend steve and it'll be the thing that goes in the middle of the table so this was steve's ravioli and i'm like perfect we'll create a steve coin and it'll be steve's ravioli so i set it up in clanker and then i so i didn't just launch it on the feed but i kinda got it all set up so that i could launch it with them together at one point and so i just said hey clanker order steve's ravioli so you can do something called pre clank within the clanker launch pad so if you're not aware of this you can go to clanker.world create a token get everything set up with the parameters there's a few parameters you can't do if you're using preclank but then you can just go to your feed in farcaster tag clanker and say order steve ravioli or whatever your phrase is and it will launch the token so it launched the token and then i'm now getting them set up on farcaster so they i could give them some of the token so they're all creating wallets on farcaster i have six of the seven are set up they're in a group chat i've sent them some steve token i sent them some save holly so we'll go from there and then from fees from the clanker i'm gonna give them a whole bunch of different tokens so that they have a little bit of crypto of their own so that was my fun little onboarding experience for my friends on the cruise and that's it
yeah it was fun yeah
and just a reminder brock has money in cliche in case you missed it in case you missed it if you did come in late
go back listen to our chat with with emily junior it was great thank you so much for being here with us today we love your persistence of grok having money and sharing that with the world
his passion so much passion so much passion for grok having money and i just appreciate that that focus we will be back on thursday at 11:30am we do have kojo colin from ponder popping by to talk about their new i i was calling it their new thing because they hadn't announced it yet but it's called tomorrow and it is a prediction market with video include like incorporated so you can launch a prediction on something you can say i'm betting no on this or betting yes on this and you can give a little video reason why and it's really fun so i've tried a couple i had my reasoning for why the patriots might win and i i was basing it completely on their music choice coming out still thought they might pull it off because they did do crazy train again and then i also did some predictions around the traders and whether or not i think rob will win i do not but i think he's playing a great game so you can see my takes and i'll be adding more takes because it's fun if you like to do videos and you like to add takes and you have opinions it's kind of a fun little mini app and it's not real money so you get to play around it's not real money
i know i know right now
can't really be real i know and i'm thinking there's you know fun things they can do with that with doing rewards and things like that but not tying it directly to anybody and especially when you're you know i had a good chat with him about that like when you're launching something new and it's still in testing you kinda want it to be safe to fail you don't want people getting mad that they lost money yeah real money so you earn little diamonds so it's fun it's fun go check it out and we'll talk more about it on thursday and you'll get to see the demo of it and all those fun things steve has friends grok has money steve has ravioli i'll have to steve has ravioli will be the shirt i'm gonna make anything else adrienne what did i forget
okay alright oh did you wanna talk about your mini app or not yet
okay alright
i have i have
and i'm really pleased with it but it still needs a lot of work and i'm going on vacation next week so okay after vacation
after vacation okay we'll talk more about it then if you are a wordy kind of person you like books you like words you can tag her and maybe she'll give you
give you
it's yeah
still working on it alright alright everyone this has been a lot of fun thank you for joining us today we will see you on thursday and me and my little stanley are gonna adorable gonna call it a day i gotta i gotta jump into like two other meetings today back to work and we'll see you on thursday and until then everyone thanks for everybody hanging with us in the chat if you are new in the chat or you're coming in from twitter and we don't know your username on farcaster drop it in the chat real quick before you leave and until then everybody bye bye
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