350 episodes later: GM Farcaster ep350 with @jacek of Degen

The dreamers are ready to wake up. 777 Degens on @base.base.eth. Launching exclusively on @opensea. 24.03.26 - 4:00 PM GMT

While I was in class talking about waiting on the Clarity Act, this happened! Very exciting! https://x.com/secgov/status/2033996940363317379?s=46&t=N80rptBytKhSU-csz4Akrg

Some perspective on yesterday's SEC/CFTC crypto classification release, because I think both the hype and the skepticism are missing pieces. What makes this structurally different from past guidance: The SEC and CFTC issued this jointly. Those two agencies have been fighting over crypto jurisdiction for years. Them aligning on a single document, with the CFTC agreeing to administer the Commodity Exchange Act consistent with these classifications, is new territory. They named assets. Page 14 lists BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, ADA, DOGE and others as explicitly not securities. The SEC has never done that before. That's very hard to walk back and becomes exhibit A in any future defense. It explicitly supersedes the 2019 staff framework that was the basis for most Gensler-era enforcement actions. The old weapon got replaced. It's designated a "major rule" under the Congressional Review Act, giving it more institutional weight than typical guidance. The caveats are real though. This is interpretation, not legislation. It hasn't been court-tested. A future administration could theoretically shift direction, which is why the Clarity Act still matters to harden this into law. But dismissing this as "just guidance" misses that it's the most specific, jointly-issued regulatory position on crypto asset classification that's ever existed in the US. The path is being drawn. It hasn't been paved yet. But the direction matters. https://www.sec.gov/files/rules/interp/2026/33-11412.pdf 🏛️ That said... open to thoughts/feedback! What do you think about it? cc: @nounishprof @adrienne @bradq @diviflyy @garrett @toadyhawk.eth @kylepatrick.eth @bribe

if you are using farcaster on android and are experiencing issues, can you respond to this cast with what the issue is?

"My fruit" We have a soldier stranded on twitter 😭😭😭😭

2 years later and @nounishprof and I are still going 350+ livestreams 1.5k - 2k viewership per episode 1.5k podcast subscribers 1k newsletter subscribers 18k channel followers Never a dull moment around here. There's always something to talk about. 2 years later and the best part about doing @gmfarcaster is still the connection with our live audience. Nothing makes us happier than a lively group chat happening while we livestream. You know who you are. gmfarcaster.com to learn more or mediakit.gmfarcaster.com for partnerships

You guys! https://x.com/trishprattle/status/2034062823006081454

Hexagonal NFT PFPs.

Do we have a betting market on this? What beloved elected feature is returning!!?!?!?!?!?

i'm only gonna say wowow when animated pfps come back

wowow

One of the most loved deleted features is about to come back 🌈

what phase of the market is this https://x.com/ogdfarmer/status/2033934596354805862?s=46

i realize i am in this very cast but i sincerely believe farcaster would be better if people would just use farcaster instead of talking about how or why we should use farcaster. it's not that deep

From one perspective, $QR auctions are only getting bids between $100-200 and the market cap is down to $440k after previously averaging $1,000+ bids some months and touching an ATH mcap of $7.5M From another, it's still getting $100+ bids every day, and most successful crypto projects have crashed 95% at least once.

In a baffling turn of events — our resident candle expert likes the McDonald’s candles 🤷‍♀️

The little neynar studio button that suddenly appeared in the apps section on mobile was too tempting to ignore so I had to try it out. I built this miniapp using prompts alone, on my cell phone. Building still required patience and a little grit, but those are not skills unique to engineers. The UI gave me a little "framesv1" vibe and lacks a little polish but overall I'm actually blown away at how simple it was to build a functioning miniapp. Nicely done @rish @manan 🤯 Check out my app - ELO EVERYONE. Bringing a little pvp energy to Farcaster. Let's see who among us has the best vibes. https://miniapp-generator-fid-5818-260317014927444.neynar.app/

GM word nerds! I automated a weekly recap for the word-a-day game. Follow @word-a-day to see the word of the day, a weekly recap, or open the miniapp to play I also just sent the weekly rewards out given to any player who played at least 5 of 7 days and the top 5 scorers.

Did you know it’s common to bundle 5+ candles together because of the unit economics? I have a build your own bundle on my store too :p They did a good job with this. I want

Added testimonials to the @word-a-day site Thank you @ritanesterova.eth and @jacy for the top tier marketing copy 🔥 If any other regular players want to add a testimonial, dm me or drop it in the replies https://www.word-a-day.com

took a little time this afternoon and updated this dune dashboard for farcaster unique casting fids looks like we're currently around 15k unique casters (including bots) 12k+ for root level casts https://dune.com/sgniwder/farcaster-unique-casting-fids

Context: I spent 1 year as an engineer at Farcaster. Here's what made the engineering culture genuinely special, and different from anywhere I've worked 🧵

1) what you know how ants are one of the strongest animals relative to their body weight? this must be one of the dumbest takes relative to mental capacity ever recorded. brain-stopping. https://x.com/davidsenra/status/2033297822691516853

2026 is the most ambitious year in Degen's story We wrote up where our heads are at, NFT collection in Q1, agentic AI + SocialFi in Q2, and a full pipeline of drops, collabs and brand moves through the year Degen 2.0 starts now 👇 https://x.com/degentokenbase/status/2032471778904203281