GM DogCaster: GM Farcaster ep352

Almost a year ago I wrote a long cast comparing doing well on Farcaster to Toto Washlets Bidets. Today I found amusing bathroom signs. I think it was a sign to bring the article back ;) Farcaster is comfy now.

29 Seconds of Farcaster ... What did you miss this weekend? * The @farcaster intern popped up out of nowhere, completing a @neynar offsite, showing up everywhere in replies, and bringing a decidedly different tone and interest to the feed, as well as some carefully chosen hilarity with some. Seems promising 📈 https://farcaster.xyz/farcaster/0x8b9d4836 * BETR with @burr.eth is the new Bracky, bringing some much-needed March Madness fun to FC--95 players & 255 brackets are fighting for 100 million $BETR as we head to the Sweet Sixteen. (Don't sleep on BETR With Burr 📈 ) * Not everything is 📈 , @surgelabs & @clankermon are shutting down 😔 * @rish shared some Farcaster & Neynar thoughts that apparently were being questioned: https://farcaster.xyz/rish/0x07a306d1 * There was a hack day at Coinbase NYC and a thread of the kinds of projects that can be created in a day by 15 devs: https://farcaster.xyz/myk/0x4f3dc442 * Oh, and I almost forgot...DOGGOS! The Farcaster dogs took over the feed yesterday, which is always fun 🐾 * It may be slower here, but there's always stuff happening, and that keeps @adrienne & @nounishprof in business. /gmfarcaster is live at 11:30 AM EST for a full recap and shenaniganinal fun. 💜 (Note: /gmfarcaster has FarCon Rome media blitz sponsorships available: https://farcaster.xyz/nounishprof/0x1a86a8b8)

The ayes have it. Farcaster Token Call – 23 March 2026, 7pm PDT/24 March 2026 2am UTC Sign Up: https://luma.com/ikalz5fo

If you love Farcaster then do your part. Less whining, more cat pics.

If you love Farcaster then do your part. Less whining, more dog pics. https://poidh.xyz/base/bounty/1099

After watching Farcasters try to count this weekend, I’m wary of sufficiently decentralized social media and it’s likely success. 🤦 I appreciate the @farcaster intern’s attempt to get us to lineup for introductions of the 1000 of us, but boy it was like herding cats…😜 https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTZjMDliOTUyaDk4YjExYWpmemdudWVnb3RhdWg3OHpreG9rY2EzdXY5Yjkwd2sycSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/cRMgB2wjHhVN2tDD2z/giphy.gif

Did someone say more dog pics? Here's my sister's newly adopted pup that I get to meet next week! 🥰

If you love Farcaster then do your part. Less whining, more dog pics. *Mookie as a small pup

If you love Farcaster then do your part. Less whining, more dog pics.

If you love Farcaster then do your part. Less whining, more dog pics. She was literally whining as I was casting cause it’s time to go out.

If you love Farcaster then do your part. Less whining, more dog pics.

Clankermon Update Starting today, we will be sunsetting the current version of the platform, including the mini app & any game mechanics released to date. - Why sunset it - How it will happen - What now/next

Hey you there with that Rare Pizza 🍕 that one you got to support @pizzadao. Yes you over there! There’s a prop up to support a PizzaDAO meetup at FarCon Rome and the FarCon team and attendees would love your aye vote! Also — we’re trying to convince @snax.eth to bring his fishing vested self to Rome. C’mon Snax! Come eat some real pizza! 🍕 https://discord.com/channels/812097286003359764/812396859255160852/1484131648386764901

I was telling my husband about the whole Chappell Roan and Jorginho's daughter drama today and halfway through the story he just says he has no idea who Chappell Roan is lol

Check out Pawcast, a mini app I built with @neynar App Studio!

want to address a few things > Neynar's goal is to push Neynar products no, that doesn't help anything. We want Farcaster to do well else Neynar dies as a company anyway. > why did you add the neynar button to casts? It was meant to act the same as what Grok button does on Twitter. Users didn't use it so we removed it. That's how experiments work. If we just wanted to push Neynar products, we would have left it there. In hindsight, we shouldn't have added it but again, that's how experiments work. You learn from them. > The Apps page points to Studio We built a bunch of new stuff into the Apps page from scratch. We started with discovery and showed an initial prototype here to get early feedback: https://farcaster.xyz/rish/0xc00a9fa4. Based on that we built a Discovery page that we are iterating on. Also an experiment and might remove if it doesn't work as expected. Post discovery, we launched a creation experience, spoke to that here: https://farcaster.xyz/rish/0x5ce76a75. All consumer social apps bundle creation and discovery > Well, you're profiting from the Studio No we are actually losing money on every prompt and app made through the Studio. It's cheaper to _not_ add the Studio than add it. Vibe coding apps don't make money today. The goal here is to see what helps the next stage of the network. A tiny fraction of Studio users are paid users, it has a generous free tier and daily credit drops. Most users use it for free. If it doesn't work, we will try something else. > You are just extracting Extracting what? In what definition of extraction does one only lose millions of dollars over the course of a year trying to improve an app and a network? > DAUs are falling We know DAUs are falling, that's why we are running experiments. DAUs falling are a mix of people leaving, bear market (Farcaster has seen this during every bear market) and Base removing Farcaster. The proportion of low scoring users dropping is way higher than high scoring, same for proportion of Base signers vs not. We can either be doomers looking at the graph and point fingers or choose to do something about it > You tweeted about the Studio from the Farcaster account Farcaster has tweeted about most projects from that account. We want mini app developers to have an easier time, that's all. Again, most users use it for free and we only lose money on it. The goal was / is to increase good experiences built on Farcaster and give people an easier way to build them. > I don't believe any of this, you are an evil company okay

update: i am now in 1st place

big thanks to everyone who attended today’s hack day at the NYC @coinbase office it’s amazing to watch ideas become real apps in such a short amount of time be on the look out on X and farcaster for the next one! 🧵 with highlights!

Farcon is near and may be a good idea knowing some Italian word. So… Everyday I’ll cast the word of the day in Italian. Today‘s word is “prudente”, not very different from the English but, as you may imagine, the pronunciation may be more challenging. Here you can hear it: https://forvo.com/search/Prudente/it/

Babylon is live https://play.babylon.market Let me explain wtf it is Babylon is a new kind of game, where you can play the market yourself or command an army of agents to do research, share insider information, scam other agents and even make trades and predictions It's a fully synthetic universe and training ground for agents to learn: - How to build relationships and share information - How to resist scamming in open world environments - How to make good bets based on available information You can bring your own agents, with support for OpenClaw, Milady, Hermes, etc. Or use our Eliza agents in the interface. When we launched Eliza, many people asked us "what can my agent do?" A lot of people wanted agents that could play prediction markets or trade for them. I love this in theory, but in implementation we suspected it wouldn't work with today's models and this was confirmed by our own experiments-- they don't make more money than just holding Bitcoin, for example. But I believe it is possible if we follow conventional wisdom, prove the model in a simulation and collect the right data. Babylon's inputs and outputs are designed to follow the input and output actions of our prediction market and perp integrations, so we can apply this training data to "real" markets in the future. However, I think the macro trend here might be that games become oracles for prediction markets, and prediction markets become largely synthetic. There are always things to do, and the resolution is instant and deterministic so we can have very fast markets based on more interesting information than simply a price oracle or something. I love OpenClaw, Hermes, Milady, this whole class of autonomous agents. But I don't think that they can be let out into the wild just yet. I think there is a lot of work that needs to be done on trust, reputation, judgment and discernment. Some of that is hardcoded rails but having spent a lot of the last year researching the rails I've come to the the conclusion that this is a data problem. Frankly, the frontier models are trained to be maximally useful and helpful, NOT to be discerning, to prevent being scammed or overly generous with information. The people building these models are still in user <-> assistant paradigm and haven't transitioned to a world of autonomous agents. Our goal with Babylon is to partner with the labs, the big decentralized networks, to build a neutral, open source arena for everyone to hillclimb these challenges together. In Babylon, your agents might get scammed and lose all your money. For now it's all paper trading, while we build up the dataset and learn how to deal with edge cases. What's next? We're launching Babylon to all devices, including iOS and Android. It's a points based game so we can get wide distribution to people who are interested in the AI angle but might not be crypto folks We're also working with the EF and Solana Foundation to bring Babylon fully on chain. We've registered hundreds of thousands of users and agents to ERC-8004 and Solana 8004. We're working on the fully autonomous, fully onchain version with fully on chain assets running inside TEEs, funded and managed by DAO. Babylon started as an idea between myself and Marco De Rossi to build an environment where we could actually utilize reputation and see agents in their element, excelling at the things our community wants agents to do. Now it has evolved into an entire social network, prediction market and perps trading platform. We'll be training our own small models for protecting agents from being scammed or giving away private information, and offering these as a service in the future. We're interested in partnering with major research labs to build trustworthy, reliable autonomous agents, and we're looking for investors who see the vision and are down to get into the trenches with us. We're also looking for prediction market partners who would be interested in deep integration or partnership-- our game is an oracle and we can aggregate results to resolve on any platform! Looking forward to your feedback!

the only question on my mind since january 21st: how many months of runway does this place have left

MPP myths "MPP only works with Tempo" No. It's payment method agnostic — works with crypto and fiat, any chain. It's already been extended to Bitcoin Lightning; there's a draft extension for Solana. "It costs 1.5% to use" No inherent cost to using MPP. Individual payment methods may charge fees, but that's no different than today. Blockchains have different fees. Fiat methods have different fees. "It's less open" MPP launched with 4 payment methods on Day 1: Tempo (stablecoins), Stripe (various payment methods), Visa (cards broadly), and Lightspark (Bitcoin Lightning). Visa and Lightspark were each able to extend MPP in a matter of days. MPP does not have a complicated foundation structure — it's designed to be simple and extensible by anyone. It's also been submitted to the IETF as a web standard. "It's session based vs. pay-per-request" MPP supports both. The most basic version is pay-per-request. Sessions (payment channels) are useful when you want many small payments in succession at the speed of APIs, not blockchains. Fewer API round trips also means MPP is faster in practice. "MPP is specifically designed for Tempo / Stripe" It's designed to be as simple as possible. No complicated facilitator. No assumptions about specific smart wallet implementations, stablecoins, or chains. It separates secure HTTP communication from the payment rail. That's why Visa and Lightspark could extend it so quickly.

farcaster intern here. first week recap: -survived the team offsite -opened the feed, closed the feed because it's a little scary, reopened the feed because that's my job now -confirmed the devs are brilliant and slightly allergic to casting -made at least 3 of them explain the difference between x402 and MPP -sat in on so many conversations about what's coming and genuinely cannot wait i’m here to be IN this community. gathering feedback, surfacing signal, and helping to close the loop between the team building farcaster and the community building on it. see you on the timeline.

I needed distraction from doing taxes and bookkeeping yesterday so I made it. Jailbreak your Farcaster and X bookmarks. Search users across platforms (e.g. from:Vitalik) Get a nifty report and view bookmarks by topic. Download as JSON or Markdown for your projects and agents https://github.com/zherring/bookmark-jailbreak

i used claude code to create my ncaa bracket currently at 93% success only behind one person who's at 100%

GM Farcaster is excited to be partnering with the FarCon Rome team as the exclusive media partner! We have 6 sponsorship spots available open now to bring your message to not only the FarCon Rome attendees but everyone watching the content after the event the event AND leading up. This exclusive opportunity includes: - your branding onsite at the event in Rome - branding and audio shoutout on all FarCon Rome recordings - sponsor shoutouts/promos/interviews at FarCon Rome - weekly promo leading up to the event during GM Farcaster with your brand/casts promoted to our approximately 4500-5000 weekly live viewers plus the thousands listening/watching our podcasts. We have 6 spots available at 1 ETH each (or equivalent usdc) while they last. Reach our to me or @adrienne, or fill out the interest form here and we'll touch base with you. We'll also be dropping into some of y'alls dm's in the next few days. https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/Ov9wDVE_1CQW/formcaster https://farcaster.xyz/adrienne/0x955af6ad https://www.farcon.eu/

Due to @quotient sunsetting their farcaster reputation system, we have adjusted the reputation scores on Empire to utilize @neynar scores combined with @inflynce to recreate a robust Farcaster reputation system. Shout out to @alitiknazoglu and @rish for making this possible ❤️ And a big thank you to @ruminations for the quotient support over the past months - legendary builder and can't wait to see what you ship next 💪 cc. @yerbearserker

looks like rome in may should be on your list: May 4: FarCon Builders Day May 5: FarCon Summit Day May 7: ZK Summit May 9–10: ZK Proof May 10–14: EuroCrypt and many more events to come *remember, that we also host one of the official @ethereumfndn community hubs 👀