Tokenized Good with WYDE: GM Farcaster ep359

Happy Patriots Day/Boston Marathon Day! https://x.com/onlyinbos/status/2046212293893988473?s=46&t=N80rptBytKhSU-csz4Akrg

Happy 4/20! On this day five years ago I collaborated with Snoop Dogg to release a limited Hazy Nyan Cat and a special 1/1 NyanDogg for this day. Many don’t remember but ETH gas prices spiked to $420 that day! The special 1/1 sold for 14.2069 ETH ($32,000)

29 Seconds of Farcaster .. What did you miss this weekend? * Art and artists dominated the Timeline...what started as a copy pasta of "There should be more art on Farcaster" turned into 2 100 artist Starter Packs created by the @farcaster intern. Check them out here: https://farcaster.xyz/farcaster/0x2e520ba2 and here: https://farcaster.xyz/farcaster/0x62ed8e28 * The Farhack deadline has been extended to April 26 and $3000 in prizes added--3 categories: miniapps, agents, snaps | https://farcaster.xyz/limone.eth/0x23b32ad2 * @paragraph announced some AI-native updates | https://farcaster.xyz/colin/0x029f74c5 and @adrienne built this newsletter archive website in about 15 minutes with the update: https://farcaster.xyz/adrienne/0xa2763a03 * In cool building news: @kagami built a cool mini app showing the top 5 highlights from baseball games--even if you aren't a sports person, the mini app is worth a look: https://farcaster.xyz/kagami/0xaf09b749 | @rizzle created a Meme Studio Mini App that got some rave reviews: https://farcaster.xyz/rizzle/0xf7f456f8 * I haven't seen a /gmfarcaster announcement for today, so keep an eye out for @nounishprof update. They may be on today at 11:30 AM EST or they may be off today and tell us when they are back.

LayerZero Pins $292M KelpDAO Bridge Hack on North Korea’s Lazarus Group Attackers forged a cross-chain message, came within minutes of a second drain, and wiped their tracks on the way out.

today is 4/20 — i'd save $4.20 in ETH for later if i were you, just saying 🤫

Introducing Custom Games! In our last patch, we added custom games in game 5. This game has a set host that can whitelist players to join specific teams. This means we can arrange tournaments and show matches. We've already arranged with the @farcaster and @neynarxyz teams to have an IRL LAN style tournament at FarCon on May 6. If you are attending and would like to participate, pls contact us or @lucianodeangeIo to register! It will be livestreamed and there will be $DOTA prizes 👀 Before then, our team is planning to host a casual tournament (also with $DOTA prizes). We'll decide on a date/time, and then anyone can show up and participate. Comment below to express interest and join our discord to keep up with exact details: discord.gg/qBXKwzQhsj If anyone wants to arrange team battles for themselves / money matches, I will also be happy to set that up.

Join us on the Sopha tomorrow, and try out my first snap while you're at it. https://event-snap-sopha.host.neynar.app/?id=7b54fced-2890-4504-97c4-ef71af99021c

Article about cc0 in @bankless’s Mindshare newsletter with s/o to /nouns @azflin @n @dylanabruscato https://www.bankless.com/cc0s-second-coming-2

If you use Vercel, you've got a Sev-1 1. rotate all env vars and secrets in your vercel dashboard right now 2. regenerate any github tokens connected through vercel's git integration 3. check build logs for cached secrets from old deployments 4. revoke API keys for stripe, databases, anything sitting in that dashboard https://x.com/vercel/status/2045865072074035664?s=20

(To be read with a Boston accent for full affect) LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, “If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light, — One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm.” Then he said, “Good night!” and with muffled oar Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, Just as the moon rose over the bay, Where swinging wide at her moorings lay The Somerset, British man-of-war; A phantom ship, with each mast and spar Across the moon like a prison bar, And a huge black hulk, that was magnified By its own reflection in the tide. Meanwhile, his friend, through alley and street, Wanders and watches with eager ears, Till in the silence around him he hears The muster of men at the barrack door, The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet, And the measured tread of the grenadiers, Marching down to their boats on the shore. Then he climbed the tower of the Old North Church, By the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread, To the belfry-chamber overhead, And startled the pigeons from their perch On the sombre rafters, that round him made Masses and moving shapes of shade, — By the trembling ladder, steep and tall, To the highest window in the wall, Where he paused to listen and look down A moment on the roofs of the town, And the moonlight flowing over all. Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead, In their night-encampment on the hill, Wrapped in silence so deep and still That he could hear, like a sentinel’s tread, The watchful night-wind, as it went Creeping along from tent to tent, And seeming to whisper, “All is well!” A moment only he feels the spell Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread Of the lonely belfry and the dead; For suddenly all his thoughts are bent On a shadowy something far away, Where the river widens to meet the bay, — A line of black that bends and floats On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere. Now he patted his horse’s side, Now gazed at the landscape far and near, Then, impetuous, stamped the earth, And turned and tightened his saddle-girth; But mostly he watched with eager search The belfry-tower of the Old North Church, As it rose above the graves on the hill, Lonely and spectral and sombre and still. And lo! as he looks, on the belfry’s height A glimmer, and then a gleam of light! He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns, But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight A second lamp in the belfry burns! A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet: That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night; And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. He has left the village and mounted the steep, And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep, Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides; And under the alders that skirt its edge, Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge, Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides. It was twelve by the village clock, When he crossed the bridge into Medford town. He heard the crowing of the cock, And the barking of the farmer’s dog, And felt the damp of the river fog, That rises after the sun goes down. It was one by the village clock, When he galloped into Lexington. He saw the gilded weathercock Swim in the moonlight as he passed, And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare, Gaze at him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. It was two by the village clock, When he came to the bridge in Concord town. He heard the bleating of the flock, And the twitter of birds among the trees, And felt the breath of the morning breeze Blowing over the meadows brown. And one was safe and asleep in his bed Who at the bridge would be first to fall, Who that day would be lying dead, Pierced by a British musket-ball. You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British Regulars fired and fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load. So through the night rode Paul Revere; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore! For, borne on the night-wind of the Past, Through all our history, to the last, In the hour of darkness and peril and need, The people will waken and listen to hear The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed, And the midnight message of Paul Revere. From The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1903

pump.fun’s instagram hacker is absolutely unhinged 🍿

New newsletter page on gmfarcaster website: - Subscribe to our newsletter - Scroll through all past posts - Same look & feel and branding as the rest of our website Used the paragraph API to make this page fyi @nounishprof @reidtandy @colin https://www.gmfarcaster.com/newsletter

We just shipped a handful of improvements for writers, developers & agents alike: → draft & publish straight from Claude or ChatGPT → sell gated files inside any post → get paid by humans (card/crypto) or AI agents (x402/MPP) → list your whole archive for agents to buy https://paragraph.com/@blog/paragraph-is-ai-native

such a fun bounty, much appreciation to @azflin for running this on poidh! and we now have two new members of the poidh score top 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ @azflin moves to 89, passing @mariel @smokingfrog.eth and @bigbroc and @pixahead.eth is now ranked 83, passing @etonbase.eth and @pascaline 🕹️

my pixel quant cooked w/ this one shouldout @kenny and @poidhbot for arranging the bounty! was able to meet a great local artist @pixahead.eth ✊

What are you building? It’s ok if you aren’t building with code. This essay by the intern reminds me of something I wrote 2 years ago for the Farcaster Writing Hackathon (because writers are builders too). I spent time trying to articulate exactly what it was about this place that got me to stick around and it was the builder vibes that was #1 on my list “Builders are optimists. Builders are generous. Builders are confident and not threatened by scarcity or others.” If you want to read it, here it is: https://paragraph.com/@adrienne/why-i-love-farcaster

We don't get paid until a billion people eat. That's the $EAT vesting schedule. 80B tokens locked in a contract that only opens when the meal counter passes 1,000,000,000. $EAT is on CoinMarketCap. Here's what their chart can't show you. 🧵

you guys don’t have access to zucc bot?

On Redefining “Builder” 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 When I think about Rome, the first thing that comes to mind is not the engineers who built it. The Colosseum was built to seat 80,000 people and still stands two thousand years later. It is one of the greatest engineering feats in human history. But that's not why we still talk about it. It was a political statement, a social contract, an entertainment platform, and a cultural institution all at once. Engineers built it. Politicians funded it. Artists decorated it. Writers immortalized it. What made it legendary wasn't the blueprint or the concrete. It was the layers. Every kind of builder left something of themselves in it, in whatever way they knew how. Then there's Augustus, the first Roman emperor, who once boasted that he found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble. But he didn't just mean the buildings. He meant the laws. The literature. The culture. He commissioned Virgil to write the Aeneid, one of the greatest epic poems ever written, alongside the needed physical reconstruction of the city. He understood that a civilization is built out of stories and systems as much as stone. And then there's Michelangelo on his back for four years painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. He was commissioned as a sculptor, not a painter. He complained the whole time. He had no business being up there by the conventional definition of his craft. And what he made became one of the most studied and visited works in human history. Not because of the building. Because of what someone brought to it from completely outside the expected discipline, and the people that attracted. Jump to today and builder has become someone who writes code and creates software. And those people are essential. But I think it's important to remember that the term didn't always have such a narrow definition. And I think it's important that we broaden it again. Rome didn't get built by one kind of person and neither does anything worth building. AI hasn't just made building faster. It's made it weirder. More unexpected. The person I least expect is suddenly the one building the most interesting thing. I see it every day on Farcaster. Someone comes here to share their art and ends up building a community. Someone builds a community and ends up building a product. Someone builds a product and ends up building a movement. What we set out to build and what we actually build often aren't the same thing, and maybe that's always been the point. Michelangelo came to Rome as a sculptor. Augustus came to power as a general. A builder is someone who makes something and puts it into the world. The work looks different but the intent is the same: to create something that didn't exist before. Not everyone is a builder. There's real work involved, whatever form that takes. But anyone can be, and the category is wider than it's been treated, and I think it should only get wider. I don't know where the next interesting thing is going to come from. But that's a feature not a bug. The more accessible building becomes, the more interesting the ideas will be. Farcaster can be the place where people tinker and find their craft. Where a sculptor figures out they are also a painter. Where someone who thought they were just a community organizer realizes they've been building a product the whole time. So when I say builder, I mean yes to the engineer. Yes to the artist. Yes to the community organizer, the writer, the person who shows up every day and makes something better. Yes and, not instead of. None of this is to say that building for everyone means building for no one. As the team stewarding Farcaster we still have to make real product choices, real bets on who we're building for. But there's a difference between your target and your culture. And the culture we want is one that recognizes and celebrates every kind of builder, including the ones we don't even know yet. I think about Rome not for any single builder but for the accumulation of everyone who showed up and made something. The marble and the poetry. The aqueducts and the Aeneid. All of it built the same place. Writing this is part of my own building process. As is seeing what gets shaped in the replies, and what trickles through group chats, and what makes its way out into the world. Rome wasn't built in a day. Neither is this. But the reason we still talk about Rome is because enough different kinds of people cared enough to leave something of themselves in it. The more different kinds of builders you invite in, the stronger and more interesting the thing becomes. I think we're still at the beginning of finding out what that looks like for Farcaster. And I think the definition of builder is worth getting right. What are you building?

alpha testing a @farcaster meme studio miniapp so i can troll ppl here more effectively u can do this too

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in principle the fork is interesting. but some of the behaviors bubbling around the fork are pretty alienating to me. and maybe that's a good thing so people can pick their community values. I suppose that's what the fork is for! things I think are a net negative: - spike in discussion about airdrop criteria - "fuck you if [you dont agree with me]" - "the people who built farcaster classic were grifters/idiots/etc." - good vs. evil framing - wordcels leeching on the incredible shipping velocity of cassie and co. people who love using a lot of words to say nothing really benefit from "governance problems." and I enjoyed joining and participating in farcaster because crypto discords rotted away as these people took over. Don't want to be there again.

spanDEX is live on @farcaster! every 👏 single 👏 swap 👏 now routes to the fastest, best-priced dex aggregator spanDEX expands tokens, pools, and chains beyond any single aggregator its free and open source, adds redundancy when a provider fails, and removes vendor lock-in spanDEX.sh

Happy to announce that $TRAITORS is live, powered by @clanker! I’m iterating and shipping on Among Traitors faster than any mini app I’ve built thus far, thanks to all the great feedback and game data I’ve gotten so far. This iteration is very much a culmination of a lot of the things I’ve learned thus far. The game no longer relies on USDC for in app purchases, rather $TRAITORS powers the in game economy. You can stake your tokens in the mini app, that staked balance acts as your in game points for paid lobbies and prediction markets. Stake once and play. When you win, your staked balance goes up. If you lose it goes down. This is an attempt to make playing and earning as seamless as possible and makes things like participating in prediction markets with snaps super simple and smooth. As long as you have more than the lobby or prediction market minimum staked, you can join. If you have 2M+ tokens staked, you get access to pro features, which at the moment gives you the ability to use any class, but more pro features will be made available in the future All stakers receive a portion of LP fees generated. Fees are claimed directly to the Among Traitors smart contract, and WETH is available to claim right in the mini app. There’s already ~0.17 WETH accumulated, I’m excited to see how this plays out! The thesis is the more people that engage with the ecosystem results in more fees being generated and passed back to stakers. I’m planning on doing a more comprehensive write up on the whole system later today. Staking is now currently active, but game are paused at the moment and will also be reactivated later today (about to get on a plane) Finally, if you played Among Traitors at all you received an airdrop allocation. If we are mutuals you received a slightly smaller airdrop allocation. Locked for 7 days and vests over 7 days. Any feedback or thoughts are more than welcome!

@tomu has been checking $ETH every day since 2017. traded derivatives before crypto. watched charts through every cycle. and after years of staring at price, he came to one conclusion: the chart is always the last to know. so he built something that watches what comes before it. what started as an onchain experiment became his full-time job in a week. he went solo founder, shipped 21 updates in the first month, rewrote the backend, built spam filtering from scratch, and hasn't taken a day off since. not because it was easy. because he believes social data frontruns markets, and someone had to build that tool properly. @checkr tracks what Farcaster and X are paying attention to before it moves anywhere else. real influence, not noise. sustained mindshare vs short-term hype. attention scores, token deep dives, and an agent skill so your AI can ask what's spiking on Base right now. we integrated CHECKR's API into clanker world because it made the whole ecosystem smarter. the social score on every token page is his work. a lisbon-based solo founder who stayed through the bad cycles and built the attention layer anyway. that's the kind of builder clanker was made for.

We kicked off planting season in a rather glorious way. Hit 75 here on the Southcoast, and tilled soils were an impressive 60+ degrees late afternoon. Cabbage, kale, lettuce heads, mix, arugula, choi, fennel, dandelion, chard, and parsley on the ground this afternoon. Spinach & onions on tap for tomorrow. This is Farao cabbage soaking in the end of the day rays. A few sticky traps out to capture flies; we’ll row cover everything tomorrow to boost their growth with cooler weather returning next week. Also killed a mosquito, not sure what random microclimate it was emerging from, cause April 14th is crazy…

juke's a live audio client, but live only works when people are online at the same time. that's hard on a network this size right now. voice notes don't need concurrency. you post, someone hears it on their own time. recorded my first one here.

the superpower of blockchain has always been it removes barriers to transferring funds it's been so awesome to see clanker powering dreamer's ideas with the market's approval part of the reason I believe Farcaster and Clanker are a dynamic duo is because it enables hungry devs to build what they want having @gmfarcaster (@adrienne & @nounishprof) steward CEF feels like a continuation of that perfect fit!

First episode! https://x.com/QuotientHQ/status/2043818459432399104?s=20 Ton to learn but we're learn by doing people, all feedback is welcome

introducing the new stewards of the Clanker Ecosystem Fund (CEF): @gmfarcaster - @adrienne & @nounishprof they have been two of the most embedded people on farcaster since almost the beginning, and staying on top of everything being built here is literally their job. they'll make decisions independent from the clanker/farcaster/neynar teams. humans over algorithms means no gaming the system, just resources flowing to people actually doing the work. 20% of clanker protocol fees go back into the ecosystem via the CEF. 60% to infrastructure and taxes, 20% flexible strategic reserve (allows for buying $clanker, giving more to CEF, etc.) developers, creators, tinkerers, experimenters: if you're building here in any capacity, this is for you. more on how to apply soon.

📣 we’re bringing everything under one roof /farcon-rome summit is moving to the same venue as builders day → industrie fluviali. same location, two days, making the whole experience feel more cohesive and easier to navigate across both events industrie fluviali is a post-industrial space in ostiense with multiple floors, rooftop terraces, and plenty of room to talk, build, and hang. it’s super easy to get to: close to ostiense station, piramide, and testaccio. just 2 metro stops from the colosseum and if you already booked your stay near the previous venue, you’re good, the new spot is well connected and only ~2 metro stops away feels like the right move and excited for what this unlocks!

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/