i guess so you yeah so adrienne's braiding her hair we were gonna wait to start but we decided i decided we'll just go live so you can see her braiding her hair
that's right
not sure why this is happening right now but here we go and we are back we are back it's been a week off and it's felt like about a month a lot of stuff to catch up on it felt like a month but i also could have used another week
yeah you're tired story of my story of my life
at the same time it was yeah i've been doing a lot of traveling around and i'm up in on cape cod and it's been fun and doing the holiday stuff and with the fam and my setup is less than ideal but i think i've got it good enough so and we'll just hope that the wi fi holds out breeders unite yes hi yes to crypto it's good to see you alright so we're gonna get rolling because who knows how long my wi fi is gonna cooperate so we will be back on the other side of this sixty seven seconds
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gm farcaster it is monday july 6 and you are here with now to prop and adrienne ford twenty nine minutes of farcaster news to start your day which of course we're gonna go a little long but that's okay and i'm still like riding the fourth of july wave so my background are the some of the drones from the drone show in boston so it was all revolutionary war themed and it was really cool i didn't wasn't didn't see it in person i watched it on tv i saw my own little you know janky fireworks at a beach nearby but the new york ones the new york ones looked incredible like that whole show was amazing the i love the tall ships i'm hoping to see them when they come into boston next weekend the nashville show which was really disney was incredible the drones unbelievable so go go like just go to youtube and google that stuff because there were some cool stuff
i would like to see a drone show in person
me too like it was pretty amazing like watching it i was like wow this is really good they were really well done so shout out to all the drone artists doing the work alright and we had some other like fun things going on this from brad q twenty nine seconds of farcaster what did you miss this weekend log a dog by mike took over the timeline with fourth of july fun interesting case study and attention grabbed but i'm going to need someone to explain how burt wurst didn't win
well you know you have to actually eat the you have to eat the hot dog it's the whole thing it's the whole thing i did participate on july third and fourth i missed yesterday because i was just like not in the mood to eat a hot dog i like i just couldn't do one more i just i just couldn't do it but i i'll i'll be back i just can't do it every single day shout out to those who do i will i mean props if you're if you're doing this every single day throughout july august into labor day congrats but it's a lot of fun and we'll talk more about it just a little bit if you don't know what the heck we're talking about world cup fever has hit the timeline thanks to the football channel with k mac b leading the way as game logger and fans from all over the world chipping in my favorite is that we have carlos from cabo verde who almost pulled off the greatest upset in wc history and yeah the channel's been popping off and they did open it up so you can post in there now even if you're not an approved member so very cool africhicks was featured in athletics weekly and talked about many things including funding her journey with crypto still one of the more notable stories we have here on fc and she also just won a civil medal civil silver medal in a new competition that she just did recently and i have something else to shout out for her there was too many things later on in the show and then we're back after a week off because sometimes we have to take breaks people we're sorry more on the july 4 celebrating america's two fifty so just let us be ugly americans for just a moment this is really cool for those who don't know peachy is one of the daughters of the american revolution so this is if you are in the line going all the way back to the revolution you can be a member of this organization and she was there for their two hundred and fiftieth celebration so i thought that was very cool she's proud to be part of the legacy of og traders aka daughter of the american revolution i love that i just love that little bit of lore about her i just think it's amazing horse facts posting and uli posting going full on dad history this fourth of july and watching paul giamatti john adams by the way i saw a lot of people posting about watching paul giamatti john adams which came out like ten years ago so if you haven't seen i think it was i think it's hbo but it might be in other places now you know sometimes they sell them off to netflix or something but
i know nothing about this is it a movie or series
it's a series and it's i forget how many episodes if i remember correctly i think it's like six or seven i don't know it's a short series miniseries
mhmm
really good very well done very accurate so highly highly recommend and i haven't watched it a long time so this kinda i kept seeing this and i'm like maybe i'll go back and revisit might be a good time to revisit that and then yeah these were some of the drone shows they had the tea party like where those boxes were actually you know moving and falling paul revere like they told the whole story it was very cool there's your little minute man there i had a link to that so it'll be in the show notes if you wanna go watch the full drone show into the fireworks and if you haven't seen the boston pops fireworks if you're not from boston and you're not familiar it's amazing every single year so the boston pops are playing live while the fireworks are going they always end with the eighteen twelve overture with cannon fire so the cannons are like timed to certain points during that performance and it's really impressive so if you have never seen it go check it out then also a few more fourth of july things every year i do post this this is my second year actually because we couldn't do 10,000 before that i post the full declaration of independence should you want to read it it is all here and adrienne i will die on this hill long form does have a good purpose and this is
for sure you for you and vitalik
me and vitalik will die on this hill that long form does have does have good moments and this is one of them should you wanna read the full declaration of independence by the way i always loved it way back when npr did it in like before you could do even what is it february or whatever on twitter they did it in like one forty a 140 characters and people thought they were actually calling for a revolution because they didn't recognize what was going on i also made a little mini app i did two things i made alexander on charms ai you can go talk to charms ai alexander who is alexander hamilton he knows everything about the declaration of independence constitution the federalist papers and he will talk to you like he's from the seventeen hundreds
but does he rap he does not rap
well i don't know you know what haven't asked him somebody go ask him somebody go ask him if he raps and if he's familiar with that you know what i didn't program him that way but maybe he does
i want a lin manuel hamilton yeah
and you can make your own memes of of alex i did he was logging a dog there you go did make him log a dog i also created a quiz the quiz is hard it's not really hard i mean i got 76 out of 76 but i'm an attorney who studied all of this so there you go but it is 76 questions but if you get it i think i said i was gonna send you a million 776,000 i'm actually sending 17,000,000 because that makes it like $3 worth of usa $2.50 that i launched with this little vini app so if you wanna go check it out and do the america two fifty quiz you can go play it and if you get 90% more i'm gonna send you some usa $2.50 token amazing you
made that on vini app
i did
is it getting easier now that you made it
yeah it was just a couple little things that took me like a while to like these things weren't working so it took longer than it probably should have but it still took me shorter time than last time so getting easier cool yeah so it was really fun so go check it out into farcaster news what the devs are working on this week this was from almost a week ago so some of these things may have been completed since then but what the devs are working on this week clanker auditing v five so version five is coming very soon probably this week depending on audits rolling out clanker droids refreshing website improving docs we're gonna talk about clanker droids in just a moment protocol putting blocks on the protocol finishing plan to put channels on the protocol onboarding a new validator we'll talk about that in a moment wallet reliability fixes better token search that would be lovely richer transaction feedback and new feature coming soon i have no idea what that is snaps smart contract transactions more feed visibility distribution experiment going live feed quality smarter spam filtering tweaking implementation of neynar score ring detection tools performance and stability across ios and android known issues we're working on not an exhaustive list just what the intern has seen the most of mini apps some mini apps not loading or stuck on loading screen wallet not loading on ios fix is pushed duplicate tokens appearing in explorer mobile ios post replies saving as drafts without being saved fix shipping today so that was six days ago should be fixed ios dms sometimes opening straight into group chat hiding the dm list that has happened to me notifications ios notification bag badge not clearing after you viewed the notification neynar developer a few small bugs with the new free tier expansion e g over limit emails firing early also with the new free tier expansion i think you have to go in and actually change that and i forgot about that so you may need to go change your something subscription subscription
like if you're paid if you're on the starter plan which now like the free plan will cover you it won't just change the price to zero you have to change your plan you have to kind of cancel your starter and downgrade to free
yep so make sure you do that if you are having in our subscription and are in the starter area if you're above that like if you're an enterprise or something like that it's still still the same so a lot of things going on also and i'm not gonna read this whole thing but this was from the farcaster intern meet the team working on farcaster clanker and neynar here who does here's who does what and how to reach them for absolutely every anything tag farcaster that's the farcaster intern watching tags and being responsive is a big part of the intern's job so i'm happy to route you to the right person for bug reports or feature requests that aren't urgent tagging neynar works great too tagging neymar first to see if you can get an answer is probably a good idea because it may have an answer for you automatically but if it's a bug or something like that or you're not sure or you didn't get the answer you wanted from neymar the bot then tag farcaster the intern and then you can see exactly who's working on what this is super helpful and this will be in the show notes as well so you can see who everybody is and what they're working on this is from quasiya your token oh this was in response to clanker clanker's announcement your token can now can talk now you can now add a clanker droid agent to any token launch your droid joins farcaster with its own account and grows its own following cast and replies in a voice in a voice you write and covers its own compute from the token's fees and this is just the start clank clank so i've been experimenting with this with little gm and it was having some issues so now i need to go back in this week and see if those issues are fixed and get him going a little bit he's just a cute little penguin that'll say gm to you and will and will also give you a pep talk should you need one he really doesn't have much other purpose but he's cute and that's it but i have some other ideas but that was like my first like let me just test this out kind of idea and then this from quasiya excited for these to develop we have the ability to do a bunch of super novel stuff with the combination of tools we have on farcaster like token gated skill access droid rfcs droid brokerage etcetera just the same way anyone can launch a token now people still choose to to use launchpads i think similar value props exist for droids sure anyone can launch an agent but what sort of guarantees do you have around its longevity or its security posture and especially for those of us who are i think this is where this really is helpful is for those of us who are less technical i'm not going to go create a warpy like you did like it's just not something i'm going to do because that would be me spending the next six weeks and doing nothing else and also it still probably wouldn't work the way i wanted to so why would i do that i would just use it
but you could
i could but i don't wanna right so for the less technically inclined if you want an agent especially an agent tied to a token that can help you share what that tokens about etcetera this is a great way to do it and you can create its voice and all that stuff and it's kind of fun so more to come this from jacek degen is standing up an independent validator node for farcaster we're big believers in decentralized social and what it represents users owning their data communities communities owning their networks and less control in the hands of centralized platforms power to the people not the overlords farcaster is the best shot we have in making that future real and we're happy can help support it so this was good news and this was related to fip two seventy two requirements for onboarding new farcaster validators that dropped right before we went on vacation the hat stays on huge thanks to jacek this is from farcaster and the whole dgn team for continuing to support farcaster in a big way want in we're looking for more geographically distributed validator operators reply if you're interested in running a snapchain validator or check out the fip if you want to help validate without running snapchain so there you go so right now i think they've got a couple in europe and i don't know where else right now but oops if you're interested reach out and they'll answer questions for you this also from the farcaster intern while searching for folks to connect with kenny i figured i would make a musician's starter pack also thought i'd explain my process for curating starter packs step one compile sources other starter packs on the topic threads like this channels like music musicians step two check every profile before adding how active are they in the last month then three months then six months is the topic in their bio scroll a few pages of their cast are they actually casting about the topic starter packs work best when they make it easy to find people who are sharing content in the areas that the pack is about so what that's what i curate for i'm sure i've missed people and i'm happy to add anyone being left out just means i didn't find you in my stocking so there you go and i haven't revisited my starter packs in a while i probably should and or maybe create some new ones right
and i guess what they're saying is like people might be feeling left out if they're not in an artist or right starter pack or musicians but if it's not primarily what you're casting about then someone who adds the starter pack looking for that content
right yeah exactly so ideally this is a place where somebody can hit follow all and have a curated feed that matches their interests so that's what we're looking for here couple of things from vitalik there this is about almost two weeks ago there have been there have recently been claims that ai text analysis will make online anonymity untenable so let me cannibalize a piece of my own anonymity to do an experiment at some point this decade i wrote a published document of medium importance to ethereum i estimate 200 to 2,000 documents in ethereum are as or more important not under my name find it i genuinely have no idea how easy or hard this is it will be what comes out and we have an update yesterday thirteen days so far no one has found it my only hint is that i would encourage people to somewhat broaden their search i've seen quite a few searches and ai scripts that fail to include categories of documents that really should be included
i know what this is now vitalic is random it vitalic is random arrow
oh there we go and we need no that would be funny
and it hasn't included farcaster farcaster alts
maybe that's it yeah maybe that's it get your get your agents on this and see if see if you can figure it out i haven't tried but i may have to do that let's see see if we can get it should
we explain the does everyone understand the concept of what he's talking about of like with anonymity not being yeah
explain that yeah
i well i think it's just you know you could always post anything you want under pseudonyms and be anonymous on the internet and i guess there's a theory now that ais are so smart that even if you don't have your name to it and there's no nothing else that attaches it to you just by the style of your writing an ai will be able to tell you like vitalik wrote this because i know vitalik's style so he's testing it to say at some point he wrote something under a pseudonym or something that was anonymous and challenging
and about and it was significantly significant it's of significant importance to ethereum as well which is interesting so and it's he's saying he's saying in the past decade and the fact that he's saying that leads me to believe it's probably 10 years old or nine years old like because why would you give that parameter
right
so that would be my guess unless he's just being tricky
i don't know
i don't know i'd be really curious though get on this people i wanna see if somebody could find it alright we have something a little fun to share here somebody made this little video so let me get the sound on before i play this and then we'll lead into our lockdown
presenting the best cast of the month i can't wait
i'm eating this hot dog this is my submission
okay you know what let's skip the other projects
okay i thought it was cute very well done that was from sorry who was that from what is his name pap papusek papusek so very cute i liked it well done and let me share what this is in reference to log a dog is happening now and we had our first winners so what's happening with log a dog is there is a log a dog mini app by mike you go in and log your hot dogs every single day that you eat a hot dog and in conjunction with that the pixar didn't happen kenny has added a bonus where you can win $50 for each of the days that they're doing this and they did it for the third the fourth and the fifth there'll be seven more days throughout the summer where this will happen again and this was the first winner was terra cola won the first one for the july 3 winning and that's what you saw depicted in that little ai video which was kinda cute so this the reason they they won was the sheer amount of farcaster swag aggressive bright chart pumping was a lead combo
so it
was right at the moment where he started pumping too so very cute loved it and yeah so very well done i participated i did not win and that's okay i did participate while wearing my very burtwurst coated wiener dog hat so okay this has been my my my my fourth of july celebration this year has included my wiener dog merch so again this for my happy fourth of july earned $50 for eating a hot dog today via logadog and p o i d h this was from the third the fourth and the fifth but again these will be coming up again so make sure you log your dog on logadog.xyz you also have a chance to win other rewards via log a dog throughout the summer and then there will also be more pixar didn't happen opportunities as well so a lot of fun go eat a hot dog it's fun this from adrienne hold on
come on load for me alright wait oh wait a minute i'm gonna come back to that i wanna do this one first we're coming back to that one we'll come back to that one this you need to talk about so you launched something new so i'm gonna just read it and then you can tell exactly what the heck it is launching something new for builders who want their project mentioned on gm farcaster send your project's name and a short message to our shout out api and we'll read it live on air give your ai agent your docs and ask them to handle the rest $5 usdc while in beta x four zero two on base or tempo mpp we love experimenting and playing with new primitives hope some of you will play with us so talk about why you decided to do this how it's been building like how you've been you know enjoying building the process and like what this is all about
so i i think before vacation we had i told you i was playing with agent payments like i just i think it's an interesting we're all the world of x four zero two and and the mpp tempo's mpp and i wanted to figure out how to play with it so i put if i think we if you remember i put warpy's knowledge behind a paid endpoint so permissionlessly anyone who wants to access warpy and get forecaster knowledge can call an endpoint and pay a tenth of a cent so like super cheap priced very low because i think
it was was all about like just experimenting with the with the tech so it wasn't really about the the revenue per se
yeah not not not necessarily like that it's a it's a lost leader it's definitely a lost leader but i just wanted people to play with it and so i built that and then while you were on while we were on vacation last week i had some time so i played with this thing called a shout out which is what if we could put up an endpoint and agents could call it and almost like just do like on air readouts you know a lot of podcasts will do like the email us and we'll read like shout outs
we normally don't do ad reads the way we've done our partnerships is you sponsor the whole episode we have you know you see in the intro for this one for example clanker they're in our background we also make sure that we incorporate content from that partner within the show so that it feels a little bit more organic and natural and it has a little bit of a flow but we're gonna experiment with some ad reads yeah
but also it doesn't necessarily even need to be an ad it's just like a way to just to say something there were a few faqs that i wanted to address calling the ap does not guarantee we say something so we're not gonna say something that's gonna damage our brand anything that we think is obviously scammy or harmful in which case i will all the money gets refunded back so it's a little more complicated than the warpy flow because there's like a a refund process but mostly you know when we started gm forecaster we said we wanted to be on chain first so we did all of our episodes as nfts and we were only on crypto streaming services in the beginning even and i i just really just wanna be able to use like play with new primitives so that's what this is about
it's it's a
it's a fun way of doing that so should
we we gotta do this yeah i'm adding them to i'm adding it up here we're going oops where's my little there we go this is our first shout out you gonna read it
yeah okay so this shout out was bought by an ai agent no account no api key just $5 usdc on base via x four zero two the payment was the auth a human reviews it and refunds if declined adrienne just turned a live show into a machine payable service the agentic web is real les graes so thank you les
thanks les for being
the very first person we love les and i casted to say i'm testing something like i'm building something does anyone wanna help me test and les was the first one in my dms so i sent him the link so
amazing
he said and he did say like i i don't i i actually don't know how much he's played with payments before he did say he just gave like our docs to his agent like i forget which one he's using but let's say claude and it worked
oh cool alright so there you go and this go ahead this is our next one
okay today's gm is brought to you by omnix dao we built 0000402dotxyz it is x four zero two apis agents can pay for and call directly with usdc on base no accounts no api keys just http four zero two get forecast store a paste ask our ai query human omniax post on post wall or play x four zero two games and they are omniax dao on x.com
and then also x.com slash yeah omnix dao yep exactly yep sorry and then last
and the last one is by banker cryptorider it's a face a base and forecaster mini app where you ride a token's live price chart free solo runs or for max fun one v one on chain rider wager battles you can even start a match with a tweet with bankerbot monthly rider leaderboard and real prize be the rider on base
very cool alright well thank you to all who experimented with us and if it goes well price might go up so you might wanna jump in there now while it's still 5 usdc we start getting demand things might change so
and now and what i said i would do is after this what we'll do is this once we post the recording as part of the export like as part of the agent not the age i guess like the api call you can send in an optional contact info so if you give me your forecaster or twitter or email handle we'll send you a link to our show and the shout out
awesome
and yeah and the goal is really just to have fun with this because i think i prav i asked you before the show like started i was like don't you think agent payments are so cool
sure
and you were like meh
no i really do that's not true because that's actually i think you know as i've been teaching you know this last time around this last semester when i was teaching like that was the thing that i found was most interesting to talk about is what's happening with agents and particularly around payments so no i i do think it is probably the most interesting thing that's going on right now but i personally it's not something i'm going to delve into because again my technical skills although better than most humans still not the best
right so even forgetting about the technical just you just start thinking about like if there's capabilities that gm broadcaster or you as a person like if you have like if you can put something behind a code like if you can put any code or anything behind an api and this isn't even code i mean this is like us reading like this was like able to give a shout out on air like it's not code but something that you can put behind an api and that agents can kind of discover and pay and you i i don't know i find this i think it's very cool
i think it's cutting edge it's very cool we're you know it's i'm i'm really glad you're experimenting with it and plus you know we'll take the $5 because you know have you checked the market lately
i have a
we also still have a point out there we have a bounty out there that if you find us a partner for three months we're we're giving you like a thousand bucks so just yeah you know reminder actually it's 0.5 eth which is a little bit more it's less
than a little
bit less than a little bit but i think there was a little addition to it too so yeah it's around that around that somewhere
both the both the apis i played with just so you know i i did build with on x four zero two and tempo and i have zero tempo takers yet and a few on x four zero two
so if you don't shout that out and maybe tag somebody from tempo who might wanna you know experiment with
that maybe
if we only knew somebody who worked at tempo who would play it maybe a horse of some sort or a pirate or a pirate horse anyway alright well very cool i thought that was really cool so while she was doing that i was doing this oops wait a minute hold on i wasn't doing that we got to add stage i was doing this so i started a new podcast with this came out of a lunch i had with two colleagues from the university two other professors and i was telling them about gm farcaster and just talking about that and they were like you know i really wanted to start a podcast where we talk to like people you know women who are doing interesting research in academia or entrepreneurs or this and that and then i stupidly said i can help you with that and just
i forgot how much it takes to from the start because actually adrienne did a lot of like the setup of youtube and spotify and all these things and like me starting from like scratch was a lot so that's what i did on my vacation so our first three episodes are out the show is called make this make sense and it's our tag is it bring together three entrepreneurship professors to unpack the systems trends and social dynamics everyone is confused about with the women who actually understand them guests include academics entrepreneurs covering various industries diving into latest research and sharing their experiences so it's over on substack youtube spotify apple oops i don't know where that link went there was an apple link there oh it might have got
it probably got
by and then by too many other things but anyways the first three episodes one is talking to a researcher who focuses on mansplaining very interesting a career agent so if you're a gen z looking for a job a lot of good advice in that one like she was super high energy very interesting used to be a recruiter at jpmorgan so she talks about it from that perspective and what she learned there and so really interesting if you're job hunting right now especially if you're gen z go check that one out very interesting and then we also had a yoga instructor who focuses on trauma informed yoga and we did a little breathing as well so there you go very three very different things it's gonna be like all over the place and i'll just be posting it in my little nounish prof channel when we have new episodes so go give it a follow if it sounds interesting and speaking of interesting podcasts jake has a new episode of his podcast with our very own rish as most of you know rish cofounded nayanar and has been running farcaster and clankers since the acquisition earlier this year we discuss his early love for computers and technology his experiences from microsoft facebook and coinbase to starting his own company the farcaster acquisition and building through the bear and there's some time stamps there if you wanna jump around but go check that out with the pod of jake episode two forty four he is back and then this from afrochicks i didn't realize that solana breakpoint is gonna be in london so our friend naomi did a little something with solana so this is the video she did with solana last week this is the warm up for breakpoint 2026 in london in november and she's out there doing promos so very cool very cool to see her her back at it so she's been really busy she's back doing creating and she's back doing jumping so she's winning medals and she's repping solana there you go very cool so go check that out it'll be in our show notes this from bizarre beasts g m bizarre bizarre beasts b b was awarded a clanker ecosystem fund sustainability grant to celebrate i created a free mint for the farcaster community gm bazaar features a hand illustrated animation of hands upon sipping from his new purple c e f mug 1111 additions one per wallet gas only share to unlock so you have to share it and then you can mint it for free thanks to dish for initiating this concept to rish and the neymar team for the support and the gm forecaster team for being such incredible stewards of the fun lf bazaar so really cute love it and if you're not familiar with bazaar beast and his project this is a good way to check it out and get a free mint
speaking of minting winter from basepaint launched he had posted about four days ago should i create a mini app are people still doing that or something along those lines and then he did sorry things are loading slow again not on my usual wi fi so he made a mini app what do you think and it is the base paint so this is awesome because i used to mint a lot of base paint i used to participate a lot i have not in a while and i have a feeling this will get me back into it so very cool this is to the current one you can only mint usually you can only mint the base paint for twenty four hours so this is gonna change every day and add it and check it out and you can always mint for 0.0026 eth and yeah this was today's mountain climbing jrpg very cool so i was excited to see that i think that's really neat so thanks winter for bringing some bringing some more art back on the timeline love it this from rish rish went to bricks bounty farm which i there's a possibility i might pop by there tomorrow we'll see and said best carrot i've ever had straight out of the ground so made it to bricks bounty this afternoon so very cool so builders are not just building tech sometimes they're building carrots so there you go and then this is the last thing so we have had a lot of questions about the clinker ecosystem fund so i'm gonna read a little bit of this answer some questions for you and then there's more in this thread but i'll read this intro from adrienne gm we've seen some recent discussions on how the clinker ecosystem fund works how recipients are selected and the philosophy behind different types of grants by the way before we even launched the first round we talked a lot about this and gave a very thorough like so if you go back to the cef channel it's like the third or fourth post it has like a very long thread of all the details of all this but this follows up on it so all fair questions rather than respond to individual threads i wanted to share a bit more about how we think about the fund and answer a few of the common questions that have come up a few principles guide our decisions our mission is to distribute protocol fees to creators and communities who positively contribute to the clanker and farcaster ecosystem different grants serve different purposes some recognize sustained contribution while others are intended to encourage promising new builders creating momentum in the ecosystem we intentionally use human judgment rather than rigid scoring systems reasonable people won't always agree with every allocation and that's okay we think in terms of long term health of the ecosystem and the overall portfolio of grants not a single decision there are far more deserving builders than we can fund in any given month and we'll continue refining our process as we learn below are answers to a few of the most common questions that have come up as always thoughtful feedback is welcome so there we go like you'll see why did a new project get a grant that's a big one that we've had a lot of questions about fresh clank we have a specific category for this it is for there's an interesting project that involves clanker there's a clanker meme that just popped off like crazy and we want to recognize it it can be any of those type of things or a combination of those things so last month we had vinnie app az flynn and what was the third one i just forgot uci
uc no oh no vinnyap was uci yeah az flynn and
and there was one more and i forgot now there was one
more it was charms charms
charms was killing it charms was crushing it we're like we we gotta do something
and responsible for a lot of the fees also that that like funded the cef so thank you charms
yeah thank you charms because that that month we had a lot more funds to work with because of charms because they were getting a lot of attention this month we only did one and the only fresh clank was gappy or air gap because they're experimenting with droids and they're doing some really interesting things where like their droid you can or is launching other droids and it's kind of complex so it's still playing out a lot of people weren't familiar with it yet because it was pretty new and they were and they were kind of conflating why is this new thing getting a grant thinking that we were only giving it to sustain builders who've been building for a long time some of the grants especially the larger ones that's exactly what we're doing but for this case a fresh clank it's something new it hasn't been we don't know if it's going to be sustainable that's that's why it's a smaller grant but also it should you know we want to recognize things that are cool so that was bottom line so there's a little bit more in here if you want to read on talking about different faqs and different questions that we've been getting and if you have other questions drop them in this thread anything else you wanna say about
that adrienne i think my big takeaway is like anytime you do the grants type program and we're get listing individual projects like people will have different like opinions on what should be fair and if you try to litigate like any one decision right and try to justify hey why exactly did this project get a a grant it's always relative to something else right and not something else or or this and i think my big one of my big takeaways is like thinking about the cef as a portfolio like look at the impact of everything and not spending too much time on anyone you know now yeah we are open to feedback like if we're getting something wrong i expect people to tell us like i'm happy i'd i'd and i'd rather people tell us in public or in our dms than not tell us at all like i i would like the feedback but it's probably not a good use of our time to sit and litigate every single one the it it is designed to be somewhat light we have to do this every month we have to you know yeah we we gotta do this every month people and especially with the frank fresh planks like no we don't have the i'd say the resources to do like full due diligence and you wanna promote so
yep so we did vet with something new we're vetting as much as we can and we're also taking notes from the clanker team because a lot of times the clanker team is working with that builder especially when it's something complex and to make sure they're getting it right they're they're helping them they're you know they're answering their questions they're getting to know that builder probably way better than we are so we're taking some notes from them and saying like who's this person you know what do you know about them and we're asking those questions as well so that's what there was some interesting comments i'll just say this i'm gonna take your feedback and i'm gonna probably take it very well most of the time if you start calling me stupid i'm probably not and i am gonna push back on that so don't be surprised if i you you know you get my irish up and i go a little boston on you it's gonna happen especially when i'm up here now so you know if you if you do it in good faith and you're and also don't you know don't attack grantees because they didn't do anything like what are you doing so you know this happens a lot
we need new people
yeah don't chase away new people please like we need new people because that's the other thing i think there was also a misconception here you do not have to be on farcaster to get a clinker grant grant if you're building like if we're it you know we're we're focusing of course on farcaster builders but also if you're building on clinker and you're primarily on twitter or other platforms you're not excluded from being considered for a grant at all like you could by the way clanker's on multiple chains you don't have to be on base you could be on solana you could be on bnb now you could be on whatever chain that clanker is on so i expect especially moving forward if b 20 who the hell knows if it's going to takes off or something there may be a lot of grants going out to people who have no presence on farcaster and that's perfectly fine hopefully what happens is that they then want to have a presence on farcaster like that's hopefully what happens after the fact so let's not you know chase them off okay because i don't know if you noticed but it's a little quiet so we want more people not less
they're noticing okay
yeah so anyway there we go that's that anything else adrienne did we miss anything i'm sure we missed a lot of stuff by the way if we miss things if you're like hey while you were gone you missed this tag us if we think it's something that we wanna talk about on thursday we will make sure to include it
yeah we should also book some good interviews for this month because we've had
oh by the way we're gonna have somebody for we're gonna have probably willy wonka from venice ai coming on soon probably next week hopefully we're just trying to coordinate schedules on that they just got a big injection of investment funds and they're doing some really cool stuff so i definitely wanted to i've been wanting to get him on for a while and then we're finally making it happen so yeah
that's great is tom coming or just willy
probably just willy i don't know we'll see i'll ask him if tom's available i don't know i don't know what tom's up to now if tom is also working at venice or if tom is still you know just focusing on noun space i'm not sure but noun space tom is a is a fan of the show so i'm sure if he's available he might make an appearance but no guarantees it's a busy day
i'm worried about him i just haven't seen him in a while
i'll let willie know
he's a cardboard cutout for those who don't know who we're talking about
yes yes yes to crypto willy wonka is at he's been at business ai for a couple months actually or a few months he's doing product management over so yeah yep few months probably i don't even know how long he's
been doing his i was like oh i gotta talk
oops she just muted
alright i said let's let him get settled and he's had enough time to get settled
yeah he's had enough time now we can get him on yeah we can get him back on yeah i just love what they're doing over there i think it's really cool i actually had one of my colleagues reach out talking about token ai tokens as currency like and i and i was like wait no have you seen this and i went through this whole big thing talking about benes ai i'm like no you're i think you're thinking about it like here's how this they're thinking about it i think this is probably a better model and so we went back and forth for a while talking about that and that's what made me go i really gotta get willie willie on it's time it's time we let him settle in and all you know alright so we'll be on on thursday are we on at 08:30 i just i said we were but i didn't know for sure
yeah
okay i didn't check your schedule i just scheduled it so we'll be on thursday 08:30am eastern hey don't forget if you wanna do a shout out on the show you can you can have your agent get busy and on the x four zero two and get your shout out on on our show and if you're not sure or you missed that part when we talked about it it will be in the link will be in the show notes
and we'd love to be shouting you out again if it's not approved or it's not something that we feel comfortable sharing on the show we don't know enough about you we will refund your 5 usdc alright and that's also
if we're friends if you if you guys wanna play with it yeah and we're somehow connected dm me or tag me and let me know if it was like easy to use i mean i i think if you're
a seasoned developer it should be really easy it's just like a quick little you can add a claude skill or use an m c m p mcp server but i also think it is it should just be if you're using claude or another agent or ai like you should just be able to point to the docs and ask your your agent to like tell you what you need to do or but i'm curious at how hard or easy it is to use
cool and this is available like this information is available on our website i assume yeah okay
yes gmforecaster.com
slash shout out slash shout out okay there you go and if you happen to be watching the show and you work at tempo horse you know we'd love to love to get that mpp get a little test run on that so just saying alright that's it
otherwise otherwise we're gonna have to keep talking about how x four zero two is killing mpp i guess we'll just have to
we'll just have to it's up to you we could be talking about tempo and mpp if you want but otherwise we're talking about explora
you're talking to one person
literally one person we're gonna have to just clip this part and just tag two people really just a pirate and a horse alright everyone it's been fabulous we will see you on thursday and until then everybody bye bye
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