GM Farcaster ep44, Jan 8, 2024

hey rest of Farcaster - $DEGEN is now live on Zerion, if you want to get in on the fun - https://app.zerion.io/tokens/DEGEN-d590ac9c-6971-42db-b900-0bd057033ae0 (This will be my only main Farcaster channel $DEGEN launchpost, I trust many of you might be feeling some fatigue… but, I figured I’d share anyway!)

$DEGEN token claims are officially live on Degen.tips! After connecting your wallet, you should see a claim button where the countdown timer to launch once was. Thanks to everyone who has made this possible; we've received a huge amount of community support, and we really appreciate all you degens! 🎉🚀

Today is the last day to submit your memes to the first ever $FARTS round. 500K $FARTS are up for grabs for the best memeing. Submissions close @ 2PM EST today: https://prop.house/0x7a5a9ddbbb10726daf19aedf8d8c402e44dc5215

🎉 Litecast v0.0.11 has been approved by TestFlight! The walkthrough video below outlines how the app works & where it's headed Join the LiteCast TG channel to access the TestFlight, link in the next cast 🫡 https://www.loom.com/share/b20ba5e581e0408393d0bb7478a6e960?sid=fa82985f-47dc-4c7f-9338-4dc76b04008a

In a few days, it will be 2 months since I joined farcaster. 1st month: 0 → 400 2nd month: 400 → 800 That's the most I've ever had. I still have a few days to reach 1k subscribers. But none of this matters, as this is pure joy and fun to be here. Happy new year. Onwards and upwards. i love you all.

Today was a record day for # of casts.

it’s interesting that @dwr.eth does not think farcaster has pmf

New on Warpcast: better cast embeds in casts We've upgraded out cast embeds to include images and the ability to hover over a quoted user's pfp for more profile information.

2024 request for startups from the variant team Micropayments Stablecoin infra Consumer-focused trading New namespaces UNI V4 hook-enabled markets P markets / social betting +a bunch more: https://variant.fund/articles/crypto-requests-for-startups-2024/ @gham1lt0n @alanadlevin @derekmw23 @masonnystrom @jhackworth

With the one caveat is be ready for me to push you on why you chose to do something. World-class UI/UX is minimally about pixels, and much more about how it works and what the trade-offs are. Brilliantly "designed" interfaces that don't get people to use them...

New on Warpcast web: profile hover cards are back! Hover over a user's pfp to see a bit more about them.

Easy heuristic for quality of a decentralized social network: 1. go the feed of the founder 2. do they post more on their decentralized social network than Twitter? 3. do they get higher quality engagement on average, i.e. non spammy replies?

2022 meta: farcaster is too intellectual 2023 meta: farcaster is too degen

2023 meta: "no one uses Farcaster" 2024 meta: "too many ETH people are using Farcaster"

this is audacious to say after just 2 months of work, but i'm building supercast to last forever will be fun

what's been (or continues to be) Dan/Varun's biggest mistake with Farcaster or Warpcast?

a founder’s internal dialogue

PSA Farcaster logo and purple are CC0 and belong to the protocol. Use and remix as you see fit. https://www.figma.com/file/xUAcFiHUOUwTZ5pENzt3Bx/Public-logo?node-id=0%3A1&t=0qygVEfZO2jtNxQm-1 https://i.imgur.com/46gdPbY.png