gm farcaster it is woo hoo it is tuesday crazy we're here on a tuesday and you are here with nana shroff and ted for 21 minutes of farcaster news to start your day ted is my special special guest cohost today so excited adrienne's on vacay for the beginning of the part of this week and tomorrow we have erica heavyweight coming in i'm so excited too so having all the fun this week with all the girl power how are you doing today ted
welcome i'm good i can't believe it's april 2nd i'm like what is going on are you freaking out in april you guys
how is it april i know i'm kinda freaky i have a lot
to do before march
i have to
do it i'm like 4th birthday
i have a lot to do before march on i can't even imagine what you've got to do before march on
so wow i feel like a crazy person but that's it
that's it we're it's gonna be amazing it's gonna be amazing so let's dive in we've got lots to talk about this is i wanna start with my background which is from max jackson this was from our amazing drop that we did friday so we haven't had a chance to talk about it yet here for the art we're going to be doing one of these every month it goes out to our subscribers our hyper sub subscribers for wow wow and you're allowed listed if you're on mole so this is why i wanted to start with this if you have if you really want to pick this up and you're not on the allow list you can still actually sign up from the mole subscription and it will go out to you before the end of
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yeah
dan hey by the way 77 k dau dau yesterday this is daily active users higher new record craziness we're back to craziness can you feel it i so
feel it like
i do feel it i always it's a lot
my notifications were i was like how are this what is going on
we're back to the you know that moment after frames and d gen and it was just like all of a sudden you're like oh my god there's so many people here it's that again and i'm like i'm not ready i'm not ready i'm not ready so yeah and i was the pearl game yesterday that was an experience oh really so i actually played into it i was like okay i'm gonna try i'm gonna try my best and the more one so so those who bet on me
thank you
but i was nervous for you i gotta tell you i was nervous but that was interesting very different experience yeah so have you been a subject of a pearl game yet
yes i was one of the first ones and it was like well ted cast more or less than 9 times on a sunday
oh that was an easy more
i know no that was easy loss i don't cast on weekends
oh you don't cast on the weekend oh you're one of those people with boundaries and stuff okay interesting i have a friend like that that i'm always like what do you i'm like what do you have such good boundaries you're so good about like shutting things off and i'm like i'm really not i'm really not terminally online also this from dan this is big news yesterday this was not to be very clear this was not an april fools joke this is for real we're hiring this is from dan we're hiring our 1st full time designer requirements 6 plus years of experience in product design 3 plus years of experience designing consumer products must be physically located in the us or canada no exceptions if you're interested send me a dc with a link to the product that best showcases your work so if you are a designer and interested this would be an amazing opportunity so jump in there jump in those dms really fast
right it would be yes what a great team
to work with
cena first casted something this morning that i thought was so on point and what i was thinking about as well which was it's like a nonfungible role that only exists at a particular company at a particular moment in time where you get to basically influence and shape the design that will define the next era of the internet and the web so i was like wow yes so spot on like you think about yeah i'm just like damn if i was a designer i would be if i
was a designer i'd be all over this right i mean i'm like everyone's like tagging o x designer o x yeah never yet i don't know if he's in the market but what we love i'd love to i can't wait to see what happens and how it shapes our experience so that's gonna be really really interesting so this is this is gonna be more than just the merkel team this is like about all of us like because we're all gonna feel this very very deeply on a daily basis so pretty cool pretty cool and then from varun just a note nft pages and profiles are currently offline we need to rewrite the queries to keep up with the extra load we're seeing this week hope to bring them back by the end of the week so if you're looking for your for your nfts and they're not there it's okay they'll be back i love my little nft pages because i love to go in and see who else is has the same for certain certain nfts like who else holds them and then i'll make sure i'm following them and and all of that so
they don't have that on web right that's only on mobile right
i think it might only be on mobile i think you might be right i can't i don't i don't know i'm not sure but i believe it might just be on mobile
okay it might
be on mobile okay but i love it i love the feature i used to love the nft feed and the trending feed but they took it away because nobody really used it but i did i loved it bring it back
well i think it would be very different today like anyways we could probably email me we could talk about this like firstly i know i'm gonna be just just to keep going
i'm gonna be cutting you off and like running and i'm just kidding but this is why i love listening to many such cases cause you guys just go and you can spend so much more time like deep diving and i think that's needed like we need those deeper dives into some of these things and we're really about like here's your quick hits of what's going on then go then go see you know ted in nonlinear for the deep dives or or kristen in art lou who you just were on earlier
i was watching that a little bit earlier from from my phone so it was like anon but yeah i love their check too
i do too yeah i love and i love seeing that all of you are putting it on chain so like that's making me so happy it's just you know it's my it's my jam and before we go into enjoy let's talk really quick about one more thing really important crypto social media firm merkle gets unicorn valuation and paradigm deal and a couple other notes on this real quick we had a note from jamie that was so good about everything you know the people and talking about all of what happened which was amazing and then i also loved this if you didn't see this merkle manufacturing pitch deck which i thought was hilarious it's not a real
pitch deck movie
it's claire it's like
colin it's so
funny hands down like low pitched people pitch deck
he's so funny he's low key unperated like he's like yeah
so fun and i can't
get it
to come up but it's it's real funny
uh-oh i can't get this frame to come up but go take a look at it because it's it's really funny but i do love you know thank you cameron thank you jamie for making these notes about about this so what do you think about this this is pretty big so it's a billion with a b dollar valuation
so speaking well a this actually came out 5 minutes before johnny and i recorded many such cases on saturday so we were like oh my god and then more counts went down and so like actually many such cases that will probably drop like tomorrow is like the first 20 minutes is us recapping this but my tldr is like a congratulations to the entire team like truly congratulations to the entire team i'm like do you just have infinite runway now because they're so disciplined about what they do so i think it'll be interesting i think i'm really excited about it and i think it was a 100% a leak it was definitely a leak so that is what do you think
i think it's amazing and i'm just excited to see what happens next and back at far con in boston last year in june i well met dan and about 5 minutes in i went so how much runway do you have
because in my mind
as i was there i was thinking i need to build something on this and i don't know what exactly yet but i was like feeling the energy in the room i knew i needed to be deeper in a part of it and but i would like i don't wanna build something if they're gonna be gone in the year and he's like 5 years i'm like okay good alright i'm in
no they have this is like
a 100
years also like let's just let's just remember what interest rate environment we're
in right
now just remember what interest rate we're uber runway yeah
yeah so cool
yeah it's crazy it's really crazy like this has been this is amazing so i'm really excited yeah it's it's really exciting somebody just said in the chat much better to raise when you don't need it yeah for sure lynx very very very true yeah and yeah you are glitching in and out but it's okay we're we're we're keep going i do wanna mention this from pinata it's alright it's almost like you're doing it on purpose like your tiktoks you know what i mean so it's all good
we're just gonna be like no she meant to do that it's like her style it's just her style it's all good dang that was good
that was good okay
yeah it's it's it's just you know it's just what she does you know you just understand this newfangled gen z style it's all good so pinata and they announced this yesterday so this they were announcing it on april 12th they said big day big real announcement but we ship no matter the day and i was thinking pinata's new farcaster auth service this makes it easier for developers to build auth into their apps and we're supporting in 2 flows managed and sponsored go if this is of interest to you as a dev go take a look and dive in there's a lot more detail in that link and this link will be in our show notes and the pinata team was on a retreat last week and i'm like you know most people go on a retreat and just chill apparently they go on a retreat and ship so there you go right that's how they do it that's how they do it and speaking of shipping this is amazing so enjoy so the enjoy tech launched a little while ago and i was like what exactly is going on and then yesterday they they introduced enjoy distribution rewards and this is a way that you can tip on zuora on mints so i am ecstatic like this is really exciting i have over a million to tip
dang look at me getting all those gm farcaster that was like the best thing i could've done
but also because i meant a lot of stuff too like just go look at my wallet i meant other people's things so it was a little bit of yeah everything so you know i'm excited so i get to give this is for me giving it away and i am excited in the in i did a few tipping today so although i am a many touch cases subscriber i also went and minted another episode just so i could tip you i did the same for kristen kristen and artlou's podcast i went through and like 0 pod i went back and re minted everything
hell yeah
i re minted things i already minted because i am gonna support on chain media like nobody's business so if you have something like that if you're doing music if you're doing podcast if you're doing animation if you're doing screenshot essays i consider that me and you're minting it drop it in on the on chain media channel and it will get a little tippy tip if it's good if i like it so there you go exciting so what did you think about this this is super fun
i think it's super fun and i'm excited to see how it works i think i asked a few questions just because i was like wait yeah
this is a little confusing
yeah i was like i remember seeing it a month ago and then what's going on with it and so and then i also of course like i'm like farcaster maxi so i'm like wait why are we not incorporating the farcaster social like why aren't we incorporating that into it because
that was your question okay that your question makes so much more sense to me now because you were asking about source
yeah because i was like oh i'm minting in wordcast i'm commenting on the feed you in theory you could do both of those so it almost feels like they're trying to drive zora as a social network which to me isn't zora's strength so anyways that was just like my initial reaction
but that makes a lot of more sense to me now and what i did comment and i tagged jacob on was i would love to be able to do this within the frame and i bet you
yes exactly
i would bet like all i will bet you all my d gen tip friday that we'll probably see it by friday because he they ship really fast and when he sees something i bet they're already working on that so that he can just
but i don't know
comment in the frame but we'll see we'll see i don't
know they do ship fast but they also have their own priorities so
they do but and i don't know this feels like a jacob kinda thing to do it really does so we'll see we'll see i think he likes to you know they did build in you know you do your followers or people you follow on forecast or do come up as suggested follows on zuora as well so there's some connection but it's not exactly the same this could
be this could be a 15 minute discussion i just
this seriously could be its own podcast like 100% and we really should get
well it's strange to drive people to the zuora web page when in theory if you look at the if you look at what mint and feed did for zuora it just doesn't make sense to me again like why it wasn't yeah it's like okay they're actually just
bringing it to
the table to go too
i think it'll come they also did something really big and i think that was just last week but it feels like a 1000000 years ago where you can now mint in any erc twenties so you can type in the d gen contract or any contract and you can then set it up to be minted with that coin and that was the connection with uniswap that they built in they had that partnership that it was announced like a couple weeks ago so they're doing a lot of different things but one of the you know first things was of course everybody started minting on dgen with dgen so that was really fun so i think they will i think we'll see we'll see that we'll see that soon we'll see more connections soon and in the meantime since i mentioned i mentioned the word it's been a bit of a party like since thursday i was like we're gonna save this to the end or towards the end i do have a couple more things about you but we're gonna we're gonna talk about because this was nuts so we had 2 big things happen at the same time the first was dgen chain l3 is up and running and this happened 5 days ago and it feels like 500 years ago more info coming soon on dgen tips a big thank you to syndicate for making this chain happen also a special shout out to conduit and airstack for their tremendous work behind the scenes for more details check out the syndicate blog and syndicate their announcement was today we're excited to announce the launch of dgen chain an l3 for the dgen community built with arbitron orbit base for settlement and any trust for da the chain's native gas token is dgen it's big making it one of the first community tokens with its own l three it's the only one i and what was amazing to watch was the activity over the weekend was nuts within 24 hours of launching launching dgen chain 2,000,000 plus transactions 1,000,000 plus bridged 24,000 plus active addresses 370,000 blocks 0.1 second average block time 1st vrf on chain dozens of devs deploying contracts and we're just getting started like that was it felt like remember frame friday it was like buzz all over again and this from base dgen is pioneering the future by launching 1 of the first l threes on base l threes are app chains which deliver lightning fast transactions because they settle on l twos like base instead of connecting directly to ethereum a new on chain internet demands new models for scaling and l threes utilize the power of l twos in new ways so there was a whole bunch of other stuff that happened we also had the claim that dropped so if you've been tipping away you received a bunch of d gen the other day or you were being tipped as well and including bounty caster which was pretty cool thank you for all the d gen tips all the tips received so far each month to this account gets sent directly to bounty caster to fund building it so this is what i thought was amazing was seeing people who are funding startups with dgen and we're not alone here i'm i'm right there with you and yeah lead gen go take a look at this the case for why meme coins are useful this is amazing too you do okay okay
but we can talk we can talk about it after you
but i'd love to i'd love to i'm not gonna read the whole thing because it's way too long but go take a look at it i definitely think there is you know yeah there's definitely gonna be different approaches because i think meme coin depending on what they are and what they do and how they're treated there's good there's good and bad 100% and be careful d y o r not every meme coin is made the same okay and i just wanna mention one more thing and then we're gonna circle back to that was this because nftdjen.lol this was crazy how quickly this launched on degenchain you could be launching nfts you could be buying your name dot degen it was kinda crazy and that's on the l three but i'm gonna circle back to this whoops talk to me talk to me ted
i commented
are meme coins useful
i mean like meme meme coins are useful for a lot of things mostly as experimentation and it's like something that will give you signal and i think you'll probably talk about this next time but brian and grace just launched like a really interesting meme coin implementation as well as part of unloney which maybe you guys will
be able
to do here
i totally missed it
yeah i don't people don't learn anything it's just
the morning before before a show i don't have time to catch it yeah you're supposed to do it the day before yeah so we'll talk about it tomorrow
exactly so there's 2 things it's like on this one i'm like okay it's like who are we to tell users what they want and how to spend their time or money and steve jobs had a really good quote on this and he's and dan also has a really good quote on this it's like we're not supposed to tell users what they want or how to spend their time or money but we are supposed to understand what they want and how they want to spend their time or money and there's a difference this is the whole state of verse revealed preference so like that's one thing and then the second thing is like the last paragraph where it's like meme coins are going to help with loneliness was just i i just was like i think that's a little bit of a stretch and i even commented and i was like what happens when a meme coin completely gets nuked and the price tanks i think jesse had a better point of it where he was like meme coins can be explicit about what they are for but on farcaster the the 2 overarching meme coins are t gen and higher which completely break through this idea of like meme coins just being played for entertainment and financial gain so that's just kind of like what i mean it's like i think they keep talking about meme coins as like one category and i can't be anymore and yeah it feels dishonest or like intellectually dishonest or disingenuous to continue like pumping this meme coin narrative when yeah the others are very very unique and so that's that was my issue with that is i was like
i don't know what to do yeah what is this meme coin doing what is the purpose of it is it you know obviously there's still most of them are pump and dumps like most of them you wanna stay a mile away from like yeah and i say this in class to my students all the time of like you know be really careful like there's a lot of lot of crap out there and then every once in a while you get a gem you get you get degen you get higher higher has been crazy over the weekend too that one went nuts so i think there's you know definitely agree there's plus or minus in terms of loneliness i think we can relate that to the internet in general though right you're gonna have folks who they do not make genuine connections online they make genuine connections irl only and so online anything isn't gonna solve their loneliness period
yeah and you
feel great some crazy people like me who i you know don't tell my irl friends but i like you people better
i know i know i'm the same i love no broadcaster friends but at the end of the day i'm like having your identity or your sense of community you can look at this with like vapes and crypto like bored apes and cryptopunks like yeah when the price tanks like where is the community
yeah
let me know
that's you know exact i think that's a that's great point great point like is it are you only do you only like the nft or the community when the price is going higher you know when it's up only or do you like them no matter what and that's a big difference right so for those of us who've been here since there were like 938 of us who are active yeah it's nice that we know the number you know and before especially you like the ones who were 2 miss miss 239 when there was like 2 people like you're talking
about that so cool because like you couldn't tell who liked your cast and then i was
like oh i get like
it was always like dan and varun like i thought oh my god i have all these legs it was just dan and varun for like a year
that's so funny yeah i mean but it's you know for those who were here when there was nothing here like we're we're here for the long run we're here for the up the down because there's something bigger that we that we feel but there are definitely and i felt it over this weekend again there's people who are just coming in for the coin not necessarily for the community however we've seen a lot of people come for the coin and stay for the community like you do make it that transformational
i think it's a good top of funnel i think the difference with i think about this a lot in terms of community and in terms of content is like you can't necessarily like lose money like in web 2 worlds the the actual benefit is that you're not really gonna like lose money you pay for a service and you get the value out of it and then like you're never gonna lose money but in this world you can lose money so anyways just interesting thought performance
yeah i never and i say this to my students too all the time like you never put anything into crypto you're not willing to lose like i assume when i buy an nft when i buy a meme coin when i move some eth around that i'm saying goodbye to that eth and if i don't you know sometimes it works out great and sometimes it doesn't and sometimes i just wanna buy art and i like pretty things and it's you know very yeah so it really just depends yeah alright we are running a little low on time we're a little over but we're gonna keep going because we got a few more things to talk about dracula is another one we've got to talk about this 40,000,000 in volume in a little over 2 weeks and and the creator fund they're creating to me is what is really interesting so thoughts on dracula because i have to ask you because you are the queen of dracula at the moment so whether you like it or not and by the way i think you should leave all your content there i think it's really interesting but also start you know and you're already doing it adding the new stuff and making it you know current
and all that stuff so yeah i think oh alex is so funny because he's like oh my god look at what we're doing and i'm like he's like look at your brand like look at what we've done like blah blah blah and i'm like i think everybody now hates hates my content i was like i don't know if this is net positive for me because like truly now when people see my face they literally just keep trying to scroll to get away from it because they've already seen enough of my content anyways i'm really excited i won't i won't go into that i'm really excited about the creator fund because i do think i
am too
there's like meaningful money that people can be earning here and i'm laughing at the i'm laughing at it's
really hard i have a really hard i have to not look at the chat i look at the chat after most of the time because it's really hard they know how to get me though they know how to get me get my attention they just splash it that's the only stuff i usually say and it's usually do with me
so there's a lot of money like because on tiktok i will say like it's it is hard to make money on tiktok unless you have like pretty much viral videos and so i think this is important to a attract people over also i think it will attract a lot of twitter like crypto content will never perform well on tiktok and if people think it does like they're lying to themselves so i think that this is
so you would know you've you've actually done like actual you know data collection on that so yeah yeah for sure
so i think which i
thought was great i loved that you did a comparison right you didn't you compare the same exact video tiktok twitter dracula so you could see the difference which i think that's amazing
that's a great way to do it thank you and then you know yeah the thing about tiktok is that they reward based on video not based on like who you are as a creator so it'll be interesting to see how this plays out but i do think it's great it's another good example of like giving grants this will obviously encourage new content in the farcaster ecosystem blah blah blah so i i'm i'm super excited about it
i think the social graph that plays in there too i think is really interesting too once that gets a little bit more solidified where i just see i wanna feed that's just people i follow on farfaster like that's what i want like i want that to be my for you feed and then i'll go look at all the other things and see
what's going on will be
yeah that would be better for me like that would that would drive me there more often and i've been creating a little bit but i i my skills this is the first thing we gotta hire is a junior editor to erica's hooking me up to like do my my dracula slash tiktok y type stuff because i don't know how to do it or or yeah anyway i can help
i can help with the tiktok stuff
it might be it might be you it might be you couple one other thing related bracket game also saw insane volume they're also incorporating d gen so this is why this is part of our d gen moment i started to do this and then i just i didn't have time to really dive in are you still doing the pool are you in
yeah but i just like initially bought in as i normally did which is great i'm long purdue purdue i hope wins okay well i'm really excited about bracketing because i am too there's a variety of reasons but i even pulled it up over the weekend because my family and like bunch of friends are all in a what's it called bracket like a fantasy bracket and i pulled it up and my brother who knows like nothing about crypto was like wait this is really cool like wait how does this work and he was like i was trying to describe it to him
he's like this is
awesome so yeah yeah because he he loves this and so i think this is just a much better implementation so
and i love you know tldr i he's been experimenting like they've been experimenting with a bunch of different things along the way and nilly and all this stuff and it's been really interesting to see these similar to this pearl seeing like sort of the pivots and the and the developments and like okay let's go this way and i feel like they hit they hit on it they found the thing which is it's and it's really interesting it's really fun and i will love to see how can we use this for things like hold on club ted poker yeah
i think we could
do a bracket game with club ted poker night
we're gonna do this
all we could do this all this little like all these things together i am super excited okay so i got to play poker in the first one got somebody to lend me their spot essentially who couldn't play and now i'm officially in because i now picked up the club 10 nft and i have to tell you tony hawk is desperate to get in this game he we need to find somebody to sell him a club 10 don't need that
you don't need that
i thought you did he tried to register he couldn't get on oh i'll talk to you
which one
i'll talk to
you later one he can do the late night game you don't need it i've opened i did half enough i said i
have it on video tony i won't get you
yeah he's he should be able to get in
alright cool i'll let him know but this is gonna be a lot of fun i love that you're using d gen i think that's amazing and that tips are loud that's really cool that's very creative that gives a lot more opportunity for people and i just think this is gonna be so much fun i had a blast like it was just fun hang out talk about all the things talk about far con you were way underestimated i underestimated you
everyone underestimated me
underestimated you underestimated and mostly mine was about the odds so if you didn't know before the last game ted put a put a a prop out there about whether or not how she would do and most people voted against her
bet against her literally 90% i was
gonna say wasn't it like 10%
even after even after the game was over and i was like look i won people still kept betting against
i didn't think so i know i know so don't bet against ted she's a player she knows what she's doing i was in there until the end and then i had a bad i didn't have a bad hand i had a great hand i played it i wouldn't play it any different
oh yeah yeah yeah
by the way i loved the thing at the end like i loved that jordan captured it and made it into an nft we have to do that every time i love that i really
like this awesome yeah
yeah it was really good so i'm excited about that and also speaking of a little changes in your life and everyone can go read this fun little screenshot essay here so you've you're no longer at your full time gig similar to where i'll be in about a month so how are things going
i mean
it's like day 2
day 2 it's great i just have like well granted to be candid i
to be candid i've been like firing on all cylinders for far con yeah and then club ted stuff and then also my full time job and then also we had kind of like an examination going on at the same time so yeah i have just and then i had a crazy weekend so i'm still like kind of it's almost let's see like after and i'm free yeah yeah yeah you get it but yeah it feels like that's
my life right now
yes exactly where you're like so i'm just trying to catch up on farcon stuff truly to be honest with you because i'm realizing everyone's like where's this where's that and i'm like
and that's where i wanna end it and that's actually where i wanna end this and make sure that we call out any of the amazing farcon things so you've put this out here and i thought this was really interesting so with how this is from ted about in the farcon channel with how impossible it is to keep up with everything farcon related i actually think a farcon farcon could use a dedicated farcaster native app it will be an mvp and then white labeled for our other conferences summits
interesting demand exists definitely connection iconnections cvent etcetera but the solution becomes 10 x more powerful with the full fc stack so totally agree would love to see this and so if you are interested in building this i guess reach out to you
i already have actually have a i actually have a call to to discuss this so oh exciting a couple people so yeah i guess people hear it and also it's just like a good testament or good signal that webcast is just like so much content nowadays
so much so much going on and that's why we're building gm farcaster network not just us and also for farcon when is the deadline if you are have a lightning talk we talked about this last week if you have a lightning talk that you're interested in submitting for goodbye this friday paragraph it's this friday
okay well just submit it as soon as possible so people can soon
as possible okay soon as possible by friday and make sure you get that done and i'm talking mostly to myself and adrianne at the moment because i don't know if she got hers in i did not get mine in yet and one last thing i'm gonna end with this fun little meme from bold leonidas study headwear layer 1 layer 2 with the base headphones and layer 3 with the d gen hat so i did think that was amusing and with that ted we went way over time
but we did we did much better than last time
we did better than last time we're gonna get we're gonna get there but also we were off we normally do monday wednesday friday and we haven't been back on since last thursday and everything happened so there was a lot
yeah there was so much
there was so much but thank you for co hosting with me you're amazing if you haven't listened to many many such cases go listen like go binge listen and just catch up so you can get caught up i loved your new one the connection making the connection making no connecting the dots
connecting the dots see well actually i have to have to record one of those
oh cool who's next you wanna give us some alpha she no she does not
alright there we go it is a it is a she it is a she it's
a she okay i'm gonna guess either i'm gonna guess linda but i could be wrong
okay i could
be wrong okay
but i
would guess i think linda's number 10 if i remember forecaster id 10 or something like that so that would be my guess but i could be wrong there's a couple others but with that we're gonna end right there thank you all so much have an amazing tuesday and i will be back tomorrow with heavy weight we'll probably do a little bit better because we were at least caught up now right and we'll see it's okay we'll see you all at 8:30 am tomorrow bye bye bye