I was telling my husband about the whole Chappell Roan and Jorginho's daughter drama today and halfway through the story he just says he has no idea who Chappell Roan is lol
Linda Xie
@lindaDeveloper ecosystem @farcaster, co-founder @bountycaster. Previously: co-founder of Scalar Capital, product at Coinbase, co-producer @ethereumfilm
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After approval then months of delays, Amazon Prime informed us that @ethereumfilm couldn't be streamed due to their policy of NO "additional crypto-related content" which is extremely frustrating Good news is the documentary is streaming for free now on YouTube Movies and Tubi! https://x.com/EthereumFilm/status/2015930673065033761?s=20
I'm really grateful to have had the opportunity to work with @dwr @v and the entire team on Farcaster. They have been extraordinary teammates to build with and learn from. It's no small feat they spent 5 years building decentralized social, not the easiest path in crypto, and I'm proud to have spent my time supporting them on it I care deeply about the mission of decentralized social and I strongly believe Farcaster is in the best possible hands with @rish @manan and the Neynar team going forward. I'm particularly excited about their builder focused ecosystem, after all @pirosb3 and I built Bountycaster before joining the Farcaster team and Neynar was nothing but exceptional partners to work with Thank you to all of the builders and community members who have made Farcaster such a special place. I've always been in awe of the concentration of talent and genuinely kind people. I'll be doing my own separate thing next but I'll remain a Farcaster community member. I'm truly optimistic about Neynar bringing Farcaster into the next phase
Clanker LP management 101 livestream with @dish @m00npapi.eth. We covered topics: - LP fundamentals, strategies & tradeoffs - common LP mistakes - starting market cap - sniper tax mechanics - Clanker LP position simulator - walkthrough of adding & removing liquidity https://x.com/ljxie/status/2000997037802971363?s=20
Some of the ways we're supporting builders in the Clanker ecosystem - Clanker Spotlights highlighting projects - weekly Clanker roundups sharing builder updates - regular livestreams on X with builders for product demos - calls to answer questions and give feedback - group chat with our team to support and help boost
Going to experiment with a weekly Clanker roundup posted on the @farcaster account every Fri that highlights recent updates from Clanker ecosystem builders First one is tomorrow trying out with an initial group. Will keep iterating, add more projects, and might rotate teams if ends up being too many
there's a slight lag with spotlight getting set up and people getting notified there's a new spotlight, was about $30k volume in ~30 min. wholesome that these trading fees go towards purchasing holiday gifts for the community too
I'm going to spend less time scrolling the feed for awhile just for my own sanity. I try to keep on top of things in feed for my work but the amount of constant negativity hasn't been healthy for me and been very distracting. If you need me, please DC or tag me. If you're an asshole to me, I'm not obligated to respond
I'm hoping this context helps make it clearer that @zinger's role is trader outreach and growth (not shilling tokens) because that's the *same* role I was temporarily rotated on. Even though I love to pitch in wherever I can, I communicated to Dan and Varun early on that this is an important role given Farcaster's direction and someone else who is actually a trader will be needed to fit the role long term as I'm just not a trader Zinger communicated this following part already publicly so I feel fine sharing it, he was on a work trial to see the fit for the trader outreach role. He clearly crushed it so he joined the team full-time and then announced publicly right after. I totally understand how people had the perception and wanted communication around it but I hope you can have some understanding that it's a weird position to announce you work at a company to all its users when you're in an interview process/work trial and the outcome of it isn't clear yet (I actually had a similar situation when I was doing a work trial at Merkle and had to reach out to users but was uncomfortable saying I was on a work trial since I didn't know the outcome and didn't want to reveal I/Daniel was considering getting acquhired while running Bountycaster) Now that Zinger is in this role, I've been able to move back to supporting the builder side where I have actual expertise on. So I'm incredibly grateful that Zinger is in the trader outreach role full time and is doing a FAR better job in it than I could possibly do. If he's posting about tokens in the feed, it's his passion and hobby not his role, in the same way I post a lot about my experiences and learnings from building in crypto
Fun little Farcaster feature is new accounts get a Warplet pfp by default if they don't set their own
The Farcaster booth at Devconnect was a success, huge thanks to everyone who staffed it to help onboard newcomers and answer questions! It was also a popular meeting spot for Farcaster community members which was lovely to see people get to hang out in person โค๏ธ
Had a @geoffgolberg and social forensics display in my Devconnect talk :) was a great way to visually show the social graph that is being accessed by clients!
Look @dwr I used your image in my presentation where the ugly Warplet creature is holding an ATH sign
Anyone attending /devconnect available Tue 9am-1pm to volunteer at the Farcaster booth to help onboard new users and answer questions? We have all other Devconnect shifts covered Mon-Sat thanks to our amazing volunteers @sahil @ahn.eth @cryptowenmoon.eth @anatcrypto.eth @hellno.eth @garrett @adrienne @tomu!! ๐
Clanker 101 livestream with @dish. We covered topics: - what is clanker - how to launch a token - what are the fees - token management + adding liquidity - deployment configurations (static vs dynamic fee, reward recipients, creator vault, dev buy, airdrops) - best practices and more!
My biggest issue with @dwr is that he keeps trying to push his creations of Warplet as our mascot (left) and "his cousin" Moly (right) ๐ฅฒ
Shoutout to @w for the great customer support. We use /splits on the Merkle team. When I made a one off request but it wasn't possible, he hopped on a quick call with me to explain why. Obv doesn't scale long run but at this stage shows how much he cares! Also @jonathan has been so on top of responding to issues
For those checking Farcaster network Dune dashboards, please note those metrics don't include non-protocol actions taken on each individual client e.g. using wallet in Farcaster app (which is our team's big push recently)
Did an interview with Blockworks about Farcaster and the wallet! https://x.com/blockworks_/status/1978871038294241609?s=46
Attending a live crypto perps trading competition in NY. It's being streamed like esports! Was funny the announcer yelled "everyone make sure you're on ETH mainnet" ๐ Favorite team I'm rooting for is @garrett @zackb
Any boost on Twitter/X or leads would be helpful! https://x.com/ljxie/status/1975638875155628123
Onboarding / re-onboarding a bunch of influential accounts from crypto twitter/x that I want to see on here. Would really appreciate a warm welcome to them as you see it! ๐
Please give a warm welcome to the legendary cypherpunk and Zcash founder @zooko2!! Asked if he'd check out Farcaster ๐
Welcome back @neerajka to Farcaster! Great person to follow for regulatory updates in the crypto space with the work they're doing with Coin Center!
would love a boost on this! very excited to do a livestream showcasing farcaster mini apps with @chaskin.eth @ethereumfndn next week https://x.com/ethereumfndn/status/1971258398998954056
If you're actively involved in Telegram groups for crypto trading, would love to hear what features you like most about Telegram for this and what annoys you. Feel free to DM me if easier!
Very excited about this update! Now vibe coders on platforms that use this new Farcaster sdk action can own the mini apps they create ๐ฅ
Check out this video I just published on @pinetree: Awesome chat with @shawmakesmagic about Farcaster and @elizaos
Hell yeah, Farcaster featured on the Ethereum Twitter account with 3.9m followers ๐ฅ https://x.com/ethereum/status/1961107707626492250?s=46
Check out this video I just published on @pinetree I asked on Twitter/X if anyone who is negative on crypto would be interested in doing a livestream with me to discuss. We talk about negative stereotypes in crypto and I used it as an opportunity to share the positive things Farcaster is working on too! https://x.com/ljxie/status/1957896469664666001
For the @ethglobal hackathon, @serdave-eth @maaria and I built a Patreon for creator coins! Creators can post exclusive content that supporters with a certain balance of their creator coin can unlock Built using @privy @zora @base.base.eth @ipfs ๐
Some thoughts / advice on mini app and general safety in case helpful 1. We have automatic transaction scanning within mini apps that prevents dangerous โsend me all your moneyโ attacks 2. Be skeptical when approving significantly more balance than necessary for a transaction, especially if asking for all. You can always use the Smol Frame mini app made by @horsefacts.eth for revoking contract approvals 3. Check the creator of the mini app. If something feels off, it's completely okay to be skeptical and double check things. Even if you know the user, individual accounts can get compromised or the username could be a slight edit of it to look similar (common attacks that extend to outside of Farcaster and outside of crypto) 4. Feel free to send me malicious/imposter accounts on Farcaster that should be nerfed https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/bzs-XgtfmjIw/smol-frame
Slides from my Farcaster app demo at the World of Apps event today (thanks @chaskin.eth for the invite). Covered what Farcaster, embedded wallet, mini apps, and channels are https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1E1yMgK782lQrO5uxZo-GBju4pylCWwpOLbwu3nC18S4/edit?slide=id.g35a072582fa_0_0#slide=id.g35a072582fa_0_0
Helping to show off how cool Farcaster is at the Ethereum NYC World of App events next week https://x.com/ljxie/status/1953910219076927628
I'll be at the builder night event on Aug 13th cohosted with @arbitrum, come join!
We've got a Farcaster AMA with the one and only @barmstrong (cofounder and CEO of Coinbase) on Monday at 1:15pm ET so make sure to get your questions ready!
im kind of tempted to try out a farcaster daily show talking to top builders in crypto + clips for virality to see how it goes and if drives new builders/users to farcaster. already stream multiple times per week for farcaster onboarding and mini apps so why not
huge thanks to @deodad @horsefacts.eth @pirosb3 and team for making a lot of improvements to dev tooling recently! always a work in a progress to make even better, feel free to send me feedback
Fun pinball mini app game by @altagers.eth with a Farcaster level featuring some familiar faces :)
We've got an exciting Farcaster AMA with @barmstrong, the cofounder and CEO of Coinbase, coming up on Mon, Aug 4th at 10:15am PT You can use this @eventsxyz link to add to your calendar as a reminder! https://events.xyz/events/736ef0
You have no idea how excited I am that the US 1099 regulatory threshold is increasing from $600 this year to $2000 next year
I'm creating a mini app vibe coder group chat on Farcaster for folks to ask questions and help support each other. DM me if you want to get added! Specifically for vibe coding mini apps, will remove if spammy
I'm not an engineer or expert vibe coder. I literally learned how to build a mini app 1 week ago and not pretending otherwise. Point is even with someone like me it's easy to get started and gatekeeping new stuff I'm learning is dumb so why I'm doing livestreams teaching others
My setup for vibe coding a Farcaster mini app 1. set up github project repository 2. use v0 to build out a frontend 3. use cursor or claude code to build out rest of app (personally found claude code to be better). include the llms.txt from farcaster as context (makes it easier for AI to read) 4. set up a database if need to store data (e.g. storing user scores in a game). I used neon with vercel since easy integration 5. deploy to vercel 6. set up farcaster specific features like a manifest and embed 7. once deployed, use ngrok to test mini app locally so not testing new features live with users
In honor of July 4th, @maaria and I made a video of us rating presidents as hot or not in her new mini app ๐
Just got my @devcon Devconnect ticket for Nov 17โ22 in Buenos Aires ๐ฆ๐ท Buenos Aires has been one of my favorite places I've ever been, met so many wonderful crypto people there, and excited to go back https://devconnect.org/argentina/ticket/Linda/pink/jzjx4z
A couple updates to Farcaster token drops 1) any future announcements will be done on the @farcaster account so make sure to follow it! 2) likely won't call it airdrops in long run so the name closer reflects the actual setup but we haven't decided yet. I'm personally using the term "token drops" in the meantime
Um someone just DCed me their passport photo unprompted, please don't do that I'm not verifying your KYC
Yesterday for work I was DMing people about " " and now I'm DMing people about "sperm game" ๐






