next time someone tells you that decentralization / hardness doesn't matter, remember that insurance is the world's largest industry

yes, people do care about systems that create more certainty about the future and yes, they are willing to pay for them

Crypto: The Game

Design @farcaster 🟣 
👩‍💻📕🐶

🧪 Introducing: Scaffold Alchemy ⚡

🔨 A powerful dev tool for onchain prototyping 🚀

📜 Auto-compiling contracts & hot-reloading UI 🔄

⛽ Gas sponsored for deploys & transactions 🎁

🛠️ Enhanced APIs for NFTs, subgraphs & more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2vbIsCEAxM

Farcaster

fc-updates

So far in 2025

- 3 new people joining: @woj.eth @ted @slokh 
- Base announcing upcoming Farcaster support
- FarCon 2025 in NY in May
- Increased size of Warpcast Rewards
- Token links and pages
- Warpcast Wallet 
- Snapchain tesnet
- 90,000 free invites
- Public spam labels
- Q4 retroactive grants
- Following feed option, highlighted notifications, first cast in a while notifications, muted channels, bug and perf improvements to DCs

More to come!

choo choo 🚂

a16z closed their office in the UK and gave away all their books 🤭

what are the coolest frames that take advantage of privacy / zk? 👀

variant

I'm giving away 1x OG Variant Plan NFT to one user who likes and recasts this post + follows @variant.

Variant Plan was the fifth ever Art Blocks collection, by Jeff Davis.

https://zora.co/collect/eth:0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/5000152

– @jesse

Investing in an internet that turns users into owners

anyone using reclaim ai, usemotion, sunsama or the like? thoughts on them?

sat night https://i.imgur.com/g9kAc8Q.jpg

Rafi

@0xrafi