History

Have enjoyed listening to Walter Scheidel interviews recently.

https://youtu.be/U4Stzxi-m4s?si=pRpw-OooqSUWfR9o

https://youtu.be/ZrK-3-qYU8I?si=RwXvewmEwV7LgAhl

firefits

today’s /firefits for u 🫴🏼🦋

cardigan & dress: Lazy Oaf
tights: calzedonia

Cryptocurrencies are digital boundaries.

That is, in the physical world you can clearly distinguish where France ends and Germany begins. And you can enumerate the millions of people near the Franco-German border, as opposed to those who are more internally located.

But in the digital world, you can’t easily see the Instagram/X border. You can’t see which people spend a lot of time on both platforms, and are in a sense near the network border, as opposed to those who are “patriots” to just one platform.

Until crypto. Because coin holdings give public digital boundaries. You can determine from wallets and posts which people are coin maximalists (and hold 100% in one coin) vs which people are in digital border territories (and hold balances in multiple coins).

This is machine-readable information that can establish digital and physical borders for a community. NFT-gated Discords and door locks prove the point.

So: it’s early now, but eventually crypto tribalism becomes crypto patriotism.

Any boost is appreciated!

https://x.com/farcaster_xyz/status/1896714704862802271

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 🚂

Warpcast

New on Warpcast

Tap into any ticker or CA right from the feed.

Founders

The Token Utility Framework

'Should we launch a token?'

I wrote a guide for answering:

- When protocols actually need tokens
- How tokens can improve protocols
- What the failure modes of launching a token are 

find it here: https://mirror.xyz/veryearly.eth/XgSF33vzODrjxSC5RIugOAkrBulNFFkLNqWMKGGeK5U

A few thoughts on the wallet

1. We’re still testing it! Expect a bunch of rough edges. But we will fix and iterate. Starting with a ~1000 people and expanding from there. 

2. Goal is to make onchain actions reliable and smooth directly from the feed—frames and token links

3. There’s a bunch of new surface area to explore given all of the social context; but focused on getting the basics shipped and working well

4. Important — there’s no private key export yet; you don’t have to use the wallet if you don’t want to.

5. You can continue to use Rainbow or Coinbase Wallet via deeplinks (via MWP); there’s a preferred wallet toggle in settings.

6. It’s been a full team effort, but a big shout out to @blockheim @deodad @horsefacts.eth @gabrielayuso.eth and then everyone who has been giving feedback

Just sharing this vintage banger by @giantswan 
 💎  Anomaly.97

Congrats @antonio & @spindl on the @coinbase acquisition!

Antonio messaged me in 2022 saying he was starting a new company. I had admired his work for years.

We became the “first investor” & they built a category leading product.

Thanks for letting us be on this journey.

techarchive

Web3 Design is one of the most exciting fields, with DeFi offering new challenges where classic UX/UI principles (and some common sense) guide users through EIP updates, blockchains and new features. Crypto moves fast, you’ll never be bored. Join me on the @matchaxyz Design team! 🧵

They say magic isn’t real…. Until @matthewmorek just drops straight up wizardry 🪄✨

Andi

@anndi