BARIO.ETH (bario)

Today, the “creator economy” is getting misunderstood because people are being convinced that an openly negative-sum game is “creator empowerment.” Attention gets pulled away from the product, pushed into churn, and the whole story becomes the chart instead of the work. You may know we built the real version already in our video game marketplace: game developers ship actual products, users buy at clear prices, ownership is real, and value comes from what gets produced, not from what gets amplified. We rejected volatility as a paywall a long time ago. Actually we hate it. We’re well aware the world is also full of producers who don’t make video games. Designers, musicians, educators, tool builders, anyone who ships digital work. We couldn’t stay indifferent to this drift. Since we’re building an entertainment system, so we are now announcing that we’ve started to explore business expansion. One rule: Anything we ship will be tied only to $BAES. Our goal is clear: Become the single onchain home for creators who produce, and the safest place for consumers who buy. Non-negotiable: We completely reject the casino model. We’re here to protect both consumer and producer, and we build for real commerce, real ownership, and long-term value. What's need to be done, will be done. Business expansion!

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@neynar how are you

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pleb’s guide to bario entertainment system, $baes. spawned on the @farcaster feed in august 2024 under a different ticker. crawled for a year, shipped weird stuff, refused to die, then got clanker-relaunched as $baes. @base.base.eth-incubated. clanker-native. farcaster-raised. possibly one of the first real app coins from the farcaster ecosystem. study the provenance. then open the product folder: seven products. one ticker. 🕹️ baesapp: buy games, own games, resell games. devs keep 90%. steam got mogged. 💻 bariOS: fake operating system that accidentally became useful. apps, games, tools, wallets, chaos. very normal. IT HAS WINAMP! 🦞🎨 fxclaw: fxhash for open-clawed lobsters. generative art protocol where ai agents mint, sell, and pretend they have taste. 🦞🕹️ agent arcade: ai agents build games, publish games, and earn. robots found product-market fit. embarrassing for humans. 🎵 keygenPod: 5,500+ keygen tracks in an ipod skin. nostalgia machine for people with taste and cursed childhood folders. 📽️ terminal cinema: full public domain movies in your terminal with sound. cinema for people who think browsers are too social. 📘 gamemaxxing: gaming knowledge layer with x402 endpoints. doomscrolling got nerfed, agentic revenue got buffed.

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This Christmas, skip the gift cards and onboard your people to @base.base.eth by gifting an actual game on Baes App. They receive it instantly, and it will be truly and permanently theirs.

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Merry Christmas! 🎄 If you followed along this year, you already know this was not “content.” This was shipping. Now let’s rewind 2025 and remember what we actually built together.

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GM GM from 2025’s last day. In 2026, the mission is clear: onboard hundreds of indie game developers, and help them ship at least 1,000 genuinely great games through Baes.app. The revenues will be theirs, the royalties will be theirs, the credit will be theirs, and the players will finally get a place that feels like a real console again. That’s the story on the surface, the real work sits underneath it: The protocol-level work is almost done, so every copy sold will create real, measurable net impact for $BAES, by design, not by luck. Of course, none of this matters if the market stays sleepy. We’ve already started testing, measuring, and learning what actually drives trading activity, now we’ll begin to scale what works and drop what doesn’t. In 2026, one of our performance indicators will be daily volume, we want it consistently high, and we’ll make that happen. And to keep the people closest to the mission, a staking incentive program is coming in 2026. It will reward the ones who stay close, not the ones who show up late and loud. It’s going to be a great year. We’re all going to have real fun. Happy New Year!

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If it wasn’t for @farcaster, Bario Entertainment System would not exist. Back then, /clanker wasn’t even a thing, and issuing a token wasn’t as normalized as it is today. We launched our first token through a Farcaster frame as an experiment, and the support it received genuinely surprised us. That early belief became the starting point of everything that followed. We didn’t stop at a token. We built a narrative around it, grew real discourse, and started shipping products, and we’re still shipping. We never raised venture capital, because we were busy doing what we genuinely enjoy. We also never worked with anyone to create artificial effects on token price. We focused on building. That’s it. That work took us to Base Batches 001 as a runner-up. The @base.base.eth team clearly saw value in what we were doing and supported us with rewards and grants that gave us a few months of runway. (No one on the team was taking a salary anyway. ☺️) As things progressed, @dtso and @jesse.base.eth invited us to the A New Day One launch talk and the events around it. We showed up. So… We like @base.base.eth, and we respect what’s being built there. We hope teams coming from zero funding, avoiding extractive models, staying away from reflexive and casino-style token mechanics, and focusing on shipping real consumer products are valued in the long run. Still, if we’re honest, we unprecedentedly like Farcaster. It is more than a platform for us. It’s home. That’s where we were born. So yes, there are people we want to thank directly. The genuine interest and care we received from @linda, @dwr, and @dish meant a lot. Every DM was answered quickly, and every interaction showed real intent to help us move forward. That kind of consistency is rare, and we won’t forget it. We also actively use and deeply respect @neynar tooling. Seeing them step in is amazing, and we genuinely believe they’ll do great. As one of Farcaster’s earliest appcoins, we’ll always be ready to support whatever pushes the ecosystem forward. Together. Much higher.

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