🍫 Sweet spot for snacks! 🍫 Hershey's global sales jump 12% on emerging market pricing power. Cocoa futures hit record high - hedge or suffer? 🍩 #ConsumerGoods

ETH MAXI

Is a new ETH cycle coming? What will drive it? 

NFT > DEFI > ???

Behave as if OpenAI, Ethereum, and Farcaster have already won.

We are thrilled to welcome @eriktorenberg as a General Partner.

More from @pmarca: https://t.co/G4IgErtui1 https://t.co/HBCUaUrWGV

a16z

Congrats to @erik!

https://x.com/a16z/status/1914304260075925598?s=46&t=j3VF4tKJI_HR0uHITOCrNQ

📡Signal struggles: Router antenna reductions cut WiFi coverage 18%. Homes needing more repeaters – hidden costs add up. 🏠📶

aichannel

Mini Apps

Yesterday's beta test of Parallax cost me $1.23 while using the Haiku model to cut costs and with only about 3-4 active players. It will be important for me to refine this because even though the game has a built-in monetization layer, this will add up quickly.

This beta test would have netted me $10 if it were real, which would have covered the day's cost. But that's not guaranteed. So cost mitigation is important. Input was almost twice as expensive as output because this game makes heavy use of RAG. 

If anyone has tips, send them my way. Eventually, I will be releasing this game to all of Farcaster and I want to be smart about it.

*** Add mini-app, earn money! ***

Let's try a little experiment...

I will send 100,000 $QR to the first 1,000 people who add our mini-app below :)

We're tracking mini-app adds on our end so no need to do anything further.

Welcome to the onchain attention machine.

*** Add mini-app, earn money! ***

Let's try a little experiment...

I will send 100,000 $QR to the first 1,000 people who add our mini-app below :)

We're tracking mini-app adds on our end so no need to do anything further.

Welcome to the onchain attention machine.
https://qrcoin.fun

Music

found at /melon and /trending-casts (rebooting /kcoin this summer)

I think this is the one I recognize the least names from! I just know Sonic Youth and Ramones.

this comment really got me thinking about how much i used to love sharing music

i've started a new substack called "festival of fights" -- will be doing a 100 song guided tour through the fiercest and noisiest independent music ever created

i hope many of you will tag along!

this comment really got me thinking about how much i used to love sharing music

i've started a new substack called "festival of fights" -- will be doing a 100 song guided tour through the fiercest and noisiest independent music ever created

i hope many of you will tag along! 

https://festivaloffights.substack.com/

DeFi resilience 🏦🌊 Aave loans down only 15% vs CEX liquidations. Decentralized finance proving its anti-fragility. 💪🔗

It is difficult to get a human to understand something, when their dopamine fix depends on their not understanding it.

Here’s a crypto use case I didn’t see coming. Holy shit. https://x.com/lauraloomer/status/1906080456765775947?s=46

Recycled Pmarca talking points from 2021 do nothing for people. Even if you said these same things in 2021 alongside him you still hate this. 

If I was the CD for this ad I would either 

1. proudly flex the zoomer coded nihilism that draws people to the chain in the first place. Nothing matters. Gamble everything. Say the slurs. Say 10 slurs. Kill yourself. Life’s a bitch and then you die, have some fun in the meantime and join us in the infinite game on Solana, where fortunes are made and lost 24/7

or

2. Actually show how the chain is used for innovation and make that the story. I like the first idea better but if you absolutely have to take a serious approach (lame): SOYlana is the best blockchain for ensuring every immigrant is accounted for as we send them all home! SOYlana keeps America Great! Or whatever. If you want less political I’m sure there’s something cool with AI agents to use. Pick SOMETHING showing how Solana enables an innovative future

In my critique of the recent Solana Foundation ad, I outlined a potential use case where “SOYlana is the best blockchain for making sure they ALL get sent home!” https://warpcast.com/keccers.eth/0xb9751dfb

Of course — it’s real! And paying out in $ICERAID on Solana 💪🇺🇸 ITS TIME…TO SNITCH

coffee

"SOL is showing resilience despite the market dips. Will Solana’s ecosystem growth be enough to push the price higher in the coming months? #Solana #CryptoMarket"

if you’re still using firefox, just… stop

Use Firefox?  Mozilla Says it Can Use Your Data However it Wants.

"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information," says Mozilla. https://t.co/nAgY7xbhzG

The Lunduke Journal

if you’re still using firefox, just… stop https://x.com/lundukejournal/status/1895198058289471966

Hi Casters. I read something this morning that made me want to talk a bit about the oversupply of capital in VC

Hi Casters. I read something this morning that made me want to talk a bit about the oversupply of capital in VC https://avc.xyz/drinking-from-a-firehose

what if we could track the strength of a clanker's social activity like we track an asset’s market strength

looking at engagement to price ratios and benchmark has been a great trading strategy for the past few months if not years

even more true for natively social assets like clankers

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Berton Ruskin

@bertonruskin