Bright Moments

New Initiative:

Bright Moments has been receiving Warpcast Rewards, and we’d like to redistribute these rewards to artists in the community.

This week, we will select two AI artists to receive rewards of 10 USDC each. If you create art in collaboration with artificial intelligence, share your work with us under this cast.

cool way to earn some extra $ if you're creating art on farcaster

paying a platform to boost a post feels so cheesy and wrong to me. but paying friends directly just seems like a nice mutual exchange. excited to see how this goes for everyone

years ago i learned (thank you, oatmeal) about mantis shrimp and how it can perceive 12* different color channels and i am not the same person since

for comparison, we, humans, can only perceive 3 channels (red, green, blue)

what do the other 9 channels look like?

🤷‍♂️

*— it actually varies from 12 to 16

how do they know it can perceive that many color channels?

i am impressed by the amount of posthog ads around san francisco 

they have billboards, busses, and benches

i can't imagine this would be high roi anywhere but here, but damn is it effective in making me thing about their product

The third wave of scientific revolution? Learn DeScAI in three minutes

BlackRock's U.S. debt tokenization fund BUIDL has a scale of more than US$630 million,

Wow I received $88.8k from the anime airdrop for my Azuki holdings. That's a wild amount that I want to put to good use. I'll be donating 100% of the amount (after taxes accounted for) to various causes 🫡

Music

Before Spotify took control of playlist curation, the major record labels were actively launching their own playlist brands:

- Digster (Universal)
- Topsify (Warner)
- Filtr (Sony)

Anyone remember using any of these?

Scaling Ethereum L1 and L2s in 2025 and beyond

Scaling Ethereum L1 and L2s in 2025 and beyond

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/23/l1l2future.html

because there is a lot of friction in the early product interaction experience. For example,

Base

A call to action for Based Builders: 2025 IS OUR YEAR

Start your Monday with this - then keep building.

Books

finished this book on @keccers.eth recommendation, a rare doomer book that actually earns its anxiety

wake-up call about neurotech that no one seems to be taking seriously enough. opens with a workplace dystopia that's way closer than you think — imagine your brainwave data getting subpoenaed by your employer

author brings personal stakes (migraines + severe PTSD) that make you realize why we can't just say no to this tech, but between intrusive surveillance, state control, and straight-up weaponization (Havana Syndrome is probably real btw), we're sleepwalking into a future where our thoughts aren't our own

great historical parallels about medical gatekeeping show how institutions will try to control this tech, too

The boundaries between our last truly private space  and the wider world are eroding like sandstone under a drip drop faucet

Your job isn't to serve a market, it's to shape the market. The people you serve should be united by the narrative you put forward and benefited by your product. Without the former, the market you're serving today will inevitably disapper.

O P T I M I S M 🔴✨

Does anyone know if Optimism plans to introduce a value accrual mechanism for $OP?

Or are we just holding a stablecoin?

I used to believe the superchain narrative, paired with Coinbase distribution via Base, was enough; but it’s clearly not moving the needle.

Thoughts?

Curitis Wild

@curitiswild