goldy

officially June (announcing it’s coming soon)

Rainbow

you do not know what @sds protected you all from

hey you! — yeah, you.
you're sooo gonna make it.

Degen

Daily Discussion Thread - /degen - May 21, 2025

Celo is now live on the Farcaster wallet 🚨

As *the* L2 scaling Ethereum for the real world, Celo’s global ecosystem spans 1,000+ projects in 150+ countries.

Check your wallet to see if you can claim a share of the 50K CELO rewards & explore Farcaster Mini Apps live on Celo today ↓

Farcaster team is cooking with gas right now. 

In the next 7 days:

1. Warpcast -> Farcaster rebrand
2. Auth addresses, no more “Open Warpcast on mobile” in mini apps
3. Spinning up a few targeted cohorts for creator onboarding
4. Launching 2 new ecosystems for wallet / mini apps
5. Another confirmed airdrop
6. Making progress on a big new thing, hopefully can share next week
7. A bunch of wallet / mini app QoL improvements

I’m excited to announce that we’re leading the $15M seed round in @joinlegend to simplify DeFi & help bring the next 100M users onchain.

While DeFi activity has grown, it has also become more complex, & remains too complicated for many people to use. Legend is pointing the way to a simpler user experience & broader adoption. Their first product is an embedded smart contract wallet that allows users to borrow, lend, or swap across chains without manual wallet connections or the risk of interacting with malicious websites.

Legend’s founders @json, @hayesgm, & @mykel all worked together at DeFi pioneer Compound. Geoffrey was an inventor of the Compound protocol, and a co-founder of Compound Labs. Mykel & Jayson worked together on product and design at Compound Labs before Jayson took the reins as CEO.

With their user-facing product expertise and empathy for DeFi developers, the Legend team is perfect to address the UX challenge that’s still hindering DeFi adoption. We’re delighted to support them.

Warpcast

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

DEGENNIVERSARY talk from @macbudkowski 

https://t.me/kiwi_reads/514

great to meet y‘all @yes2crypto.eth @jacek @cadillion @ahn.eth

Sitting pretty with @brightmoments merch at the brig for Farcaster fridays tonight 

CryptoVenetian & FOMO pins 
CryptoVenetian tees
FOMO Hoodies 
And a few totes 🤗

Funny how open decentralized networks provide better privacy than 'secure' walled gardens - there's no single entity that can be legally compelled to compromise the system.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/

For 3 years, we've been obsessed with one thought: 

What if messaging belonged to all?

Today's testnet launch is a giant leap towards that future - where privacy is the default, spam is dead on arrival, and you can truly own your identity and communications.

Zora

https://zora.co/collect/base:0x39cdded7ea5f855ef8f1653edc19f231de8602a8/2

Base

what are you building this saturday? 

for me, been working on upgrading our smart contract wallet support to Zapper and displaying account abstraction transactions in a much more readable way

gorgeous basepaint today. shoutout to deepseek

Desty

@destyy