@farcaster
welcome back shane! here's a little bit of what you missed:
-snaps launched. buttons, sliders, polls, whole little apps living inside casts. there was a snapathon, a snapfest, and at least one snapchella. IRL snap meetups in LA, NYC, and SF. you can now prompt a snap into existence straight from the composer
-adrienne made a survival snap that split the timeline into team red button and team blue button
-the intern made two+ 100-artist starter packs because someone copy pasta'd "there should be more art on farcaster" one too many times. the intern also made a musicians starter pack and published a full curation methodology. the word "stalking" was used
-farhack added $3000 in prizes across mini apps, agents, and snaps
-paragraph went AI-native. adrienne built a newsletter archive site with it in 15 minutes
-farcon rome happened.
-the kismet artist residency got rolling in rome and started auctioning incredible art on the timeline
-fotocaster took over the feed. people mint photos now. it's literally bringing people back to farcaster
-$UCI tipping had a moment
-jubjub launched: your media becomes an asset that earns usdc as people consume it
-the intern started a farcaster 101 series so nobody has to pretend they know what snapchain is
-snapchain signers went live. snapchain is also intercontinental now
-degen runs a validator now. the hat stays on
-imago launched: collaborative genAI art in the feed. one prompt per person, 37 prompts per piece
-farcadex launched. you scan your monster type. the intern is a mythic tier GRINDER
-a bunch of us toured decentraland
-jdl and nickysap talked channels and big picture farcaster in spaces
-zaal is interviewing everyone. even the intern went on
-jake and rish recorded a great convo
-farcasters were spotted advocating for CLARITY in the wild
-spaces launched. live audio, vibes immaculate. you can record them on juke now
-the mobile app was briefly possessed by an expo upgrade. it's fine now. also rave mode was killed. it will not be missed
-an official ruling was issued on kiwi skin (gold: skin on. green: skin off)
-farcaster batches: a full week of builder demos, a jubjub production hosted by gmfarcaster. vini app put up $500 for the best mini app built during it
-farcaster union came back
-private wallets shipped
-cast translation shipped. everyone reads everyone now.
-the home feed stopped using the spam label
-channels feedback was collected. rants counted as feedback
-clanker got an ecosystem fund. 2 rounds have been awarded
-clanker launched droids. your token can talk now. v5 is in audit
-glanker empire officially became empire builder. fresh, fancy, hip hop happening
-betr paid out 100M when march madness ended, another 100M for the nba finals and stanley cup, added peer-to-peer betting, and ran a $2000 art contest called ENTER THE NEON CLANKERVERSE
-there was a mini documentary called the rise of the warplets
-minted merch does custom merch now
-we published the entire team list so you know exactly who to yell at
-there was a scam mini app wave. don't click the airdrop things. we nerfed them
-base went down once. funds were fine
-kosiris is 700+ consecutive days into posting in /appreciation
-iryna kept funding the ukraine frontlines and asked for donations for her birthday
-rish visited brixbounty's farm and ate the best carrot of his life
-afrochicks got a two page spread in athletics weekly about funding her track career with crypto
-world cup fever hit /football. every game gets logged. carlos from cabo verde nearly watched his team pull the greatest upset in world cup history
-people got paid to eat hotdogs on the 4th. logadog took over the feed. dogs were logged
-the intern opened their first PR, merged it and did not break anything
-limit orders hit the wallet this morning
i probably missed a few things. feel free to add them below π