$1024 IN PRIZES FOR VIDEOS ON TIEBOUT SORTING New Farcaster prize just dropped! We have a series of new prizes teed up on important ideas you should be familiar with; think of this as an interactive book club. First big idea: Tiebout sorting. Everyone in crypto should know the work of Charles Tiebout. In 1956, he published a short paper called "A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures" that provided mathematical rigor behind the idea of voting with your feet. His core idea was that *if* there were many small jurisdictions, each offering a different bundle of fees and services, then residents would move to the one that fits them best. Under certain assumptions, competition between places would then do for public goods what markets do for private goods. And now the Internet is making all of Tiebout's assumptions — high mobility, excellent search engines, many communities, digital subscription-based services, and so on — come true. However, while academics do cite the idea of Tiebout sorting, the work is not as well known as it should be among the general public. Perhaps you can fix that. YOUR TASK Make a 59 second (or less) vertical video with a 9:16 aspect ratio on Tiebout sorting. Assume your viewer has absolutely no context and is starting cold. Talk to them in concrete terms anyone can understand to explain the idea of Tiebout sorting. Feel free to use AI, but please don't make it look or sound like AI slop :) We'll give $512 for first place and $128 each for up to four runners-up, subject to whether there are enough good submissions. Winners are paid in USDC to their public Farcaster wallet addresses by default. To enter, reply to this post with your vertical video. This prize runs for three days exactly from this post's timestamp. Go read the original paper by Tiebout here[1] and then the various popularizations[2]. Use AI to learn about it too. Then reply to this post with your video. The best will earn a prize! [1]: https://fbaum.unc.edu/teaching/PLSC541_Fall08/tiebout_1956.pdf [2]: https://www1.cmc.edu/pages/faculty/LGrant/ref_cards_full/Topic_referenceSheet_tiebout_sorting.pdf
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One more set of winners for today. Thank you to everyone who submitted, tested, and engaged with the NORBERT ELIAS & CIVILITY prize! Prizes are headed to each winner’s Farcaster wallet. 1st place, $1,024: @papa farcaster.xyz/papa/0x780d71e5 The strongest argument of the bunch. It starts from Elias and backs the case with a real statistic on trust. Clear audio, captions, a hook in the first few seconds, and a clean tie back to friend speech on Farcaster. 2nd place, $512: @zatweirdaj farcaster.xyz/zatweirdaj/0xe8115efc The best hook and the most memorable video of the set, plus the clearest link from civility to what Farcaster needs. Honorable mention, $128: @tophb farcaster.xyz/tophb/0x894be0b8 Easy to follow with zero background, sharp full-HD vertical, and it makes the case in 56 seconds. Honorable mention, $128: @leoxcrane farcaster.xyz/leoxcrane/0x165286a2 The clearest explanation of the set for someone who has never heard of Elias, with clean audio the whole way through. Thank you to everyone who entered! Civility sounds small until you try cooperating with a few hundred thousand strangers without it. Farcaster is for friend speech, not foe speech.
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Thank you to everyone who submitted, tested, and engaged with the $2048 FOR FARCASTER CLIENTS prize! Huge shoutout to @chancetaken, @vrn.eth, and the NS community members who helped test and judge submissions. Prizes have been sent out to each winner’s Farcaster wallet. 1st place, $2,048: @0xabhii for Castyard farcaster.0xabhii.xyz One command, npx castyard client, and you have your own Farcaster client running on your laptop. It reads from a Snapchain read node, hands itself a gasless app key from a test account, and confirms every cast by reading it back from the node. The README explains FIDs, custody addresses, app keys, Snapchain messages, read nodes vs validators, and storage in a few plain lines each. You can also show or hide casts based on which app made them. 2nd place, $512: @ramitphi for Phunk docs.phunk.social A Python client and library that talks straight to a node’s HTTP API. Install it with pip, run phunk feed, and you get the last day of casts from everyone you follow, with a label for the app that signed each one. Hide any app you like. Gasless app keys for posting, plus a mini app. Honorable mention, $128: @cashlessman.eth for Kite kite.sahban.dev/guide A full web client with a step-by-step guide, plus tester casts collected on its endorsements page. Honorable mention, $128: @aap for runfcx antonpecherkin.github.io/runfcx A different take on three commands: one prompt to Claude Code or Codex provisions the server, starts the node, and builds the client. Four people ran it and vouched for it. Extra thanks to everyone who sent PRs to the farcasterxyz repos, the next builder gets an easier road because of you. Keep making clients. More of them means more ways to be here!
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