@jake

QR got a grant! $10,000 from @clanker :) It means a lot to have @qrcoindotfun recognized and rewarded by the Clanker Ecosystem Fund following 450 days of building and 450 daily auctions for attention. Building a novel app on Base in this past year's market has not been the easiest thing in the world, but moments like these make it well worthwhile. It's great to be headlining the fund’s first round of grants alongside fellow onchain builders and now friends @toadyhawk.eth (BETR) & @atown (EMERGE). These guys are relentless and they demonstrate the creativity & experimentation that building in crypto is all about. This is the first grant I have ever received. I appreciate that it comes purely as a result of building onchain. I didn't have to apply to any contest, fill out any forms, or play any superficial games. We just built a popular app that thousands of people open daily. That was enough. The core loop for our daily users it to get paid to discover something new onchain every day. (Bidders bid on our daily auction to win their attention). So far we have sent more than 1 million micropayments in the form of these daily rewards, and now we are the ones getting rewarded. It feels good to be on the other side. Farcaster is a fantastic product and an even better network of people. It's been my pleasure to be a part of it over the last few years. The case for a crypto-native social network remains strong, even if it is not a hot topic in the market right now. Neither was privacy, for example, until it was (Zcash). Hardly anything not having to do with AI is getting much attention at the moment, but I am confident that crypto social’s moment will come. My hope is that it is sooner than later, and that Farcaster will remain the frontrunner to be the breakout product in that category at that time. Clanker has had a checkered history but ultimately it is one of the most impressive businesses I've seen built in crypto. Had it not existed, I never would have clanked QR, and likely never would have built @qrcoindotfun, so I am grateful for that. Regardless of its past, Clanker now has a fresh team, a new fund, and an opportunity as a part of Farcaster to become one of the most fun and valuable places to hang out on the internet, as Farcaster has been for years now for me personally. Big thanks to @rish, @dish, @nounishprof, @adrienne, and everyone from the clanker, farcaster, and @gmfarcaster teams for this much appreciated grant. Also thank you to everyone who opens the app every day to check the link of the day, and to all of our bidders who have bid to win our daily auctions for attention. The onchain attention machine would be nothing without you.

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