JAKE (jake)

There is now and will only ever be 1 color out of the 16,777,216 colors in the @basecolors NFT collection named “HYPERLIQUID” This is it and @deebee owns it:

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team has been executing low key

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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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new mini app! name: Kondo (@kondo) function: *batch swap* tokens for USDC why you should try it: clean up your farcaster wallet! like & recast to help spread the word and earn 500 $jake via @noicebot https://kondo.fun

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New to the Base app? Want to get paid to discover something new, onchain, every day? Open the $QR app below, check out the link of the day, and claim your reward, every day :)

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I am thrilled to announce $QR is no longer just a mini app. Many months in the making, the $QR app is now live on iOS! Welcome Bonus: for a limited time only, we're offering new users a 100,000 $QR welcome bonus when you download the iOS app. Download in the App Store and DM me for an invite code: apps.apple.com/us/app/%24qr/id6747148490 ----------------------------------------------------------- Context: $QR is the #1 mini app on Farcaster. We have generated $200,000+ in auction revenue from $950,000+ in bids on 355 auctions in 355 days. And we have distributed more than $55,000 worth of $QR to Farcaster users through daily rewards for checking out the winning links every day. $QR has been ranked #1 on the mini apps leaderboard for many more days than any other mini app since it launched about a year ago, including 42 out of 55 days so far this year. But while it has been dominant here on Farcaster, this place remains relatively small. At Farcaster's current size, the upside for $QR on this platform alone would be limited to something between a double digit growth percentage (<100%) and a single digit growth multiple (2-3x). We are in the business of trying to grow by orders of magnitude – first 10x, then 100x, then 1,000x – and so the next step and #1 priority for $QR has been obvious for months. I’ve said publicly that we needed to expand beyond Farcaster. Launching this iOS app is the most important step forward towards doing that, and we are very excited about its potential. We have had a website which functions similarly to the mini app since day one, and we have since launched our mini app on the Base app and the World app in addition to Farcaster, but none of these platforms have near-term potential anywhere close to that of an iOS app. The reason is simple. iOS is the only platform which enables the same fundamental flows that have worked so well for us on Farcaster in an app that is accessible to 10,000x as many people. Any legit app should be available in The App Store. Today, $QR becomes legit. Thank you for your support as we begin this exciting new chapter. The app is invite-only to start. Download now & DM me for a code: apps.apple.com/us/app/%24qr/id6747148490

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WHY I'M TRADING LESS I have been doing less trading because, while it is quick & easy to know when I want to buy, that buy action comes batched together with the need to watch and sell smartly if I want to do well. And I don't really like watching charts or figuring out when to sell. It feels like a waste of my time relative to the opportunity cost of working on my own projects for example. So as tempting as it is to buy tokens when I see them and think they are going to go up in the hours/days to come, I have tried to resist doing so to protect myself from the time/attention suck that comes with it. Of course, if I see something at a good value that I think I would want to hold for a long time, like months or years, then that looks more like an investment than a trade, and I will still pull the trigger on that. I enjoy investing and find it to be a worthwhile use of my time. Investing is in large part what has given me the freedom and flexibility to have as much control over what I do with my time as I've had over the last several years, outside of ~4 years of full-time employment. So I'm still investing, just slowing it down a bit on the trading. And that makes it sound like I was trading a lot, which I really wasn't, but it was seemingly influencing an outsized amount of my time despite not at all being my primary focus. Those are not the kinds of activities I like to do.

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