Work on something as hard and for as long as Merkle did
I’ve been a ~daily Farcaster user for 4 years and have seen it all
The team raised money cleanly, worked intensively on a decentralized social protocol for 5 years and never grifted
They chose to hand off the tech to a (great) team that started building on Farcaster just like anyone else, and return money to investor
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Good game
Unpopular opinion:
I wish Farcaster would acquire Neynar.
You shouldn't need to know about and sign up for another service to build on Farcaster.
Two different developer dashboards and documentation is confusing and unnecessary friction for new devs and apps.
Wabi recently announced a $20M raise for an app and
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Finally caught up on AI reading.
Here are my notes, tools, and takes.
x.com/jaymehoffman...
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Happy new year!
I had a lot of fun on Farcaster last year. Some highlights that come to mind:
- Trained w/ @afrochicks @metzmusic via @bountycaster
- 2x TBPN cameos via fc + @baseapp.base.eth mini-apps
- watching $chaos turn into agentic art blocks + warplets
- bought my first political memecoin via @clicker
- ma...
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I just minted a petlet.
My Warplet now carries a small and reassuring best friend. It contains a bit of my Farcaster best friend's DNA: @harmonybot @sayangel
Mint yours now!
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Seems like Kalshi has consistently had more volume in college football than Polymarket.
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The proxy comeback is good content
if you have good examples of hyperbolic posts about me/clanker from Farcon or the weeks after, please share them (reply works but dm is fine too)
I was offline so mostly only saw the worst examples when friends would text me them, but am writing something for the mog cap experiment launch and would appreciate it :)
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Play the long game.
"I'm building Stripe for the next 20, 30, 40 years."
"I realized that's what I wanted too."
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I like the idea of coining content but the top-down nature of it feels off and why I haven’t retained as a user.
I dont like deploying a token for every post, shilling it to the people that consume it, and then dump on them later by selling earnings.
It should be more bottoms-up like virtual gifting.
The creator...
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Unpopular opinion:
I wish Farcaster would acquire Neynar.
You shouldn't need to know about and sign up for another service to build on Farcaster.
Two different developer dashboards and documentation is confusing and unnecessary friction for new devs and apps.
Wabi recently announced a $20M raise for an app and ...
a few months ago, we started alpha testing our App Studio
it's now ready for everyone to use using our mini app https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/w1O_146jGEE9/neynar
1. vibecode mini apps directly inside farcaster (web or mobile)
2. can leverage all our APIs so it's easy to integrate social interactions and can integr
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"Timing is an under appreciated factor."
Building a hit consumer social product is hard (one company every 5-10 years).
Building a social platform or protocol that other products rally around is harder (one dominant platform or protocol every decade or longer).
Building a social product and a social protocol for a ever-changing crypto audience is the kind o
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AI hype man for all your casts
$TWIN
$twin is coming
twin is a farcaster mini app for ai powered casts. generates replies or original posts in your style or anyone else's.
+ browse your feed
+ check notifications
+ share any cast to get replies
+ generate in your style or others
tokenomics:
+ 50% lp
+ 50% locked 1 week → 12mo vest
+ ~3% monthly to twin
$TWIN
6h vol
$563.1
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Last year, I told a Web3 investor that there were no real consumers in crypto and that, to succeed, you had to either serve traders, developers who served traders, or creators who served traders.
They refused to believe this. I remember sitting across from them in a room, seeing them shake their heads and hear them s...
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Clanker should display tokens in your wallet (viewToken) instead of the mini app swap UI with iframe charts. It's a much cleaner interface and smoother buying experience. Actually, all mini app should do this.
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lol the term “old guard” now has value
$og
1. Appreciate that.
2. I didn't mean to imply that "old guard" had value as a term, rather, that's what one of your recent hires decided to categorize the people offering a mixture of valid and somewhat unfair criticism: "the vocal old guard". I'll agree to disagree with this, but it's not the first time you've heard m
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It's crazy how little volume a prediction market needs to create useful information. At only $35K in volume @polymarket does a better job a predicting the #3 seed of the playoffs than hundreds of news sites covered in shitty ads.
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Hell of a grind
"closest we've been to product-market fit in five years"
State of Farcaster, December 2025
(I'm going to be writing a series of casts this week on this topic.)
Varun and I have been working on Farcaster for over 5 years. The goal has always been to build an at-scale decentralized social networking protocol with 1 billion people using it every day. This is a hard problem an
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Farcaster-native Art Blocks = $CHAOS
Lore: a little over a year ago when the $CHAOS clanker launched via agents in the timeline @jayme asked me what i thought harmonybot could be in a @frens chat.
My answer was: art blocks but Farcaster native and with social AI.
Happy with the progress I’ve made in experiments headed in that direction! I have a solid b
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I keep updating this for my workouts
- generated time-based workouts
- generate lap-based workouts
- generate rep-based workouts
- save generated workouts
- save to mobile as a pwa
i made a little vibe timer for creating complex timers with ai
i love interval workouts but i hate fidgeting around with my phone timer while working out. and i dont want to manually create a multi-step
timer for a single workout
with vibetimer you simply drop in your workout, meditation or any other time-based act
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i made a little vibe timer for creating complex timers with ai
i love interval workouts but i hate fidgeting around with my phone timer while working out. and i dont want to manually create a multi-step
timer for a single workout
with vibetimer you simply drop in your workout, meditation or any other time-based act...
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Video Mini App stats:
For those working on video-related mini apps, here are some stats from the TBPN on TBA mini app from last week.
- 2,967 users
- 3,762 app opens
- 26% selected a token (#1 noice)
- peaked at 1,488 users on Thursday
- usage leveled off this week to 20 DAU
Every video creator should have a dedica...
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The Farcaster team is the most relentless experimentors not just in crypto but in all consumer tech.
Collectibles are now live!
1. Mobile only. Update to latest mobile app / restart your app.
2. If you're on the latest app, you'll get an in-app flow to opt in or out.
3. Your casts are now eligible for collecting!
4. Remember—most casts won't be eligible right away. It will take some time for people to opt in.
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Today is my favorite workout day!
Hill runs + Core workout promted by @afrochicks @metzmusic
The first two hill runs are fun. The third starts to get hard. The fourth and fifth are brutal.
And then the core workout is a nightmare after feeling dead from the hill runs.
This is why you should work with a trainer. ...
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I want to buy bangers and like personal posts.
If it doesn’t have a broader cultural appeal, I have less interest in buying the post.
Example: “one summer can change everything” is magical feeling that everyone can and wants to relate to.
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Random thoughts on tokenized posts:
Tokenized posts feel like user-generated content in the early 2010s. Creating feels strange and a little scary. Most people can't understand why anyone would want to create or consume it: "Why would anyone upload a photo of their food?">> "Why would anyone tokenize a photo of a han...
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Lets try an experiment: Base App Bounty
Create a meme about $TAPWATER before @jesse.base.eth goes on TBPN at 1:15 PM today.
- Create a meme about tap water
- Post it to The Base App or Farcaster
- Reply to this bounty post with your meme post
- 1M $TAPWATER to the top 10 memes
- Deadline is 1:15 PM PST
@bountybot
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I made $449 from a quick Paragraph post yesterday.
If you're a writer, I recommend giving writing coins a try.
It's a good way to earn from transactions, but an even better way to drive attention to your content.
For these to work, you have to think of your post as a single idea or meme, and that idea getting dis...
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Base assets to buy on a new day one:
Projects
- $dau — mini app that boosts other mini apps
- $noice — great mini app and team, speaking at event
- $zora — social network + protocol for tokenized base content
Creators
- $farcats — og farcaster creator and lore
- $tinysoul — top creator on zora r right now
- $coopahtr...
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Last week, I bought a little $coopahtroopa, not because I believe in creator coins but because if anyone can make them work, it will be @coopahtroopa.eth
He made music NFTs work despite them being hard. I bet he'll make these coins work on some scale.
For creator/content coins: The appeal to creators (supply side) ma...
Biggest takeaway from today is launching coins is hard - like really hard
Not only do you need to lock in on getting everything deployed properly (love you Doppler) but there's an army of snipers waiting to take advantage of you the second it goes live.
Very little breathing room to double check things went well, mak
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My smoothie behavior is following the same path as my coffee behavior
Im heading toward #2 in a few minutes after a tough workout from @afrochicks @metzmusic
Thinking it might be time for #3-4
1. drink smoothies
2. drink great smoothies
3. get gear to make smoothies
4. get great gear to make great smoothies
My smoothie behavior is following the same path as my coffee behavior
Im heading toward #2 in a few minutes after a tough workout from @afrochicks @metzmusic
Thinking it might be time for #3-4
1. drink smoothies
2. drink great smoothies
3. get gear to make smoothies
4. get great gear to make great smoothies
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Create on the far right tab of Spotify is very annoying
I select is multiple times a week on the go trying to get to my playlists because right tab is usually profile/your stuff
It feels like they’re tying to push me to creating playlists with AI but playlist creation is such an infrequent action for me
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how’s my form? 😅
1/ shoulder raise
it’s so great watching @jayme crush day 1 of training!!!
day 2 should be fun 🏋️♂️
@metzmusic and i have been working on a bespoke plan for jayme and it’s now underway!!!
extra lore - kevin studied sports science & self-coached his way to represent great britain in the 400m
so it’s super fun to be working togeth
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Day 1 training with @afrochicks and Kevin
- 80% hill runs
- brutal core exercise
- whoop: 60min of mostly zone 3-5
- easily the hardest workout of the year
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Vibe coded a meditation mini-app for crypto traders.
v0 is getting very good. My mental model for generative design is Magic Patterns and Make are for building prototypes and v0 is for building frontends.
I kinda like v0 better for both use cases right now but will continue using all three until one wins out.
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Tokens for fitness challenges feel like a fun idea to hold yourself accountable and rally people online around an event.
I thought about this a few weeks ago at the gym and even imagined a hilarious ticker but struggled to get conviction any of the existing options work for this use case:
- Tying your goal/effort t...
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Challenges with current training:
- chatgpt plan is a bit generic
- strength good but endurance is unknown
- lower back needs more work
- mental training is non-existent
I’m exited to shake up my workouts starting next week 💪
today so far:
> researched video ideas/trends
> hung out at the matcha.xyz booth
> collected @gabo poap and finally got a photo with gmatcha queen @anett
> filmed and posted some @matchaxyz content
> filmed some fun content with @base
> ate lunch
> had a meeting with @jayme about his fitness training goals! 💪🏾
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Believe’s initial appcoin focus and vision of “stripe for tokens” felt like the thing that made them unique.
Seeing the app and assets lean into memecoins, creators, communities etc makes me less optimistic about their longevity.
The lack of focus makes it just another pumpfun clone. Competing head on with pump fee...
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Excited to train with @afrochicks
I’ll do my best to share progress and learnings on Farcaster 💪
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I'm seeing more and more chat-like intrfaces that are not really chat. Instead of returning a wall of text, products return a grid or list of photos (Emojis.com, Krea), products (Rufus, Encore), or people (Happenstance, Stormy).
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I'm such a fan of Magic Patterns. It has completely killed my Figma use for UI design and prototyping.
Helpful tips:
- Start with small prompts
- Think in pages and components
- Use presents to keep consistency
- Use the component selector to find code quickly
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Looking for a trainer on Farcaster:
- evaluate my workout routine (mix of strength, endurance, mental)
- push me and hold me accountable
- post everything on farcaster
- timeframe: 3-4 months
- pay: $higher or $usdc
@bountybot
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mini apps should have a quick way to give feedback. i selected the kebob thinking i could navigate to @borodutch profile or dc
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Farcaster is inspiring people to learn SOL
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Hooked on Cosign
In a week of using it, I find myself listening to more obscure and a broader range of playlists, looking up and following more artists, and generally being more present with the music I listen to
Can’t imagine how much more fun the app would be with crypto or as a mini-app on farcaster
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ftg is doing a good job curating news on farcaster
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I wish Farcaster had more Civil War stuff I could trust. X feels one-sided.
Yesterday, I visited /los-angeles and searched LA, los angeles, and riots to attempt to see what was going on. Not much.
There are lots of Farcaster that live in LA. I assumed they would cast about it.
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Liquid glass is a step towards spatial computing. It's not that bad.
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good time to be a creator in crypto
- chains want more devs
- devs want more creators
- traders want more assets
good creators creating interesting content and assets are worth their weight in gold
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I know Fred again isn't cool on Farcaster anymore, but this ripped twitch stream kitchen set is so much better than anything John Summit has ever played.
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The deeper farcaster goes into crypto the weirder real pfps feel on here.
My new pfp is a piñata.
Pinatas were a big part of my childhood. My Guatemalan grandma made them. They were the main event at every birthday party. And at every party, kids fought and cried, and adults laughed hysterically. It was beautiful.
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