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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