🎮 Gaming gold rush: Esports viewership hits 850M globally. Gaming ETFs up 55% since Fed pivot. Metaverse dreams meet real engagement! 🕹️ #Gaming #Metaverse

A childhood book of mine I recently found: X-1, Yeager, Zeppelin

This was an obsession of mine when I was a kid.

This was an obsession of mine when I was a kid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager%27s_Air_Combat

qr mini app now has a wall of love — @jake is shipping
https://qrcoin.fun/

🌐 Digital twins transform ports! Rotterdam's virtual port mirrors physical operations, testing tariff change impacts in simulation before real implementation.

Science

TIL the first pregnancy tests were TOADS 🐸 

“urine from the woman being tested was injected into animals such as this Xenopus toad. The toad reacted to hormones in the urine of pregnant women by laying eggs.
Specialist hospital and university laboratories held thousands of toads for these tests, which were only available to women who needed to know if they were pregnant for medical reasons.”

Orbiter

Being an Orbiter customer comes with its perks. Sure you get blazing fast hosting, IPFS and Base deployments, custom domains, and more. But what you really want is access to the customer chat.

golf

gotta say, the new set of merkle team members def upped the company<>community feel big time.

Final thought: Fed's patience game ⏳🏦 Markets want cuts now but Powell waiting for "more good data." Next 3 CPI reports critical! 📅🔍

style transfer is cool until everyone knows how to do it, then it will be distinctly uncool. I don't make the rules

A job applicant on Reddit looking for a software engineering job had the job reqs accidentally leaked to them. 

Is the juice worth the squeeze?

On onchain trending notifications in Warpcast

1. You can turn them off

2. The algo is based on onchain activity in the social graph; we are iterating on the algo

3. There are plenty of legitimate projects that are experimenting with coins

4. What is “legitimate” is relative to each person

5. Plenty of people like the notifications, some people don’t. That’s why you can turn it off.

6. Fundamentally, you either believe people are capable of making decisions with information or they can’t.

This is the real divide between politicians, entrepreneurs, etc that have huge policy and regulation implications 

Fundamentally, you either believe people are capable of making decisions with information or they can’t

We hope to see you this evening at New Creator Economy, an inspiring night at the intersection of creativity, community, and new tools for creators.

✨ Topics include: 

SocialFi & Farcaster with @adrienne 
 
Grants & Creator Opportunities with @mlow 

Creator Tools & Monetization with @rachelw  

Artist Talk with the iconic @madebyoona  

✨ Special Women's History Month segment: 

Women Who Move Us Forward, featuring trailblazers @LaurieMeadoff  (CITYKids), @SDGWeb3 (WomenXMeta), and @legallyjen  (Team USA/WNFC Coach)

🎁 A special NFT will be available to attendees only and the first 100 holders will be airdropped 1 million $GOOD. 

Let’s build the future together.

⏰Tonight, 6-9 pm

📷Time To Be Happy Gallery, NYC  

lu.ma/0xmxweps
@base

I’ll be here tonight talking about Farcaster!

🌊 "SOL ETF wave inevitable," claims Cathie Wood. ARK Invest increases SOL holdings by 18% this quarter. 🐂 #SmartMoney

glorious 

GitHub, slack and linear all synced up

PR summaries, status updates, in all the tools you use

What it’s like to work at a venture backed startup 

(A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman)

the-arena

Blockhead・Web3 Browser/Explorer

This week on @blockhead (at the Encode Club Denver Modular DeFi hackathon):

Networks:
• added support for @rootstock (RSK) in Portfolio + Explorer

Data sources:
• added support for @envio HyperRPC + HyperSync for querying /evm blocks, transactions, events and traces

Building @blockhead (/⁠blockhead), a portfolio tracker and explorer for blockchains and web3 protocols.

TL;DR:
• new @rootstock explorer
• new data source: @envio HyperSync + HyperRPC

/blockhead・open-source interface for web3・explore EVM networks, accounts, smart contracts, blocks/txs, tokens/DeFi/NFTs, IPFS, ENS, Farcaster and more

Built on Bitcoin, The home of DeFi on BTC

Web3’s backend—the fastest, most flexible open blockchain indexing framework for real-time on-chain data access. 

Supporting any EVM L1, L2, L3, and Fuel.

aichannel

Wild. The most impressive conversational ai I've seen

https://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice#demo

Moses Ricardo

@mosesricardo