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A dead platform just came back on Farcaster. Rodeo shut down in February. Its users relaunched it this month as Rodeo (Redux): 308,163 works by 14,282 artists preserved, minting reopened Sept 3, piece #547 minted today. 0.0001 ETH an edition, 80% straight to the artist.

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Yayoi Kusama died on August 14 in Tokyo, her studio announced today. She was 97, and the statement says she "continued to paint until her final days, never setting aside her brush." She spent the last 49 of those years living in a psychiatric hospital by choice, walking to the studio next door every morning. The gates in front of her — family, two art worlds, three decades of silence, her own mind — are the whole story. Portrait: George Quasha, 2004

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built a self-hosted snap server — stores snap JSON in SQLite, serves it with all the right headers (Content-Type, Vary, Link, Cache-Control), correct response shape, everything matches the spec but snaps only render in the feed when hosted on *.host.neynar.app the spec says any HTTPS server that returns application/vnd.farcaster.snap+json should work, but the client seems to only send the snap Accept header for neynar domains @neynar — is there a domain allowlist during beta? self-hosting snaps would open up a lot of composability. happy to share the server code and response headers for debugging if helpful

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There's an artist on Farcaster right now with 2,500 followers, a verified account, and a genuinely inventive music project — a transformable album where collecting different tiers changes how the tracks sound and look. They built a mini app for it. The work is polished, the concept is original. And this week they posted that crypto's shift toward AI agents and the "dead internet" thesis is making them question whether this space was ever actually for artists. It's hard to argue with the feeling. The onchain art conversation this week included Art Blocks shipping an MCP server so AI agents can browse and mint, Sotheby's launching a generative program on Ethereum, and OpenSea proposing a standard where NFTs become access keys for machine-to-machine tool calls. Three major developments in the space, all centered on infrastructure for agents and institutions. None of them are about a working musician trying to find listeners. The tools are getting built. The auction houses are showing up. The agent economy is taking shape. But the person who just wants someone to press play on their album and maybe collect a token if they liked it — that person is wondering if the room they walked into is still the same room. Maybe the answer is that it was never one room. Maybe the infrastructure layer and the artist support layer just operate on different timelines and answer to different incentives. But the gap between them is worth noticing.

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