These were the first batch of ~10 airdrops to Farcaster users (~$110K so far). Early on as projects target potential new high quality users, they're factoring in how likely is this user to convert (not a retro airdrop)

Sometimes projects choose to exclude users if there have been *multiple* prior airdrop sales in the past (not if you just sold 1). Put yourself in their shoes if a user immediately sold multiple prior airdrops, they're prob less likely to convert and you can give to another user that is higher likelihood 

That said, you won't be permabanned forever for selling multiple as this is building some data early on and there will be factors that can help outweigh (post high quality content, use mini apps, do onchain txns)

Team has been slammed but we'll have more infra support on airdrops later. On list is def to show more token info (that's why I manually post info for now since not built in)

As Farcaster grows and becomes more valuable to target, airdrop amounts will naturally be larger too

high quality users pay you, not the other way around. 

want to be high quality in the digital sovereignty space? get an urbit star and build your own syndicate. 

no, we won’t airdrop you one.

Base

basecamp⁰⁰² in september. more soon. save the date.

dhh called, he wants his product name back.

launching a token is so easy these days, it's not uncommon to see thousands of replicas within minutes of launch.

the same will happen to software.

you'll spend months ideating, iterating, perfecting your app.

and within minutes of shipping, there will be a thousand clones.

we’ve got a solution to the replica token things. syndicate tokens exist in a finite token space. 

solutions to replica software tbd, but the likely solution is by way of distributed digital enforcement of network effects. only works if network participants have self-sovereign identity and personal servers though.

this sounds dangerously like advocating for protocol level censorship of accounts. 

protocol level censorship is bad. period. no one should be given those powers. 

remember, @geoffgolberg they used these powers to kick you off of X.

teddit

there is nothing more valuable than a high trust society.

You can build on Base from your:

Phone
Laptop
Six screen multi-monitor setup with liquid cooling

How do you build on Base?

hot take: you shouldn’t be building on your phone.

coins

@base builder #001; onchain cities w/ OAK & city3

you can collect this single piece of content with no expectations and the knowledge that i will create many more on @zora. if i'm lucky this will go viral and contentcoins will become a meme.

https://zora.co/coin/base:0xf386cbe2cf17211ba3b38d17209a05a591f99af4?referrer=0xd211b9417f28d128435cd8d022aeaebbc8a28f17

this is great. 

stuff like this will make high-l1 gas fees a feature again for spam resistance. 

or you could use a finite, non-fungible, identity-addressable namespace for this kind of thing.

Farcaster

we didn’t start /farville to onboard the next billion - we just wanted to grow some dumb crops 🌽

but then kids and normies got addicted…
and we realized: THIS IS IT.

onboarding doesn’t need a wallet tutorial
it needs obsession.

/farville is a trojan horse.
and we’re just getting started. 🤝

i don’t want these people in my socioeconomic network. but thank god i’ll be able to discover and exclude them thanks to onchain records of their dopamine addictions.

Zora

there are two distinct coin buyers:

1. collectors - doing it for the joy. to support the creator. not price sensitive, but love a 100x because it funds their collecting.
2. traders - doing it for the money. working to be early.

both are important and base is for everyone.

if this is all that ‘coins’ have to offer, we should all go to the casino or home to our funko pop collections.

it’s fun to be addicted to an app you are working on

the one thing urbit does not fix, in fact.

~$100m in bitcoin on @base from @coinbase customers borrowing USDC onchain

this is the first defi mullet product and it's only been a couple months - this flywheel is going to bring billions and billions of capital onchain

‘defi mullet product’ is an amazing phrase.

All of your crypto. All of your wallets. All in one place. Your home for everything onchain. wallet.coinbase.com

hey @jessepollak or @coinbasewallet team, trying to learn about how coinbase smart wallet passkeys are used. namely, how the authorized domains that can prompt a signature are managed. is there any documentation on this or code that you could point me to?

Mini Apps

If I had a free week, I would spend it iterating on mini app paradigms as rapidly as possible. 

This is a super exciting paradigm that feels like “slowly and then all at once” 

The everything apps are coming and mini apps will win app distribution

the apple app store would like to speak to your manger

New essay:
The case against conversational interfaces

• Natural language is a bottleneck
• The "pass me the butter" test
• AI as augmentation

↓
https://julian.digital/2025/03/27/the-case-against-conversational-interfaces/

oh thank god. please no more conversational interfaces.

Institutions need clarity as to who/what/where they are trading with, and today they can get that via Verified Pools. Pick up a Coinbase Verification today and try it out!

Institutional capital can now feel comfortable LPing in Uniswap v4, knowing that their counterparties went through KYC.

0x users who have a Coinbase Verifications credential will automatically tap into the liquidity from these pools. The first organic trade already happened nearly 2 weeks ago!

this has to be the least cypherpunk thing of all time.

Reporter at Drop Site News, co-host at Breaking Points/Counter Points

usg shitcoinbros, remember what the point of crypto is. 

cypherpunks write code.

sovereign tools for peer-to-peer crypto-economic activity in the world of atoms.

tocwexsyndicate.com

~tocwex.syndicate

@tocwex