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rish

GM big day 

just invited Stefanie (my wife) to Farcaster. She’s never onboarded to crypto (like at all), we’ll see how this goes 😆

two years ago got @galazio to use farcaster (and crypto) for the first time

Writing a novel 📚 Casting about food, gardening, travel | 🍋 All Galazio Kitchen episodes available at /galazio | My blog: paragraph.xyz/@galazio

two years ago got @galazio to use farcaster (and crypto) for the first time

https://farcaster.xyz/rish/0xe8e5187f

Base

casual builder chat #1: @rish on @neynar and @base

had a great time hanging IRL with @jessepollak earlier today

💭 Prompt: What are things you could “do in an hour” that would take others several days to do?

i can answer the opposite of this question

miniword puzzles

i never know what any of those clues are

I originally wanted to wait and grab a particular number - 6666 or 9999 (no good reason, just aesthetics)

Alas
1. Didn't find time to build a sniper bot to do that
2. Realized Warp subscriptions are not onchain so the numbers don't matter 

Got a random numbered subscription earlier today. Looking forward to protocol storage getting cheaper 👀

Dan onboarded @manan with the same “sure. best email?” thing

Manan just sent me the .dmg immediately, apparently he wasn’t supposed to

We then onboarded members of @coinbasewallet team (@zconn.eth), which we also weren’t supposed to lol

Dan then did a video call with the whole team, this was in 2021 

We tried to get coinbase to build on Farcaster in 2022, didn’t work 

So we left and started building on Farcaster ourselves with @neynar 

@base realized in 2024 what was up and started building on Farcaster using Neynar

Still early

easiest way to build on farcaster @ neynar.com | /neynar

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

the Pokémon mini app inspired me to go down the emulator rabbit hole

quote cast the first CD you ever bought 

still bangers today

quote cast the first CD you ever bought

few will know what this is, nostalgia is high with this one

(linkin park is prob the one right after)

Plan for our Zapper Wallet launch:

- Wait till fees for sign-ups get down to 20 cents
- Enable anyone to sign up to Farcaster via Zapper
- Port more and more Zapper portfolio and explorer features to wallet in the meantime
- Get a 2nd large user cohort to test out our new feed updates + FIP-2 swap integration
- Bunch of NFT integrations (FIP-2 as well?)

More apps should be planning to onboard farcaster users once fees is down

I think it will go down below 20 cents, apps should assume negligible cost per user (effectively free)

fc-updates

We’re planning to launch a new, optional “Pro” protocol subscription

1. At launch, subscribers will have a Pro badge on their profile

2. Subscription will be onchain and part of the protocol. 100% of the proceeds go to casters / developers in weekly rewards. This in addition to the existing $25K+ a week in rewards. 

3. Planning to add longer casts (10K characters) and up to 4 images per cast for pro subscribers (needs a protocol change). Additional features over time.

4. $120 a year / $10 a month 
Why are we doing this?

- The protocol needs to find long-term revenue source that can continue fund caster and developer rewards beyond any one company.  
- We originally thought storage fees could be that, but we’ve realized that storage fees should be essentialy free to help growth. 
- So we’re trying an opt-in pro subscription as another model

Why now?

- Figuring out a long-term revenue model that works will allow us to double down on investing in growth

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one positive life change I’ve made recently - fully separate phone for workout (and bedtime)

- only apps it has are Whoop, Spotify, Eight Sleep and PagerDuty; even Safari is disabled 

- there’s no real bedtime use other than the few nights where Eight Sleep autopilot gets the temperature wrong

big improvement to overall workout routine

The car I first learned to drive on was a Suzuki Omni. I was 14 and where I grew up, there are no traffic laws or driver license checks. The engine is right under the driver and smokes when you drive it hard. Fwiw makes you a better driver in the grand scheme of things. 

The first car I bought was a 2002 RAV4, right after college. Did multiple cross country road trips with it, made it into a camper with a full bed (picture in reply).

The first car that was an impulse buy was a 1994 NA Mazda Miata. Best stick shift (picture in reply).

made a slightly more involved change

hard to express how good a gated shifter sounds on a NA Miata

Farcaster

farcon 2026 be like

https://dash.bnbs.dev/share/0xefa2992b95c5f5a0222793b279e859bb5b6e910d

Always impressed by how smooth Dash is

Makes clear how much video content on the protocol has increased, used to be a text only Mac app

the first project i'll share as /a0 is a piece of history of Farcaster and it never saw the light of day :') it'll take a few days to put the pieces together as there is just so much to go over 

it was an iOS app, can you guess what it was for?

we work through and kill many ideas for every product we end up launching

Just built a Sorting Hat mini app.

 Which house are you?
 https://sorting-hat-alpha.vercel.app 🎩

great new mini app from aneri, got sorted into slytherin lol 

i love seeing new ways people use our products, this one is powered by the popular-casts endpoint: https://docs.neynar.com/reference/fetch-popular-casts-by-user

I solved today's MiniWord in 0:09 (#1 on the leaderboard) Can you beat me?

when you think crossword puzzle is a typing test and somehow type in the exact right words