we will keep experimenting until something works and then we will keep experimenting more.

the main risk for zora is the values going up too much too fast

because then when they fall to a reasonable value, that fall is too steep to come back from, which was part of the problem for bitclout and friendtech

yes BTC made some massive comebacks from seeming dead in the early days, and we all saw solana come back from a 96% crash from last cycle's high, but the larger the fall, the less likely the comeback, all else equal

farcaster has avoided a big rise and fall in attention because there's no token, they've focused on a slow and deliberate growth strategy, and they're not doing things like creator coins, but growth seems to be getting harder as the lowest hanging fruit are here and so maybe they'll change that strategy, don't know

there is no silver bullet here, and neither is right or wrong, just different

i hope both zora and farcaster are extremely successful in the long run

here's how you could have made 20x in 1 month by checking out our link of the day via the $QR mini app

last month, @seeingblue won QR auction #110 to drive attention to his zora profile

it was the day after zora creator coins launched and his was trading at $26k

now trading above $500k

“Seeing Blue” is a philosophy of curiosity, exploration, and discovery where experiments never fail · cherish the dot · 👓 🔵
mintoftheday.com · $QR #66 & #110

here's how you could have made 20x in 1 month by checking out our link of the day via the $QR mini app

last month, @seeingblue won QR auction #110 to drive attention to his zora profile

it was the day after zora creator coins launched and his was trading at $26k

now trading above $500k

https://qrcoin.fun

all this digital collecting kinda got me itching to collect sports cards again

absolutely loved it as a kid, and still have all my cards somewhere

but idk if that is an obsession i want to wake up again

we'll see

some people are overpowered and underrated

when you find them, bet on them however you can

also, it is helpful to let them know you believe in them

the power of knowing someone believes in you is immense

Streme

Streme.fun won the most recent $QR auction....as the first ever crowdfunded win.

We decided to point the QR of the day to the Streme mini-app link, and the results blew us away:

- Trending Mini-App: #15 → #3 (ATH)
- Mini-App Adds: 53 → 736 (ATH)
- Mini-App DAUs: 534 → 2,145 (ATH)
- Base App #1 Finance Category

**Here's how the magic happened:**

Our bid was $1000, crowdfunded by $streme holders through the first ever "streaming crowdfund." The mechanic wasn't simple necessarily, but it was pretty damn cool. The tl;dr: stakers could reroute their staking rewards to the crowdfund pool and get a huge chunk of Superfluid $SUP as a bonus for their contribution.

The beauty was in the inevitability. Once you rerouted your rewards, they just kept accumulating in the crowdfund pool without any further action needed. Set-and-forget, ever-increasing crowdfund power.

**The drama unfolded like this:**

12 hours in: ~$50 worth of $streme pooled. Next day: $146. At $242: We started bidding (mostly for fun). Lost a few bids in the $400s, but I knew our win was inevitable at this point.

Then plot twist: $streme market cap jumped from ~$300k to ~$600k when a virtuals whale aped in. We had crushed our target with ~$1200 pooled together.

But we lost again to a $1500 bid.

We were still going to win though. Inevitability, as you have it, is a powerful force.

Finally, we took QR Auction #141 with a bid of $1000 - exactly our initial target.

**What this really means:**

A set-and-forget ever-increasing crowdfund is a powerful community primitive. Our Streme groupchat was going wild every day as we pushed for wins and pooled funds. At the end of the day, stakers chose between collecting rewards or contributing to something they felt would make the token and platform more valuable (the SUP rewards didn't hurt, I'm sure).

I'm glad we didn't win the first day. The back and forth with @jake and our community's public attempts made for great timeline drama (though I'm also glad we pulled it out before too much time passed).

This started from a cast where I declared Streme should make a shot at QR. @burrrrrberry, @kylepatrick.eth, and @sayangel all committed one week's worth of rewards. Sounded like a great feature to add, so I prototyped it with @markcarey over a few days, then spent weeks refining and waiting for the right moment to launch.

As always, I adore building with the Farcaster community. You guys are truly the best.

**Immediate Followup:**
@markcarey and I prioritized two features when it looked like we'd win in the next few days: 1) a small experimental daily drop of staked Streme that would immediately get rewards flowing to mini-app users' wallets and 2) a basic tutorial of what Streme was all about. 

Neither of these are in their final form, but I wanted a very strong carrot to keep mini-app users coming back while we worked on future improvements.

**Looking forward:** 
The pool is actually still growing even now as you read this! In the immediate short-term, we'll transition out of a goal-driven crowdfund to a more general $streme marketing fund, with future initiatives (betrmint, warpslot, DAU, etc.) in the works. 

More broadly, streaming set-it-and-forget-it community crowdfunds feel like a powerful primitive for the platform, especially since we can easily allow access to other Streme launched tokens down the line.

Community-driven token marketing ftw.

ggs

Zeni crowdfunded $1,000 to win a @qrcoindotfun auction.

His mini app surged to #1 in the finance category on Base and #3 overall trending on Farcaster as a result.

They doubled their $STREME market cap in the process and now have a growing, general-purpose marketing fund.

Study Zeni.

20 minutes left in today’s auction

https://qrcoin.fun

AUCTION #143

$341 bid by @atown leads.

@phil & @seeingblue have the next best bids

both bidding to point the QR to their zora profiles.

interesting... 1 hour 48 minutes left:

Elevating onchain creators 

@nodefoundation @brightmoments 
@ampsfun

Building the future of digital culture 👾 | Growth, Crypto @lazertech | founder @tryemerge | advisor @emprops-ai | ex @rodeodotclub / WarnerMedia

AUCTION #143

$341 bid by @atown leads.

@phil & @seeingblue have the next best bids

both bidding to point the QR to their zora profiles.

interesting... 1 hour 48 minutes left: https://qrcoin.fun

if you bought or received $tricil at ANY point in time, you are now in profit. 

feel free to do what you have to do

all time high

I will send $100 worth of $30 (coin) to the person who collects this cast.

Zero obligation to hold after receiving.

https://30coin.fun

Full-stack developer exploring onchain prev-@reclaimprotocol @basecolors

I will follow the collector of this cast.

Eng @superstate. Chasing curiosity. People, nature, machines. Hakuna matata, "Its a problem-free philosophy.”

Screens

There are some bots that go heavy on the trying to be human on this network and it’s respect but like you’re very botty

I can’t wait for another ATH so I can post and tell people to sell if they want and that I won’t take it personally and that they should do what is best for them.

Today’s auction winner now #3 on the trending mini apps leaderboard.

THE $QR EFFECT

$341 bid and @kryptocockcoin hasn’t event entered the chat yet.

kinda want him to win now tbh

🐔 Krypto $COCK = The biggest cock on BASE! Even wen bags are pumping we are all still dead inside! 

https://t.me/KryptoCockCoin

$341 bid and @kryptocockcoin hasn’t event entered the chat yet.

kinda want him to win now tbh

https://qrcoin.fun

QR is simple because I don’t have a tolerance for complexity 

if I can get it most people can too

weakness and a strength

Fascinated with the puzzle that is modern society