Some reasons why I feel confident taking a big bet on Farcaster with building Bountycaster and things to consider:

- permissionless to build on protocol (don't have to worry about platform API changes)

- Dan Romero Varun Srinivasan and team ship consistently including new primitives to…

One of my favorite, and most personal, podcast conversations to date with Barrett Brooks! 🎧

Barrett is an excellent interviewer and we covered a ton of ground, from inspirations to motivations to why it all comes down to the simple, beautiful things in life like family and…

Are there US-based react native dev agencies that have staff+ engineers?

Have talked to a few agencies, but they all seem to have mostly junior / senior people vs. staff+.

Excited for this!

Some news from the Prop House team: we're sunsetting prop.house and doubling down on rounds.wtf.

mirror.xyz/seneca.eth/tmg…

Goal with Bountycaster

reduce friction for users to create a bounty by just writing a Farcaster post + using OpenAI to auto process it

-> increase # of people offering to pay for work

-> more people get paid globally in crypto & build reputation for work + connect w/ others

How is this constitutional?

Even discounting this projection by 50%, 3.5 years to $3B+ revenue is extraordinary.

For reference Viasat does $2.5B a year.

+100

Warpcast is down. Will be back up in 10 minutes.

I would pay Amazon $10 a month to not show me sponsored listings.

1/ Big news from Warp! We’ve raised $5.7M from HOF Capital, Y Combinator, Abstract Ventures + a ton of amazing builders and angel investors.

Also excited to share more about –
- Our customers
- Our platform
- Our grand vision
- In-person launch events in SF + NYC

Read more below…

April protocol stats

- 85K DAU single day ATH
- First month averaging 70K+ DAU
- First month with 200K+ MAU; +30% MoM

Farcaster actions now support frames

Actions are mini-apps that users can install on their client.

Like a Chrome extension for a social network.

Here's an action that can create a Linear ticket for a feature request right from the feed.

I gave a talk at Farcon about connecting and leveraging all the 'context' data you have.

Wallets, casters, casts, frames, and contracts can link together in a complex set of interaction loops, opening up many exciting possibilities for applications built on top of it.

As someone who’s run events for a long time, ted (on farcaster) crushed it this year with FarCon. Bummed to have had to duck out early, but excited for this entire community.

FarCon has been epic!

Huge shout out to ted (on farcaster) for organizing such an amazing event. 🙌

had fun chatting Crypto: The Game with the game master, Jesse Pollak (jesse.xyz) 🛡️, ted (on farcaster), and Gaby Goldberg at Farcon yesterday

and congrats to ted (on farcaster), Dan Romero, Varun Srinivasan et all on a very cool day -- it's special to see a burgeoning social network made high-fidelity in person