Everyone:
I’m working on a new thing full-time. It started as a Birthday Labs project, and has become its own larger thing, and will be taking all of my time.
Rather than prolonging the inevitable, I want to be clear: the new thing is a separate company and product. With a team. It’s not a rebrand or migration.
People who previously bet on Native as a bet on me, and because of that tie, there’s a lot of frustration and anger and I get that. I’ve made a lot of mistakes over the last year, and I hope there’s some understanding there from you all. It’s hard.
There’s also a lot of folks who are excited about what’s next and they trust me to do right by Native holders. That’s my plan. I will continue to use my personal capital to buy Native.
I want to find ways to reward that belief in me, as it’s allowed me to build over the last year.
But I’ll be honest: I won’t make new promises about it.
What I CAN promise is that I’m *personally* invested in finding the best path forward for people who have supported me via Native. And I’ll prove that.
What I can also say for certain:
• Native holders will receive access to the new product, which is built
• Snapshots are being taken so I have a record of who supported Native, and me
The new direction: infrastructure with a dataset that doesn’t exist onchain yet. While not related, it’s in the same domain as Native: mirroring our economy onchain.
For Native, I’m happy to work with folks who want to work on the idea. There is a TON of code written for Dots, agents, and the Native context. I’m happy to open-source it, hand it over, etc. if there’s a plan in place. I’m happy to help fund the costs of running it. I’m happy to give over fees to a new group. There’s still a path forward for Native as a project if the community wants it.
There’s no easy way to “wind down” a project when there’s an associated token. There are a lot accusations and frustrations and misunderstandings.
I hope that when you step back, you see that I’ve:
• Used my real identity so that I have to directly deal with this head-on.
• Constantly been communicative (the best? No, but I’m here.)
• Open to feedback and ideas here
• Tried to do the right thing with my ownership
• Pushed through difficult times that made it hard for Native, including Base, Clanker, and Farcaster turmoil over the last year.
Once again, I’m so very grateful for those of you who understand the difficulty here, and who have been supportive.
Thank you.
I'm building a team.
Looking for a staff-level, Solidity-writing, full-stacking, product-building software engineer that uses Claude Code to go from 10x to 100x.
DMs are open. Details soon.
Loser sports media:
“why can’t the Eagles hire an OC? Is something wrong in Philadelphia?”
Eagles:
*hires two stellar young offensive minds*
🎶 We’re Philly, f***ing Philly, no one likes us, we don’t care. 🎶
Today's CFTC remarks were wildly bullish and exceeded my already-high expectations.
Some highlights:
• Onshoring perpetuals & novel derivatives
• Love for tokenized collateral (stablecoins)
• Safe harbors for builders
• New DCM category for retail crypto trading
• Withdrawing the prohibition proposal
America woke up and chose builders.
i have an unreleased link-in-bio tool that populates as much data as it can from onchain sources, including farcaster.
also built a Patreon-like support button that allows you to tip in any token from your wallet.
yes, it's a miniapp as well. might drop it one day who knows.
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
~ 1 Corinthians 13:11 in which Paul, in his letter to the Corinthian church, refers to stepping back from his own participation in Solana’s ecosystem
𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫
1. 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗶𝘇𝗲
Farcaster is a bigger circle than friends and family - bigger sample size leads to better learnings.
2. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀
Because the wallet is embedded, it's easier to experiment on the core of your product without worrying about the friction of onboarding to the chain
3. 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝗼𝗹
There are phenomenally talented people here to recruit, hire, work with here. They're familiar with the chain, and they're risk-on.
4. 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗔𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀
Casters often have presences elsewhere, which makes Farcaster a great place to build a "street team" for when you want to breakout.
5. 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹
Between Clanker and the VCs here looking for the next-big-thing, it's a great place to find early capital.
In a world where AI is ubiquitous, human talent stands out even more.
AI tools just level us all up, so the floor is higher.
But the gap between the floor and ceiling grows, as talented people can do more than ever before.
Leadership, cross-domain pattern recognition, taste, communication, empathy, intention, and execution are differentiators.
