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Rarely are there chances to get a front row seat watching a team build something ambitious. Even more rare is being able to build alongside them and make meaningful contributions. Farcaster is both and the Merkel team has been a constant source of inspiration and learning. Impossible not to be excited for everything that comes next

feeling very grateful for everyone who supported us over the last few years

You know you’re building something good when you haven’t checked CoinGecko prices for so long that you get logged out of your account and can’t remember the password

Building in consumer social shows you the internet at it’s absolute best and worst. You have to take big swings while moving and learning as fast as possible. I’m incredibly proud to have done that alongside @0xl @drewf.eth @simmons Our products thrived when they made social graphs composable. When teams are heads down working to make the best possible product, composability often becomes an afterthought. Users and developers benefit the most in a composable world. That is the future I want to live in and why I am so excited to join the @herd.eth team to make it a reality.

Creators already capture significant value and upside. It's directly related to their ability repeatedly capture attention and how much effort they are willing to put in

after some delays due to the government shutdown there is a new testflight link while supplies last https://testflight.apple.com/join/TJUjsmkQ

Marketing / press that compares various forms of self custody and key management could go a long way for converting crypto natives to use warplet as their main wallet

The amount of new tokens vs new apps is a great example of current society celebrating consumption more than production

Transact with your privy wallets across apps. Will be capping the TestFlight soon https://testflight.apple.com/join/evcS6M9R

One interface to manage funds across all of your apps. Send funds between apps or aggregate them all in one place. TestFlight coming soon, dm if you want to try it out!

Anyone else have privy wallets all over the place? Have something in the works that might be helpful

If you gave a friend $1,000 what would you tell them to buy

Another important lesson: When creating a social app you need to onboard the existing 1% of users on other apps and/or enable a new medium that enables new creators

Farcaster Pro USDC Vault: Curated by Merkle, 0% performance fee for Farcaster Pro users

Markets are algorithms for curiosity and need personalization beyond sorting by volume or activity

Note to self don’t sign on subway

Bugs I ship to prod

Stop bringing people onchain. It implies a learning curve for users. Bring onchain to people. Apps and experiences should be eliminating learning curves.

This is why you should order cold brew while traveling - ready fast (usually cashier pours) - tastes good black (hard to mess up order) - less acidic (less bathroom emergencies) - less microplastics (no heat melting plastic cup) - high caffeine (less travel fatigue)

Thinking a lot about Dan’s points about consumers preferences - using credit cards for convenience and rewards. Main thing I keep coming back to is that points style systems (creating value out of thin air) are things crypto excels at. Convenience then comes from being able to use existing infra and not having to use a non major cc provider. Maybe phantom cash could be the first consumer ready attempt at bridging this gap.