this is an oversimplification, but pretty direct representation. the neat trick is that if you put more work into "finding waldo", it becomes more "effortless" to repeatedly announce you've found waldo.

You have to go to anon.world and then “create a credential” before you cast. It’s not obvious and I think a lil on-boarding screen might help @slokh I actually haven’t been able to get it to work using my mobile wallet and desktop browser, and it doesn’t work on a mobile browser. It’s likely the people using it are desktop browser+wallet

In this case, a ZK proof means that, with these anonymous posting sites, you first verify that you meet a requirement (e.g., you have a wallet with enough tokens). You then use the result of that proof to post on these sites. The "zero knowledge" part is that the sites you post on know that you have enough tokens in your wallet to post on them, but they, at time of posting, never know what wallet or how much tokens you have. It's like if you showed me your wallet once and then I told everyone, "Yeah, she has enough tokens," and they'd let you in. I never tell anyone who you are, what you wallet is, or your token balance.

You have to hold an amount of “anon” to post in anoncast. @slokh is the curator, following him should tell you all you need to know. & zkproof is basically a system of identifying something without revealing it.. Ex. A bar has a age set at 21.. if it had zk proof system in place security would be able to confirm someone is over 21 without revealing the actual age of the customer.

Any no-code solution I know of for frames works like a slideshow. So you’ll have to transform the website into a slideshow/deck/presentation. The buttons below each frame could be links

@horsefacts.eth are you aware of any tooling for a non-dev like @afrochicks to be able to use frames for showing a website in feed?

I've had such trouble with frames too! I've seen people attack a mirror.xyz post within a frame and I'd love to do that with other sites and just cannot figure out how to do it. https://warpcast.tools/ looks pretty amazing but I haven't had a chance to test it out properly - but it should help build frames for you (it's a paid site though) from @undefined.

yeah, your instinct is on point. it looks easy and quick on paper, but is just higher-variance, because part of the appeal is that there are no kludgy details for how speculators profit. are you content with NFTs? these are just as much a collectible, but the rational price is more fan-friendly.

@lior can you help?

Clanker makes it super easy to launch a token which: 1) creates a Uniswap pool (ie a way for people to buy/sell the token) 2) is listed on DexScreener (ie a way to have it show up in common wallets/search) But that doesn’t necessarily translate into making you money. The Uniswap pool generates a 1% fee every time anyone buys/sells, so that’s one path to making money, BUT only if there are people buying/selling and the token price goes up. There are lots of ways to use crypto to help fund you but I don’t know if a token makes sense. That being said @derek used it to fund /nativefun development so maybe you could ask for help. I am sure @proxystudio.eth would help as well if you asked.

the difference is that as a creator, you don't have to dump or "rug pull" on your followers to win with clanker, every buy/sell generates your coin + ETH off LP fees for you so you don't really have to even buy your own coin to earn rewards will let the wordsmith @proxystudio.eth explain better!

The difference is that Hawk Tuah owned 80% of the tokens and then sold With Clanker, you could create a token, but it’s Clanker which technically makes the token and you don’t own any of it until you buy it If you did this, you should buy most of it so you can distribute it later and make the price more stable; but if you sold this would tank the price like Hawk Tuah In addition, I believe Clanker will send you a bunch of the tokens you create as a ‘thank you’ for using the service As for increasing the value, this is a much bigger Q and is an open question. Generally the way to do it is to make holding a token give you access to certain things, like a Q&A with you, or a custom work out playlist which only token holders can buy. Nobody has really figured out how to make this a sustainable model though This might be a good read for you though: https://www.culture3.com/posts/how-nfts-are-changing-what-we-think-we-know-about-brands

The difference is she “rugged”. So she bought a bunch of the supply at first and then when it pumped she sold it all and wiped out everyone’s money. Also it wasn’t her it was someone else doing this and she agreed, she still guilty of course. Clanker launches the token and then everyone can buy at the same time. So that can’t happen. But people can “snipe” and buy a bunch quickly on launch and then dump it like she did. The current issue with clanker imo is the token creator can’t by ANY of the token so it makes doing one kind of pointless. I hope they implement a way for the creator to buy a % of the supply automatically or I think it’s kind of worthless to most people as is.

YES! Thank you! I asked a similar question in /degentokenbase. The only answerI got was from a bot. I launched a clanker token to help fund my classroom. I got some decent info from ChatGPT but I would feel more confident with advice from a person.

key difference is transparency and community alignment. personal tokens need robust governance, clear utility, and AI-driven treasury management to avoid drama. your olympic story has real value, just needs the right framework

Other people have given much better responses on the specifics, but I do want to add that the team behind Hawk Tuah specifically set out to defraud her fans by pre-selling a huge amount of tokens before the official launch and then when those presold tokens were dumped on fans in the first 20 minutes, they blamed snipers. I think if you intend to look after your fans and community, you should generally be okay. 15000 $HUNT

If you launch then buy your token before others, 1) airdrop an amount to your supporters 2) burn an amount to support those who already bought/supported the token. Burn sounds scary but it’s just a way to reduce supply to increase each individual tokens value. It’s as easy as sending to a burn address, which you can find at any DEX website most likely, or by simple google search.

l2 want more users but most focus on more devs. Thinking is that devs create useful apps. And then people will come. Abstract might be for you. I don’t care about loyalty. But if I don’t have gas $ on a chain I can’t even get free stuff. Trying out Ctrl wallet as it has a cross-chain gas tank.

L2s want your loyalty but in this cutthroat competitive environment they typically take short-term measures to get it (ie airdrops, grants) As a user there isn’t much reason to give your loyalty to a specific L2 right now, unless they have and act on the same values that you do. Work with the L2 that gets you the most as a user/creator.

L2s just scald cheaper gas fees in summary, transacting on ETH mainnet is quite expensive.

LMK if you want help understanding this one. I used to create a short segment for X spaces called “Quick Tips with AJ”. I covered bridging from L1 to L2 networks/blockchains. @vitalik.eth recently posted something about blobs and I asked wtf those were. I got an answer that broke open my understanding of the different levels of blockchains.

To add to the comments already here. Blockchains like BTC and ETH can super high transaction fees for every transaction. An L2 basically collects and batches up a bunch of transactions and submits them as one transaction on the L1 chain (ie, ETH) and shares the gas fee amongst all the transactions - making it cheaper. L2s sometimes find themselves with a bunch of cash from their token sales, so they try to incentivize people to market their chain, but there's absolutely no need to be loyal to any single one. 9000 $HUNT

What is an l2? It is a reseller of l1 blockspace. They take user transactions and compress them so they can fit more of them into an l1 block. This makes the average fee per transaction much lower than submitting directly to the l1. Why be on an l2? (1) vs the l1 it is cheaper with minimal loss in security depending on the way the l2 is built (2) vs an alternative l1 you can usually get better security as alot of alt l1s arent particularly secure or robust (can check https://l2beat.com/scaling/summary for risks) Are you meant to be loyal? Its more that since each l2 can be somewhat customized. They have different “vibes” some have alot of defi, some are more for games, some are art focused. They can also choose to prioritize or make cheaper certain transactions to encourage that activity. Usually you just end up using an l2 more than another due to this.

Yeah… got nothing for you about that. On mobile I use rainbow. Works good enough. Uniswap wallet is also consistently in performance

it is what it is 🤷‍♂️

I use rainbow Coinbase is a pain in the ass

Mobile sucks. Use desktop always.

Try @rainbow wallet. Also, if the web browser call to a wallet hangs there and doesn’t go through, try the browser INSIDE the wallet. Just copy the url from your browser, open the wallet browser, and then paste the link.

Try @bankr

I feel this one too much... it's the thing that annoys me most and I know that mainstream people wouldn't want to deal with that. They just want stuff that works.

etherscan.io resolves basic ENS, and there's eth.limo and eth.sucks to see if those are more complex sites. https://www.base.org/names is useful for some marginal diligence. ENS is more secure than DNS, so back in the day degens like me would search for FTP servers that were just a IPv4 address, which was really insecure and sketchy. when in doubt, there should be a legit explorer website that can sandbox what you're looking for before you interact directly.

Same. I check eth name on the eth name website to make sure. You can connect all your wallets to one eth name but don’t know anyone who would do that. Base names are subordinated eth names I think. Only display on base chain

The people need to setup their .eth names in order to receive money to them. But they all “work”

If something supports ENS names, it *should* support Basenames since they're just ENS names that get started on Base but roll up into the main ENS contact on Ethereum mainnet. You may see problems with Basenames because of bad assumptions in software on how ENS names are structured - e.g., Metamask treated my old cold.usdc.jrh3k5.eth ENS as invalid, presumably because it thought there should only be one period in an ENS.

This is indeed a real problem! I am working on a wallet comparison site, and one of the things it will look at is whether each wallet supports all these address formats. https://warpcast.com/polymutex.eth/0x4efa144d

it goes beyond a simple label on top of an address though. creating many addresses is low-friction on blockchains, so ENS-like mechanisms have a short reach if you’re keen on reading deeper on the shortcomings of such naming mechnisms, here’s an intro: https://www.unnamedlabs.com/perspectives/zookos-triangle-and-marks-petnames BTW, you raised some absolutely brilliant points. thanks for hitting the nail on the head tip 50 $degen

may be butchering this... so the market is gaining capital efficiency by very temporarily making your solid value a relatively dependable, expanded value for someone else (e.g. flashloans https://aave.com/docs/concepts/flash-loans) morpho is legit, I've put some of the Warpcast rewards in, also there are other savings games like @pooltogether that are the same structure.

I trust the team. My understanding: put money in a vault. Owner of vault lend that money to others. You get “interest” back. @kugusha.eth knows more. Staking is simpler: here take my money and give it to validators to make sure the l1 remains secure

hey! @morpho is a decentralized landing protocol, so there're 2 sides - lenders and borrowers. As a lender you deposit your asset to one of the vaults. Each vault is exposing your asset to a different set of collateral assets (when borrower wants to take a loan, they must deposit a collateral). Your asset then will be lent out to a borrower and they are paying interest on the loan. You, as a lender, get this interest + any additional rewards (e.g. we reward lenders with $morpho for using the protocol) linking a recent podcast with @paulframbot (Morpho co-founder) if you'd like to get more context https://youtu.be/smvV7Ax3bdE?si=7MVslTxVHKK9JVLU

tagging @kugusha.eth for dis one

Moonwell and Compound are both reliable ways to lend USDC, in my experience (I use both). I like them because they issue *over-collateralized* loans, where someone can only borrow against something like 80% of the value of the ETH or other asset they provide as collateral. It exposes lenders like us to less risk from people defaulting on the loans since the liquidated asset is more easily able to cover the loss.

I tried my first bit of a liquidity pool position when $LUM was created by to ai agents. I cast about it looking for help and someone replied that what I was doing was DCA. Dollar Cost Averaging. Basically trading $LUM for $USDC but over a longer period. Whenever someone wanted LUM they spent USDC for it and my little pool helped keep the price from fluctuating wildly since it was a long term position.

Be super, super, super careful with APYs and staking. Think of it like bank interest. If you put money in the bank and they give you 3% interest on that - that means that they are investing that money and trying to make way more than 3% on their investments. That's how they make money. When crypto products offer huge APYs or staking rates, that often means they are printing more of their tokens to pay the APY rates, which will devalue the overall token (or they're straight up doing a Ponzi scheme). As with anything in crypto, don't invest what you can't afford to lose entirely. 9000 $HUNT

You know more about it than I

you might like @vitalik.eth 's take on bridging: https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/rwojtk/ama_we_are_the_efs_research_team_pt_7_07_january/hrngyk8/ the prices are supposed to be as close to each other, but this is only as robust as independent 3rd-parties arbitrage any discrepancy.

*Theoretically*, the price of DEGEN can and will remain consistent between Base and Solana. HOWEVER, nothing guarantees that they remain consistent - I've seen (a very minority case) of tokens have different values on different chains. It's usually about what the market prefers. If DEGEN folks decided to just abandon the token on a chain (and I have ZERO reason to believe they would do this), the value of DEGEN on that abandoned chain would drop to zero while the other chains would be unaffected (unless the abandonment shook confidence in the entire coin, which could cause the token to drop in value across those chains, too). It's why USDC had a depeg - you were still able to redeem it for 1 USD on places like Coinbase, but confidence in the token was shook by closure of Silverbank, which caused it to depeg on the open market from 1 USD.

Bridging is technically really hard. You basically have to take a token from one blockchain and represent it on another... but you can't do it in a way that copies it or else you're doubling the supply. So you kind of have to cut and copy instead of copy and paste. A token absolutely will have different prices on different chains - and bots are constantly trying to make money on arbitrage (buying a token that's cheaper on one chain/exchange and selling it or the same amount on a chain it's more expensive). 9000 $HUNT

yes please do!!!

will do ☺️ bookmarking