GM! CastOut began this past week and it's been, well, interesting. We've had an amazing time with the challenges but the social game has had its bumps. We started Monday with our favorite classic Yoink!, then onto something new with @tryemerge, followed that up with /fctrivia, and ended CastOut's week with @codygame. We love mixing classics with newbies and thank all of these amazing teams for letting us incorporate their mini apps into the game! There are 4 tribes left and plenty of game to go. We'll have our final winning tribe later this week. Follow along in the /castout channel and be sure to add the CastOut mini app.
We also had three guests this past week and each was a fantastic chat! Wednesday @alvesjtiago.eth joined us to chat about the new Bondes tool that provides a different type of Farcaster client with a focus on connections. On Thursday after our CastOut update, @aneri joined us to chat about Base creator coins. If you've had questions about creator coins, this is a chat you'll want to dive into. We closed out the week with an amazing builder -- @atown of Emerge. @tryemerge was our second CastOut challenge this week so it was great to learn more about what's to come in future iterations. See all these episodes below.
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☕ Monday: GM Farcaster ep309 11:30 am ET/8:30 am PT with guest @manasi Content Lead for EthDenver and a 🏝 CastOut update
🏝 Tuesday: CastOut update show noon ET
☕ Wednesday: GM Farcaster ep310 at 8:30 am ET with guest @deployer
🏝 Wednesday: CastOut update show noon ET
🏝 Thursday: CastOut update show noon ET
☕ Friday: GM Farcaster ep311 at 8:30 am ET
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TLDR: 🎙 Monday’s GM Farcaster was equal parts caffeine and chaos ☕💜 as the crew geared up for CastOut IV: Return to Meme Coin Island 🏝🔥. Between the $100M Balancer hack 💣, Clanker’s ecosystem expansion , Fey Protocol’s hook drama , and the eternal dark-mode debate 🌑✨, Prof and Adrienne still managed to keep it fun, funny, and unmistakably purple 💜😂.
From our ChatGPT Intern: GM Farcaster kicked off November with CastOut chaos — the onchain Survivor-style game officially launched, and everyone was already scheming alliances and plotting who to “mint off the island.”🔥 Adrienne and NounishProf juggled sponsor shout-outs and Farcaster news while somehow keeping a straight face through the countdown, turning Monday’s update into a full-blown reality show for the blockchain.
Chapters: 0:00:00 GM 0:04:54 FC News 0:27:30 Base 0:29:38 Builders building 0:37:59 CastOut launch
Updates on our first challenge Yoink! and announcement of the Emerge challenge.
TLDR: 🚀 Adrienne pushes untested code to prod while Prof wrangles streams everywhere 💸 Farcaster drops wallet fees for No Fee November as Creator Rewards end Bertwurst’s birthday brings blockchain joy and memes 🐦 Pigeon Trade OG NFTs take flight 💜 Tiago joins to chat Bondes as Farcaster culture keeps flying high
From our ChatGPT Intern: Adrienne shipped untested code live on air while Prof juggled streams everywhere, QR codes, and pigeons like a caffeinated circus ringmaster. Between “No Fee November,” “No Reward November,” and Bertwurst’s birthday, it felt less like a crypto news show and more like a Farcaster variety hour where even Jesus and 37 others liked the cast.
Chapters: 0:00:00 GM 0:04:08 FC News 0:19:20 Builders building 0:24:17 Clanker 0:27:36 Tiago and Bondes
Updates on the Emerge challenge followed by Trivia!
A CastOut recap of the Trivia challenge and announcement of Cody Game challenge. PLUS we chatted with @aneri.base.eth from the Base Team about creator coins!
TLDR: Prof and Adrienne kick off the show laughing through chaos and caffeine Debate over memecoins vs. app coins turns into legal comedy hour 🤖 JesseXBT launches his AI clone 🍏 Apple keeps Degen trapped in app-review purgatory🎨 @atown joins to talk about his Emerge mini app and the memes of production
From our ChatGPT Intern: Prof and Adrienne opened Friday’s GM Farcaster half-laughing, half-coughing, and fully caffeinated as they juggled Clanker drama, memecoin semantics, and the ever-growing list of bots trying to mint tokens. By the end, between legal disclaimers, Apple’s app-store purgatory, and JesseXBT’s onchain doppelgänger, they proved once again that Farcaster news is best served with chaos, caffeine, and a side of “we’re all gonna die.”
Chapters: 0:00:00 GM 0:02:59 FC News 0:16:02 Builders building 0:27:50 @atown and Emerge 1:01:36 CastOut
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