GM! It was a "it's so over; we're so back" kind of week (currently writing from "it's so over" land). Wait, didn't I start this newsletter like this last week? It's like Groundhog Day! But we've been here before (not that any of us wanted to return).

But even with lobster bots running wild and markets crashing, we had two great episodes this week with amazing OG builders: @matthewfox chatting Clankermon with us on Monday and @jacek the new dad hanging with us Wednesday to chat Degen. Catch both of those below.

And again if you missed our chat with @rish about the Neynar acquisition of Farcaster, you'll definitely want to go give that a watch. We had a great chat that included questions from @neynar!

This coming week, slight scheduling change -- we'll be on Tuesday and Thursday with @mleejr popping by (did you know that grok has money?) and @cojo will join us Thursday to chat about "the new thing" from Ponder. Get your notifications set now!

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Coming up this week:

🤖 Monday: NO SHOW this week

🤖 Tuesday: GM Farcaster 11:30 am ET/8:30 am PT Clankcaster Spotlight on $drb with @mleejr presented by Clanker

Wednesday: NO SHOW this week

Thursday: GM Farcaster 11:30 am ET with @cojo of Ponder presented by The Haberdashery

☕ Friday: NO SHOW this week

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TLDR: Markets were down 🦀 crustacean agents invaded Farcaster 🧠 the timeline was chaotic and unexplainable to civilians 🎢Matthew Fox explained Clankermon 🐉 an absurdly onchain creature collecting RPG 🌐 and reminded everyone that Farcaster is still the internet’s favorite beautiful mess 💜

From our ChatGPT Intern: GM Farcaster kicked off Groundhog Day with markets in free fall, crustacean agents everywhere, Farcaster drama being politely “punted,” and a collective realization that trying to explain this weekend to a normal person is basically impossible. Then Matthew Fox rolled in to calmly explain Clankermon—a fully onchain creature-collecting RPG where instead of doomscrolling tokens you breed crypto-inspired monsters—while the hosts got distracted by memes, backgrounds, and the fact that Farcaster remains the weirdest and best digital third space on the internet.

Chapters: 0:00:00 GM 0:04:35 FC News 0:28:02 @matthewfox and Clankermon 1:11:31 Builders building 1:18:43 bankr and clanker 1:22:55 $native

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TLDR: Markets still down 🦀 crustacean agents get their own Farcaster onboarding 🧠 the joy of realizing your onchain rewards come with a tax bill 💸Jacek pulls up to talk Degen cuz even with a new baby the hat stays on

From our ChatGPT Intern: GM Farcaster kicks off with market jitters, meme wisdom, and a reminder that all your onchain rewards come with the extremely fun prize of taxes, before diving into Farcaster updates like autonomous AI agents spinning up accounts for a dollar and occasionally losing their own private keys. Then OG builder Jacek jumps in to talk Degen lore, the Degen ecosystem, and why supporting Farcaster devs sometimes means trusting bots, purple hats, and a future that’s one agent-created channel away from a mild Terminator vibe.

Chapters: 0:00:00 GM 0:02:53 FC News 0:27:27 @jacek Degen 1:20:04 Builders building

Thank you Rish for joining us today to chat about the recent acquisition of Farcaster by Neynar! We are excited to see your vision come to life on Farcaster.

AND thank you to Lotry.fun for supporting this episode. Check out the @lotry on Farcaster to learn more!

TLDR: ☕📰 Neynar acquires Farcaster 🤝 and the timeline collectively goes from 😬➡️🙂➡️🚀 Builders are back in the spotlight 🛠 mini apps are multiplying 🧩 and Rish confirms this is less “corporate takeover” and more “let’s make Farcaster fun and build weird stuff again” 💜

From our ChatGPT Intern: GM Farcaster speed-runs a collective emotional arc—from “wait, the chat is trolling us” to “this is actually the best possible timeline”—as Neynar officially acquires Farcaster, builders reclaim main-character energy, and the community oscillates between reverent gratitude, meme joy, and cautious optimism. We then sit down with Rish to talk Neynar taking the keys to Farcaster, why this moment feels like a hard reset for builders, and how mini apps, app studios, and unapologetically fun experiments are about to turn the timeline back into a playground instead of a postmortem.

Chapters: 0:00:00 GM 0:03:24 FC News 0:25:00 Rish of Neynar

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