Just as Bitcoin touched all-time highs, the markets decided to tumble. Classic. Still, the outlook remains bullish for the future of finance. Here’s what’s new around Farcaster, Base, and beyond: Farcaster: Submit Your Trade Ideas Users can now submit their own stories to the Trade Ideas feed. → Feature Farcaster: Notification Dots for Trade Ideas A red notification dot now appears when new trade ideas are posted on the Search tab for mobile. → Update Bondes: Farcaster Desktop Client All Farc...

Gm gm, super exciting week ahead! Bitcoin is hovering near all-time highs, but it definitely does not feel euphoric yet. Here’s what happened throughout the weekend: Base App: Group Chats with AI Agents Base App now lets you level up your group chats by adding AI agents. → Update Farcaster: Token Chart Improvements Token charts now update faster and show more accurate data, including overlays of your buys and sells. → Details Aptos Winterschool Applications Open Aptos opens applications for i...

Good morning everyone! Uptober is on a great start, we do hope it continues until the end of the month and beyond. Tipn S4 with $DAU Allocators can now comment tip their $DAU Allocations directly from the @dau treasury in cast replies. A total of 10M tokens (~$15k) are up for grabs across two weeks. → Details Rainbow: King of the Hill Rainbow launches King of the Hill, a Clanker-powered daily trading game. Players compete to pick the top Clanker, with rewards in points now and future $RNBW al...

Big day. The Fed is poised to announce a rate cut (or not, but I think they will), and markets can snap either direction on the headline and press conference. Either way, it is a good moment to zoom out. We have been deep in the Farcaster bubble, so today I am widening the lens and will start tracking a few things beyond our usual loop. Let us see what is shipping, what is raising, and what is worth testing.

Here is the big one. Base says it is beginning to explore a network token, and in crypto “exploring” usually means the train has left the station even if no timetable is posted. If Coinbase the company has $COIN, there is a tidy symmetry to Base the network eventually having $BASE. Call it the “coin everything” ethos meeting first principles: if you believe tokens are native to the internet and align networks, then the network that onboards the next wave should probably eat its own cooking. J...

Good morning, Farcaster. New week, new catalysts. The FOMC meets this week to decide on interest rates, which matters for crypto because easier policy lowers funding costs, lifts risk appetite, and can push more liquidity on chain. Many of you are also at Basecamp in Vermont, so watch for surprise launches.

Good morning Farcaster and hello September! Seasonally, September had been a down month while August was generally a good month. However, we've seen that August wasn't the best month so hopefully we'll see a good September ahead. Plenty of things to look forward to including a possible rate cut (There is an 83% chance of a rate cut currently on Polymarket).

Majors dipped this week and the Fear and Greed Index floated in the neutral 45–55 zone, which puts us in that no man’s land feeling. Call it a little zugzwang on whether the market rips or not. As we head into September, seasonality says “Septembear” then “Uptober,” but with a mid‑September Fed meeting in focus, any hint of rate cuts could flip the mood fast. I am still leaning bullish, but Base volume looks thin across many names, so I am keeping the caution high. GM and have a great weekend...

Gmonday! Can't believe we're in the last week of August. Here is what you might have missed throughout the weekend, bite-sized and link-ready. Skim, click, and dive deeper into whatever catches your eye.

this week felt like watching an entire season of a show in one sitting. farcaster plotlines, platform drama, protocol drops, and enough confusion to keep the group chats alive. so here’s what you missed while degen was lighting itself on fire.farcaster launched a bug bounty program where you can get paid up to 25k if you find and fix a bug. so if you’ve been rage-clicking your client and thinking "this shouldn't be happening," you might be a front-end security engineer now. also, hamdi joined...