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It begins not with a bang but with a notification. A paralegal receives word that the contract review system can now handle her most complex tasks. A graphic designer opens her email to find that her long-term client has switched to an AI generation platform. A teacher stares at a stack of essays with the unsettling realization that he can no longer confidently identify which were written by students and which by machines. The algorithmic revolution unfolds in quiet moments of displacement. T...

Mini apps keep growing Mini apps on Farcaster are having a moment. They live inside the feed. Want to collect a podcast or essay? Play a game? You can do it right where you're scrolling. Builders are experimenting fast, and we’re showcasing some of the most creative uses yet. Base @base Mini apps are based. @titlesxyz lets you create AI art using models trained by top artists, all from inside @farcaster_xyz. Your imagination just got a mint button. 337 11:58 AM • Apr 21, 2025 Base @base Mini ...

People tell me work once happened before email. What strange practices did that involve? How did that function day to day? Guided by the light of oral history and forged by the fire of work stress tinged with so many emails, I asked my AI assistant to spin a mythopoetic yarn about the creation of the inbox, its power over its former masters, and ultimately point to how we might live in harmony with the inbox. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Enjoy! In the First Days, before the Stream...

The best mini app builders optimize for building on mobile. A few general tips for making best-in-class mobile mini apps:Simplify screensMake buttons and touch targets biggerRemove unnecessary crypto jargon and UI complexityExample: Crowfund mini appHere's an example on how to improve a popular mini app, Crowdfund.Consider moving anything optional to after you complete the primary action, so in this case the comment would come after the donationMake the primary action -- adding a donation amo...

Read that headline again. New music from Sammy Virji, Zeds Dead and Ben Böhmer - all in one week. Our curation is at an all time high and we're onboarding acts that we've always dreamed of working with. The goal has always been to bring great music onchain and we feel now more than ever that the vision is coming to life. We're continuing to polish the Coop Recs app - adding both Artist and User Profiles to the mix this week, soon to be followed by a follow/following experience to keep up with...

Good morning and happy Friday. As Congress wraps up April recess, the founder of The Rage - an independent publication focused on financial surveillance – shares her thoughts on building a media project through crypto donations, Tornado Cash sanctions, Roman Storm’s case, and more key issues on the financial privacy front.Interview - The RageCrypto & Independent MediaQ1: What is the The Rage and why do you think it’s important to have a publication uniquely focused on financial surveillance? ...

It started with a question I asked Jacob Horne during an AMA last week. > What is the endgame for what we're all building here? Is it hyperstructures? What comes after? Jacob replied: > Endgame for what we are all building in crypto: better hive mind operating system. aka how we all coordinate at a societal level. That stuck with me. A better hive mind operating system. Not in the sci-fi dystopia sense, but in the very human sense. A shared memory. A way to coordinate. A way to know things to...

Socrates once walked through a busy market and said, “I see so many things I do not need—and am made richer for knowing it.” The more you need, the less free you are. I understand this, but wanting things feels so natural, so human. Ironically, I find myself wanting to not want things, which contradicts the whole idea of not wanting. But not wanting anything also feels extreme, like being a monk, and I don't want to be a monk. Instead of shaving my head and wearing robes, here's what I tell m...

We're enjoying spring weather in this issue #242 of your weekly poetry shot

What newborns and new startups have in common: Sleepless nights, endless doubt, and sudden breakthroughs

Brandon Donnelly 🇨🇦 @donnelly_b Traffic is horrible in Toronto and it will only get better once we fully embrace a post-car future. Everyone driving around most of the time just isn't going to work for a city region of our scale. 132 11:29 AM • Apr 24, 2025 We talk a lot about mobility and traffic congestion on this blog — particularly in the context of Toronto — and that's because it remains a problem and we continue to avoid any sort of big and meaningful moves. Instead, we like to politi...

For the first time in history, visual art has a social layer. This post explores how NFTs and networked platforms have transformed art from something private and niche into something people can share, remix, and build community around. Drawing comparisons to music, gaming, books, and sports, it reflects on how distribution models drive cultural connection and why we are still early in art’s evolution.

MegaETH walks the talk with Crossy FluffleThese days, new blockchains highlight how fast they are with TPS (transactions per second) to show what they’re capable of. However, nothing beats showing vs. telling. Last week MegaETH launched Crossy Fluffle, inspired by the popular Crossy Road mobile game. Like Frogger, players have to get their Fluffle bunny character as far as possible in 1 minute. The way the MegaETH team showed it was also notable:Each move is a transaction, reflected in the lo...

This morning I had a surgical procedure to fix an inguinal hernia. This afternoon I am sitting at home writing this post. While not quite “waving a tricorder” this is a massive testament to medical progress. Also right up front: thanks to everyone at Weill Cornell Medical Center for being not just incredibly professional but also super friendly. And thanks to Gigi Danziger for being there from start to finish! As it turns out I can judge how much progress this represents from personal experie...

The proposal seeks to test raising the Ethereum mainnet gas limit to 150 million by the Fusaka hard fork.

A ZK protocol designed to scale zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) compute across chains.

DeAI summer is coming, get ahead of the curve. Here's everything you need to know.

To build a global onchain economy, we need to scale to keep gas fees under one cent. Our goal for 2025 is to reach a gas target of 250 Mgas/s — a 100x increase from where we started. In Q1, we hit a major milestone: 25 Mgas/s, 10x from launch. We’re now on track to reach 50 Mgas/s by the end of Q2. This quarterly review provides a status update of critical scaling bottlenecks, and our progress towards eliminating them.

A month ago, I launched Tortoise, a music collective and product studio built on Farcaster. There were three main pieces of this launch:Deployed the Tortoise Token ($TORT) Launched the Tortoise Player, a Farcaster mini app for streaming, sharing, and collecting music Released a song called Vains on the Tortoise PlayerA ton of work went into this launch, and it was quite successful. The project took over the timeline on launch day, $TORT did over a million USD in volume, and most importantly, ...

Here are the current priorities: 1. CryptoWalletFocus is still growing usage — over 95,000 funded wallets!Second focus is on making mini apps better — new dev tools this week!Deprecating Frames v1 — exploring a date 2. SocialStorage RedenominationSignups for Free with social proof 3. ProtocolSnapchain migration — please move over to SnapchainLaunch Overview