Bidding on QR to share the first iteration of our $STREME buyback program. https://farcaster.xyz/markcarey/0x7d8f4359

Entrepreneur / Founder / Builder - it’s all just mindset and skills you can learn! Let me translate the abstract entrepreneurial label into actionable philosophy. It all translates into five learnable traits: 1. Agency — start before you’re ready. Take ownership. 2. Iteration — learn faster than others quit. 3. Leverage — use systems, tools, and compounding effort. 4. Distribution — learn how ideas spread. 5. Value — obsess over solving real problems for real people. (6. Chaos — tame the chaos, learn to swim in it.) These five are learnable traits and trainable muscles (including the bonus one). Once you build them, you will not want to stop using them. It’s fun and crazy at the same time. Using these pretty much makes you a founder, an entrepreneur — even if your “business” focus is just your life. Will write some more about this in /buildbetter because many people still think you have to be born with skills and a mindset and it’s simply not true.

Two days ago, we submitted our final iteration for Base Batches 002 builders track, just as it was foretold. Today, we are announcing the DEPE alpha test version available to everyone on @farcaster and the @base.base.eth app store as we optimize and prepare for launch. All transactions on the DEPE app are live on Base mainnet. We will be sponsoring the $DEPE pool prize, voting, and staking for 5-10 alpha testers. All alpha testers must be $DEPE holders.

i am so glad i started over my third-iteration spiral is a fucking masterpiece you’ll see soon

"FSP #2" generated by @cryptoetc on @fxhash https://www.fxhash.xyz/iteration/fsp-2

37 - the illusion of randomness. Chosen by instinct, shaped by bias. 10 minutes logo iteration: a square bent by perception with a hidden three-seven silhouette

I was hoping for some teeth and a little creepiness but she can’t help but be a cute little chonk. should I try for another iteration? here's what @tryemerge just made for me using The Warplets by @garrett, spark yours up now!

another iteration from Muzzle Velocity, a text-art series that takes its cue from Ed Ruscha’s ‘News, Mews, Pews, Brews, Stews & Dues’ whilst flipping the transatlantic lens. words are glitched by broken hyperlinks of themselves. hypertext hauntology for Halloween.

The process is the message: an AI iteration chain (outputs are selected as prompts at each iteration) evolved into a closed-loop visual grammar. A model of the bubble in which power is exercised.

every iteration of ‘socialfi’ on farcaster has gone under, despite new attempts to innovate on the concept $tn100x (more or less), $farther, $moxie, etc $degen still standing, that’s why the hat stays on, the OG can run it all the way back and then some 🎩

one of the most powerful mechanics in crypto we have today is interoperable identity single wallet address can be used in all and any of the onchain apps bringing in your onchain history next iteration of that feels like what farcaster is today and aiming for in the future farcaster is aggregating your addresses when you voluntarily connect and verify them + when you connect farcaster to other apps like zora or even base app for example I have about 800-1000 followers on @interface partly because I’m on one of the starter follow lists but also partly due to my farcaster identity linked recently clicker has launched and when I signed up with farcaster it pulled up almost a dozen addresses I’ve got connected and created in other apps like zora - which led to gaining over 500 followers in a short period of time I’ve noticed a significant impact even on other socials like X that I got by simply maintaining the same identity between it and farcaster and a verified link To summarize investing into farcaster feels like investing into the center of future social and financial activity Also apps like zora for example could get bought out in a year or sunset but whatever new app comes into play next will inherit everything you’ve worked on before, again, from farcaster

We’re hiring at Senpi. But not the way most companies hire. We don’t have junior roles. Everyone we bring on operates at staff level. That means full ownership, strategy, architecture, delivery, iteration. The game has changed. AI is the great equalizer. Everyone has the same tools. What separates great engineers now is the ability to structure ambiguous problems fast, to ship quickly, to see the whole system, not just the code. We run a distributed team across Miami, Seattle, India, Dubai, Ottawa, São Paulo, and the Philippines. We plan regularly in person, then we move fast apart. That rhythm, deep alignment followed by deep execution, has taken years to perfect. When I interview, I’m not looking for perfect resumes. I want to see how you think under pressure. Can you take a live product challenge, break it down, and reason through it intelligently in half an hour? That tells me everything. We’re building with people who treat customer support as product research, who live inside the Dojo, who ship and adjust weekly without ego. Fully autonomous, fully accountable, fully Senpi. If that sounds like you, reach out. We’re hiring for engineers, PMs, and growth. And yes, we still make it fun. 2 ETH if you refer me someone we hire. We’re looking for peak builders who don’t need hand-holding and have relentless speed to execute. Hiring Ninjas Only… 🥷

I’ve noticed a pattern in my own learning dynamics: My iteration rate has increased, but the gradient updates per step carry less information. Still, due to the higher frequency of updates, my total parameter shift over time is larger -- resulting in broader, though sparser, representation learning. Introducing refactoring phases functions like periodic weight consolidation-- reducing noise and distilling high-entropy experiences into more stable internal embeddings. Observing progress in real time provides dense feedback signals, converting abstract gradients into embodied, high-fidelity parameter alignment.

Anyone who has been plugged in have the TLDR on what’s going on with @noiceapp? Looks like they’re cooking and just got the infusion from Coinbase + Balajis, but been very quiet. Seems like they’re eyeing a MetaDAO, ICMish kind of product for next iteration?

On balance, I often question my participation in this space. When I got involved, I genuinely felt like I was contributing to something larger than myself. A revolution. A chance to rectify the sins of our fathers, dismantle the status quo, and forge a system that leveled the playing field. Even if I was to be a tiny component in a much larger machine, it felt like something worth being a part of. Frankly, hyper-tokenization was never something I considered to be aligned with this thinking. Still isn't. I came up with Andreas Antonopolous giving speeches about not needing a blockchain for most things. Nick Szabo speaking on how smart contracts can solve real problems. I remember seeing Steve Wozniak speak in LA about how Ethereum represented the next logical iteration in global computing, its parallels to how they thought about the Apple developer ecosystem initially, and his optimism about its future. Perhaps I'm an old ideologue whose time has long since passed or perhaps my time never came and it was all just a fantasy, or worse, a grift to which I fell victim. But as passionate as I am about this industry, "tokenizing everything" is hardly my concept of a progressive future driven by blockchain. I want to dedicate my brain cycles to solving real problems that affect actual people.

Deposit Bonus Update We're paying out the first deposit bonuses this Wendesday. As a reminder, you get 1% each week for qualifying deposits for ten weeks. Deposits qualify if they were sent in when the deposit program was open. You can check this by tapping on USDC in your wallet. Deposits will be disqualified if we detect that a single person has created multiple accounts with no activity on the network for the sole purpose of farming rewards. About 25% of deposits are being disqualified under this criteria and you'll get a notification and email tomorrow if this affects your account. Finally, if you didn't qualify for the deposit bonus and you are an active user, we are working on a new iteration of the program to help you earn for keeping USDC on Farcaster. More on this soon!

nearing the relaunch of /higher-market and winding down the current iteration. last call for the 005 collection. get these pieces before they're gone. use code "IWENTHIGHER" for 10% off. https://highermarket.xyz/shop-all

> Iteration is probably making some really cool art right now.. actually me: Types "potato dad" into Google translate 🔊

Andrew Erickson, known as Aotearoan @aotearoan, creates generative art at the intersection of logic and aesthetics. Trained in computer science and mathematics, with a focus on image and vision processing, his work transforms technical precision into visual poetry. His web3 journey began in 2021, when he released his first NFT on Rarible and later developed gen-art collections on Tezos, Eth, and Base. Each of his works emerges from code but evokes an almost meditative rhythm — structured systems that pulse with emotion and controlled randomness that mimics natural growth. His art feels alive, breathing through iteration, symmetry, and chance. For Aotearoan, code is not a mechanical tool but a creative partner. His work challenges the viewer to reconsider authorship and intention: can emotion arise from computation? Can chaos be coded into harmony? His art thrives in that tension, between mathematical certainty and expressive unpredictability. (6/8)

What a first week. Joining the High Frequency–Market Penetration team has been an incredible deep dive into the pulse of innovation, data, and real-time strategy! I’ve spent the past few days absorbing how precision, speed, and insight converge to unlock opportunities in emerging markets — and I’m proud to announce the birth of Project Schmuck, an exciting initiative exploring new dynamics in the bagel-based market. Our focus: driving measurable impact through sharper execution, increased TTMS/TTMSP for pastrami snacks, and faster feedback loops between concept and consumer. Pushing the boundaries of how quickly we can bring great ideas to market. Grateful for the warm welcome from the team and excited for what’s ahead. Here’s to building momentum - one iteration (and maybe a few pastrami snacks) at a time.

with the "year of agents" something shifted people started to do big moves in weeks, days things that took months before became incredibly outpaced by the sheer speed of implementation, experimentation and iteration of products that's only possible through current tools people ship in a couple days get acquired in a couple weeks, they rinse and repeat or double down on something that will make them win big second best time to build was a couple months ago, the best time to build is now