Farcaster’s Glow-Up—Now With 37% More Purple and Existential Feelings: GM Farcaster ep302 WednesdayOctober 22, 2025

Thank you @zaal for popping by to chat about the ZAO! And we loved the GM Farcaster swag you were wearing!

TLDR: Brian Armstrong “bought” and burned a $25M CobieNFT that secretly signaled Coinbase’s Echo acquisition 🔥Farcaster shrugged off an AWS outage 💪Base rolled out new creator coins 🪙 the whole community spiraled into deep aesthetic feelings about the new darker-purple “pants-shaped” logo 🎨
Plus, we caught up with Zaal to talk all things ZAO🧠

From our ChatGPT Intern: Brian Armstrong bought and burned a $25M “Cobie NFT,” sending crypto Twitter into chaos — only for it to turn out he was actually buying Cobie’s company, Echo, for a quarter-billion dollars. Meanwhile, Farcaster survived an AWS outage, launched a darker purple “pants-shaped” rebrand, and somehow still found time to debate whether coins, creators, or candles are the future of onchain culture.

Show Notes and Links – some of the casts & stuff we talked about: 

@zaal and the ZAO links:

ZAO: https://www.thezao.com/nexus

FC News

Guess who’s back, back again…

https://farcaster.xyz/nounishprof/0xa8723d0b 

Echo bought by Coinbase:

https://farcaster.xyz/coinbase/0xea2b758d

who tf is cobie?

https://farcaster.xyz/ceej/0x2a4715c3

AWS outage:

https://farcaster.xyz/v/0x057e4180

https://farcaster.xyz/v/0x7503a61e 

faster pricing system in wallet:

https://farcaster.xyz/v/0x3f24f6d8 

deposit bonus update:

https://farcaster.xyz/v/0x292c015e 

Farcaster rebrand:

https://farcaster.xyz/dwr/0x3e688cb4 

who “designed” the og logo?

https://farcaster.xyz/dwr/0x56c60841 

why the redesign?

https://farcaster.xyz/blockheim/0x727d3c69 

experiments:

https://farcaster.xyz/tanishq/0x6d9d8548 

can’t unsee:

https://farcaster.xyz/ted/0xa42085d3 

golf with the arch:

https://farcaster.xyz/obxium/0x5c93c365 

Mike Rainbow called it:

https://farcaster.xyz/mikedemarais.eth/0x8d521a75 

not really trending:

https://farcaster.xyz/ted/0xde11570a

 dead arch:

https://farcaster.xyz/miguelgarest.eth/0x8cb42849

 guess which arch won the Ponder poll?

https://farcaster.xyz/cojo.eth/0x1318dcc9

not that bad:

https://farcaster.xyz/obxium/0x3e00518d 

ooof that tattoo:

https://farcaster.xyz/incarterseyes.eth/0x301d32e6 

Java Express:

https://farcaster.xyz/nounishprof/0xb6f6bf18

https://farcaster.xyz/ceej/0x5e1ead45

https://farcaster.xyz/horsefacts.eth/0xa19f4833 

cuz they had to – Tim Apple made them:

https://farcaster.xyz/christopher/0x654fb076

midwit:

https://farcaster.xyz/links/0x8c39172a 

sufficiently decentralized rodeo:

https://farcaster.xyz/chasesommer/0x29a7820e

hat stays on:

https://farcaster.xyz/esdotge/0x747c1a72 

Base

Send your complaints to Wilson: https://farcaster.xyz/wilsoncusack/0x439f1f8d

$aneri:

https://farcaster.xyz/aneri.base.eth/0x77999d3c

Builders Building

Degen on OpenSea space:

https://x.com/opensea/status/1980777933414494591?s=46&t=N80rptBytKhSU-csz4Akrg

Octant Epoch 9:

https://farcaster.xyz/octant/0xfd206bf4

CreatorFi:

https://farcaster.xyz/rachelw/0x109e07e3 

be careful out there:

https://farcaster.xyz/tldr/0xb4009d73

Channel Spaces on Nounspace:

https://farcaster.xyz/willywonka.eth/0x8f9db164 

Splits feeling the love:

https://farcaster.xyz/linda/0x61036044

https://farcaster.xyz/limone.eth/0x6bd3e027

https://farcaster.xyz/adrienne/0x98a1f581

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NOTE: Cryptocurrencies are often volatile assets. Nothing in this episode should be considered financial advice and is for educational and entertainment purposes. Nothing should beconsidered investment advice, nor solicitation to buy or sell any assets. NFA, DYOR.

Chapters:

0:00:00 GM

0:02:51 FC News

0:14:48 Base

0:18:59 FC rebrand

0:35:25 @zaal

1:10:40 Builders Building

1:18:26 CastOut