Jonny and Ted share their reactions and thoughts on the potential impact of Warpcast’s newest features: blocks, boosts, and $5 USDC Warpcast rewards. For the hundredth time, they also explore specific ways in which channel could be a viable pathway to scale the best aspects of Farcaster that they remember from the early days: finding and building authentic community. Last, they visit the potential of mini apps and deep links as a richer UX and dev solution to the limitations of frames.

00:00 Introduction: rebrand and Jonny’s design process

03:30 Blocks: how can this enhance (or hurt) user control over conversations?

10:15: $5 USDC Warpcast Rewards and Boosts: will this actually result in quality content from new users?

20:00: Reply Culture: how can we recreate engagement from early days?

27:00: Channels: how can channels scale the network?

36:00: Channel Ecosystem: what are specific ideas to help improve channel content?

40:00: Mini-apps: could these be the next solution for a richer dev and user experience?

In this comeback conversation, Ted and Jonny discuss their takes on the new Explore page, the impact of the new Moxie protocol on the Warpcast experience, what it means for the Network School to be built “on Farcaster”, and the stagnant, yet promising nature of channels against the challenge of quality content.

00:00 Introduction and episode overview

01:14 How we’re feeling about the Explore Page and what we want to see next

11:14 Understanding Moxie and its impact on our Warpcast experience

21:20 Why experiments are important to Farcaster

26:50 Twitter celebrities cross-posting: good or bad?

36:23 What it means for the Network School to be built on Farcaster

37:20 Channel check-in (in lieu of a feelings check-in)

on this episode (recorded “like a year ago”), @dwr joins @ted and @nonlinear to discuss the number one priority for farcaster right now: the challenge in creating a sustainable supply of quality content.

on this episode, @ted and @nonlinear.eth are joined by special guest, @v, to kick off a discussion about longer casts and frames — but not until after they cover the recent trend of [redacted] that is both a hysterical and mortifying case study in farcaster virality.

after getting the rundown on longer cast intentions and current developer (and consumer) pain points on frames, we focus on exploring the potential for better content creation that enhances the entertainment value and social experience on farcaster. we share the frame experiences we love most as well as offer new ideas for more entertainment-driven, less utility-driven frames.

last, we revisit the current zeitgeist on power badges and content discovery through the lens of marketplace dynamics. we could be midcurving it, but it made pretty good sense to us.

In this episode, Ted and Jonny discuss the recent news about Nook shutting down and explore the explore different strategies @dwr recommended for building on (or alongside) farcaster as developers, creators, and potentially independent business owners. Ted and Jonny then cover some of the emerging cozy corners on Farcaster, such as FBI (Farcaster Builders India), First Draft, Tabletop, Lounge, Club Ted, and Higher Run Club. Last, Ted and Jonny wrap it up with a quick discussion about a recent controversy on Farcaster involving the authenticity of certain Instagram-like accounts.

We return to Many Such Cases with an inside look at FarCon (00:25), an in-depth discussion on the cast and tweet heard around the world (26:59), and our own POV on Warpcast’s current “existential risk” (57:53).

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welcome to many such cases, episode 8 that should be 9 but ted got nerdswiped by Crypto the Game and vows for it to never happen again. we chat what's special about farcaster, deploy on degen week, frames, degen, real vs fake engagement, hypersub churn, farcaster's existential risk, FarCon, and why we should put media onchain.

0:01:00 Crypto The Game

0:10:40 Deploy on Degen

0:16:00 Frames segue

0:19:00 Degen volume, bots, and new notifications

0:23:48 Fabric MRR and churn

0:32:33 FC client numbers (re: woj cast)

0:36:10 Farcaster’s existential risk by Ben Roy

0:44:32 Farcon update

0:51:39 Onchain media / ads (why media onchain)

join us on episode 2 of "Connecting the Dots," our new podcast series with Farcaster OGs where we reflect on where we came from and meditate on where we are going.

we finally get to dive into memecoins with the inimitable Li Jin of Variant!

join us on episode 3 of "Connecting the Dots," our new podcast series with Farcaster OGs where we reflect on where we came from and meditate on where we are going.

Li first brings us back to her farcaster origins and early thinking on memecoins then walk us through the full spectrum of memecoins and their varying value drivers - with healthy pushback from us along the way :).

we cover memecoin's historical zero-sum framework and how the new wave of memecoins (or scenescoins) could change this. ultimately, we land on our favorite topic: token-specific channels and token-specific apps.

let us know what you think!

we had to re-record this one, oops, and still didn’t get it up in time. our bad. high quality topics and conversations packed into 60 minutes (i know, we're being efficient). More to come!