System is Updating into 2026: GM Farcaster ep323 Friday December 19, 2025 with @chintan, Base App Head of Engineering

TLDR: 🎄 Die Hard mini-app launches, Save Holly drops, clanks fly, and holiday brain is in full effect📱 Base App UI debates, new feeds, trending tokens, and Farcaster clients shifting🧠 Chintan from Base explains what’s shipping, what’s intentional, and what’s already on the roadmap🔐 Opsec horror stories + reminders not to clone random repos🔥 End-of-year vibes, product feedback, and Farcaster absolutely refusing to slow down

From our ChatGPT Intern: On the final GM Farcaster of the year, we juggle holiday brain, Base App drama, and a full DieHard–themed mini-app launch where you literally Save Holly, clank tokens, and climb Nakatomi Tower while Adrienne live-roasts UI choices and multitasks with an AI bot. Then Chintan Head of Engineering at Base jumps in to calmly explain what’s actually shipping, why Base is eating the protocol, and how half the things we complained about are either intentional, inevitable, or already fixed.

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

Chintan links:

@chintan: https://farcaster.xyz/chintan

Base App: https://farcaster.xyz/baseapp.base.eth

FC NEWS

Prof built a game:

https://farcaster.xyz/nounishprof/0xbe1932be

Ghost busting:

https://farcaster.xyz/horsefacts.eth/0x18f99c8a

Base is most popularclient on FC protocol:

https://farcaster.xyz/dwr/0xc2c10ade

Airdrop to those youfollow:

https://farcaster.xyz/dish/0xe8e6da99

Clanker Auctions:

https://farcaster.xyz/deodad/0xeea17ee3

Pulse tab:

https://farcaster.xyz/mxjxn/0xf37ec35b

https://farcaster.xyz/nounishprof/0xe5cb68bc

be careful out there:

https://farcaster.xyz/maxbuidl.eth/0x7adb412e

https://farcaster.xyz/horsefacts.eth/0xa2a2b7fd

BUILDERS BUILDING

Degen Client:

https://farcaster.xyz/jacek/0x6ff83543

https://farcaster.xyz/jacek/0xdfcd4775

Sopha:

https://farcaster.xyz/chriscocreated/0x43f1fb86

https://farcaster.xyz/chriscocreated/0xeaa715ed

Farhouse is open:

https://farcaster.xyz/farhouse/0xf02bfefe

What’s on your Bookshelf?

https://farcaster.xyz/limes.eth/0xf607fbd1

Paragraph API &typescript SDK:

https://farcaster.xyz/colin/0xbaa97008

Ponder is pondering:

https://farcaster.xyz/cojo.eth/0x1955533a

BASE

Coinbase SystemUpdate:

https://farcaster.xyz/barmstrong/0xf39aa63b

shakebase:

https://farcaster.xyz/aneri.base.eth/0xebdf917d

Summary of SystemUpdate:

https://farcaster.xyz/garrett/0xa211673f

Make it on Base:

https://farcaster.xyz/baseapp.base.eth/0x0910d30d

Roger that:

https://farcaster.xyz/sayangel/0xc2c791b6

‘Tis the Season:

https://farcaster.xyz/baseapp.base.eth/0x1de40ca4

Base app in 1minutes:

https://farcaster.xyz/baseapp.base.eth/0x070c3d97

and your friends arealready there:

https://farcaster.xyz/pmayr/0x63d47ee1

but that’s the realone:

https://farcaster.xyz/dwr/0x172af2b4

Bankr and Bracky inthe chats:

https://farcaster.xyz/tldr/0xfeeec807

Bankr still gotchu:

https://farcaster.xyz/deployer/0x77c5501f

the future ofFrance:

https://farcaster.xyz/apex777.eth/0x1742f2ec

falsedichotomy?

https://farcaster.xyz/barmstrong/0x9c85373e

And our musingselsewhere:

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Chapters:

0:00:00 GM

0:04:10 FC News

0:30:53 Base

0:33:58 @chintan