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

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

Season 4 Episode 302 Published 5 months, 2 weeks ago
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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/nounishpr

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