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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