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a place for builders who ship

Building @blockhead (/blockhead), a portfolio tracker and explorer for blockchains and web3 protocols.

TL;DR:
• new data source: @spaceandtimedb GraphQL
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Darryl Yeo 🐬🥇
@darrylyeo·5 days ago
This week on @blockhead (at @availproject’s Unification House at @ethdenver):

Data sources:
• added support for @spaceandtimedb’s gateway and GraphQL API for querying blocks and transactions in Explorer
this week with @maschine
· still fixing prompts and template to make initial frame creation smooth
· added hypersub in-frame subscription
· added USDC → ETH swap in frame to make warpcast rewards to hypersub subscription easier
This the /ponder team shipped:
- profile pages and streaks
- ability to tag users or channels in create prediction options
- dedicated internal notification service for better reliability
- initial smart wallet setup time from 60 seconds down to <20 seconds
- fixed repeated SIWF popup on desktop frame
- token balances now update instantaneously
- showing net instead of gross winnings in rankings and profiles
- fixed target URLs for welcome notifications
- fixed an edge case where ties were displaying wonky
This week in /quilibrium:

- More speed adjustments to hypersync
- Smarter peer selection as well
- Periodic state saving during sync
- Dashboard APIs also got a small improvement around storage utilization
- Marketer onboarded (doesn't count as a ship but it's worthwhile news)

We're very close to the finish line on getting past 2.1's testnet milestones, and this testing is going to pay off dividends in the overall performance of the network as we upgrade mainnet to 2.1.
This week i shipped on /warpcast

- Developer Rewards: first round concluded on Wednesday and $1000 was split proportionally among the top 25 frames.

- Explore Frames list is now powered by the developer rewards scoring algo. So not only do devs get paid, they get ranked higher on the explore list.
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/a859281a-1a8b-4188-3bbf-d21a0bf71a00/original
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/0c3a49f9-b107-475b-11c8-5bceb2868700/original
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🛳️ This shipweek on /walletbeat:
- Added scam warning capability data to wallets (not shown on UI yet)
- Wrote thread on wallet metadata privacy
- UI mockups for revamped wallet comparison table
https://warpcast.com/polymutex.eth/0x728e408b
https://github.com/fluidkey/walletbeat/issues/79#issuecomment-2705636472
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polymutex
@polymutex.eth·06:25 02/03/2025
You use Chrome. Imagine for a moment that Chrome sent 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙐𝙍𝙇 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 to Google.

That would be outrageous, right?

web3 is about doing better than this.

Well, what if your wallet did the very same thing? 👇

Main page: Revamped wallet comparison table · Issue #79 · fluidkey/walletbeat

The current wallet comparison table is powered by MUI's Data Grid component, which is very versatile but that we may eventually exceed the capabilities of. As I see it, Walletbeat's main wallet com...

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/the-arena — Season 4, Round 8

🚢 WHAT DID YOU SHIP THIS WEEK? 🚢

16 players join us in the arena for this round.

RULES

You have 12 hours (until 9pm PT today) to:
- share what you've shipped this week in the channel feed — to stay in the arena
- if this is your first week in /the-arena, start with a concise 1 liner on what project you're building

e.g. "I'm building /frens, a crypto messaging app. This week we shipped..."

The arena is for builders who ship. Builders who don't ship will be promptly thrown out of the arena

LFG 🚢

---

FAQs:

What happens if I don't ship?
- You will be thrown out of the arena this weekend

How are you keeping track of this?
- In this sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FPysEiLGz3D60UdN-l0a5H14WdqMNCajLijy3UK6Lgw/edit?usp=sharing
RESULTS for Season 4 Round 7 of /the-arena 🚢

Total players: 16
Survivors: 13
Eliminated: 3

Congrats to the 13 survivors for shipping 🚢🚢🚢

Since last week was ETH Denver, I'm going to give those who missed their shippost a free pass for this round only

@sean07.eth, @chinmay.eth, and @jpren.eth (me) missed their shippost
I’m building @orbiterhost with @stevedylandev.eth, which is static website hosting made easy. We’re built on Base and IPFS. This week, we revamped our branding and shipped a new marketing site. https://orbiter.host
Building /indexing, distributed infra for open data

This week we:

- Drafted our first docs --> launching next week 👀
- Shipped optimizations that cut our baseline costs by ~30%
- Started including bare metal servers in our infra --> setting the stage for on-prem deployments
Building @moxiescout and /streme

Pushed a new update for /streme web UI that allows you to Buy and Stake in a single transaction (thanks to @markcarey for all of the backend and smart contract work)

For @moxiescout , fixed token pages to support graduated tokens!
i'm building /icebreaker with @web3pm & team – the open professional network for word-of-mouth hiring

this week:
🧊 Now show hiring team and bounties on job pages (shown)
🧊 Now show all jobs we know about on jobs page (shown)
🧊 Job search on All jobs page (enabled soon)
🧊 Added a "Met in-person" note when you exchange info with anyone
🐛 Bug fixes
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/1927aa04-d43b-4d1d-7b2c-d9789cf67000/original
updates to @maschine v0 for Farcaster frames:

• added a live preview of generated frames into Maschine frame
• generate a frame from one cast / 25 words
• added a frame v1
• started a hypersub

maschine.fun
This week while @cojo.eth and I were repping at eth denver, the /ponder team shipped:
- critical bug fixes across the app + backend
- patched inconsistent token amounts being displayed
- major backfills on missing rewards
- internal testing for three new features 🚀
Building /icebreaker with @j4ck.eth to help you meet exceptional people through mutual trust

This week we shipped:
- Redesigned /jobs pages with a new simplified UI and full screen mode
- Started showing your 1st and 2nd degree jobs in network updates, and ordinality on all jobs pages
- Streamlined in-person networking for signed-in and signed out users
- Reverse lookup of wallet addresses to social profiles
- Bug fixes and freshness updates
- Icebreaker's first-ever lounge, at ETH Denver
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/41838192-95ce-436d-94fc-3950c14ea300/original
Short update for /quilibrium this week as we're grinding through the last milestone for our 2.1 release:

- Released, then unreleased a redesign of the main Q website – lots of feedback and we're taking it in stride
- Completely redesigned hypersync, getting convergence time down significantly

In the background, not yet directly visible shipping:
- Streamlined onboarding for when QConsole is enabled for public
- Quorum mobile release as soon as Apple gives us the green light
/the-arena
This week I shipped on /warpcast

- Advanced Protection with TOTP to add an extra layer of security to your Farcaster account.
- Something soon to be announced that hopefully makes devs happy.


https://warpcast.com/gabrielayuso.eth/0xee1821e5
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Gabriel Ayuso
@gabrielayuso.eth·22:42 24/02/2025
Introducing new Advanced Protection using time-based one-time passwords.

When enabled, a one-time code from an authenticator app will be required to recover your Farcaster account, and login via email on web will be disabled.

Enable on Settings > Advanced.
/the-arena
🚢 This shipweek on /walletbeat:
- New attribute: 🧳 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆!
- Grant application paperwork.
https://warpcast.com/polymutex.eth/0xbc45df3a
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polymutex
@polymutex.eth·07:07 25/02/2025
New wallet attribute: 🧳 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆

web2 locks you in. web3 should not.
You can check out any time you like, but can you ever leave?

Walletbeat now checks whether a wallet allows you to export your account or assets to another wallet.

Raising the bar.
Building /indexing, the distributed infra for open data

This week we shipped:

- Optimizations for our onchain sourcing (Oscar); better memory usage, better scale, lower latency for all

- Support for HyperEVM

- Internal PoCs to support SimpleHash customers (RIP)

- Beers with the team IRL 🍻

In Denver for (at least) 1 more day! Come find me

https://warpcast.com/runninyeti.eth/0xa295ff52
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Brock
@runninyeti.eth·17:17 26/02/2025
Seeking $250k in dedicated funds for indexing.co to pick up where SimpleHash left off.

We have the pipes, we have the templates, and we've been doing similar work for customers for years. The industry needs a dedicated offering though.

SimpleHash is (was...) great, but often limited by their API-first approach to accessing data. Imagine token metadata, ownership, and pricing available in *any* pipeline and delivered directly to users.

Open to investment, partnerships, grants, ... DC me if interested.
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Zenigame
@zeni.eth·22:35 28/02/2025
This week...

For @moxiescout I shipped swap and portfolio support for graduated tokens.

For /streme, I shipped improvements to claiming and staking,
Lots more coming up for /streme.

https://warpcast.com/zeni.eth/0xaeed7fda
Building @blockhead (/⁠blockhead), a portfolio tracker and explorer for blockchains and web3 protocols.

TL;DR:
• new @rootstock explorer
• new data source: @envio HyperSync + HyperRPC
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Darryl Yeo 🐬🥇
@darrylyeo·00:18 27/02/2025
This week on @blockhead (at the Encode Club Denver Modular DeFi hackathon):

Networks:
• added support for @rootstock (RSK) in Portfolio + Explorer

Data sources:
• added support for @envio HyperRPC + HyperSync for querying /evm blocks, transactions, events and traces
/the-arena — Season 4, Round 7

🚢 WHAT DID YOU SHIP THIS WEEK? 🚢

16 players join us in the arena for this round.

RULES

You have 12 hours (until 9pm PT today) to:
- share what you've shipped this week in the channel feed — to stay in the arena
- if this is your first week in /the-arena, start with a concise 1 liner on what project you're building

e.g. "I'm building /frens, a crypto messaging app. This week we shipped..."

The arena is for builders who ship. Builders who don't ship will be promptly thrown out of the arena

LFG 🚢

---

FAQs:

What happens if I don't ship?
- You will be thrown out of the arena this weekend

How are you keeping track of this?
- In this sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qwaV71MRqPeuNCPACxZPp-6v4KixF7OHxIskt89QqrI/edit?usp=sharing
building /nash
now nash has an MCP (model context protocol) server, and it might just be the last MCP you'll ever need
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/a65be6ea-e05e-4576-98f2-4254466ae600/original
RESULTS for Season 4 Round 6 of /the-arena 🚢

Total players: 18
Survivors: 15
Eliminated: 3

Congrats to the 15 survivors for shipping 🚢🚢🚢

@stephancill, @jasonmeinzer, and @jpren.eth (me) missed their shippost
this week, devs created embeddings from Farcaster data, so CoAgents can get smarter with surfing the social graph. We also changed their GIVEing habits.

For lols, we made a little Cast Searcher, where you can enter a phrase to find semantically similar casts.

https://coordinape.com/searchcasts

Give it a try.
Tech is good.
Building /streme and @moxiescout

This week I shipped UI/UX improvements for /streme following the initial launch wave of tokens. 100+ tokens broke a lot of my launch UI, so I removed and then re-added basic features (i.e. claiming fees).

On MoxieScout, I did preliminary recon for 0x swap support for tokens that will be graduating to uniswap v4 soon.

(late submission)
building maschine, v0 for Frames v2
this week I improved the quality of generated frames a lot (still not 100% there yet), much better UX and more stable LLM interactions.

tldr better prompts and UX
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hellno the optimist
@hellno.eth·21:02 19/02/2025
new in @maschine (prompt → Farcaster miniapp) aka frameception
• 10x better frames: added more steps to think. LLM now writes a spec → then a plan → then a todo list from your input. only then starts to write code
• pulls in API docs dynamically (like Neynar or Dune). example: if you want a Farcaster search in your frame, it pulls in relevant docs from Neynar to use it correctly
• UX: much snappier, separate pages, personalized, new organized sidebar

coming up: make setting up new frames more reliable & make UI simpler
This week the /ponder team shipped:
- improved share buttons on prediction page and post-vote popup
- tapping pfps on leaderboard now opens WC account profiles
- stability improvements when voting
- fixes to individual leaderboard rank
- general bug fixes and improvements
Building /quilibrium

EDIT: Developer preview of S3/KMS coming! Please reach out by DC if you would like to be onboarded. It will open with only Q Inc's "free tier" limits, but when 2.1 is live, the higher tiers can be paid for in QUIL, $wquil, and $usdc.

Over 480 communities on Quorum, nearly two and a half million messages sent, hundreds to thousands of people online at any time, P2P, E2EE, and growing constantly.

This week:
- Overcame the flu 🤧
- Deeper profiling and optimization on hypersync, nearly done with this portion of milestone 5 testing, which will leave us with only two more items to evaluate on testnet before 2.1.
/the-arena
Working on /prism this week shipped copy image url feature to share completed games on social. Also removed custom theme and can only generate games using AI now. Much simpler https://www.simplecohortllc.com/prism
building /nash

short week—here’s what we shipped:

* built a nash project that creates an nft on base sepolia, via vibe-prompting (minimal effort)
* when using AI to modify a project, now it makes better use of 3rd party api docs
* fixed AI code-writing bugs
* onboarded users and sent out a bunch of invites
This week I helped ship on /warpcast



The Wallet!!



Also, a new security feature which we're still refining a bit before shipping widely.
Building @basketdotfarm

This week was a short week with a long weekend and 1 day off-site.

We fixed some agent related issues where users were getting stuck while creating a basket.

Next week, we are going to announce a major contest. Almost ready to go.
Building /indexing, the distributed infra for open data

This week we shipped:

- Support for more chains: HyperEVM as a highlight
- Continued optimizing our APIs + self-service flows --> proper docs are next
- Initial for read-to-use, OSS templates. Here's `templates.tokenTransfers()`: https://github.com/indexing-co/jiti/blob/main/src/templates/token-transfers.ts

See you all in Denver next week 👋
i'm building /icebreaker with @web3pm and team

this week:
🧊 Added qBuilder badge display to profile detail summary (shown ft @sdv.eth)
🧊 Made POAP pages sorted by ordinality by default
🧊 Bug fixes and optimizations
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/7d4f8567-a6cc-4f73-6caf-cce8f469b000/original
This week we shipped @thedogbot and @indigo-purple for /dog and /purple

That’s 3x the CoAgents on Farcaster spreading GIVE to their communities.

Next up: making these agents more visible and getting humanity in the mix.
Orbiter is the best static website hosting platform, built on Base and IPFS. This week, we open sourced EVERYTHING! https://warpcast.com/polluterofminds/0xc1a8eaa7
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Justin Hunter
@polluterofminds·14:49 21/02/2025
Come mock our code. Or learn from it. Totally up to you, but Orbiter is 100% open source now! https://github.com/orbiterhost/.github
Helping build /walletbeat, a scoring system and feature comparison website for crypto wallets!

TL;DR:
• the Next.js → Astro migration I worked on last week went live 🚀

Next up:
• migrate Emotion → vanilla CSS, then migrate React / MUI → Svelte / Bits UI with a refreshed design 🎨
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polymutex
@polymutex.eth·20:01 21/02/2025
🛳️ This shipweek on /walletbeat:
- Next.js → Astro! Credits to @darrylyeo https://warpcast.com/polymutex.eth/0xdea98ef2
- New wallet attribute: 💼 Account Abstraction https://warpcast.com/polymutex.eth/0x7f904c22
- Unfinished "Account Portability" attribute.
🛳️ This shipweek on /walletbeat:
- Next.js → Astro! Credits to @darrylyeo https://warpcast.com/polymutex.eth/0xdea98ef2
- New wallet attribute: 💼 Account Abstraction https://warpcast.com/polymutex.eth/0x7f904c22
- Unfinished "Account Portability" attribute.
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polymutex
@polymutex.eth·23:32 16/02/2025
Thanks to the hard work of @darrylyeo, https://beta.walletbeat.eth.limo has moved from Next.js to Astro!
Snappier, more optimized pages, and faster rebuilds.
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polymutex
@polymutex.eth·04:06 17/02/2025
New wallet attribute: 💼 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

Account Abstraction (AA) is a massive UX upgrade, available to all wallets thanks to Pectra's EIP-7702.

Walletbeat now checks that wallets are AA-ready, via ERC-4337 and/or EIP-7702.

Raising the bar.
/the-arena — Season 4, Round 6

🚢 WHAT DID YOU SHIP THIS WEEK? 🚢

18 players join us in the arena for this round.

RULES

You have 12 hours (until 9pm PT today) to:
- share what you've shipped this week in the channel feed — to stay in the arena
- if this is your first week in /the-arena, start with a concise 1 liner on what project you're building

e.g. "I'm building /frens, a crypto messaging app. This week we shipped..."

The arena is for builders who ship. Builders who don't ship will be promptly thrown out of the arena

LFG 🚢

---

FAQs:

What happens if I don't ship?
- You will be thrown out of the arena this weekend

How are you keeping track of this?
- In this sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qY2U92W_KJv-Cnko_fghkxuPwzboHxMDChlz6Nc5_7c/edit?usp=sharing
RESULTS for Season 4 Round 5 of /the-arena 🚢

Total players: 18
Survivors: 17
Eliminated: 1

That was the most impressive round in /the-arena history! Congrats to the 17 survivors for shipping 🚢🚢🚢

You guys sure put me to shame — I was the only one who missed my shippost
This week while I was mainly afk the /ponder team shipped:
- anti-collusion rollout on votes and leaderboard
- new in-frame navigation bar
- SIWF + onboarding flow performance improvements
- major bug fixes across the app
Building /indexing, the distributed ETL for data on demand

This week we:

- Added Unichain support; 112 networks and counting
- Rolled out rapid, self-service backfills for multiple EVM chains and Solana
- Moved into OSS for our transformation templates (more on that next time 👀)
Building @blockhead (/blockhead), a portfolio tracker and explorer for blockchains and web3 protocols.

TL;DR:
• gas fee derivations in Filecoin transactions
• native currency transfers in Filecoin transactions

Will give /evm transactions this treatment next!
This week...

For @moxiescout, I upgraded auction and claim support to help support the @moxie.eth AI agent launch.

Also launched streme.fun, a @clanker-inspired token launcher where you can stake your tokens for a share of rewards streamed continuously to your wallet.
building /icebreaker w @web3pm and team – a better way to hire

since Dan's cast yesterday:

🧊 Upgraded Company pages to surface Verified members & jobs!

You can render any company on Icebreaker with a simple URL:

icbk . me / companies / {company . com}

for ex:
icbk.me/companies/farcaster.xyz
icbk.me/companies/blackbird.xyz
icbk.me/compaines/privy.io
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/0ad1b02a-e68d-44c5-1f63-73c9e03d9a00/original
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Dan | Icebreaker
@web3pm·05:44 14/02/2025
not sure if this game's still on but can't break a streak

building /icebreaker with @j4ck.eth & team to make hiring not suck

this week we shipped
- updated jobs tab, with details panes for easy navigation
- improved indexing of newly imported contacts
- new jobs display in network updates
- increased company coverage to 680 top VC funded companies on jobs.icebreaker.xyz
- all jobs now indexed in near realtime from careers pages
- bug fixes

+ open PRs for very cool stuff launching next week
I haven't shared specifics in a while first because I've been working on the Warpcast Wallet. Since we released it to a group of testers I can share more!

Two weeks ago I was on a ship so I missed my ship post.

Last week I didn't post because I wasn't a member anymore.

This week I shipped on /warpcast :

- Many improvements to the Warpcast Wallet across the board.
- Added the Collectibles tab to view NFTs in the wallet.
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/380c6dea-2585-4be2-67e9-12c688a0eb00/original