duckfacts.eth (on farcaster)

I don’t care who you are or where you came from. if you’re building on @base, I want to see you win.

it's a farmer's life for me #indiedev #gamedev

made it to DM inbox zero after a bit of chaos if there's a way I can help you succeed on @base, now's a good time 🫡

Meet @sstrenev. He has been building in fintech for years. His latest startup tackles one of DeFi's most persistent problems: the experience is still too hard for everyday users. Multiple wallets. Gas tokens. Fragmented interfaces. @defied_money removes that friction entirely through account abstraction, gas sponsorship, and clean UX — giving users a neobanking experience while interacting directly with public, permissionless protocols through their own smart accounts. Defied’s mission is making stablecoins, yield, and DeFi as simple as online banking, without giving up self-custody. The team is heads-down in the pre-launch phase ahead of a closed beta, with 1,000+ users already on the waitlist. Bulgaria is their first market, with broader EU expansion to follow. On why Base: "Very fast transactions, all the major DeFi protocols have deployments on Base, giving users access to great yield opportunities, as well as tokenized stocks and FX swaps between @circle’s USDC and EURC. Strong support and opportunities for builders. We're looking to use Base as our home chain." - Stan Trenev (@sstrenev), Founder @defied_money is built on @base.

I started building @celebrationhb more than a year ago on @base and @farcaster_xyz Over this time the app has accumulated around 3.5k special dates, almost 17k gifts from users to users, several nft collections for gifts, special dates and events, a ton of reviews, real happy users, agents, agents docs and infra and about 100k transactions on base. Now dau is around 400. The project is funded for the next year, offchain auth and the whoooole logic is 99% ready and people are starting to find it just through google search and my yapping around. Even solana version is almost ready, but the market is still unexplored. I have done everything by myself. But the path was not easy. First neynar bought farcaster, returned the investments and almost immediately everyone decided that farcaster is dead. Dau dropped. (farcaster is still alive) In february base completely abandoned their social feed. Focus shifted to trading. Promises to support builders and apps-they remained just promises. In march I participated in base builder quest and saw that I am not really welcomed there. Places are taken by non-existent agents. That attitude upset me. In april base abandoned farcaster sdk staff and social graph. I had to rewrite a significant part of the app logic and come up with new ways to work with the social graph. I applied to base batches 003 (I thought for a long time about whether it was worth it) and got rejected. Later I learned from ex-base that I was in the top 1% but the focus is not on social apps. Farcon in may gave a breath of fresh air and a farhack grant, lots of connections and the feeling that something could change. On the last day of farcon I learned that the base growth team is no more exist. Around the same time I saw a post from berkay mentioning @celebrationhb. This was basically all the attention I got from base the whole time. I expanded Celebration Hub to telegram and started conversations about TGE. Btw launchpads dont really like builders. They like to put on a show and ignore things for months on end. But the token launch and fees are probably only source of revenue for most of the builders around. it must be fixed And here we are. Building onchain in a bear market is really a very tough env for consumer products. Promises like "build and we will find you, we will back you" in 99 percent of cases turn out to be just words. I am not complaining. I am just stating a fact. If you are building a consumer app onchain you are almost completely on your own. I continue to build in-public because I believe in the product and that sooner or later such things find their audience. But it would be nice to see that the ecosystem finds you, helps you, back you, and supports you-because, after all, it will potentially get your support and It's important for it that you are buildin right here. That’s the kind of relationship I have with farcaster. And yeah, I'm not moving to robinhood-I don't see the point in a short-lived hype even if liquidity is better there 😄 I go where the people and users are.