The Nest

Web3 game on Base. Hold Whelps, earn daily NEST, evolve, upgrade, and play the long game.

[Jey @jeyloo_eth]

🌱 Good morning!

Tree #4 just got planted on Sprout:
a Flowering Bush from @530cpp to @lordsatoby for Big Nest OG

4 Sprout trees on the planet. 4 real trees planted.
• Only 16 free ones left!

Plant one for someone you care about 👇

https://t.co/yfrMnG4URF

[The Nest @530cpp]

Start for $0! Hatch your first Whelp for FREE on The Nest https://t.co/ZxRL7zq1ig

Here’s the nest top ten! And what happened this week to their daily yield

[The Nest @530cpp]

FYI 1 week charts

[The Nest @530cpp]

@GundariuMGame ath was 0.07 and that was impressive, and it isn't an unthinkable goal, we just need more people to join, the machanics are simply effective as long as there is activity and people willing to look for long term goals instead of fast small gain

[The Nest @530cpp]

What's The Nest?

A simple crypto game where you hold NFTs (Whelps) that pay out tokens daily.

Start for free — you just need a wallet on Base.

👉 https://t.co/ZxRL7zq1ig

[The Nest @530cpp]

Buy a raffle ticket and you're automatically in both monthly draws — six prizes up for grabs every month.
Standard Raffle: a Skin, a Whelp, NEST.
Premium Raffle: the Bonus NFT (pays you NEST every single day, for as long as you hold it), a Voucher, NEST.
https://t.co/tIDqcBjkxV

[The Nest @530cpp]

Gpt Skin #179 (L4 · R3) is up on The Nest.
Bonus: +3% upgrade chance for the equipped Whelp (L4)
Price: 14.000 NEST
Grab it before someone else does. https://t.co/R8r2LXOQw2

[The Nest @530cpp]

The Nest monthly raffles are live: one ticket enters you in both the Standard and Premium draws — a random Skin, a fresh Whelp, a Special Bonus NFT, and NEST up for grabs. https://t.co/tIDqcBiMIn

[The Nest @530cpp]

4️⃣ Level up — feed your Whelp to evolve it onchain and unlock bigger rewards
5️⃣ Trade — buy/sell Whelps & Skins on our native P2P marketplace

All you need is a wallet on Base.

👉 https://t.co/ZxRL7zq1ig

[The Nest @530cpp]

How to start with NEST 🥚→🐉

1️⃣ Get a Whelp NFT — mint one or grab one on the marketplace
2️⃣ Stake it — start earning yield, paid out daily
3️⃣ Claim — payouts land straight in your wallet

👇

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

We are reseting usage for all paid users of Codex and ChatGPT Work.

Please continue reading for an update on Codex usage limits. The team has been working around the clock, going through thousands of reports and shipping fixes.

Depending on how you use Codex, you should see your usage go between 10% and 50% further than before.

We really went with a fine comb, with many uncovered small things being longstanding and here is what we found and fixed:
- Compaction. We were keeping old images during compaction, sometimes making the context large enough to trigger compaction again. After the fix, usage dropped around 10% for users making heavy use of images. Fixed.
- Memory. Background memory workers could inherit Stop hooks and keep running when the hook wouldn’t let them finish. This affected fewer than 1% of users, with the long tail being pretty bad and we saw one example thread check whether it could stop 15,000 times. Fixed.
- Goals. In some cases, a set /goal could finish and then keep going past the intended stop condition, or the model would keep retrying broken tools without stopping. We saw examples consume anywhere from 15% to 70% of a weekly allowance. Fixed.
- Automations. Some custom schedules could run more frequently than configured. Fixed.
- Subagents. Smaller models (e.g. Luna) sometimes picked more capable helpers without being explicitly asked. The same was true where the orchestrating model not running in /fast mode could request sub-agents to run /fast. Fixed.
- Computer History. The older implementation could lead to repeatedly summarizing overlapping activity. For some cases we saw it consume up to one fifth of the weekly usage per week. Fixed.
- Rolling task summaries. Ordinary turns were triggering extra background requests. These added about 1% to token usage. Small each time, but it adds up. We have disabled this.
- MCP. Some tool results could be encoded twice. We also found tool instructions getting cut off and fetched again. Fixed.

We’ve also made architectural changes to prevent these from regressing and our teams will get paged if it happens regardless. We are also working on showing you directly in the app where your usage goes so you don’t have to guess.

Goes without saying that we’re resetting usage limits and I hope you enjoy a very nice Saturday!

[The Nest @530cpp]

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[deployer @0xDeployer]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[DuckFacts @altagers]

Who will be the next owner of Farcaster?
Zora, Base, Balaji, 1c?
I personally don’t think it will be Base.

Who else might be interested?
wdyt?

[DuckFacts @altagers]

I'm putting together a list of awesome builders.

Share what you're building, who you are, and what help you need — and help others find you.

I'll be happy to see familiar faces and meet new people.

I tried to handle it alone, but it didn’t go very well.

[Cassie Heart @cass_on_mars]

It's been something I've had a hard time trying to articulate, but ultimately, I feel the latest attempt at crypto x social is once again demonstrating a failure of incentive alignment, but worse, it's infecting some of the classic social venues too, as projects try to introduce the same primitives there.

Classic social media has used two primary levers traditionally to grow userbase: creator monetization, and network effects from growth in monetization. TikTok speed ran this playbook as the latest example. For a startup, unseating entrenched players is effectively impossible, it requires either an exodus event (which in the case of Twitter, Bluesky partially succeeded, but embraced a very specific cohort which repelled literally everyone else), a way for unknown creators to capture attention unlike how they did on previous platforms (risking that previous platforms won't just steal your playbook for themselves, making your growth rapidly curtailed), a net new social primitive (which again, same risk), or a new monetization strategy.

Crypto x social effectively took the last route, and the last route alone. The earliest of these attempts failed in part because crypto was _extremely_ niche (for validation's sake: "could be right idea, wrong time?"), but later attempts took two paths as variations on the theme, sometimes both simultaneously: creator tokens or rewards (top down, mirroring traditional social), or engagement rewards (something only crypto can really do, bottom up).

But as the saying goes: show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome. Crypto can only do the latter because reward tokens are generally synthetic: the issuer, usually the platform or something ad-hoc attached to it (e.g. noice, and before it, moxie, degen, etc) can mint an infinite supply, and derive allocations dynamically. If a traditional social media company tried to reward reply guys in threads, they'd go bankrupt. But that observation reveals that such an approach is an attention hack for growth – it cannot survive long term. It is no surprise thus that the projects that lead with this either pivoted or died.

Creator tokens too show a poor outcome, but I'll spare the discourse, as there's already been plenty around that. So what does that mean? There's no way for crypto x social to succeed as a concept? It only engenders slop posting either at the highest level or a flood of garbage in replies?

Neither – it just means that the architecture of _existing_ social primitives has no alignment to crypto primitives. Or more accurately, the existing social primitives that have been attempted for this alignment.

This is because in the traditional public forum-style medium, direct transactionality doesn't work – Twitter, Facebook, etc. can afford to lavishly spend on creators with the most command for attention not because it brings on people to spend money in a flywheel on their platform, but because it brings eyeballs to the ads placed around that command. And this shouldn't be a surprise – the original pitches for the companies that produced these products included advertising at the core of their revenue model. The incentives aligned, the architecture of social primitives were melded _by_ the incentives.

So how do you use transactional incentives as a social flywheel that doesn't devolve into a carnival of slop? It turns out, we already had a social primitive that mastered it, and to nobody's shock, for their first decade, there was no semblance of advertisements (although they are trying to experiment with it now): Discord and Telegram, the group chats.

Of course, now there are some varieties of crypto x GC based projects out there. But they're making the easiest naive move of financialization that kneecaps any attempt at growth: cost to send, either for the user, or the app that integrates. Why do they do this? In part, because a basic blockchain approach can't scale. The inherent limitations of a blockchain's effective "bandwidth" reduces the relationship with incentives to directly "solve" the bandwidth problem – if spam exists, they make it expensive. But we've been there before – trying to solve spam by adding cost was attempted so many times with email that it literally has a meme template reply (https://t.co/gUmlr8YH8w...). So effectively, discord and telegram "solve" this by having the capacity to handle it (more "bandwidth"), but also one other important factor: self-policing. Because communities self-organize, it's easy to establish safeguards, entry rules, either by invites, performing some kind of robot test, hell, even "react to this message" tests that if you do so too quickly to be human, you're banned.

So if you can adopt that social primitive, your _only_ concern becomes the cost of scale. And therein lies the incentive alignment: you design the protocol so that scaling has no inherent "bandwidth cap", but also you design the protocol so that self organizing communities effectively serve themselves while serving others to a limit, such that you can utilize a community subscription model that gains support from the "1,000 true fans" (https://t.co/lCPrT7wRic) while the majority of members are not paying much, if anything, except perhaps in terms of computer resources to help delivery of messages. This model is not only sufficient, it's proven – Discord could not exist at their scale without the monetization from Nitro.

This is the thesis we are all in on with Quorum and the Quilibrium protocol that powers it – we think crypto can make things better: keep conversations private, keep communities censorship-resistant (from outside influence), let your 1,000 fans enhance your community, and instead of simply pocketing subscriptions like Discord does, communities share in subscription fees, split by protocol, with no way to know who is a member, who runs a community, or who is paying – unless they want to prove it, but because it's based on raw cryptographic primitives to achieve it, it remains fully verifiable that payments go where they should. We think creator coins, effectively a palatable attempt at a rebrand of "memecoins" are the worst example of what crypto can achieve, and that "tipping culture" only succeeds at producing a feed of slop. Instead of trying to create incentives for formats that were never built to be incentivized in such a way, we aim for a proven approach that aligns incentives in the most powerful way: let people stick together, organize, communicate, build communities. The money, we believe, will follow.

https://t.co/v6ONqFCKth

[Cassie Heart @cass_on_mars]

Tomorrow at 5pm PDT on Farcaster Spaces, I'm hosting a community call to discuss this, our ongoing plans and work on Hypersnap, and what our plans are around forming our proposal to run FC.

No idea if they'll accept our proposal, but I am one of the original core FC devs, and have been building Hypersnap with the core purpose of bringing FC to full decentralization and ability to run without a central benefactor sustaining it.

The last thing I want to see is FC end up in the hands of a private equity firm or a holding company of other failed social protocols (you know who I mean). For all those interested, we're happy to see you attend.

https://t.co/AiA6i3wh7I

[The Nest @530cpp]

Meet The Nest 🪺

A Web3 game on Base built around Whelps, daily NEST yield, evolving, upgrades, staking, and a player-driven marketplace.

Explore: https://t.co/ZxRL7zq1ig

If The Nest sounds like your kind of game, share this with one friend.

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[Ditt Dutton🎙️ @dittdutton]

For everyone I see in my feed wanting to become a voice actor…

Step 1: Say out loud
“I am a voice actor.”

That’s it. You’re a voice actor.

More here 👇

[The Nest @530cpp]

https://t.co/8oTYqTYgvF the nest is live, join now!