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Homebase Workshops
Recorded: April 9, 2025 Duration: 1:08:19Space Recording
Short Summary
The Homebase workshops are launching a series of initiatives aimed at empowering builders in the crypto space, including the Base Batches program and the Dev2Patch initiative for women and students transitioning from Web2 to Web3. Additionally, innovative funding strategies are being explored in both Japan and New York to support local community projects.
Full Transcription
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Yeah. Thank you everyone for tuning in with us today. Awesome stuff that we have lined up.
Yep. We have the Homebase workshops team today for the first time coming on live on the Build on Base account. Let's introduce ourselves first, I guess.
Hi, everyone.
I'm Ceren.
I'm a community manager at Base.
I spent the last year cultivating
the centralized grassroots builder communities on base
and all around the world with the Base Global Builders.
And I'm especially passionate about building spaces
for the builders and creators
and hackers and local organizers so they can thrive on base. Homebase workshops actually
started as like a small side hustle for us. But then thanks to the incredible energy of
the base builders, we were able to bring it to reality. And we're going to introduce you
to the Homebase team today and what they're building
and how they are actually supporting our base batches program which is the holistic builder
support program that we just launched and um so we are going to talk about uh the the base
batches and we're going to spotlight the builders that are supporting it. And they are the ones that just work with minimal resources
with maximum heart.
So we really appreciate them.
This is the time.
We appreciate them.
So thanks so much for tuning in and doing this with us.
What awesome stuff.
Yes, I'm talking.
You can find me on Discord Twitter, part
of the Base Global Builders team.
Always happy to support, guide, or provide resources to anyone building on base.
If we haven't already, let's get connected.
Happy to help.
All right, great.
Should we invite the Homebase team now?
Yes, let's do that.
Bring it out.
Are you ready?
Luciano. Samuel. Hi, Luciano. Hi, Samuel's do that. Bring out Luciano. Luciano.
Hi, Luciano.
Hi, Luciano.
Hi, Samuel.
And Rafi.
And Rafi.
Yes.
Hi, guys.
Are you five role players in chat?
Hello.
Nice to see you.
Nice to see you on cameras.
We always talk, but we are not always on camera.
So it's good to see actual faces and we're
going to be seeing each other in real life too actually very soon as farcon i'm so looking a
couple of weeks yeah yep in just a few weeks so i'm going to introduce you guys a little bit and
then uh and then i'll let you introduce yourselves and then maybe i can ask you some questions we
have very limited time also one of our guests our guests, Celine, is in a rush.
So we want to actually make it kind of quick.
So I'll start with Luciano.
He actually started this whole initiative.
He is a true base builder at heart.
And he's all about passionate about public goods funding and community infrastructure
and bottom-up ecosystems and stuff that I'm also
passionate about. That's why I love working with him. And he co-founded Kismet Casa. And it's like
a network of hacker houses, a creator houses, supporting those who are attending global
hackathons or crypto events and who cannot afford to go otherwise.
I'm going to also talk about the others. Samuel is our little troublemaker farmer friend.
He runs the D-Tech Vision
and he's a super base builder.
He's obsessed with like decentralization of product
and real utility for products. And he's a pioneering podcaster and wallet UX.
And he's building so much stuff.
I can't keep track of it.
And also, me being a non-technical builder, it's always hard for me to understand.
So I always ask him to explain things to me like I'm fine.
to explain things to me like I'm five.
So Rafi, Rafael, he's deep into knowledge and distribution
and distributed computing.
Like formerly he was at Nainar,
which is a great podcaster tooling platform for data especially.
And now he is helping other builders build social apps.
And he is actually multi-talented,
like a Swiss knife. And he's got the serious architect energy, not just building tools,
he's building protocols and how we interact online and on chain, basically. I love everything
that he's building too. Also very, very technical for but i will i will let them introduce themselves now
go ahead luciano
thank you so much statue thank you so much for bringing us on i i really appreciate it uh this
is going to be a really fun little session that we do here today um there your introductions were
amazing uh there's not much more i would add about myself. It was absolutely perfect.
Samuel, Rafi, anything that she missed about you guys?
Well, I'd say troublemaking also sometimes means you're winning in Favreau.
So beginning of the week, I'm the winner.
That is usually temporary.
You know, it only lasts until I do a weekly cluster.
You're leaving also temporary because then I'm leaving the end of the week.
I don't know why you said troublemaker.
I'm not making any trouble here.
If you want to add everything to your info.
You talk by yourself, please, instead of fun.
This is why Samuel's the troublemaker.
That's an example, exactly.
That's great. I'm just glad it's not me you are a trouble maker too in a different way uh rafi i guess samuel doesn't want to talk about himself but you can go ahead if you want
uh yeah happy to be here uh really excited for our home base and really excited that
me you see on and samuel were able to uh work together for the home base and really excited that me Lucian and Samuel were
able to uh work together for the first time a couple of bikes a month a month ago in Denver
where we created a based house um there's like so much things we want to do and I'm looking excited
to see uh see it happening so yeah let's do. Love it. Should we go into a short story of the inception of Based House?
Not too much details, though.
We can. However,
we don't want to go into much details because we don't have too much time either.
Let's talk about the Based House, but before that,
let's talk about the Homebase Worksh that let's talk about the home base workshops why
did you start this project and why and what does it support exactly base badges program which is
the holistic program it starts with a workshop workshop the workshops the home base workshops
which are online workshops that are available to anyone everyone globally everywhere and you can
always find these workshop recordings later on Twitter,
on the homebase.love Twitter account,
or you can also go to homebase.love website to find these recordings as well,
now that they are available now, I guess.
Right, Rafi?
So that's great.
So the Base Batches program starts with the workshops,
and then it's going to continue with the IRL workshops that are going to be hosted by base global builders all around the world.
We have like about 55 events planned right now all around the world, Southeast Asia, Northern Asia, Africa.
We have Europe, parts of Europe. We have parts of United States, we have Latin America everywhere.
So that's going to be very beneficial for people that will watch these home-based workshops and
then they want to reinforce these learnings with actual builders together at the same time,
because our mantra, you know, base builders build together. um after the irl workshops there's a build-a-thon which is
going to be kicking off on april 25th and then the build-a-thon results will lead into an incubator
program which is which is the best part of this program i think because during the base around
the world build-a-thons what we, we had a lot of new learnings.
And some of them was like, firstly,
there was like scale gaps in some regions in the world.
And the scale gaps were showing that there are regions
that builders do not have the on-chain technology
accessible for them, or they do not have the knowledge.
So we wanted to do the workshops.
And then the next criteria that we wanted to start this with is because builders didn't
know what to do after the Build-A-Found.
They built these great projects, but then they didn't know where to go after that, where
to release this product and how to make it a success in the ecosystem.
So the incubators
program is going to help with that and once the incubator program is done we are going to be
doing a demo day demo day activation which is going to be basically all the winners from these
build-a-thons basically competing against each other like a like a bigger bigger platform for them to
show themselves and show us what they got and also get some funding from the
from the from our partners and from ourselves as well so that's our base
badges program and home-based workshops is the first step of it to support it so um i will go to the home base workshop leaders now and luciano so
tell us how how did it start what happened all right so the the quick story is that uh samuel
uh casted about uh a little over a month ago before e thenver saying hey is there a base
house at e thenver jess replied and say if you get the crew together, we'll make it happen.
So Samuel got the crew together, tapped Rafi and I in, said, hey, can you guys run this house?
And we put it together, put a little pitch deck together, casted it at Jesse in a frame, which is now a mini app.
And Jesse replied, said, let's do it. And we ended up
in two weeks putting together a little base hacker house for eThember. It went phenomenal.
So we decided how else can we contribute to the base ecosystem? And of course, it's become
consensus over the last two years that hackathons need to start doing a better job of supporting
these builders post hackathon
and base listened and base created this incredible program where that's exactly what happens and
there's no better way for us to support builders than showcase and educate them showcase this uh
base batches and educate them on how they can participate um contribute and get involved
that's awesome so how about you?
Let's talk about you a little bit too.
I know you're very, very passionate about public goods
and you have a few projects going at the same time.
And like there's a part project in Japan, I believe.
And the Kismet Casa, I also want people to hear about.
Can you share a little bit about those?
Yeah, yeah.
So back in 2021, I met Lea Alamos, my friend from Argentina, who we decided or we were
chatting about how it was it's very difficult for young people and new people to the space
to attend Ethereum hackathons and art exhibitions in the space, et cetera.
And I was telling him when I was a hacker,
you know, in my high school days, it was almost impossible to afford accommodations,
would always have to find a friend or find someone to stay with, et cetera, just to do so.
And we ideated around doing these hacker houses to support more individuals in the space to come
into the space to contribute and be a sort of top of funnel for new entrants because it's much easier to come to the space with people than without people. So it's a very good
experience, first experience for people to be in a house with others who are interested in
building something similar, even if, you know, they aren't really sure how the industry works
yet. So really helpful to have that sort of community vibe so we started kismet casa and now
we run hacker and creator houses together we call them hybrid houses where we have developers and
artists collaborate under the same roof during these greater ethereum events and that's one of
the reasons i was tapped in for based houses these guys know i am my residencies are my bread and
these guys know I am residencies are my bread and butter.
That's awesome. All right. So let's get to Samuel now. You are building DTEK, which is like a
party boutique and it's a toolkit for CEOs, right? Well, yeah, the whole theme basically is that the struggle projects have is no users.
So if you're able to tap into existing users, that's great.
Most people don't know how to do that, which, well, we can help with the strategy.
But then it's like, okay, now you have a strategy.
How do you implement that?
Well, we can do the tech side and the whole part of the implementation itself with it
together, meaning most of the founders or
teams are like wait like why why do i only only hear from you like two times a week in like 15
minutes things it's like oh yeah because we just do it so why should we why should you be in like
meetings all over when we can just do it for you and get it done right um that's the whole spiel
um that is funneled into miniamps, meaning like Coinbase Wallet, Once It's Live, Farcaster, the Webcast app as it is right now.
And then just like full on delivering that.
That's the business side.
Outside of the business side, there's a lot of content that we do, like education wise.
Just taking people who have like interest or literally like, hey, I don't know how to develop this or how to think about marketing here.
interest or literally like, hey, I don't know how to develop this or how to think about
marketing here.
Give them a lot of material to read and just get up to speed with what we know so they
can either just do it themselves or have it done by us.
That's the whole gist.
I love that.
I love that you also are doing a lot of these tutorials and just like putting them online,
like, you know, open source way and like just sharing all the knowledge with all the builders.
in an open source way and like just sharing all the knowledge
with all the builders.
I love that.
I love that.
And like, I can always tap your shoulder,
like when I need support for some builder
asking a technical question and like,
and especially with the mini apps,
why do you think mini apps are so important
and such a game changer?
Well, for me, like the core thing that drives what we do
is reducing friction.
So friction is always there in the way of getting
somebody to do something. Sometimes that's intended, right? You don't want some people
to do something and then you just add friction for those people. But most of the projects
add friction because they just built it some way because they thought that's the only way
it works. And it's like, well, now the user, you actually want to have to have something
like that they do like for Morpho
for example it's like oh Morpho wants people to deposit into lending pools because Morpho is a
lending protocol okay what does that mean well it should be as stupid simple as possible for somebody
to put money in there well what if it isn't well then you don't have as many deposits as you can
get so if you put that deposit flow right in front of the user inside of like a mini app
inside of that where they already like a mini app, inside
of an app where they already have a wallet, well, you get more deposits.
We're now at a hundred roughly a day.
It's like, that's like, and that's usually like around the $10 range, which like now
they can tap into consumers.
Whereas before it's like DeFi people with like larger budgets or institutionals.
So you get access to that market now just because you put it in front of the user made
it easy for them.
And that's why I feel like the mini form factor is really great.
I love that because it's making it more accessible for the global on-chain economy is the most
important thing.
Yeah, that's on the financial side.
I love your mission there.
Well, that's on the financial side.
If you're like outside of the financial space, then it's just like, well, you need more users.
But if you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're
like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're
Get them there. Get them to do the fun stuff like Farville for some, like just farming, play some video games.
like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like outside of the financial space then it's just like well you need more users get them there get them to do the fun stuff like farville for some like just farming play some
video games but if you want the full fidelity experience then maybe you just funnel them to
your mobile app but they would never have gone to your mobile app if you they didn't get addicted to
your thing first so that's great yeah i love that i love your thinking right so uh rafi let's get
to you and um what what do you think is the most exciting thing about the Farcaster tooling now?
First of all, actually, tell us about yourself a little bit.
Because I know you're so multi-talented.
You have festival experience.
You have developer experience.
You started mining Bitcoin.
And you also did some neurosurgery like projects that involved yeah i
am i'm all over the place what is this tell us about it yeah so i used to do like uh i do many
different things you know i used to organize like festivals in europe like mostly uh like musical
festivals i uh had like a medical uh startups when we were doing a diagnosis of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease that I worked for a couple of years.
And I also was a very early adopter.
In mid-2010s, I was mining bitcoins and stuff before it was actually possible to do it without special hardware.
And I've been part of Forecaster for, I think,
now a little, like two years,
or maybe a little bit beyond that.
And I've been really focused on that
because I'm coming from Eastern Europe,
and the internet really allowed me to connect
with the global people all over the place.
And with the decentralized social network,
which I was interested for the last 10 years,
including the first Diaspora,
Activity Pop implementation, and Scuttlebutt,
I'm really interested in this sector.
For the last two years, I was tinkering
and playing around like Farcaster.
I even work at Nainar, which is a forecasting company. And yeah, right now I'm just
starting a new stealth company, which I'm not going to tell too much about just yet. And working
at Homebase, and one of the motivating forces for me is not only great people like Luciana and Samuel
and working with them every day,
and you, of course, Tatouette,
but it's also giving ability for the people
to actually have this nice online experience
where they can actually meet and foster a relationship
because I've been nomading for a couple of years,
and I know how hard it is to connect with people
and to make friends and to, like, learn stuff online.
So, yeah, this is me, and it's good.
I love it.
Future looks bright.
I really appreciate you guys for putting all this workshop programs together
and, like, doing it, like, just from your heart.
And it really shows how much you really believe in the
mission which is the global building the global on-chain economy to increase innovation creativity
and freedom it's just that it's it's so rare to actually uh find like the really true believers
in the mission and like being able to empower them is my own privilege actually i
want to thank you guys i'm really grateful to be building with you and base is really grateful to
be building with you i thank you um of course we're just as grateful yes i don't know i want
to bring solene here because she has to leave soon um sol Celine is one of the contributors of the Homebase workshops.
And can we bring her in?
Okay.
Hi Celine.
Thanks for having me.
Yeah.
Thank you so much for coming.
Although you have to rush.
You have a train to take, is it?
Yeah, exactly.
I need to go back home.
Are you going to france now yeah i'm in paris but i'm not living in paris so that's why i need to come back but home base is home um my my i'm based
in poitiers you can you can you can call home base home you can stay here
is like a nomad too like i every time i talk to her she's
somewhere else she was already in argentina she was from france and she was in uh we met each
other in bangkok and are you coming to park on i hope you come yeah i'm going to new york for
fucking i love that so selene and i met when we were actually uh organizing
based around the world hackathons billy thons um and the special hack days for it and solene was
the global leader of her dow back then and um now she stepped down i think but uh she was running a
program that was giving scholarships of women builders, Women Plus, actually, to be able to attend DevCon.
So we sponsored that, and Celine and her team, they created these great educational programs for women.
And it was incredible.
And then lots of women got these scholarships to come to Bangkok, and we actually got to meet them in person, which was a great experience.
to come to Bangkok and we actually got to meet them in person too,
which was a great experience.
So, Celine, tell us a little bit about the Dev3PAC program
that you're doing right now, which is a part of the Homebase workshops now
because we are going to be featuring your workshops
at the end of the two weeks, right?
Yeah, exactly.
So for the third week, so actually, I'm running Dev2Patch. So where the goal is to bring women and students coming from Web2 development into Web3. So basically, I'm running that in the sense of, well, a lack of women and we lack a lack of developer 2.
developer 2. And so that's why I wanted to bring a new wave of builders inside the ecosystem,
because since 2022 we are still working with the same, and so we need a new wave for that.
And actually, BASE is really great for onboarding this new wave and working together, especially
during the third week of programming. We will do something more related to AI, AI agents, workshop more
advanced about it, basically because our students are more actually into AI. And so it's a great that in order to be ready for the build that in batch batches batches
yes they were all these pitches aren't we
yeah
okay thank you so much celine that was great Thanks so much. And I love what you're
doing for especially for Women Plus and other minority communities. It's been great to know
you and being able to support you is our privilege and it's based, you know, we are really grateful
that we got to actually meet you. So we were able to do a lot of these scholarships and sponsorships and and a little bit of onboarding to firecaster
a little bit of everything actually and i love that they treat back initiative is going well
and and and you have a fellowship or something going on like can people still apply to that
uh so actually it's closed. We received too many applications. So it's closed and probably
we're gonna do a special batch in Spanish to be ready for DevConnect. Okay great. All right. Thank
you so much for stopping by and like just showing up even before you're trained and we really
appreciate you.
Thank you so much for everything that you organize.
And we're really looking forward to those sessions
at the end of the, actually like April 20 or something.
We're starting, I guess, with yours.
Anyone yet.
Yes, that's awesome.
Great.
Thank you so much.
Have a great trip and be safe.
Thank you, Slein.
So Luciano and I are here now.
Samuel and Rafi had to go get ready for the workshops that are coming later today.
What's on the program for today?
Today is our Farcaster Day, our consumer applications.
So if we're lucky, first we'll have an introduction by Woj, and then we will have a mini apps segment, how to develop mini apps, building mini apps for everyone by Samuel Huber.
So if you're interested to learn how to build mini apps, you will definitely want to hop in at 7 p.m. later today.
And then at 8 p.m., we have our Farcaster founders panel.
APM, we have our Farcaster Founders panel.
So we have about five different founders from Farcaster
that will be speaking and sharing a little bit
about what they're building
and how they enjoy building in that ecosystem specifically.
I love that.
And there's going to be the Minikit usage, I believe,
which is our new, very new product
on building and building mini apps on Farcaster,
which is incredible.
Anything, any website can turn into an app like instantaneously on Minikit and even non-devs
like me can do it.
I will actually try to do it at some point.
So maybe we'll do it on a home-based workshop live.
I think we should do like a super beginner friendly workshop just like people like me because
I'm like code curious but I mean I'm going to do like technical tooling for non-technical people.
Yes yes let's do it that's that's that should be our next one anyway that's going to be another
project that's that's uh you might are other contributors for the Homebase workshop. And we have Sneha.
Is Limon here?
Zach is here.
Let's invite the man.
Hi, Sneha.
Zach.
Hey.
Hey, my favorite Limon.
How's it going?
Hi, guys.
Good, good. How's it going for you you are you preparing some fun stuff for our conference a lot you should i have some ideas anyway i'm going to introduce you guys
first actually so limo limo how do i say limone limone limone limone because in turkish it would be limon like i that's why i
keep saying limon and like i feel like it should be limon everybody around the world call me limon
limon i don't know but in italy it's like simone limone well at least it's Yeah, yeah, it's lemon, it's lemon. But it's, I love it.
The yellow is my favorite color.
I love that one.
Yeah, so Limone here is actually the founder of, co-founder of the Builder's Garden project,
which is like a super empowering project for builders all around the world but it's based in Italy Rome they have a actual permanent place
that they can host events and and have builders there and host workshops and
all kinds of stuff and in he's also running the just frame it program right
now which is I think the applications are closed now for the I mean actually
you have winners already right you have like six projects working on that like that is like a fellowship i
believe i'm gonna ask you about it uh but it's like a residency for many have developers i believe
an acceleration acceleration program that's awesome yes i i love it and we are we are supporting limone's uh program as well
on that one and we are always supporting farville and samuel and i are the biggest supporters of
farville by with our uh bickering mostly um so i'll introduce the other ones as well and then
i'm gonna leave it to you guys and guys. And Zach is one of our contributors.
He's a Texas-based game developer.
He's building way too many games at the same time.
I was going to actually feature a few, but he has too many.
And maybe, I hope Simon is actually posting some of the links here.
But he also hosts a base gaming show on this Build on Base account himself.
So he supports the game devs, and he's a great advocate for the game developers in the ecosystem.
And if you want to know how to build on base as a game developer, just make sure to go to Zach, and he's going to tell you what to do.
And he's going to maybe even feature you with the with the base gamers program
and he can help you he's always helping us define what the future of launching gaming is so that is
amazing to have him on board and then um we have um we have sneha who's uh actually uh contributed
through the dev3 pack program with uh with uh with es. She's a DevRel engineer and the builder of the Web3 Compass and
the lead at Herdao India. So she's a great mentor for builders. We are just meeting for the first
time today actually. And I'm really happy to see women championing the ecosystem and being incredible engineers and mentoring
others as well.
She's the kind of leader I wish I had when I was younger.
She's building bridges for women across the whole ecosystem and I love that.
So I'm going to let you guys introduce yourselves now.
I think we should start with Sneha, actually.
Yeah, so I think you mentioned everything
in the introduction.
I am a devril engineer by passion.
I was working at an edtech startup in Chile.
Yeah, I wrapped it up last month.
And I've been with Hurtow since 2022.
That is how I started my journey in web3 completely as a noob
and then getting the chance to come for a hackathon uh so yeah i think when you guys did based around
the world i did a workshop on onchain kit and i was like oh we should do this more because uh it
it's pretty easy for even beginners to get on boarded and all of that and then
so lean asked me if I could take a workshop for a home base series that
you're doing and I'm like yeah why not at the same time I'm working for this
project called the web 3 compass so I think past three years with whatever
time I've been in thattech space or took workshops for developers
there are a lot of voids that even if bigger protocols are trying to fill it's not happening
everyone's talking about their tech but nobody's really looking at you know beginners who are just
getting started and then they get so overwhelmed with the entire web3 world that they're like oh my god it's too tough and which way should we go so we're trying to streamline the entire process focusing more on
creating evangelists rather than just developers who are hopping from one protocol to another
and we've just started I think April 1st and we're doing this campaign called 30 days of solidity.
Every day, one challenge, one smart contract is what you write,
even if you're from like a beginner space. And then, yeah, at the end you have video solution tech solution.
So we're trying to bring up a lot more cool stuff,
but slowly and steadily because it's a two people team. So, yeah.
That's great. I love your mission i love that
you're bringing more people more developers on chain and and supporting women builders like
we we truly appreciate those kind of initiatives and always want to support you if you ever uh
have any programming uh support needs and everything like just let us know
yeah and what kind of uh you're going to do a workshop session
in two weeks, I believe, right?
Yes, yes.
It's everything around the AI agent angle and base MCP.
And I'm trying to put in as many things as possible,
but also trying to keep it very beginner friendly
so that everybody just builds something during that session and comes out of it rather than just soaking in theory so yeah let's see how it goes
i love that and you can always use agent kit which makes it like super easy to build on on base
around it already that's great i love that all right so pneumonia go ahead thank you thank you I
mean like you already mentioned a lot but but yeah I guess to summarize it all
I'm software engineer first so my background is in computer science always
been working and developing products and startups even before Web3. And now within Web3, especially mini apps
with Builder's Garden, which is this product studio
I co-founded with some friends from our community in Rome,
which is called Urbe.
Mide and Caso, right?
Yeah, Mide and Caso are the real builders behind Farveel actually.
They are.
You're the face of it though.
I mean, I started it, I've coded it, but then most of the fixes and the work that you see nowadays, they are shipping the code for that.
When I have complaints, I'm going to bug them instead.
How could he not be the face look at that beautiful face come on
it's it's the nickname limone that that works pretty well because it's kind of international
even if it's italian but my i live in i live in rome yeah i live in rome and we also have
an awesome community there uh such where i was mentioning the the app that we recently opened we
we've been doing in the past three years a lot of developer onboarding as well workshops boot camps
uh in italy but also uh around the world when for example in bangkok in in brussels in warsaw
bunch of stuff um and we also organize it rome which is the only Ethereum hackathon in Italy so far.
I hope to see more in the future.
But that to say that we are trying to onboard, of course, Italian builders in the space, students, universities. And at the same time, with Builder's Garden, we are building actual products a lot on base.
I have to say, in the past one year, I think ever since we started BuildersGarden in 2020,
was the end of 2023, yeah.
We've been building a lot on forecaster,
a lot of frames, even V1, a lot on base.
We've been doing, you know,
probably around 20 Ethereum markethons,
and every time we were building a new consumer
or payment product on base,
and I really love the the vibe
and the energy that we we get out of this um and and now you might you may know builders garden for
for farville so the farming simulation game on far caster uh it's it's been like a pretty exciting
journey our first time and my first time building a game. I have to say it's somewhat different from building
applications for various reasons.
But it's always fun to learn about new stuff.
And that's also, I guess, one of the reasons why I'm in Web3,
because everything evolves so fast that there's always
something new to learn, always
something new to meet and learn from them.
And so I'm really, really excited to contribute to these workshops.
That's great.
I love it.
And now, you know, you all know that I love Harville.
I know, I know.
I always love Harville.
And it's good because like I don't have to be on it constantly
because while we're doing this Zoom 5 era
with the build-a-thons and workshops and everything,
it's great.
I just get on there, just boost my stuff
and then get some points and then post the update
so I can send a sarcastic message to Samuel.
Yeah.
And then we go we go you know i posted about this uh pomodoro farville pomodoro technique you yeah you open the game you plan
something you boost it for two hours then you focus focus on your task. Two hours later, you get a notification,
your boost ended.
And so you come back in the game, you boost it again,
up until you did an harvest.
So yeah.
Brilliant.
I really recommend it.
We're going to do some Farcon activations, I believe.
Are we allowed to talk about that?
I don't have much details now we still need to
honestly like uh we will be planning it uh i need to make some kind of games like we should
definitely do an irl match if you have any ideas shoot them on forecaster and uh me castle media
and the whole builders garden team are in the brainstorming phase so
everything can happen nobody is safe nobody's that's great everybody's gonna farm from there
that's good all right so i'll i'll go to zach now hi zach uh how are you howdy howdy thank you for
having us and quick shout out to farville as well they attended the last space game night and shared some alpha for for new builders coming in there
i i love the lore behind the game so a quick introduction about myself i've been in the
industry since 20 2015. i've worked with a lot of different projects in the past i've launched a lot
of projects of my own uh i'm currently building about seven different games in tandem.
But if I were to shout out a game that I'm more excited about,
it's called World Tycoon.
We took the original 1989 SimCity game,
and we compiled that into Solidity for people to be able to play.
It's going to be fully on-chain for every movement.
It's kind of exciting. I like it. I'm
a big gamer. I've done four based gaming hacker houses, six based game jams, and I think 32
hackathons in general within that time. And this workshop. Yeah, it's coming up on Tuesday,
so it's going to be exciting. And I think I might change it a little bit.
I had an idea that came from Satuit about having it focus on non-developers.
I think non-developers building games are actually really cool.
So there's 1.7 million games on itch.io that are just collecting dust.
I think there's about 3.4 million games in total.
And if we could bring all of those to Web3,
I imagine all the users would come too.
So big gamer, love game.
Shout out to Farville as well.
That's a good idea.
And I'm really excited about this whole new meta
about how non-technical builders becoming builders now
because now that the creators,
like the people with a lot of creative power
are coming on chain to build things,
like I can't even imagine what they're going to come up with.
Like they have all this imagination
and they have, they're going to,
I'm sure they're going to build like incredible games
and incredible consumer apps
and all kinds of things
that's going to make our lives better.
And artists always actually lead the world, you know, in the history of human culture.
It's known that the artists usually take technology and then they make it into something amazing.
And the builders and all the others also like support each other and build together and turn it into like we are
going to be turning this into like a renaissance of uh on chain history i'm hoping and it is
actually happening everybody's slowly building more and more i love it so yeah uh zach what do
you think about the game developers' support in the ecosystem?
I wanted to ask you that because you are a true advocate.
You've been talking to us about game developers for a long time
until we actually got you on the show.
So tell us, what can we do?
How do we support them?
I think games is probably the number one way
to bring actual users into Web3 itself.
And so that's why I always think that we should focus on games because you're bringing in
designers, musicians, artists, and then developers to build one work of art that comes together.
Whenever it comes to developer support, you can see a lot of different hackathons that I've helped
people organize in the past, such as I've organized four different game jams for rides,
which is just online to where anyone can join.
Farcade hosted a hackathon a few weeks ago
that was fully AI focused.
I think they had about 500 non-developers
that participated in that game jam and built games itself
currently b3 is hosting a hackathon as well as barrio or i call them hackathons they're game
jams so uh i think that the support for game developers is is really abundant i think it's
out there i think that the hardest part is just the distribution and onboarding itself.
And with amazing things like Farcaster, you know, it's a brand new onboarding tool to not only bring people into Farcaster, but also to bring them into games.
And I think Lamone can kind of speak about that, too, with the onboarding, whenever it comes to onboarding people into Farville.
It's an amazing onboarding tool.
Yeah, what do you think about that?
Yeah, I mean, it's something that I didn't realize
when we started building it.
I really just wanted to experiment with mini apps.
And I thought, OK, Farmville was super funny and popular
on Facebook, so why not having it on for cassette?
But I wasn't even thinking about the impact
it could have in onboarding you, really.
And actually I remember I had a call with Jesse
at the beginning of the year about another project
I was building, which was like a payment focused project.
So like something on a totally like different axis, let's say.
And somehow like we get to a conclusion that like mini apps were a real opportunity.
But I was feeling that, you know, building something like Farville was to be like less impactful with respect to building,
I don't know, the way in which commerce building i don't know the way in which commerce
on chain can work the way in which people can pay with stable coins for example uh but like
few months later i have to say that i'm i'm really happy and proud of like what what we built with
with farville and the potential of gaming in general i realized it because i've seen many people even in my uh close circle like non
crypto native circle just downloading wordcast and opening it every day uh because of farbill
or other games that they might discover later uh and it's not not only my friends but my friends
girlfriends you know like uh it's it's incredible so i i really like double down on uh
on zach uh take because like of course like gaming i think and in the end another thing to
add on top of this is that the way in which i got into web 3 is was through a game so
axi-infinity.
No, I believe it.
I believe it.
It's either crazy.
It's coming back.
And so, yeah.
So, Zaka, it looks like your new niche is very poignant.
No, it's, you know, whenever you think about onboarding people into Web3,
it's either crazy, advanced, hard-to-understand DeFi.
We have to read through tons and tons of pages,
and then one contact can go wrong,
or just actually enjoying
a game. But, yeah,
I like the niche.
That's great.
Yeah, well, game truly
is like an end-consumer magnet,
I could say, definitely.
It onboarded my own daughter.
She actually came on Firecaster to start playing Firewheel.
And then I think she's playing now, finally.
Like, she wasn't able to set up her screen settings
or something like that because she has a small phone.
And now I saw her asking for tomatoes or something
the other day. MARIUSZ GASIEWSKI- We fixed it. or something the other day so we fixed it we
castle and me they actually fixed it oh yeah thank you thanks so much because she she was really
excited to play it and she came on the podcast and then she was like oh no it doesn't fit
because her phone is old um what's that i didn't get i mean this is her first ever phone so and i
know she's gonna break it and lose it and everything so i didn't get i mean this is her first ever phone so and i know she's gonna break it and
lose it and everything so i didn't want to get something fancy so she's got like a smaller iphone
se no it didn't fit but this is perfect so thank you devs for fixing that castle and me day we
should have a base community competition where i'll i'll see how many people i can on board
through public goods you guys see how many people you can onboard through Public Goods. You guys see how many people you can onboard through Base Games,
and we'll come back in a year or two and see who's winning.
Uh-huh. That's a good idea, actually.
Maybe we can do that, something like that.
Yeah, well, Public Goods is a great, great cause,
and I'm super supportive of that.
I mean, I love games and everything, too,
but I want you to actually talk about it a little bit more.
I know you have other initiatives as well.
You are trying to raise funds for a park in japan tell us about that yeah so i met with the local government in japan
several months ago and they're really interested in real use cases of crypto so i sort of gave them
the rundown about public goods funding allocation some of the mechanisms that they could use, and how we could work together to actually allocate tax dollars in that local rural community. So now we're working on a proposal for them to
put up money from their yearly budget to this funding pool so that citizens in that community
can now fund local impact with dollars that they've already given to taxes. So it's a really great initiative
where real people in real life are finally going to allocate tax dollars.
This is great. I love that. I love how you even came up with that. How did you come up with that?
So yeah, I've been building in public goods for a long time. I run a little community in New York
City called Green Pill. I've been seeing you posting events, I green-pilled New York City or something,
I don't know what that is about. Tell us about it.
Yes, yes, so about a little over two years ago we began shilling people all over New York City
about public goods funding and on-chain mechanisms for allocating capital. And so throughout the last
two years we've been working towards doing in real life funding
rounds for Red Hook specifically now.
So we're really focused on onboarding impactors in the Red Hook community in Brooklyn and
then raising capital from the community as well.
The goal is to, let's say, for example, we target people who are very hungry in this area.
We'll onboard communities and community members that specifically feed the hungry.
We'll add them to the round and then people within the community will sort of see those communities in real life
and decide which of those communities actually are the ones creating the most impact
and then allocate funding towards those projects.
So as the projects who create the real impact receive more funding, they'll be able to scale
the impact that they do.
And then local governments will be able to come in and say, hey, it makes more sense
for us to fund this local round rather than, you know, fund these 10 projects that don't
even do the same level of impact as the orgs that you found.
Or maybe we're funding the same orgs just in a more efficient way.
So that's the theory for New York.
And at the same time, it just so happened that I was put in contact with the Japanese government.
So now we're doing it in New York simultaneously as Japan.
The only real difference is in Japan, the government is the one asking for it.
In New York, we have to force the government's hand by doing it first.
Yes, I believe that.
However, New York is like a perfect place to actually be testing out this MVP program, I guess.
Like what you call it, right?
Because the Red Hook area is probably like in the verge of fully being
gentrified and uh and like all these people the communities are disappearing so it's a great
way to give back to the communities while um while also saving them from uh getting
disappearing you know i i love the mission here and i'm super supportive of that like just let me know like i'll
i'll come to the events and and we'll we'll do something together yeah you got to come to the
next green pill event for sure i will come get green pilled i'm already blue pilled um
we'll do something i'm trying to blue pill the local government in casanama as well at the moment
so we've been making headway yeah well you have to
kind of be blue pill to be able to get green pill so because it has to be on chain i agree i agree
there's a proof of uh contribution proof of impact only can be proven on chain and that's the
like brilliant way to go about it i love it and you can actually hopefully maybe like get some grants and
things like that from the government and get some real support since the environment is
getting more crypto friendly.
Hopefully.
Hopefully.
Hopefully.
Yeah.
I'm fine.
Yeah. Well, currently the market and everything might be a mess, but we are not caring about
that. We are builders. build we build we don't look at the i don't even check any charts no which is which is i i mean i
only check my current baseball it shows me like if things are up or down anyway so i just check my
wallet and see oh okay it's less today. And tomorrow, there's more. I just check Twitter and see if celebrities
are still tweeting about it or not.
You know, it's either a bowl season or a build season.
Two great seasons.
I'm bullish on building,
so I don't care about the money part as much.
I appreciate people that are doing a lot of the trading as well
because those people are the ones
that are actually bringing real impact to the crypto world and bringing real use cases as well and and
onboarding more people in fact because it's got a lot of um attention attention uh seeking
so so yeah like uh we we appreciate any kind of builder in the ecosystem creators and
dgens and even even um people that don't find so much use as long as the builder is
building for the long term and actually trying to put something together for for the others and
building together with other builders and uplifting each other. And it's great.
And we are supportive of all those.
Okay.
So actually, we are almost out of time.
I think we have five minutes left now.
And if there are any questions from the community in the chat,
do you guys see anything?
I don't see anything currently. but I do have a question.
How's 30 days of Solidity going?
It is actually going great, I think.
So because we just started out, I was not expecting a lot of people to join,
but we had 100 plus people registering for it and then since we're doing
everything um on github we literally have close to 100 prs for the first week um and now we have
to review everything because obviously ai is coming in and we don't want people to actually
do that uh so yeah we are reviewing each PR for every day, leaving out comments,
asking them to redo it. And then there are people in the community who are writing
blogs about it. They're up for contribution in every term. Some people are writing detailed
threads about things. So it's going pretty great. And I have to like make videos every day so for the past eight
days I've been doing YouTube tutorials almost every day shooting till 2 3 a.m.
yeah like we just heard the videos are they available publicly yes and if
people here want to go join where where should they go? Yeah. Oh, maybe.
Yes.
This is right now.
Zach has shared the challenge calendar, so that's the website.
And it's a it's an amazing initiative.
We can me and Lamone can talk about onboarding users all we want,
but onboarding developers to actually build the products for those users is huge.
I love what you all are doing.
I love the mission.
So much.
So much impact.
By the way, since they are all working on GitHub,
they can get rewarded for what they're building, too.
Did you hear about the Builder Rewards program that we recently launched with Talent Protocol?
Oh, yes.
They're building on base and Talent Protocol is, I don't know if you know about it,
it's a reputation and protocol there.
Yes, okay.
They keep track of who, which builder is building what,
and how much contributions they made and
according to that each week um builders get rewarded and automatically they don't even have
to do anything about it they just they just ship and get rewarded yes yes i did see about it and i
was just waiting for the right moment to actually announce it to the community because i feel web 3 um has ruined the
entire learning angle for developers where everyone's like hey we're giving you 100 and
you should learn as if you know those people learning something are doing a favor on the
protocol that they learned a particular thing that is something that i don't really support
so that is why i did not tell the
community of what incentives are out there otherwise then everyone would start chasing
figure out shortcuts and not actually try things um so later part i think if you see the entire
challenge calendar towards the end uh for six seven days it's about building the real world applications and then once we
observe that which of the community members are like more active we would bring more opportunities
for them rather than just you know bringing in airdrop hunters and all of that we have some
people who just wake up and then they start working on the code and in case we made a change
suppose with the description or the challenge because we figured out something was not clear, they would be like, oh, my God, I just submitted the challenge.
How did you guys change it right now?
And I'm like, how did you do it so quick?
And they're like, oh, the moment I wake up, that's like the first thought for me.
And for the past nine, ten days, they've been doing it.
And I feel like if they do it for 30 days, it could just become a really good habit that now they're coding every day without thinking about, you know, any money.
So, yeah, I'm not I'm not literally putting it.
I see. Yeah, that is that is a good, good, good, actually idea to.
Yeah, don't tell them until the 30th day.
What's that?
Don't tell them until the 30th day.
Yeah.
Once they finish shipping on.
Well, if they get rewarded, they get rewarded.
They can't even stop it.
Yeah, yeah.
Because this channel protocol is like automated.
And it's just like, you don't even have to post about it.
It's so cool.
You just ship, and then you get rewarded.
You can't help it.
It looks like Naomi has a question for Lamone.
Does she?
If we were to describe mini apps to our non-crypto friends, what is the best way to do it?
Yeah, I replied on the Twitter comments.
I think the best way and easiest one is to compare them to Facebook games.
So we had this social network back in the days and and there were crazy games like Farmville or Mafia
Awards or whatever.
And the cool thing was that you were
able to play these games with your friends
without leaving the app.
So you can think of mini apps as a similar concept just
happening on Forecaster instead of Facebook or Telegram or Warcoin, let's say.
So it's, and it can be games, it can be productivity tools.
Even like there were like mini apps on Twitters back in the days
and people were building a lot of these tools to improve, I don't know,
scheduling or content creation.
So yeah, but I think that Facebook games
are the easiest way for somebody else to grab it
in a couple of seconds.
Because everybody played one, I think.
Yeah, I think everyone did.
At the time, that was like a new thing.
We were all on Facebook then. Now only older generations are on it. I am still on it because my daughter's school stuff is on it. I have to be, but I never even check it anymore. However, it was a great invention. That was something that changed an era, too.
It was revolutionary.
Yeah.
I see another question.
How can we get more involved in the base gaming ecosystem?
So, actually, it's actually.
Go ahead.
I knew you were going to be excited.
I'll introduce you to every game on base.
We can do a partnership campaign for your launch.
We can do anything.
If you're building a game, hit me up on Twitter.
You can find me at Zach Pratt.
I'm their Twitter, Telegram, Farcaster a little bit.
I need to be more active, but just message me.
I'm happy to help all gamers come.
I did a quick little Google search. There's
3.3 billion active gamers in the entire world globally. That's about a third of our population.
Let's bring all of them to Web3. We just need really cool games to do it. So Jacob,
if you're building a cool game, let's get you introduced. Let's make it happen, man.
Oh my God, that's awesome.
Or if you want to play games too, I'm sure he'll be able to connect you with all of them.
That's true.
That's true.
I think we're going to have a challenge in the future between all of us on onboarding.
Yeah.
I actually really do like it.
He's already getting ready, but he is competitive, too.
You should get on Farwell.
I'll send rats to your fields.
I love the commitment.
I really love your superpower user, such as.
Yeah.
I mean, Samuel and I sometimes talk about it.
It's just so fun to just even this little bickering actually
brings so much attention.
And we see the daily active users going on
we celebrate each other but we also hate each other yeah i mean i have to i have to uh mute
statuette and uh samuel when they go up when they start going off in the in the group chats
we just post our leaderboard stuff. I'm just joking.
Just hard-tastic comments.
And that's good.
That's good for the ecosystem in general, I think.
And the drama and the reality show aspect of it is one we bring.
And that will bring billions of people on chain, I think.
That gives me an idea for the next Homebase Workshop. have a really good uh team formation ideas that we were talking about
i'm thinking of base bachelorette now and i'm serious about it that's amazing i'm serious
about it and i even have a host in the team and i will talk about it oh i love it i love it
team and i will talk about it oh i love it i love it i think the thing is um you know how we want
to make crypto cool and fun and like we gotta just take ourselves a little less seriously
use less um jargon more more light-hearted like yeah content on on social media and like bring
more people if you want to bring more people on, we can't be all like corporate robotic and tech.
Yeah.
That's what I, that was my personal KPI
since I was onboarded to the team.
Like I always like on my social media,
I always like post like stupid dad jokes or something
or like silly things and people like it.
And I think that's the way to go.
And it makes me more approachable to the builders too,
because they see me as one of them.
I'm not like some higher up that is like in the base team,
I can't talk to you kind of image.
They can come to me, they can ask me anything.
And I think that's a good way to build community.
And community building is the main source of success
in the on-chain world.
We all know that.
Hopefully a lot of other companies will understand it
as well.
The community should be always P0
and the builders and the long tail builders.
Yes, it does require a lot of time and effort.
And it's like a very slow process.
You can't really quantify it.
You can't put it in metric reports.
But builder sentiment is actually what brings the impact.
And it's been shown in a lot of our initiatives
to base global builders.
It's great stuff for us, like with us,
during Base Around the World.
And now we're doing this home-based workshops
and we're going to be doing these other workshops and it's going to show again and the local
communities the local builders like yourself and and i i see you guys as online online local so
you are always there you're always available you're always teaching someone something and
and supporting each other and others and that's the way to go and that's how we build community and it's i think
it's going to be what base is going to be about in the future too and it's what base is about in
the present that is true and really quick uh anyone who's in the the comments right now feel
free to put in your base name, your
ENS or your Ethereum address, whatever you have available to you.
If you don't have a base name, feel free to DM me and we'll get you on base.
Yep.
I have like 10 base names, I think.
So statuette.base.eth.
And then basemom.ass.eth. And then basemom.bass.eth.
And I had base girl as well, but now I actually gave it to my daughter now that she's on chain.
Smart.
So she's base girl.
I'm base mom now.
That's great.
We got to wrap it up.
We're going over time now.
And it was great to have you guys.
And this was so fun.
We should do it more often.
I agree.
Thank you all for setting it up.
It was awesome.
Thank you so much.
And I'm really looking forward to tonight's session at the Homebase Workshop.
And where do people watch it?
Hopefully someone posted in the comments.
I actually gave a list of links to post for Simon.
Go to Homebase.love.
Yes, follow Homebase.love.
And tonight's session is even better, actually.
We have like really cool founders
and we have like really cool founders
and we have really uh actually someone from the podcaster team hopefully i believe and
it's going to be a good good session i'm i'm really looking forward to that and um i thank
you everyone for joining us today and uh thank you for listening to us pickering all day long here it was it was incredible to have you all i see like
around 2 200 people right now watching it's it's it's amazing that how much how much reach we have
and being able to promote and highlight these great base builders here is a privilege for me
so thank you guys thanks for coming and thank you luciano zach limone sneha thank you thank you guys. Thanks for coming. And thank you Luciano, Zach, Limone, Sneha.
Thank you, Satura.
Bye.
Thank you everyone.
Stay based.
Bye guys.
Stay based, everyone.
Keep building.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye. Thank you.
