Vitalik Buterin Aped Into the Social Media App Anoncast. What's It About? - Ep. 741
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Mean, that was like a dream, like, having been, like, in the Ethereum community for, like, a long time now, just like, yeah, having Vitalik use your app is kind of just insane. I was, like, jumping up, but you could tell by you could ask my wife. But yeah, it was insane. Hi,
everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of the Cryptopians. I I started covering crypto 9 years ago, and as a senior editor at Forbes, was the 1st mainstream meter parter to come for cryptocurrency full time. This is the November 29th, 2024 episode of Unchained. Polkadot is the original and leading layer 0 blockchain with over 2,000 plus developers. And the Polkadot 2.0 upgrade will be a massive accelerator for the ecosystem. Join the community atpogadot.network/ecosystem/community. Today's guest is Kartik Patel, the develo
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me. So just a quick note before we start, we are recording this on Monday due to the Thanksgiving holiday. So if anything crazy happens between now and Friday, you will understand why we didn't mention it in this interview. So Kartik, you're the developer of this new phenomenon that actually just launched last week, but it has people super excited, and it's got multiple components, a noncast, super anon, anon, the Beam coin, which Decrypta actually reported was the first coin that Vitalik Buterin bought on base. So tell us what all these things are.
Yeah. The lore behind all of this is kind of crazy and hard to hard to follow a little bit. And on specifically, like, originated from Farcaster, there's if you're familiar with Farcaster, there are many clients that look link you to the protocol and provide an app experience. One of these clients is called Supercast. It's probably the most popular outside of WarpedCast, and there, they have an anonymous account that is called SuperAnon, and someone launched an Anon token there anonymously, via token launcher bot. Following that, the creator of Supercast kind of disowned the token, didn't real
Okay. So so, basically, the parts that now your kind of project involves are AnonCast and then the Anon Meme Coin. Is that okay. That's
correct. Yeah.
Yeah. Tell us, like, what, you know, what exactly you created and how it works and what people have been doing with it.
Yeah. So, basically, about a week ago, we decided to create an Oncast. There used to be a Farcaster account where you could post anonymously called 33 Bits. And so in order to just launch something quickly, we decided to take a lot of inspiration from them on how they developed their ZK tech and just kind of forked it. And since then, we've kind of been building more features on top of it. The inspiration behind it, it was just like an unknown token. Like, we were thinking, like, what could we do? And the first thing that comes to mind is just let's post anonymously. And as we've been building
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