Farcaster’s Glow-Up—Now With 37% More Purple and Existential Feelings: GM Farcaster ep302 WednesdayOctober 22, 2025  

Thank you @zaal for popping by to chat about the ZAO! And we loved the GM Farcaster swag you were wearing! 

TLDR: Brian Armstrong “bought” and burned a $25M CobieNFT that secretly signaled Coinbase’s Echo acquisition 🔥Farcaster shrugged off an AWS outage 💪Base rolled out new creator coins 🪙 the whole community spiraled into deep aesthetic feelings about the new darker-purple “pants-shaped” logo 🎨Plus, we caught up with Zaal to talk all things ZAO🧠 

From our ChatGPT Intern: Brian Armstrong bought and burned a $25M “Cobie NFT,” sending crypto Twitter into chaos — only for it to turn out he was actually buying Cobie’s company, Echo, for a quarter-billion dollars. Meanwhile, Farcaster survived an AWS outage, launched a darker purple “pants-shaped” rebrand, and somehow still found time to debate whether coins, creators, or candles are the future of onchain culture. 

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NOTE: Cryptocurrencies are often volatile assets. Nothing in this episode should be considered financial advice and is for educational and entertainment purposes. Nothing should beconsidered investment advice, nor solicitation to buy or sell any assets. NFA, DYOR. 

Chapters: 0:00:00 GM 0:02:51 FC News0:14:48 Base 0:18:59 FC rebrand 0:35:25 @zaal1:10:40 Builders Building1:18:26 CastOut