Vitalik Buterin Aped Into the Social Media App Anoncast. What's It About? - Ep. 741

Unchained

Laura Shin

News, Tech News, Business News

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Farcaster-based social media app Anoncast has quickly grabbed the crypto community’s attention—especially after Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin jumped in. The platform allows users to speak freely while ensuring no one—not even the platform itself—can trace their identity. And in its short week-and-a-half lifespan, it’s already generated thousands of posts. In this lighter, Black Friday edition of Unchained, developer Kartik Patel joins to discuss how Anoncast works and why the platform has taken off so quickly. He shares insights on the challenges of maintaining anonymity in a connected world, how AI intersects with these developments, and what it was like to “nerd-snipe” Buterin. Show highlights: What sparked the rise of Anon and how it evolved into a ZK-powered anonymous posting platform Kartik’s favorite casts and what he likes about the platform Why the platform has evolved so quickly How users can make casts How Anoncast completely protects the anonymity of all posters Kartik’s background in crypto and how he came to be involved in Anoncast Why it felt like a “dream” when Vitalik Buterin bought the ANON memecoin How AI is intersecting with this new era of social media Why Anoncast moderates the posts The new feature that was designed to give credit back to users Visit our website for breaking news, analysis, op-eds, articles to learn about crypto, and much more: unchainedcrypto.com Thank you to our sponsors! Polkadot Guest Kartik Patel, developer of Anoncast Links Decrypt: Vitalik Buterin Buys Anon, Token Surged 350%—What's It All About? Viral cast possibly about the Ethereum Foundation selling ETH Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:13 How Anoncast became a ZK-powered anonymous platform 05:02 Kartik’s favorite casts and why they stand out 06:44 Why Anoncast has caught on so quickly 07:32 How Anoncast technically enables anonymous posting 11:40 How anonymity is protected on Anoncast 13:28 Kartik’s story and future plans for app development 15:19 Vitalik Buterin’s surprising interaction with Anoncast 16:56 The role of AI in the new era of social media 20:03 Why Anoncast moderates the posts 21:45 A new feature so users can take credit 23:42 Crypto News Recap Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I mean, that was like a dream.
0:03.0	Having been like in the Ethereum Kennedy for like a long time now, just like, yeah, having Vitalik user app is kind of just insane.
0:10.0	I was like jumping up.
0:11.0	You could tell by what you could ask my wife.
0:12.7	But yeah, it was insane.
0:18.9	Hi, everyone.
0:19.8	Welcome to Unchained.
0:36.2	You're no hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto nine years ago, and as a senior editor at Forbes, was the first Mainstream meter porter taken for crypto currency full-time. This is the November 29th, 2024 episode of Unchained.
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0:57.3	Today's guest is Kartik Patel, the developer of Anoncast.
0:58.4	Welcome, Kartik.
1:00.4	Hey, thanks for having me.
1:06.1	So just a quick note before we start, we are recording this on Monday due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
1:06.8	So if anything crazy happens between now and Friday, you will understand why we didn't mention it in this interview.
1:13.4	So, Kartik, you're the developer of this new phenomenon that actually just launched last week, but it has people super excited.
1:20.5	And it's got multiple components, AnonCast, Super Anon, the beam coin, which DeCrypt actually reported was the first coin that Vitalik Boudarin
1:31.4	bought on base. So tell us what all these things are. Yeah, the lore behind all of this is kind of
1:38.2	crazy and hard to follow a little bit. It Anon specifically originated from Farcaster. If you're familiar with Farcaster,
1:45.9	there are many clients that link into the protocol and provide an app experience. One of these
1:51.7	clients is called Supercast. It's probably the most popular outside of Warpcast. And there,
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