If I was running Merkle my #1 priority would be making it very easy to build standalone farcaster apps with free signups and no external wallet

Asking users to create a Farcaster wallet and use it for financial things is never going to work. It’s an inferior product and inferior social experience to all other options. 

What will actually work is Bade app mini apps and using cb wallet as the wallet 

Fc mini apps are broken with wallet connect which everyone wants to use and they don’t work with cb wallet connect which

I would not invest dev into fc mini apps over cb wallet mini apps

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Yeah option to use your own wallet is probably good.

What is a cb wallet mini app? They are all farcaster mini apps and work on both

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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Ya so I also thought this and we built an entire FC mini app and then found out it’s not the same SDK as cb wallet mini apps 

Ran into issues with external wallet connect in FC mini app and abandoned it and now building a cb wallet mini apps 

@v might wanna add in FC mini app docs that it’s NOT the same as CB wallet SDK — I’ve had this convo 5 times now and degen ran into the same issue <3

they built an sdk, it wraps our sdk

so yes they are different but theirs wraps ours and is compatible, any incompatibility is a temporary bug

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Would highly recommended communicating this through your dev channels. 

Multiple teams have started building fc mini apps and then have stopped because they aren’t compatible 

Ai agents are telling people the sdks aren’t compatible 

To confirm: we don’t need to rebuild or fc mini app? Or we need to build a base app version and then that works with fc?

good call re clarifying comms

you should be able to build using either SDK and it should be available in both places

if that is not the case for some specific functionality it will be a high priority for us to fix

Your lost in the sauce if you think Farcaster users understand even the basics of DeFi. No real protocol will scale on Farcaster. Users don’t have real money and they don’t even understand staking. And even if they did they aren’t using their social feed to LP they are using their mobile wallet of choice. 

Cb wallet is the first opportunity for real users to interact with the protocol. 

No one is going to send $500k to their privy wallet and LP on farcaster. Zero people. But they will from
Their cb wallet and the way mini apps work on base app is it’s directly integrated to that wallet. 

Right now we can serve a featured app ad inside Base app through spindl and the user clicks that add it it starts a transaction. That is what “frames” promised. But that won’t scale with farplet. 

If you don’t enable external wallet connect for fc mini apps you’re gonna die on that hill, I promise you.

remember their sdk is just a wrapper with some opinionated faults like a built in connector with external wallets

ours is more like a standard library and less opinionated but it’s like 20 lines of code to set that up 

will make a note to add to docs how to do this

and i somewhat hear you re distribution but also if you look at all the base apps they are all just farcaster apps! i’m sure that will change now that they’re coming out of beta but it’s an insult to all the farcaster and all the great apps that have launched of here to use the phrase “no one”

The issue is no one is going to use fc wallet so if you’re not supporting external wallet connect on fc mini apps then it’s a non starter. 

Then with cb wallet mini apps, their wallet has distribution to users with money and it will work imo 

So the issue is if we build one on cb wallet then I don’t see how that will work on FC without allowing external wallet connect 

We wasted like a month of dev work and low are starting on CB wallet mini app because the fc doesn’t work. It’s been a rough experience. 

So I guess we will focus on cb wallet mini app and hope it works on fc client eventually, but we would never default to fc wallet that’s a non starter for a financial product at this time