With mini apps, in-app wallets, efforts to reduce (and in most cases remove) signup costs for new users, and the upcoming rebrand of the canonical app from "Warpcast" to "Farcaster", there is a ton of potential for Farcaster to grow into the primary surface area for mainstream users to find real value in crypto applications.

depends

after onboarding non-crypto people here and asking them their experience, i think a high degree of taste and care and intentionality need to go into the experience in order to appeal to mainstream users.

i look to TYB as best-in-class consumer crypto app that appeals to 500k+ mainstream users, mostly women

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"why am i getting trending token notifs"

"some of the crypto stuff feels pretty trashy and casino-y"

"at first i thought crypto people only talked about crypto but realized it takes a couple weeks for algo to catch on and show me that there is good non-crypto content."

"why did i get $dickbutt sent to me?"

>after onboarding non-crypto people here and asking them their experience

what's the most frequent piece of feedback you're getting here?