This Week in Farcaster
@weekinfarcaster.eth
Never miss what the builders of Farcaster just shipped. Weekly newsletter + podcast: linktr.ee/0xSplits
all 130 holders of this @paragraph coin just got airdropped 150 $higher as a tip! ~composability~
thanks for playing, this was a very interesting experiment to run with @toadyhawk.eth and @betrmint
see the transfers here, if you want:
• https://basescan.org/tx/0x8871b8b410780092a2cbd0e76e464b3f2b0a562d5e1fd6c195e0ddd
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If you've been feeling disheartened about crypto, read this.
What if Farcaster (the app) is a browser? What if Farcaster (the protocol) is the World Wide Web? What if Ethereum is the internet?
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The @procoin Probots collection comes with a token-gated allowlist: cash grab, or just good business? Well, why not both? Sometimes you need cash!
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The most interesting thing about Farcaster Pro is what @phil said: "Onchain credentials = permissionless integration." Are you ready?
Plus a rundown of updates that builders should NOT miss, from @pfista @pfeffunit @dammydee @niftytime.eth and more.
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"I need to be able to sell this to people at a music festival." — @coopahtroopa.eth
"I need to be able to go up to someone in the crowd, tell them to visit a link, tell them to download an app, and have them be able to realistically use it."
"Success is people buying the songs because they love them."
And success is *anyone* being able to do that, without having to care about crypto, or understand how it works.
https://splits.org/blog/invisible-crypto-playbook/
I talked to @coopahtroopa.eth about taking /coop-recs to the next level by breaking out of th
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Call it "what's up this week" Wednesday:
ATTN: we're doing some format experimentation with @weekinfarcaster.eth
so this is a thread of the launches + updates that caught my eye this week, so far! feat. @xenbh.eth @dwr.eth @pfeffunit @sophia
first, shoutout to @noiceapp for taking over the timeline 🫡 I appreciated this demo post from Cooper: https://warp
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The fundamental challenge of "consumer crypto" is onboarding the actual consumers.
Keep close tabs on the founders that realize the next level of all this is not actually selling to existing crypto people but instead going to find new paying customers who could care less about crypto.
Really forces you out of your comfort zone and frankly it absolutely sucks.
Constantly being told no and generally
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Last week, did you *not* spend every waking hour online? Tsk, tsk. Negligent!
Luckily, today's newsletter will get you caught up. All the launches and updates you may have missed, from builders like @jacopo.eth @jayme @matthew @mjc716 @raulonastool and more.
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So you want to vibe-code a mini app. Or anything else, for that matter.
Here's what you need to know: splits.org/blog/smarter...
Advice from @keccers.eth @diid @grin @jc4p (of course) @jrf @lostmidas and more 🤖💻
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Will you trust the next pseudonymous founder whose project pops off?
Plus updates from @kaloh @tayyab @toadyhawk.eth @nvy25 @igoryuzo.eth and more.
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Interview with @cojo.eth about building Ponder on Farcaster, now seamlessly watchable in the Pinetree mini app by @androidsixteen.eth 🌲
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Not at FarCon? Have no fear. Plenty of action takes place directly on Farcaster itself.
In this week's newsletter, launches from @jasonkim.eth @toadyhawk.eth @luc @segall @adeets-22 @pfista and more 🫡
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A postmortem of the Structure project, which linked several NFTs and and airdrops together to create an interactive experiment in onchain distribution.
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