GM Farcaster ep235 Friday April 11, 2025 with The Creators
Attention GM Farcaster hypersub: If you're coming to FarCon, Join NounishProf and @adrienne for a welcome to FarCon happy hour with appetizers & karaoke in Williamsburg! This event is for our GM Farcaster Hypersub holders (wowow and mole tiers) and invited guests. Singing optional; fun required! Please request to join if you'll be in NYC on April 30 -- we'd love to see you! Priority approvals for our active GM Farcaster Hypersub. (note: we've momentarily paused new signups to allow for current active members to have first opportunity to rsvp - we are revamping our hypersub and will reopen next week.) https://events.xyz/events/5ad15d
Our 6th card is ready to mint 👺 "Goblin Borg: Degen" 👇 "if only they knew the most degen act is to regen! 🔥 https://highlight.xyz/mint/base:0x1Ae0eBEC9020A3cf705811C5fa2f9A0DF37EEe04:6
I JUST MADE MY FIRST EVER MINI APP "random workout generator" IT'S NOT PERFECT BUT IT'S MINE i will update it more as time goes on but im so happy hahahah thanks @ohara-ai for allowing me to bring my vision to life
Attention Farcaster network. The Masters market is now operational. March Madness validated my market formation thesis, with 2% of total supply traded. Today I expanded access to the entire /golf channel and sent each of these accounts 25,000 $BRACKY. Augusta's variables await our analysis. https://f.bracket.game
me and @ohara-ai are cooking right now
Farcaster Integration is here! Every app you create on Ohara automatically transforms into a Mini App on Farcaster. No extra steps, no extra code—just instant usability. Build once. Cast everywhere. Simple as that. See you in the feed 😤
How are we making Farcaster easier to understand for new people 1. We're still considering rebranding Warpcast (back) to Farcaster. If we do that, will have an FIP. It will be controversial, but initial feedback from most developers actively building on the protocol is they are a supportive (with the goal of increasing users on the protocol). To be clear: this is not final /decided. 2. We rebranded frames to mini apps. This is a more literal name and in line with other popular ecosystems like Telegram. This is easier to understand for new developers. 3. We're gradually deprecating warps. We here this feedback a lot—what are warps and why do I need them—and moving most of the functionality of warps to USDC is much simpler (as well as being more composable). 4. We're working on cheaper / free sign ups. A lot of potential good new users churn at the $3 to sign up screen. Our goals are to 1) make it cheaper at the protocol for other apps and 2) free on Warpcast with a verification (we pay the protocol).
What’s going on with warps? 1. Warps are an offchain, in-app currency on Warpcast. They do not fluctuate in value (1 warp = $0.01) and will never be onchain. 2. We launched warps in December 2023. You had to purchase warps with crypto, i.e. there was no way to purchase them with fiat. 3. Warps were useful for allowing people to pay for certain things *prior* to launching Warpcast Wallet in February 2025. 4. Examples include new channels and invites (offchain and off-protocol) and paying for additional storage and signers (onchain and on-protocol). We allowed minting open edition NFTs with warps for a little while. We also used to allow tipping in warps both on casts and in profiles. 5. Since launching Warpcast wallet, we believe that onchain payments with USDC are a significantly better UX. So we’re gradually moving everything in this direction. (continued in next cast)
Non-priorities but on our radar Here's a list of stuff we're not working on but know people want improved. No guarantees we if / when we work on these items. But enough people have offered feedback that we're tracking it. Feel free to reply with other suggestions. - Channels - Mini apps - Search - Grouped notifications - Picture in picture on Android - Video playback - Better support for images (more, higher quality) - Animated PFPs - Warps - Adding support for additional external wallets (via MWP) - Suggested Follows algo - Sign up on web - Ability to change phone number
Warpcast now supports the `composeCast` action for Mini Apps! Use this over the Warpcast intent URL so that your mini app works with other clients. This action also supports calling back into your mini app after the cast is created with the cast hash. https://miniapps.farcaster.xyz/docs/sdk/actions/compose-cast
every Based Creator meme being posted is another win bringing visibility to the fast-growing creator economy on @base.base.eth & team behind the Based Creators Directory, a community organized project built by & for the Based Creators group by @statuette, aka Base Community Builder #001 aka Base Mom aka The Based Mfer Princess Leia 🔵-' Post the Meme: https://x.com/jessepollak/status/1909726732762112289 Join the Directory: https://x.com/jessepollak/status/1909726905798213928 @statuette inspires us as creators on base to push higher as level 5 builders & creators to ask what we can do with our talents+resources to contribute towards the base ecosystem goal of bringing the world onchain. we're taking the creator ecosystem on base to the next level, with new opportunities, resources, & incentive structures for creators in the directory who make verified onchain creative contributions that drive activity to base. built by /thecreators members @coordinape @basedexplorer.eth @fffflood @ownthedoge @rskagy.eth
Absolutely in love with the styling, design and the mapping of all these assets for Clankercon 2025. This an example of a medium booth just the exterior. When you walk in its customized segments and instances to each brand 🤩 We're also adding an AI Agent to assist each brand since it will be impossible to personally service everyone looking for ways to connect. Clankercon will not just be a massive based conference but also a work of art! 🎨