GM Farcaster ep56, Feb 2, 2024

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ITS HAPPENING

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$DEGEN Bounty: Create a Degen frame on Farcaster! Judges select finalists to guard against sybils; community votes for winners. Prizes: 1.5M $DEGEN for the winner, 500k for two runners-up. Need Degen? Contact me for testnet Degen. Details: https://www.degen.tips/frames-bounty. Happy building!

A particularly rewarding part of frames has been many developers sending me a DM telling me they had 1000+ users use their app in a day after struggling with distribution for the last couple of years. D.R.E.A.M Distribution rules everything around me

A replit to make a frame with four buttons that link to different pages. Exactly 69 lines of code. Fork it and redeploy to get your own! https://replit.com/@VarunSrinivasa4/Farcaster-Dev-Call-Frame https://fc-dev-call.replit.app/

We’re interviewing @linda building bountycaster.xyz tomorrow on /gmfarcaster and want to test it out. Drop your questions for @linda in replies below by 10 am EST. Best question selected by @adrienne & I will get 100 warps and a subscription to @farchiver! @bountybot

Text Input for Frames! A new spec to add an input field. Feedback welcome! https://warpcast.notion.site/Frames-Text-Input-27c9f0d61903486d89b6d932dd0d6a22?pvs=74

They are going to get mad at me for jinxing it, but huge shout out @sds @cmlad.eth and @gt for behind-the-scenes work this week on stability and performance. We've 3x DAU in a week and we've been handling it pretty well.

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onchain ftw i wanted to see how connected top @zora users are so i picked @nounishprof from a list from @jacob then ran them through airstack onchain graph then amped the @zora @base.base.eth @farcaster scores https://explorer.airstack.xyz/onchain-graph?identity=fc_fname:nounishprof 👀see urself? tag in 💬

As a developer or a creator using a frame, your first impression when a user sees it and what's required is going to associate something with being delightful vs. transactional. Not sure what the right balance is, and understand that recast gets you viral distribution. But play the pareto-optimal long game. :)

Welcome to @cdixon.eth, a multi-time founder and GP at a16z crypto. I've known Chris for a decade and he was one of the first investors to get crypto. He also just released his new book "Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet". He’s kindly agreed to do an AMA. Reply with your questions. :)

We're not done with grants for Frames 💙 We’re starting a new bounty for another 10 0.2 ETH grants for Based Frames 10 builders will be chosen by 2/5 EOD Want to see a Frame considered? Tag projects in the replies @bountybot

Since the Farcaster Frames launch, in the past few days we've had 80 new bounties posted on @bountycaster with 400+ total claims totaling over $33k. Would love for bounties to be a way for some folks to earn their first crypto!

Starting today, Farcaster sign ups for US-based users are free on Warpcast. Scan the QR code or share with a friend to get started:

going through FarCon applications (first wave of approvals comes out feb 6!) and there is one overwhelming theme: friendship and community. the internet strangers to real friends pipeline is a phenomenon that is somewhat unique to farcaster. we may grow out of it as the protocol scales, so cherish the opportunity now.