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Let's talk about the future of Coinbase Wallet. ↓

Can someone explain the coinbase wallet x farcaster partnership? I don’t totally see the vision, feel like I’m missing something

Is the idea to have a farcaster client built into the extension?

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Just trying to merge SocialFI with traditional wallet onboarding

Coinbase Wallet (mobile) will become a Farcaster client but it won't be until ~April bc they've been rebuilding the wallet app from the ground up

yes the coinbase wallet mobile app will now have a warpcast feed in it as i understand

i believe it’s just a farcaster feed in the coinbase wallet (app)

My other feeling is that farcaster has an extraordinary opportunity to become the social layer for crypto wallets (instead of trying to become the wallet-friendly social network). I laid down that vision to @jessepollak here: https://warpcast.com/thibauld/0x88d14f70

A quick perplexity search says there are 562M crypto wallet owners in the world (6.8% of the global population). Instead of trying to integrate with 3rd party wallets, make warpcast super easy to integrate "into" crypto wallets.

Such a move would 100% leverage farcaster / warpcast strengths (the most crypto integrated / friendly / aligned social network) while giving it a tremendous distribution channel.

I don't know what @sid and @jessepollak think about this but adding a compelling social layer directly into coinbase wallet would add incredible value to users and will give a tremendous avenue for onchain apps and their builders to go viral.

Crypto wallets are at the infrastructure layer, not the app layer.

Here is my take on it: https://warpcast.com/thibauld/0x27e23afa

Here's a 🧩 that might help: 
Elon musk exported this framework from WeChat (Chinese everything app) and has been vocal about wanting to turn X into such a platform. 

The idea is the user never has to leave the app (and switch to a competitor in the app store) because everything they might need is already in there.

It's hard for me to picture (nondev) but as I've read the new CB wallet will open and have a FC feed in it. And presumably CB will be funneling new wallets into the onchain opportunities beyond buying a coin--I assume that means featuring frames and apps, etc. It sounds to be me as I've read 15-20 good casts by builders like a new version of a wallet that we haven't seen. Hope that helps.