frames

Announcing... Open Frames

Open Frames is a draft specification for Frames that work anywhere.

If you're interested in bringing Frames to your ecosystem or app, DM us, we'd love to chat.

XMTP is launching Frames support using Open Frames today.

Read more: https://github.com/open-frames/standard/blob/v0.0.1/README.md

I think this is awesome. One of my concerns with Frames was that we'd need to implement a solution multiple times to support Farcaster, XMTP, Lens, [insert-new-frame-protocol-here].

With an open standard, assuming protocols adopt it, this lifts implementation burden greatly.

cma.xyz. Founder /paragraph, ceo /mirror, previously at Google & Coinbase 

this is exactly something I was wondering about. 

I think the more standardized frames become, the more likely they will be implemented in a way that actually stimulates adoption of the underlying protocols. 

Part of the benefit is that they are so customizable, so the standardizing underlying architecture is +

We're really focused on getting the developer experience right over the next few weeks, so once you've integrated with Open Frames you can support as many protocols as you want without a million if statements.

This is so exciting and absolutely the direction I hoped things would head.