Farcaster

1/ How @farcaster changed the trajectory of my life

For the past year, Farcaster has become my new online home

I use it every day, and I can say the product feels magical, and the engagement is qualitatively better

With a new social network comes new opportunities

A sufficiently decentralized social network. farcaster.xyz

2/ For those unfamiliar, Farcaster is a decentralized social protocol like SMTP to email

Every user gets an Ethereum wallet for onchain actions when they sign up, and anyone can build clients on top of it that offer different frontends

Warpcast is currently the most used client

Ecosystem /base /coinbasewallet. Consumer & Social /compass /socialgraphvc. Blog dtso.org paragraph.xyz/@cryptso. Host /consumercrypto /consumer /infra /azuki.

3/ X used to have many clients, like Tweetdeck and Twitterific, until it cut off its API access and killed them

Now, X is just X whether you like its ads, subscriptions, shadowbans, and algorithm or not

The beauty of Farcaster is client diversity and giving power back to users

4/ Since Farcaster is decentralized, users own their accounts and are free to move between clients

For developers, they can build with all the open and permissionless APIs without fear of being rugged

Many say Farcaster is like a mullet – web2 in the front, onchain in the back

5/ A month ago, Farcaster didn’t feel too different from a Reddit-X hybrid

But since @v and @dwr.eth launched Frames, Farcaster has become a social network, app store, and commerce platform all in one

It unlocked a new distribution channel and kicked off hockeystick growth

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

6/ Frames are interactive apps embedded in casts/tweets that enable experiences while you scroll your feed

Some initial use cases include games, shopping, polls, newsletters, NFT mints, block explorers, etc.

Frames are just a canvas for builders to paint whatever they dream up

7/ Frames allow products to gain distribution as they meet the users where they already are

@li recently wrote, “consumer products now resemble entertainment, with users regularly wanting to try out the latest thing and then quickly moving on”

Frames are an example of this

8/ What I love about Farcaster is its positive-sum community

Farcaster has given me a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to contribute where I can, collaborate with builders, and learn from my role models like @jessepollak

It’s the perfect place for anyone, anywhere to come onchain

9/ My takeaways from Farcaster:

- Build mobile-first
- Make onboarding easy
- Open platforms are powerful
- Composability creates magic
- Abstract away the blockchain
- Enable what’s not possible via web2
- Minimize clicks to do things onchain
- Manifest @cdixon.eth’s Read Write Own

Consumer Crypto

Consumer Apps

Consumer

Infrastructure

10/ I can try to describe Farcaster all day, but the best way to understand it is to use it

Channels are a great starting point, I even host a few:

- /consumercrypto
- /consumer-apps
- /consumer
- /infra

Helpful resources:

- x.com/base/status/1758262775942684800
- github.com/a16z/awesome-farcaster

Let’s build!!

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