Farcade

league update

you can now earn XP for newly released games

previously they didn't not give XP, however, we feel this made it too difficult for games to graduate naturally with the new league system

we want gamers to feel encouraged playing any game in the farcade, whether it's your 1,000th death in nightmare blocks or your first try at something new

it's game time

https://play.farcade.ai

Farcaster now supports Solana!

- Starting today, wallet and mini apps work with Solana
- Swap into any Solana token with instant bridging from other chains
- Fund $10 of SOL to increase your chance for upcoming airdrops

10K users got their first few transactions on Solana sponsored by SNS

05.19.24 Changelog

Leagues are Live!
leagues went live last week and the early reception and metrics have been awesome
- Daily games played increased by 75%
- Daily retention is up 5%

love the traction so far, and diamond league gamers will be one of the more coveted achievements soon.

Improved Social Sharing
we know how important creating fun links are for sharing and disliked are old ones. 

new links feature some cool components like:
- live data
- personalized images

still just v1, but a big improvement over our generic social tags

Small Work
- improved moderator tools for faster review
- fix deeplinks and share link bugs
- reduced error rates for notifications
- improved ai game studio default prompts

Coming Soon
- remix templates for games
- ai game studio improvements
- 2 big game jams
- and as always, more games

fc-updates

We’re planning to launch a new, optional “Pro” protocol subscription

1. At launch, subscribers will have a Pro badge on their profile

2. Subscription will be onchain and part of the protocol. 100% of the proceeds go to casters / developers in weekly rewards. This in addition to the existing $25K+ a week in rewards. 

3. Planning to add longer casts (10K characters) and up to 4 images per cast for pro subscribers (needs a protocol change). Additional features over time.

4. $120 a year / $10 a month 
Why are we doing this?

- The protocol needs to find long-term revenue source that can continue fund caster and developer rewards beyond any one company.  
- We originally thought storage fees could be that, but we’ve realized that storage fees should be essentialy free to help growth. 
- So we’re trying an opt-in pro subscription as another model

Why now?

- Figuring out a long-term revenue model that works will allow us to double down on investing in growth

basecamp⁰⁰² is coming

our annual gathering for builders and creators shaping the future

save the date

Welcome to @tkstanczak, co-Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation!

He's kindly agreed to do an AMA — starts in ~1 hour at 4:00pm ET.

Reply with your questions below!

Farcaster team is cooking with gas right now. 

In the next 7 days:

1. Warpcast -> Farcaster rebrand
2. Auth addresses, no more “Open Warpcast on mobile” in mini apps
3. Spinning up a few targeted cohorts for creator onboarding
4. Launching 2 new ecosystems for wallet / mini apps
5. Another confirmed airdrop
6. Making progress on a big new thing, hopefully can share next week
7. A bunch of wallet / mini app QoL improvements

Flashblocks make Base 10x faster.

We're starting to test Flashblocks in a staged rollout on Base, reducing effective block times from 2 seconds to 200 milliseconds.

Builders can integrate Flashblocks on testnet today to prepare for the full rollout.

(Ø,G)s! See you all in Canada next week for Consensus 2025 🙌

Stay tuned to know where we’ll be 👀

Degen

GN degens, sad the stablecoin act didn’t pass in the Senate today. Cool to see Meta exploring stablecoins for payouts though 👀 

Have a great weekend everyone, stay degen 🫡

Product-market fit: ChatGPT, Coinbase, Farcaster

Monad

Excited to announce an airdrop of Monad testnet tokens!

- 77K Farcaster accounts received an airdrop based on criteria like the number of verifications, casting and engagement

- Monad testnet tokens will allow you to use mini apps on Monad 

- You can also send it to people on Farcaster, but you might want to keep some for some of the mini apps coming soon!

FarCon

Had a great time at FarCon!

So great to meet / see everyone in person.

@esteez.eth did an amazing job organizing.

Also gg NY for giving us perfect weather.

Looking forward to seeing everyone next year (or sooner!).

Zlatan 🎩

@etihad