Farcaster

don't think it get's talked about enough

but Farcaster clients can be much better "wallets" than wallets

The account is much better defined and clients can abstract wallet UX much more naturally than a dozen embedded wallets - "smart" or otherwise

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But the real question is

Do Farcaster clients become wallets, or do wallets become Farcaster clients?

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listen to this podcast episode where @dwr.eth @antonio and i talk about this topic https://youtu.be/awqIWorOmSc?si=EgQUTikt8OPC1kcM

If you ask the folks at Kiosk, I think they believe the answer is that Farcaster clients contain wallets. This is in line with how Orb for Lens Protocol approaches this too.

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Yeah even filling out a sunnies application yesterday it was so refreshing to just start typing the teams usernames to add them to the app

The identity layer of the next iteration of the internet is so compelling 

But identity is downstream of actually using the account which is down stream of critical mass 

We definitely have a good chunk of rowing before we get there

(also fwiw I actually fuck with wallets in-app browsers and am baffled it took as long as it did considering trust wallet had one back in 2017 💀 )

wallets become farcaster and farcaster becomes the social layer & web3 homepage 

clients then become identity-enabled apps & dedicated communities 

the inverse of current onboarding 

which is wallets become browsers which then become a limiting homepage, as it needs to rely on other protocols & apps to handle social, identity & community

So basically in the end FC will become Elons dream of an everything app like weChat but decentralised 👀

I definitely feel the latter is more likely and more of a natural transition. Browser extensions don't feel like the right form factor for wallets.