I've been using Farcaster since @dwr onboarded me back in Fall 2021. I was very pleasantly surprised to see the bump in DAUs / interest once frames were launched. 

That being said - Why did frames make Farcaster pop? Did Farcaster just reach critical mass already and this was a catalyst? Or were Frames the kind of ...

We had a few weeks of solid DAU growth and frames created a “moment”. 

Some hiccups the last few days, but 3 years of building out onboarding flows, underlying decentralized infrastructure were all in place. 

And our go to market was cryptonative devs. So when you give a dev a frame,…

Two big factors that set up the frame explosion were

- Warpcast client opening up to the public with a web2 oriented onboarding flow 
- Keeping the web3 component optional but inherently beneficial

The second being something that most protocols and clients continue to overlook

around the block | prev burrata, chainalysis, circle, & draftkings

I think people are also anticipating airdrops tbh