Pay your friends to recast 🤔 • TWiF #7
The newsletter is running late today because I did a Friday livestream with Linda Xie of Bountycaster, talking about open social graphs, "bot to bot" commerce, and 👏 borderless 👏 money 👏 That conversation will be on the podcast next week.
Also next week, on Thursday, I'll be streaming with @fffflood to discuss his clanker $OPSYS, a unique business model experiment for his design agency Operating System. If you're free, RSVP to be notified when the stream starts.
Recently uploaded to the podcast:
- Justin Ahn of Quidli on Asian ecommerce, the pros and cons of building for Slack (!), Discord, and Farcaster, and embracing the chaos of crypto — YouTube + Spotify.
- Kenny of POIDH (pics or it didn't happen 😏) on his past as a rockstar, ETH versus BTC, the virtues of simple systems, and harnessing internet culture for good — YouTube + Spotify.
Farcaster-native advertising
This is an interesting development. Users can now pay each other for recasts, via…
- Adbot by @agostbiro. He's dogfooding the product: "I grew @adbot to a user base with 3 MILLION combined followers in 2 days with paid recasts. It cost me ~$700."
- Amps.fun, a soon-to-launch "two sided marketplace that helps casters get distribution from people in their network." Join the waitlist. Here's a rundown from @jacy.
Dev corner
Zapper API supports Farcaster profiles, "a single query that unlocks the onchain world." Neat: "query by FID or username, then use the addresses to get transactionHistory, portfolio, etc."
Safe multisigs, how do they even: "Here's a flowchart breaking down how child multisigs can approve transactions on a parent multisig using onchain approvals."
Demo of hooking up Index Supply to Daimo. Detailed rundown on GitHub.
"Open-sourcing the Moxie AI agent skills repo. Anyone can start building their own skills."
There are a couple more dev-relevant links in the Frames section 👇
Frames
Tutorial for building onchain frames. And a debugging guide.
The "Are you a reply guy?" quiz is open-source, thanks @jc4p!
New frame for the Base Colors project.
"Distribution markets let you bet on ANY value and win within a range of your choice," interesting.
The Payflow frame supports Warpcast wallets (ahem, warplets). "This is especially handy to send out tokens not accessible/shown in warplet, or funding it with your other wallets!"
The "simplest version" of a TikTok-style feed of videos on Farcaster.
Clankerverse
Prototype of Bankr "wallet mode," so you can "use bankr + natural language to manage your existing wallets."
"Coming April 18-20, Clankercon is a based metaverse convention" that will undoubtedly spawn even more clankers.
Extra fun
"Just shipped SomeoneBuild.fun, a Reddit-style explorer for the /someone-build channel," with Bountycaster integrated.
"Posts on Zora are now instantly tradable coins." To understand why, "Listen to @jacob discuss the philosophy behind the newest version of Zora — 'a coin for every piece of content' on Dialectic Ep. 9."
"Warpcast will remove 'likely to be spam' accounts from follow counts soon."
FarCon organizers are "raising 1 ETH from the Farcaster community to reimburse creators and artists."
Farcaster darling @tinyrainboot shared the gallery for her upcoming 3D collection even the devil once had wings. Minting opens tomorrow (Saturday). + @benna's thoughts on building the custom website.
"100k $higher will be distributed to participants" who post memes and art in the /higher channel this week.
Moshicam adopted Privy: "every new user will get an embedded wallet behind the scenes, it's invisible until they need to know."
That's all for this week! Did I miss anything? Hit reply to let me know.
Cheers,
Sonya
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