Verify your frame for builder rewards 🧑‍💻 • TWiF #8
Most recent podcast: Linda Xie of Bountycaster (and now Merkle too!) talks borderless business and the magic of crypto payments. Find the episode on YouTube or Spotify.
Next on the podcast: Fffflood of Operating System and $OPSYS on transforming his web3 design agency to embrace clanking.
Upcoming livestreams:
Warpcast / Merkle
Advanced protection is available to secure your account.
Coming soon: "Users can choose one of their wallets (warplet or another connected wallet) to be their primary wallet for the purpose of sending them stuff."
Want to run a Snapchain beta node? Get in touch.
Pods put together a playlist of interviews with the Warpcast team.
Warpcast Leaderboard Rewards are evolving. This week, in addition to Degen and Dickbutt airdropping tokens to the leaderboard, the Base Colors project gave 1/1 color NFTs to each of the top 100 users. This program has become an intriguing permissionless spin on web2 creator funds.
Speaking of which…
Frames
Incoming: "Weekly USDC rewards to builders of most used frames." Verify your frame to participate.
Hot tip: "If you are making Frames, you need to be using this debugger, and not the one provided in the official documentation."
Excellent frame updates from Paragraph:
- In-app notifications: receive notifications from newsletters you're subscribed to, directly on FC
- One-tap subscribe: subscribe to writers in-frame
- Warpcast wallet: use Warpcast wallet to support writers & collect postsÂ
- Discover great writing: get recommended writing, directly in-frame, based on subscriptions & who you follow on FC
Love to see it! If you're reading this post in-feed right now, using the Paragraph frame, how deliciously meta.
Buoy just shipped a v2 frame for searching Farcaster.
Clankerverse
The SEC is cool with memecoins now, so… clank clank?!
Clanker index: $CLX offers "Clanker's top bangers in a single, simple package."
Wild milestone: "Clanker crossed $2,000,000,000 in cumulative volume this week, $20m in total revenue." Damn.
Events
"Excited to announce that the first-ever /appcon will take place in Milan on April 7-13! An entire week dedicated to showcasing the top @ethereum apps and experiences to a non-crypto audience."
Farcaster Boston meetup next Wednesday, 3/5.
Reminder that you can always cruise through the Events.xyz homepage to see what looks fun!
Tidbits
To make things easier for AI agent devs, Neynar's new API lets you "put in any two user [Farcaster IDs] and get back all their past interaction history."
"EOAs are about to get superpowers." Blaine Malone demonstrates in a diagram unpacking EIP-7702.
Indexy will "make tracking crypto market verticals easier." The beta "tracks 7 indices across ETH, Base, Solana, and more chains — covering infrastructure, AI agents, L2s, and niche segments."
Follow someone new: "DM to get a personalized match to someone interesting you don't know based on index.network data."
Rainbow is hiring a graphic designer to work with the growth team.
"From Session Keys to Sub Accounts: Through the Idea Maze," blog post from Wilson Cusack of Base. Demo link. Extra deets: "The challenges I see with app accounts today."
Keep an eye out: "we're building a channel-focused farcaster client for communities" đź«‚
That's all this week! Did I miss anything big? Hit reply and let me know.
Cheers,
Sonya
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