Last week in Farcaster 😱 • TWiF #18

Surprise! It’s Monday. Well, you probably knew that, but my point is, we’re trying out a different schedule today. Today’s rundown is everything that happened on Farcaster last week, ICYMI. While you really should be logged on for every waking moment, maybe you have to “work” or whatever.

Two more airdrops landed:

• WalletConnect ($WCT), with a flow that included staking within a mini app.
• Celo, marking another expansion of the networks supported by Warpcast wallet.

Farcaster is becoming more and more multichain, notably with an incoming native Solana wallet, currently in limited beta. Here’s a starter pack of Solana builders on Farcaster. Apparently the team has four Solana airdrops lined up 👀

In a simpatico moment, Bankr now supports Solana. Bankr is also on its way to Coinbase Wallet. Where there is Farcaster, there will be Bankr.

Soon Farcaster users will be able to prove that they’re human, or at least sufficiently similar to a human: “Verify your account by connecting two socials (X, Phone or GitHub) and holding $25 in your wallet.” Good enough for government work, as they say. The rationale:

Completing verifications allows authentic accounts to stand out by proving things that are hard to fake, like having socials on other networks and holding a balance for a long period of time.

More from the Farcaster team:

• Auth addresses should radically improve the web experience.
• RIP Warpcast brand, soon to die in favor of Farcaster being the name of both the network and the premier client.

Onward!

Slice Shops mini app = ecommerce but make it onchain and Farcaster-native. Shop straight from your Warplet! (I’m gonna be sad to drop that name with the imminent rebrand.) Check out the Higher shop to see the product in action.

You can now watch TBPN live on Farcaster. If you, like me, had never heard of this podcast, it seems to be a popular show about technology. What the acronym actually stands for was surprisingly impossible to Google within a couple of minutes. Claude said it means “Technology Business Programming Network,” which sounds suspiciously generic. Feel free to deride my ignorance, but please also clue me in?!

My colleague Matthew dropped a poker mini app. Ante up!

The next time you invite someone to Farcaster, send them "the first educational mini app" to help them get started.

Do you like the “walk and talk” videos that have recently taken off? There’s a whole mini app for that now.

Thirdweb shipped 1) a handy crypto payment link, 2) the ability to go straight from prompt to coin using the Nebula agent (available in a mini app, naturally).

Zora is doing interesting things with quote pairs, starting with $zora: “When you originate new coins you set the quote currency as your own token. You token gate your markets and capture the net value of all of the coins originated.”

Farcaster app store… Fapp Store, if you will 😏

Crypto-native TikTok competitor 10k World is available to download.

“We’re putting together a Live Vibe Coding Competition and are looking for participants!” At least $1k in prizes on the table.

Base Sepolia is now supported for mini apps, to make testing easier.

"FELL THE DRAGON is a rogue-like adventure where you fight to stay alive long enough to reach the dragon and slay it."

Dollarchain is a team-based competition to amass the biggest pot of USDC.

Tomasz Stanczak, joint executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, did an AMA.

“Open bounty to do good work for the benefit of @qrcoindotfun and we will pay you in $QR for the stuff that we like.” Check in first before getting started.

Something new from Neynar, as always: "We've updated the Send Notifications API from @neynar to allow for user filtering and a ‘broadcast to all’ feature, so you don't ever have to worry about notification tokens again." The team also put together an automated agent to demonstrate how various building blocks can be stacked together.

Farville is gearing up to start monetizing, and shared some stats on how the mini app has performed so far.

New website for Nouns grants.

Astrology girlies, there is a mini app for you now.

Fairmint published “the Open Cap Table Protocol (OCP) whitepaper, the foundational infrastructure to bring equity securities onchain.” 🧐

Did I miss anything? Hit reply and let me know.

Cheers,
Sonya

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