I’m pleased to share that the miniapp I’ve been building and testing with a small group of beta players is now open to everyone.

Introducing Word-A-Day — a Farcaster miniapp designed to help you grow your vocabulary, sound smarter, and make learning social.

1. Learn the word. A new word drops at 00:00 UTC. Open the miniapp to see the word, its definition, an example sentence, and hear its pronunciation.

2. Use it in a cast. If you accept the daily challenge, you have until the next word drops to use the word naturally in a Farcaster cast or reply. This proves you actually learned the word.

3. Get scored. At the end of the day, an AI evaluates your cast on correctness (accurate, contextual usage), authenticity (natural, human voice), and originality (independent thought). If your cast reads like it was generated by an LLM or copied from someone else, you’ll lose points.

4. Climb the leaderboard and build your streak.

The miniapp is powered by $wordaday, an ERC-20 token on Base. To participate in daily challenges, the app requires holding a minimum balance of the $wordaday token. The token is used solely for access and gameplay and has no use outside of the app.

There are a million learning apps that try to create a daily habit where you open the app, take some action, get a quick dopamine hit, and repeat. What makes Word-A-Day different is that it introduces a learning mechanism that really only works on Farcaster:

• SOCIAL. It’s played out on a public social feed. The app itself is very light. It just shows you an index card with the word and its definition. There’s not much to do inside the app. The action happens on the Farcaster feed. When you cast, you don’t need to announce you’re playing. You don’t have to tag anyone or link to the miniapp. You just use the word. It’s subtle. And won't it be interesting when people who aren’t even playing start noticing the same word appearing across the feed?

• ACTIVE. Learning is most effective when it's active, not passive. Most learning apps show you a concept and ask you to read or watch something. This app forces you to apply what you’ve learned during the course of your day. You’re far more likely to remember a word you’ve actually used than one you’ve only seen on a screen.

• CRYPTO-NATIVE. There’s a revenue model built in. Because it’s built on Farcaster, where everyone automatically has a crypto wallet, I can add a simple token gate requiring users to hold a token before they play. It’s like asking for a quarter at the arcade. I earn small fees when someone acquires the token, which helps cover infrastructure costs and fund rewards. Adding payment rails to a traditional game (payment providers, subscriptions, credit cards) introduces significant overhead that usually doesn’t make sense for a small app.

• ROOM TO GROW. We often say Farcaster is powerful because you can get your first 100 or 1,000 users. A small group of beta players helped me test this app and surface edge cases I wouldn’t have found on my own. Farcaster works as an incubator. If this apps takes off on Farcaster, I can expand it to other platforms. I’d love to see a Word-of-the-Day mechanic take off at the scale of something like X. And there are many other “___ of the Day” ideas that could follow the same pattern of app → social feed → AI scoring.

If this sounds interesting, I invite you to play.

If you don’t hold 10M $wordaday, the app will prompt you and guide you through acquiring it.

If you’re not yet on Farcaster, you can create an account here using my referral code:
https://farcaster.xyz/~/code/EM02EP

Have fun playing. I'm building this in public, so tag me on Farcaster with feedback or ideas.

I want to give a quick shout out to the people who helped test the game and shape the mechanics over the past few weeks while I was building it:

Completed 1-5 challenges:

greg, christopher, logonaut.eth, trh, bertwurst.eth, pjc, yerbearserker, catfacts.eth

Completed 6-10 challenges:

tracyit, bradq, links, jacy, nounishprof, sgniwder

Completed over 10 challenges:

yes2crypto.eth, jachian, music2work2

I’m pleased to share that the miniapp I’ve been building and testing with a small group of beta players is now open to everyone.

Introducing Word-A-Day — a Farcaster miniapp designed to help you grow your vocabulary, sound smarter, and make learning social.

1. Learn the word. A new word drops at 00:00 UTC. Open the miniapp to see the word, its definition, an example sentence, and hear its pronunciation.

2. Use it in a cast. If you accept the daily challenge, you have until the next word drops to use the word naturally in a Farcaster cast or reply. This proves you actually learned the word.

3. Get scored. At the end of the day, an AI evaluates your cast on correctness (accurate, contextual usage), authenticity (natural, human voice), and originality (independent thought). If your cast reads like it was generated by an LLM or copied from someone else, you’ll lose points.

4. Climb the leaderboard and build your streak.

The miniapp is powered by $wordaday, an ERC-20 token on Base. To participate in daily challenges, the app requires holding a minimum balance of the $wordaday token. The token is used solely for access and gameplay and has no use outside of the app.

There are a million learning apps that try to create a daily habit where you open the app, take some action, get a quick dopamine hit, and repeat. What makes Word-A-Day different is that it introduces a learning mechanism that really only works on Farcaster:

• SOCIAL. It’s played out on a public social feed. The app itself is very light. It just shows you an index card with the word and its definition. There’s not much to do inside the app. The action happens on the Farcaster feed. When you cast, you don’t need to announce you’re playing. You don’t have to tag anyone or link to the miniapp. You just use the word. It’s subtle. And won't it be interesting when people who aren’t even playing start noticing the same word appearing across the feed?

• ACTIVE. Learning is most effective when it's active, not passive. Most learning apps show you a concept and ask you to read or watch something. This app forces you to apply what you’ve learned during the course of your day. You’re far more likely to remember a word you’ve actually used than one you’ve only seen on a screen.

• CRYPTO-NATIVE. There’s a revenue model built in. Because it’s built on Farcaster, where everyone automatically has a crypto wallet, I can add a simple token gate requiring users to hold a token before they play. It’s like asking for a quarter at the arcade. I earn small fees when someone acquires the token, which helps cover infrastructure costs and fund rewards. Adding payment rails to a traditional game (payment providers, subscriptions, credit cards) introduces significant overhead that usually doesn’t make sense for a small app.

• ROOM TO GROW. We often say Farcaster is powerful because you can get your first 100 or 1,000 users. A small group of beta players helped me test this app and surface edge cases I wouldn’t have found on my own. Farcaster works as an incubator. If this apps takes off on Farcaster, I can expand it to other platforms. I’d love to see a Word-of-the-Day mechanic take off at the scale of something like X. And there are many other “___ of the Day” ideas that could follow the same pattern of app → social feed → AI scoring.

If this sounds interesting, I invite you to play.

If you don’t hold 10M $wordaday, the app will prompt you and guide you through acquiring it.

If you’re not yet on Farcaster, you can create an account here using my referral code:
https://farcaster.xyz/~/code/EM02EP

Have fun playing. I'm building this in public, so tag me on Farcaster with feedback or ideas.

I want to give a quick shout out to the people who helped test the game and shape the mechanics over the past few weeks while I was building it:

Completed 1-5 challenges:

greg, christopher, logonaut.eth, trh, bertwurst.eth, pjc, yerbearserker, catfacts.eth

Completed 6-10 challenges:

tracyit, bradq, links, jacy, nounishprof, sgniwder

Completed over 10 challenges:

yes2crypto.eth, jachian, music2work2