.. the discussions has been mostly Mini Apps and Ads for me. The ads in the Base app are interesting as it's an onchain targeting mechanism being fully integrated. The Spindl team they acquired is working on the ads feature and powers it with their background of analyzing wallets for ads.
Additionally the Feed provider for TBA being Embed they have a feature to include these posts on their APIs and also have label and other AI features that could prove fruitful for Spindl in building out the ad system.

Why it matters is because I am asking myself is there someone getting a share? like on Youtube where one gets preroll and can clearly attribute to the video creator. That's harder on the feed.

Here's an interesting discussion with Abram from the Splits team on it https://farcaster.xyz/abram/0x258d25a6

Camera and media mini apps get a big UX upgrade

Daniel - Bountycaster on Farcaster

🎥 New Mini App Feature: Persistent Camera + Mic Permissions You can now request camera and microphone access once — and never ask again. With `requestCameraAndMicrophoneAccess()` your mini app can: - Prompt the user just once for permission ✅ - Use getUserMedia confidently without repeated popups 📸 This makes experiences that require video recording like @griv smoother and more native-like Docs: https://miniapps.farcaster.xyz/docs/sdk/actions/request-camera-and-microphone-access

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The base App launching wallet targeted ads https://x.com/spindl_xyz/status/1950274264290250903

TBA MINI APP features catching up with the mini app SDK full possibilities.

dylan on Farcaster

more progress on mini app parity in Base App!! as of the latest beta update today(29.52.0) we now support/landed: - getChains, getCapabilities, and a small bug fix for getEthereumProvider - context.location data(really pumped about this one) - context.client.safeAreaInserts data - sendToken function we’ll keep making as easy as possible to “write once, deploy everywhere”, in the meantime let us know if anything else comes up h/t @moe @sohey and the team!

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Limone walk and talk mini app for easy subtitles/captions on your videos

limone.eth 🍋 on Farcaster

walk n talk miniapp just dropped it’s called yappy 📸 - record up to 60s - upload & process ai captions - share on the feed wanna try the alpha? buy this post and comment with “i love yappying”

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Discussions on X about Layer 2 blockchains and ecosystems. Seems like it's becoming harder and harder to justify not being on a L2 with usage, though much of the world isn't using any blockchain yet so there's lots of usage to be gained. Only time will tell.

What did you see? tag @samuellhuber.eth on Farcaster to ping great insights for next week's episode.

Here's the current overview of Farcaster metrics.

• How much funds do users hold? aka what's the liquidity you can tap into? How much of these is held by quality users?

• Is the network growing? How many of these users are considered quality (using OpenRank global scores for filtering). How does activity look like?

• Which chains are used the most among influential accounts and how does Base vs Solana dominance look like?

• How many daily active users (DAU) does Farcaster have right now? How much activity exists aka how many new posts? how many of these new posts are from quality users?

The full data can be viewed live on the Dune Dashboard

Whether or not Base uses Ads, you can harness the same personlization by looking at a user's wallet address and searching for users with the https://getembed.ai/ API. Using Neynar, Embed and pure wallet recommendation tools can give you insights to understand your user base or identify the next 100 users to onboard.