Calendar week 29 brought the Base app to the public. A super app built by Coinbase along with Farcaster integration for content and mini apps as the standard to get applications featured and integrated. This allows anyone to leverage the [viral loops](https://dtech.vision/farcaster/start/) with Coinbase distribution! It supports more chains then just base!

1) Base expanded on their app launch with a full rebrand and reorientation clearing up any brand confusion. View commentary and a walkthrough:

2) Farcaster developer rewards got increased in size and more people are now eligable.

https://farcaster.xyz/deodad/0x557c0fcb

3) Herocast - an opensource marketing focus farcaster client (think Hootsuite, Buffer) shipping Direct Cast Support so you get an easy direct message inbox too.

https://farcaster.xyz/hellno.eth/0x1ef78779

4) A sportsbar will become a reality. Powered by @debbie. Debbies sports bar shows how Farcaster innovates and just does everything in the open with the option to pitch in via comment and collab (notice my comment).

https://farcaster.xyz/debbie/0xf0b07096

5) exactly 2 years ago David Furlong brought out Discove a very very early third party client for Farcaster https://farcaster.xyz/df/0x5d4fb18d

6) Neynar makes Sign in With Neynar work for mini apps and allows anyone to prompt for custom signers! https://farcaster.xyz/rish/0x9fc41a45

7) A crowdfund on Farcaster makes dreams become reality with musical instruments delivered in person! This speach is hart warming! https://farcaster.xyz/katekornish/0x444071ef

8) You can now chain together mini apps and maintain control over the control flow by using Back buttons and [open mini app](https://miniapps.farcaster.xyz/docs/sdk/actions/open-miniapp)! can't wait for people building referral and quest juggernauts with it.

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

a secret tip dTech only shares in the newsletter

**Farcaster getting a decentralized client with a local hub syncing only content relevant to you like @stephancill demo'd with his [lazy indexer](https://github.com/stephancill/lazy-indexer) and a mesh ethereum wallet combined and you're already there of what Jack is developing. Don't underestimate Farcaster composability! To learn more about [composability start here](https://dtech.vision/farcaster/start/)**

Jack Dorsey experiments with mesh networks. Meaning like your home WIFI networks between devices without the internet being a central actor. Why that’s interesting? Well imagine you have no internet anymore for whatever reason, then this maybe the only way to get things done.

I’d love to see unstoppable networks like these span the globe.