$SKY launched with aims to be an onchain native, token native accelerator of projects in the Farcaster and Base ecosystem. dTech via Samuel Huber being a partner in Skycastle ($SKY) is super exciting. Beyond $SKY Farcaster Wallet will support Tempo from Day 1 and Base added Mini App Developer Tooling like the ones we know from the farcaster developer tools to preview mini apps.

1. Skycastle launches as the "onchain native Y-Combinator"

   https://farcaster.xyz/skycastle/0xc4e67175

2. Base mini App debugging tools released

   https://farcaster.xyz/sohey/0xc7ed5787

3. Farcaster will support stripe‘s tempo blockchain from day 1 in their wallet
   https://farcaster.xyz/dwr.eth/0xe54e3e99

4. Cloudflare launches NET stablecoin. Notice that Cloudflare touches ~20%+ of internet traffic and already explores x402 (a crypto x web payment gating for HTTP)
   https://x.com/Cloudflare/status/1971212556011196859

5. Cool react native learning resources and copyable (use AI to explain / extract) templates for animations
   https://farcaster.xyz/natedev.eth/0x47c849f5

6. Base app adding verified addresses adds to the data pool for devs 🤩 FID being the canonical user identification number tying together wallets ENS to make the name to an FID be owned and not rugged FID + ENS = realization of the goal ENS set out from the start. Great combination 🤩

   https://farcaster.xyz/samuellhuber.eth/0x2a4c752f

7. Worth noting that as of 2 months ago OpenSea discontinued it’s testnet environments
   https://farcaster.xyz/samuellhuber.eth/0x391949bb

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

I am dumbfounded every time we talk to prospects and they do not understand that Farcaster is a social network with blockchain infrastructure below. When aiming to have a mini app do well you shall combine the two.