we wrapped up Base Batches, where I was mentoring 6 events (3 IRL) all around the german speaking ecosystem with participation from START, RWTH Aachen, ETH Zurich, HSG St. Gallen, Frankfurt School, TU Vienna, EPFL Lausanne and more online. It's been an insane run to develop apps and agents with passionate students. One thing it provides me with additionally is a lot of feedback on what can be improved on the documentation and technology side.

• There is a new Farcaster Logo https://farcaster.xyz/dwr/0x50bb5493 (Figma link provided) with context in the following tweet that farcaster is a social platform to discover and trade crypto https://x.com/thenickpattison/status/1980336994241900710

• Coinbase acquires Echo to complete the end to end offering for all different ventues to be possible through coinbase products. Any capital formation is now doable with Coinbase portfolio companies and can roll up into Coinbase the exchange and Base the chain. https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-acquires-echo-unlocking-the-future-of-onchain-capital-formation

• Bankr continuing to innovate and be great now sharing revenue in TG groups to incentivise hosts to add bankr https://farcaster.xyz/deployer/0x07d08e63

• Solidity, the language most smart contracts are written in, well undergo a rewrite. That means we’ll have a new version of it that may not be compatible with the current solidity. Both will be supported for a while and backwards compatibility in EVM Nodes will be mean you can always write Solidity like we know today. Read more https://x.com/solidity_lang/status/1980685188716974392

• Polymarket launching a mini app on World. https://x.com/Polymarket/status/1980665399797784761 they’ve had Farcaster Frames in early 2024. Excited to see more big players use mini apps.

• Clanker is joining Farcaster https://farcaster.xyz/dwr/0x0bc1c207

• Neynar is brining their agent stack to all customers https://farcaster.xyz/rish/0x7dbd8e81

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?

Screenshot of the Dune Dashboard

The full data can be viewed live on the Dune Dashboard

I would pay attention to institutionals entering the space. Professional tools are under explored. Guarantees and safety/security for applications and development is underexplored. There are great building blocks to use like Morpho, Safe, Base and more but no one put them together yet to have true penetration with institutionals entering.