Farcaster now a days has been mostly Clanker and appcoins. People discussing the acquisition, asking about the benefits and downsides of app coins and coming to terms with Farcaster being a wallet with token launcher that happens to have a social network.

Balancer Hack and its impact on the wider DEFI Ecosystem as Berachain hard forks. https://x.com/LefterisJP/status/1985300015548428789 https://x.com/pcaversaccio/status/1985371720115421247

Farcaster creator rewards are changing. https://base.app/post/0x27680551651b2be69a7decf928c623c27ec83151

Dev call cadence changes to monthly with updates mostly focused on the raodmpa. https://base.app/post/0x55e2209f549576751b24093a8221542cd5a69cdf

Farcaster giving distribution to new tokens directly in the app and on their socials if launched via Clanker https://farcaster.xyz/dwr/0x53a5de34

Samuel just landed in Uruguay and will attend DevConnect in Buenos Aires next week. If you're in town, message https://t.me/samuellhuber and let's meet in Buenos Aires.

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

Stablecoins and Blockchain are real and there's opportunity in the institutional space and the extremely non institutional space. The middle ground is rough. They will converge, but currently there is not enough liquidity and usage in the middle between "digital assets" on the institutional side and the extreme "coin everything" crowd.