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Here’s a roundup of all the onchain tea that you don’t want to miss:

🗡️ The EVM viral game “Crypto: The Game” Launched and we interviewed Dylan Abruscato on how it all came to be plus got exclusive updates on the future plans of his hit game. You can read our interview here.

🟣 FARCASTER: The decentralized social network backed by Coinbase soars to new heights! 

This explosion is due to the recent release of “Frames,” which allow for interactive media to be casted (created) and stored onchain. X/Twitter had and quickly got rid of a similar feature back in 2015. This is groundbreaking as it opens the doors for a number of creative, playable experiences — on a decentralized social network.

Play Internet Archive's 2,400 MS-DOS Games Directly on Twitter

For instance, this is a great example of what Frames can do. This frame is designed to guide you in Breathwork and was created by Val, @valcoholics on X/Warpcast. You can mediate on Farcaster here.

Tons of Web3 native companies are using Farcaster as a hiring platform to recruit true onchain enthusiasts and incentivizing builders to create innovative and useful frames to grow their respective ecosystems. This is what Val calls “programmatic marketing.” You can read more about Farcaster and it’s potential in the beautifully written article titled “Framing the Future of the Internet” by

🌐 Interactive onchain games released on Zora + how Zora will be “the home for onchain AI”

@/tbtstl on X/Twitter released a onchain game on the Zora ecosystem titled “CYTO”, which is a game of cellular evolution based on Conway's Game of Life. Players join the red or blue team and compete to outlive each other to win a prize pool. CYTO is live here.

Jacob Horne of Zora released → AI+, a blog post on how AI is finding it’s way onchain.

AI: You can create a model that is trained on information, making it remixable and accessible to the entire internet. Training a model on it means that this information can be interpreted, remixed, represented, articulated and synthesized as knowledge. This means that it can be utilized. - Jacob Horne.

Zora aims to collaborate and work with more AI x Web3 partners. If individuals or organizations are building or creating on the forefront of AI, they are encouraged to reach out. Finally, Jacob states the mission: Zora will serve as the home for AI onchain. Read the full article here.

👩‍💻 We finally have proper and easy to understand explanations on account abstraction, namely this lovely article, Account Abstraction for Everyone Else by @camiinthisthang (X/Twitter)

In it, she states: “Most of the writing on account abstraction sucks.” And I firmly agree, but her writing doesn’t suck and I highly recommend reading if you’re interested in understanding what everyone in this space has been talking about (but few have stopped to explain).

You can read the full article here.

Thank you all for reading! See you next time.

- Cynthia ౨ৎ ⊹ ‧ ♱

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