Please note: None of the tipping mechanics in this article are made by the Farcaster team. These tokens were created by independent teams and developers, but are used mainly on the Farcaster protocol. Contact individual teams and their channels for questions or feedback.
TL;DR Summary Table
Tipping Token | Claim Period | Requirements | Website | Daily Reset | Mechanic Example |
$DEGEN | End of the Month | 10,000 $DEGEN in Wallet; tipping actively | 8:00 PM EST | 100 $DEGEN | |
HAM ($TN100X) | N/A Tips are in Real Time | Hold 100,000 $TN100X or 1 Based LP or 1 Ham Cosplay LP | ~ Midnight EST | 🍖x 100 | |
$FARTHER | End of the Month | Hold 100,000 $FARTHER | 3:00 PM PST | 100 $FARTHER |
$DEGEN
$DEGEN is the oldest of the tipping mechanisms. It has seen many changes over the last few months, but the fundamentals remain the same. To tip $DEGEN, simply type AMOUNT $DEGEN as a reply to a cast (i.e. 100 $DEGEN) and the tip is complete.
In order to tip, you must have an allowance. You earn an allowance based on your overall engagement data across Farcaster. The team is using OpenRank data to distribute tip allowances. To receive an allowance, you must have 10,000 $DEGEN in your Farcaster connected wallet on Base. You will then be given a small allowance and you must tip 5 times in 7 days to keep it. Once you meet the qualifications, you will be given a full allowance based on your OpenRank overall engagement. Allowances reset daily at 8:00 PM EST.
For more information about $DEGEN, follow the largest community /degen and the official channel /degentokenbase and follow @jacek on Farcaster. For detailed explanations and in depth analysis of Degen and it's mechanics, please read @rjs Ultimate Degen Tipping Guide.
HAM ($TN100X)
Ham is the second major tipping mechanic on Farcaster. Ham was created by @deployer. Ham tips are now on chain, unlike $DEGEN. These tokens immediately go to your Farcaster connected wallet on the L3 Ham Chain. The main channel for all things Ham is the /lp channel. One Ham = 1 $TN100X token. You tip ham by replying 🍖 x AMOUNT (i.e. 🍖 x100) on any cast. To receive a Ham allowance (aka a Ham Score) you must hold 100,000 $TN100X tokens or 1 Based LP or 1 Ham LP. Holding more will increase your allowance. Your final allowance is determined by a combination of these holdings, your overall level of activity in the /lp channel and your overall Farcaster activity as seen by AirStack. The exact calculation is unknown. Ham tips reset around Midnight EST. You can check your allowance and Ham Score via ham.fun
For background reading on the whole Ham ecosystem, read @deployers articles on Paragraph.
$FARTHER
$FARTHER is one of the newest tipping mechanisms to join the ecosystem. $FARTHER is unique because there is no engagement score or ranking determining allowances. Allowances are given to anyone holding 100,000 $ FARTHER tokens and more users are added daily. Allowances are calculated based on how "far" you spread the tips. The goal is to tip as many new people as possible to bring the into the ecosystem. You are encouraged to tip people who DO NOT have an allowance and to spread it via as many tips as possible. The daily minimum changes at each reset at 3:00 PM EST so you must log in daily to check the minimum tip amount. The website is farther.social and the channel is /farther. Tips are claimed at the end of the month. You can track your received tips on the website as well. Follow the official account at @farther
Feel free to contact me on Farcaster with any questions or comments!
Pichi 🎩🌸🍖🐹🍡 (@pichi) on Farcaster
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Thanks for explaining - was wondering how this worked!
What does it mean when you are tipped Farther or Ham? I know what Degen is and I even cashed some out but I have not seen an explanation of this. Thank you for all the tips.
no one knows
But it’s provocative!
they're designed to take your attention away from Degen
🤷♂️
check out farther.social and/or talk to @gigamesh who's behind it.
You can cash in similar as degen with farther at end of month. 999 $farther Farther encourages spreading the token widely (farther out), as opposed to small circles of tipping.
Here’s an overview from @pichi https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/farcaster-tipping
Sadly it’s a bit out of date because Farcaster moves so fast but the gist and the mechanics of tipping are at least correct!
they're all dif forms of tips usually with their own community channels. also not mentioned yet: the ham peeps also make floaties which are kind of prepurchased tip bundles in all different types of currencies. so if somebody send you 🎩x3 (one hat = 10 degen so you should be sent 10x3 degen) if you ever see floaty bots they let you know if you've been sent floaties
Permissionless ecosystem, so other teams have made different ripping tokens with different tokenomics and goals. $HAM and $FARTHER are two such examples. I quite like /build, which is a social currency by @macedo centered around nominating other people building in the space and rewarding them with $BUILD tokens.
I’ll answer since a lot of people have skipped over the actual answer. You can cash our FARTHER tips at farther.social once per month. Ham tips are really cool because they are on-chain and they come to your account in real time. However, they are on their own chain, so to transfer them somewhere to spend like Base, you’d have to bridge from ham chain, which can be done here: ham.fun
thanks bro
I’ll add that each new token has the opportunity to develop new concepts and ideas in the realm of tipping for example with Ham (tn100x is the actual token) you can set a unique top amount to be sent to someone when you like their post so I liked this post… and by doing so I sent you 69 🍖 (69 tn100x) the best devs will create neat tools that hopefully will increase adoption. Therefore we evaluate the devs of the project not just the community.
farther is over at https://farther.social/ or /farther basically its yet another tipping coin
This is my love/hate relationship with Farcaster time. Builders ship so fast here. My article is already out of date for all 3 tipping systems. Guess I’ll be updating it this week! Now that the $Farther sparkles are gone my art just looks silly after I tried so hard to capture them all in one place ;) https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/farcaster-tipping
And this is why supporting documentation is usually anemic and unhelpful. Spend the real time it takes to describe something in human terms. Obsolete after a fortnight. Keep hosting the spaces. That's the best way to mark changes and course correct.
When hunt and masks? And of course Ⓜ️oxie 😍
I see you have an update. You are always on the cutting edge!!!! Expectations for you ✨
this is important 420 $degen
It’s over for him
Now you’ve done it. Once you post to memes you are one of us and we are allowed to start hitting you with tip cocktails. Enjoy! 100 $DEGEN 208 $FARTHER 🍖 x 100 🎭 100 $JRI 100 $WILD 100 $hunt https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/farcaster-tipping?referrer=0x19D8da2674E8A025154153297ea3AB918DebF96d
This was my first article for the Farcaster Writing Hackathon published last Friday for the kickoff and updated with some minor corrections thanks to community feedback! I blocked off my calendar to get one more article in before the deadline at 6 PM EST today! Wish me luck!
Yo go girl! 🙌🏾✨ 🍖 x 50
@queenstarr, take a look at this from @pichi. It helps explain a lot about tipping, how-to’s, and mechanics that are needed before one can tip.
HR is proud of you. Looking for UX now @pichi ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 38 $degen
Good luck Pichi
I highlighted $FARTHER in my article about Popular Tipping Mechanics on Farcaster! I hope more people will join us and spread the token farther!
great read! 500 $farther
Great job ✨️ 225 $farther
Thanks for spreading the word about fartehr! 10 $degen 🍖x55 150 $farther 100 $wild
I'm excited about the future of Farcaster. thank you✨
thanks for the highlighting $Farther in your article! let's spread Farther to farther✨✨ 300 $farther
Thank you, Pichi!
130 $farther
HamFam, I wrote an article about tipping on Farcaster and I included Ham! Please share this with your friends so they can join the HamFam and help out little Hamily grow! I hope you like the art. It was tough to represent us, degen, and farther, but I hope you see all my references ;) https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/farcaster-tipping?referrer=0x19D8da2674E8A025154153297ea3AB918DebF96d
You've got the ham format backwards
OMG I CANNOT believe my brain did that!!!!!! I’m so sorry! Fixed!!!!!
LOL @animated we need to send @pichi the ham school comic
Bookmarked!
I do like the art 69 $degen
thank you! 1000 $degen
Thanks queen
So helpful 🤗♥️♥️
thank you queen ⚡️ 🎭 🍖x69 69 $CO 69 $Fire 69 $Wild 69 $Rare 69 $Grnd 69 $Fomo 69 $regen 69 $degen 69 $farther
The ultimate cocktail!
😂😂😂😂
if all tips were onchain we could make a tipping index token. tip 1 token that actually tips 10 different tokens.
That would be awesome!
Nice thought 🤔 may it come true
hahaha greatest cast EVER!!!! ill raise your.... 🎭 🍖 x 30 3 $RARE 69 $CO 69 $FIRE 69 $WILD 69 $DEGEN 69 $NEGED 690 $GRND 6900 $FOMO 690 $FARTHER
good 200farther 🍖 x 200 🎭 100 $DEGEN
🚀 Your cast cashed in! Claim 🎩 DEGEN tokens on jam now! 🟣 https://jam.so/?referrer=dDJIer 🟣
Thanks for buying my cast! 🎩 🎩 🎩 🎩 🎩 🎩 🎩 🎩 🎩 🎩 🎩 🎩 🎩 🎩 🎩
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A must-read for all ham lovers!! 🫶 🍖x100
I wrote about Popular Tipping Mechanics on Farcaster for the Farcaster Writing Hackathon! I went wide instead of deep on Degen because @rjs has the best in depth guide but I hope this can help new folks get in on the fun!
I read this last night and I’m gonna bookmark for any new users that have questions. Great job
Loving the simplicity and easy to read format 167 $DEGEN @ed1t nudged me that I was overtipping!
Dope ! Thanx for all you do for the community 🎭
Awesome guide pichi! 🔥 420 $wild
Thanks for everything 🫶🫶
This is what we all need! Thank you pichi! Bookmarked ✅ 🍖 x 100 $degen
🚀 Your cast cashed in! Claim 🎩 DEGEN tokens on jam now! 🟣 https://jam.so/?referrer=dDJIer 🟣
Thanks @pichi ! 100 $degen
thanks for the guide, very helpful for newbies like us. can tipping be done on any channel or does it have to be on /degentokenonbase channel only? 300 $degen
My first article for the virtual Farcaster Writing Hackathon: Popular Tipping Mechanics on Farcaster I'd love feedback and any additional questions. This is intended to be a quick intro and not a deep dive into any specific tipping token. Enjoy!
Nice, I had something similar set up for my own sanity, which could be an extension to yours as it's a bit more comprehensive 💜 https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Manus-FC-Token-Cheat-Sheet--CRhx15d_fMmK7ko3xb~kJzwNAQ-ZRmcwwi0V5rFE9RzS47so
444 $DEGEN Thanks @pichi
6003 $DEGEN will probably bookmark this jik i get asked :)
Will read now 🖤
Sweet and short overview Pichi 🙏 thank you. 333 $degen Although I’m missing my favorite $GRND from @undrgrnd there 🤩 maybe next time @nftjoe 😉
Very cool 😎 200 $degen
You gotta choose your fav channel to add as the one that displays your streak in your profile! Cool gamification addition from Dan and his team!
can’t wait to give this a read, your experience and dedication to the Farcaster environment becomes so clear when you get as granular and as detailed as you do when you share your knowledge, always impressive 10 $degen
I gotta dig into this, thank you! 125 $degen
Gooood You can add masks and wild too pichi 😍🫶
I considered it, but since neither has token economics yet I wasn’t comfortable speaking about it publicly yet.
😍nice You are doing a good, keep it up