Buoy is one of the OG Farcaster native apps. You use it to power search. It is magnitude of times better than the farcaster native search. Yet, last week was the first time I ended up using their mini app almost once every hour. We launched The Clankline last week and one of the wild things that happened was we got hundreds of folks sharing the mini app. I used buoy to keep track of all the shares, learning what problems people were running into, and what was resonating. (No, we didn't have any sophisticated instrumentation) Buoy also made it possible for us to run a few campaigns where we were experimenting with incentivized sharing by making it simple to track shared casts.

If you haven't yet, do gives buoy a try, boy, you will be surprised, in a good way.

I guess about a year ago, Coinbase merged the Wallet team with the Base team. And what came out of it is the Base App, the new version of Coinbase Wallet.

It’s one of the best crypto UX I’ve experienced. Clean, smooth, and thoughtfully built.

Base wants to bring a billion people onchain. One of their core bets to make that happen is bringing creators onchain first. The proposition is that crypto rails provide a better ecosystem to creators to monetize.

You can see that thinking in the way the Base App is built. It’s part wallet, part app store, part social app since it’s also a Farcaster client. Every post you make mints as a Zora Coin, and people can ape in.

My understanding is that the first time magical experience they are driving towards is to get new users to their first dollar onchain as fast as possible.

It is an ambitious bet. But then you have a cracked team working towards it. The App is still in Private Beta. Head over here if you want to join the waitlist

https://join.base.app/

Jacek is a machine. A year back he launched the degen experiment that probably played the single biggest role in bringing in the first massive wave of users on farcaster. He had been constantly iterating on the tipping mechanism and other stuff around degen ranging from degen ens names to a L3 chain.

The latest bet is on a dedicated farcaster client that treats tipping use case as a first class citizen. The Degen Mini App upgrade is the first step towards it. The current tipping allowance is expected to go away to make way for direct degen tipping against each like. Oh, and 10% of the tipping amount will go towards a weekly lottery pool. Truly degen!

In 48 hours, over 60K $DEGEN were tipped. It will be interesting to see how the next wave tipping cycle plays out.

Clankline. All Clankline. Last week we launched The Clankline - the leaderboard for Clanker Community.

Rch on Farcaster

Introducing The Clankline A weekly leaderboard for the Clanker community. A new round begins every Wednesday. Your PnL counts. So does your contribution. How strong is your clank? 🔻 https://theclankline.replit.app/?fid=7910&address=0xcffbda2841ef95df3e977982ecc55429b8d82eb5&inFeed=true&action_type=share&action_sub_type=best_friends&cc=KSIV&utm_source=farcaster&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=best_friends&utm_content=home&utm_term=7910

Farcaster

Over 1000 people have now checked out the mini app. Around 200-250 Clanker Connoisseurs check out the app daily. You see your rank and the leaderboard. We also show you your Clanker Portfolio. This Wednesday the genesis round ended and we kickstarted a new round Alpha Dreams. We dropped a little something as a gift to the wallets of top rankers.

If you like the style above, you can mint the Summer Pupil for yourself here

https://manifold.xyz/@rch/id/4185434352

These are exciting times to be building in crypto social. Right now, I'm figuring out things on the go. But yeah, it's been fun seeing Clankline resonate with folks.