It feels like everyone on my feed is at FarCon NYC, and I'm not But don't worry, if you're also feeling the FOMO at home, you can still swag out with the Not at Farcon NFT. Before minting, the mini app scans your wallet to make sure you do not have a Farcon pass, which is clever.
Speaking of wallets! The biggest Farcaster news this week (despite lots of competition) was the debut of Warpcast Wallet on the web. Laptop users, we won. Finally.
The most viral mini app this week is probably Paperview (a twist on "pay per view," get it?) "Upload any photo or video, set any price to access ($0.01–$1M)." There is a NSFW toggle… jussayin'.
There were many more interesting launches, of course. Read on!
Precoin = "a tradable ERC-20 memecoin representing early belief in a creator's potential to launch a real coin. A permissionless speculation market on social clout."
BETRMINT is a new "Content Casino" that combines NFT minting with a lottery:
Each collected edition will give you 1 FREE ticket to spin the Wheel of BETRMINT, where you can win up to 100X your mint cost in Base memecoins like $RUNNER, $CLANKER, $CLANKFUN + more!
Trendcoins is "an ai powered bot that takes trending searches on google and automatically coins them." @keccers.eth elaborated on her thinking:
trendcoins itself is a somewhat satirical an art project — i don't think it will be the source of the next 1000x memecoin — but i think automated content pipelines like this are very useful to creators
take one thing — a trending google search, a podcast episode, a video, a blog post — and instantly create supporting materials for it like social posts and coins
Re7 Capital "raised a first-check fund focused on backing crypto social startups."
Alert for the data nerds: "It's now possible to analyze Farcaster's social graph via interactive network graph visualization."
"As part of Farcon, [Privy] demo’ed a new tap-to-pay experience that lets users purchase with their Warplet with a simple phone tap."
Privy competitor Para launched "guest mode" for onboarding-without-onboarding: "Create an account in seconds with zero social login or passkey. When it's time to level up, convert it into a universal embedded wallet and keep your address, assets, and history intact."
"Subscribe to keywords on Farcaster and get notified about them inside Warpcast Notifications," using the Buoy mini app.
The fresh version of Coinbase Wallet that includes a Farcaster client has an open waitlist.
Coinaroid: "Coin your content and share with your friends, all without leaving farcaster "
Pinetree aims to be "the best video client for casters, with crypto rails baked in." The founders' thesis:
Our conviction is that ads-based video platforms are a local maxima and that we have an opportunity to unlock the global maxima — a video content network powered by a p2p economy.
Lastly, some treats for the devs!
Added three new experimental actions to the mini apps SDK in time for Builders Day:
- viewToken: navigate to a token page
- swapToken: open swap form with pre-filled tokens
- sendToken: open send form with pre-filled token & recipient
Also, Snapchain is the prerequisite to deprecating the Farcaster signup fee, which will be a boon for the whole ecosystem, especially alternative clients.
Short newsletter this week, but I think the projects in it are top-notch. Did I miss anything, though? Hit reply and share the link.
Cheers,
Sonya
TWiF
