TWiF
To everyone's shock, beloved Farcaster mainstay and Clanker founder proxystudio.eth turned out to be a thief who had nearly wrecked a previous project, under a previous pseudonym. The rest of the Clanker team had no idea and moved fast to remove him. The whole Farcaster ecosystem is still digesting this revelation.
Some questions that emerged from the incident: Is forgiveness possible, or advisable? When are second chances (or third ones) a good idea? Can pseudonymous identities be trusted? Are the benefits of pseudonymous culture worth it, when the ability to switch names can provide cover for bad actors?
There is no single answer to any of these quandaries, and undoubtedly we will discuss them again in the future.
Meanwhile, the valiant Clanker team is working on sniper mitigation.
The FarCon episode of Acidtest is out: "Featuring over 40 interviews with many of you on the ground in Brooklyn NY." Damn. The split for episode contributors divides the revenue amongst 73 addresses!
Indexy notifications: "Get performance metrics from your radar (tracked and created indexes)," among other alerts like trending indexes.
Spring 2025 retro grants for the Farcaster ecosystem, to be dispensed via Rounds — and you can contribute to the rewards pool!
Mini app notifications are now grouped into clusters, thank God.
Neynar has been shipping as relentlessly as ever:
"all Neynar APIs now accept micro crypto payments."
"personalized embed images for users when they shared the mini app on their timeline" — take heed, devs!
Tap-to-pay from a Privy wallet 🤯
$QR ad-of-the-day auctions are now denominated in USDC, for a litany of reasons.
Results from one week of the BETRMINT "content casino."
OpenRank is hiring.
Audio mini app Spaces added "roles (host, speakers, listeners) for better moderation."
DeepNewz: "Our AI collects, writes and organizes news in real time, based on tens of thousands of sources, on topics from tech to sports to crypto to international."
Dollarchain, purportedly "a social coordination game," might be something. The channel description reads, "Start a team chain with $1 deposit, coordinate to form the longest chain, and the winning chain splits the total pot evenly among its members." The waitlist is open. "My goal is delivering fun, & iterating fast w. my learnings," so we'll see how things go.
Find your friends: "I personally found 28 people I was following on X / Twitter but had not followed on Farcaster."
Dash is a mini app for exploring videos uploaded to Farcaster. The latest update: "You can now view and post replies under videos without having to leave the app!"
Zapper's upcoming wallet will be available to test on Android soon.
Warps.fun is a "generative art game in a mini app," a new version of the concept behind the team's previous project Arrows.
"We built the most powerful AI for blockchains and put it inside a mini-app." You'll have to judge the "most powerful" part for yourself.
That's all for this week! Did I miss anything? Hit reply and let me know.
Cheers,
Sonya
