Happy Friday, Farcaster!

Now available on the podcast: Abram and Will quizzing Salvino about building Yapster. Find it on YouTube or Spotify. Also, we created a starter pack of builders who've been interviewed on TWiF.

A link from Will that's worth your time: "Defining our [ideal customer profile] is the most important thing we ever did," from PostHog.

Plus a lil update from Splits: "Earn: yield bearing stables directly in your Teams account." Banking on Ethereum, baby! Check out the demo if you like when your money makes more money.

Warpcast / Merkle

Wake up babe, there's a Warpcast wallet! Granted, it hasn't rolled out to everybody yet, but presumably soon.

Why: Do onchain stuff in-feed with way less friction. If you're on mobile, anyway.

How it works:

private key is shamir sharded on your device into 3 shards, any 2 of which can reconstruct the PK.

1 shard remains on the device
1 shard is encrypted by a key that warpcast holds (recovery shard)
1 shard is encrypted by a key that Privy holds (auth shard)

"PSA — upgrade your farcaster seed phrase security best practices if you plan to use the Warpcast wallet for storing / trading / transacting an amount that's meaningful to you." Good reminder!

In other news, Merkle hired @slokh, the creator of Anonworld. Have no fear, his existing projects will not shut down.

Frames

Also from Warpcast, but specific to frames:

Problem: it’s too hard to build swap/token UIs. Several popular frames use embedded swap widgets that don't connect to the user’s wallet.

We're exploring some ideas for "token actions" and seeking feedback from frame devs!

Here's the draft doc.

Charmingly emphatic: "WHY IS MY FRAME CACHED?! DEBUG GUIDE" 😝

Neynar added some tooling: "if you use neynar for sending notifications on v2 frames, analytics will now populate automatically in neynar dev portal."

The Just Frame It buildathon secured sponsorships from Base, Purple DAO, and Warpcast. Applications open on Monday. Might be interesting to read through the proposal to Purple DAO as well.

A thread of "technical lessons we learned while building @basketdotfarm," the in-frame token index creator.

Farville parameters have been rejiggered to improve the balance of the game.

Clankerverse

"The Bracket team has also informed me that future Bracket games now operate as prediction markets settled in $BRACKY."

Related: "we’re gonna start enabling Clanker pools within Ponder predictions."

Glanker launched "Empire Builder — The Ultimate Tool for Utility-pilling your Tokens." First you've got a memecoin, then it's an empire?! 😳

Not technically Clanker, but inspired by it: "Streme.fun is an AI Agent that deploys streamable tokens, powered by @superfluid, with built-in staking and liquidity provision." Clever!

Extra fun

FarCon applications close on the 21st — if you want to attend, don't get caught slippin'. Groupchats are open for both Builder's Day and Summit attendees.

Farcaster philosopher @jihad published two essays explaining why "you can just do things" is an insufficient mindset:

• The Age of Agency

• Native to Our Built Environments

Thirdweb acquired Yup. The two teams will "join forces to revolutionize web3 development and build industry-leading infra, devtools, and platforms."

The artist usually known as @shl0ms appeared on the Purple People podcast. "We talked about nothing. Please enjoy."

Rodeo pushes back on snipers: "With the Friend Zone, your friends now have a distinct leg up on bots. They get 3 minutes to accept an offer before anyone else."

"Builder Score V2 just dropped, and I'm looking for feedback on the new scoring system," @macedo shared. Here are the details.

Closing with a technical treat: "Merkle Mountain Ranges for Performant Data Authentication."

Until next week,
Sonya