What is Farcaster’s new feature Frames?

Author: cobo argus

Farcaster, a decentralized social platform led by A16Z, recently launched a new feature “Frames”, which has inspired an unprecedented application development boom and brought a new high of DAU.Unlike most of the hotspots in the encrypted industry, this time Farcaster attracted mainly developers, which promoted more end user interaction, and even received praise from Silicon Valley entrepreneurial mentor Paul Graham.

What is “Frames”?

Before understanding Frames, let’s get to know Farcaster.

Farcaster is a decentralized social network, founded by Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan.

Farcaster itself is an agreement, just like the underlying protocol SMTP of the email.Farcaster is responsible for storing users’ Handle, Casts (Farcaster version of the tweets) and other interactive behaviors (such as like and repost).For end users, we need to build a client similar to Warpcast to visit the social network.

The client is an interface for users to access information flow.Today, the word “client” is no longer used, because in most modern social networks, agreements and clients are the same thing.Twitter once owned clients such as Tweeebot, TweetDeck, and Twitterification. Until it closed the API access, the client era ended.Now, Twitter is just Twitter (or, you can also call its new name X).

The Farcaster team built its own official client, but third -party developers are also encouraged to develop their own client. Anyone can build a client on the FarCaster on top of FarCaster and use FarCaster’s data but provide different front -end experiences.A16Z Crypto lists a series of general-purpose and vertical clients in the AWESOME-Farcaster warehouse, including SuperCast, YUP, SearchCaster, LaunchCaster, Kiwi News, and Casthose.

A few months ago, Farcaster introduced new features -Channels, which can be talked about the theme tissue, similar to Douban’s group or Reddit’s Subreddits.Any user is currently allowed to pay Warp to create different theme channels.

What is Frames?

Farcaster launched Frames last Friday, allowing small applications in CAST.

As its name, Frames is a small interactive IFRAME embedded in CAST, which supports users to embed customized interactive operations in the published content, such as voting, gallery, questionnaires, forecasting markets, etc. Users can not jump to jump to reach to toIn the case of a third -party platform, they are directly involved in the interaction in the FarCaster information flow.Open a Frames, just like opening another application door, allowing other applications to directly access the user.From the perspective of web 2, it seems that it seems that it is not much different from using iframe to embed another website in the website, but the difference is that the sharing status of the blockchain makes this embedded experience as native to the application itself.

Compared with Web 2, Frames provides a new WEB 3 primitive, a simple method of running the Y application when the user is in the X application, and there is almost no additional coordination between X and Y.The interoperable identity and transaction records of the blockchain, as well as seamless treatment of currency and digital ownership, make it possible for cross -consumer applications to have a real and universal user operating map.Can’t do it.

In the underlying logic, each interaction operation is the EDDSA key signature operation of the FarCaster user. Therefore, it supports automatic authentication, compatible with all other FarCaster clients without losing the risk of losing funds.

Unprecedented Frames development boom

Frames provides canvas, and developers draw content on it.

It is only 5 days on the line. This seemingly simple feature has now stimulated the incredible creativity of developers.The faucet test currency, generate art, text adventure game, an application that can automatically help you check the applications that have not received airdrops, support the chain shopping vehicle and checkout process that supports token payment, and create wallets and rewards directly through the command line.At present, the Farcaster Frames developer’s hacker pine activity in New York is still in full swing.

Degen Jeeves is a $ degen automation robot that can be based on command lines! TIP directly reward a specific amount of $ Dege to a specific amount of Farcaster users. Before reward, you need to use it! Create automatically creates a base wallet.

Farcaster community tokens $ deGen

In fact, there is another key reason for Farcaster to usher in the new high of DAU, that is, the community tokens $ Degen has recently opened the second round of airdrops.

$ Degen is a tokens that initiated on the Farcaster Degen channel. In the second round of AirDrop recently, users earn Fargaster points by getting rewards from others.The amount of reward allowance depends on the ratio of the number of replies/ tweets.You only need to comment on the “quantity +$ dege” to a specific post, such as “420 $ Degen”.Playing on specific channels will get a larger airdrop weight.Since the second round of AirDrop activities, the price of $ Degen token has increased by 230%.Due to this distribution method, the extensive airdrop agriculture, $ Degen developers are developing an automatic detection system.

$ Degen is by far the most successful cause coin to grow from Farcaster. It belongs to the real MEME project dominated by the community.$ Degen’s fair distribution, grassroots atmosphere, bottom -up, and promoting the organic growth of the community. The loose unofficial DAO organizations and Build are used to allow them to have natural integrated friendship advantages.The experiment shows a rare consumer use case in the encrypted industry.

Today, as the center of social interaction in Farcaster, Degen has become the most active channel for Farcaster. Degentlemen and DeGentlewomen groups represent representatives of Degen projects contribute Degen’s DAU.Data show that $ Degen is the most active channel on Farcaster, even higher than the sum of all other theme channels.

It can be said that by creating Frames, FarCaster provides seamless encryption native social network experience above the blockchain. This experience makes users almost realize that the existence of the blockchain is almost not realized.When Twitter’s restrictions on third -party developers under the control of Musk are increasingly criticized, on the other hand, FarCaster provides developers with mobile priority, distribution (cold start) friendly, no need to allow encrypted native development to develop native developmentExperience, let us see the real potential of “Farcaster Will Flip Twitter”.

Like Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial godfather Paul Graham, it is optimistic about the long -term value of Farcaster, because it is not just about the future of the encryption industry, it is more precious for the Internet that becomes more and more closed.