Shiny New Frames for the Internet

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It has been a momentous few days in the onchain realm. On Friday, Farcaster launched Frames and opened the design space for developers to embed just about anything into a cast on Farcaster. Offering new mechanics which are only possible in web3 social.

Frames are customizable mini interactive apps and embeds which have already been used to sell $1K of girl scout cookies in an hour, release merch with instant sales, drop a free mint of 1000 NFTs, and stage a playable version of Doom.

Users can free mint NFTs in the feed, super fast, gated by their Farcaster ID, with creators covering the gas. There's great possibilities for publishing, releasing music, streaming content and many things.

Farcaster

Varun Srinivasan on Warpcast

Feature Friday: Farcaster Frames! Frames turn casts into interactive apps. Use frames to build polls, feeds, galleries and more. - Two frame apps are launching later today - You can create your frames right now (see reply) Frames are still in beta, but you can share feedback and AMA today! https://i.imgur.com/eyljpJ1.png

Farcaster hit all time highs with over 11K daily active users as creators jumped in to explore the possibilities. Colin from Paragraph designed a frame that lets readers subscribe, read entire posts and claim referral rewards right there in the feed.

Future issues of UFO news including this post will be published using these tools.

Colin Armstrong

@colinarms

Just launched @paragraph_xyz post frames.

Paste a Paragraph post into @farcaster_xyz and we let anyone:

- one-click subscribe to your newsletter
- read the *entire post* straight from the feed
- visit the post online, with the original caster getting all referrer rewards

Packy McCormick wrote a helpful guide exploring the sufficiently decentralized social protocol of Farcaster, what the ecosystem represents as an alternative to web2 social, and the first few days of Frames as the community got into action.

https://www.notboring.co

Framing the Future of the Internet

Farcaster's Very Small Apps Are a Very Big Deal

Developers can review Farcaster Frames and if you're curious to see what's happening for yourself you can now join Farcaster. There's a /ufo channel.

Frames are similar to the Open Actions unlocked by Lens Protocol, the other most prominent web3 social ecosystem in the space. Nader Dabit, Director of DevRel at Avara, posted a video to explore these ideas and show how to build for yourself.

nader dabit | nader.lens

@dabit3

Farcaster Frames and now @heydotxyz Portals are an awesome technique and standard for building interactive experiences into web3 social feeds.

In this video, I explain what they are and how to build one, end to end in less than 10 minutes

Read Write Own by Chris Dixon was also published this week.

"A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the Internet — and how that affects us all."

Chris has done a round of podcasts talking about the book, producing conversations about the history of the internet and roads not travelled, and how we've arrived in a place where four to five leaders of technology companies in Palo Alto substantially influence the communication and political systems of the entire world.

He asks why would we outsource this much power into the hands of a few unelected human beings and corporations who are largely unaccountable for the scope of their impact? Looking to a future in which society is in a less compromised position.

Podcasts: a16z Crypto, Pirate Wires, The Network State, Unchained

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https://www.sound.xyz

Leo Pastel - Oxytocin (with Glasstempo)

This song reflects on the intrinsic nature of humanity, existing in cyclical patterns, constantly yearning for transcendent states of mental elation. Glasstemp...

Leo Pastel — Oxytocin (with Glasstempo)

https://beta.catalog.works

LATASHÁ - DUMB

For all the times some one tried to play me. For all the times I played myself. For all the times I played to play. Produced by Sam Katz

LATASHÁ — DUMB

https://www.sound.xyz

Kaleidoscores - Feathers

During this production, a sparrow was building a nest above the outside of my window. I could hear her shuffling around each evening while working on the song. ...

Kaleidoscores — Feathers

https://www.sound.xyz

RŌHKI - NYUMBANI

The third song off CERULEAN 🔥 A spiritual exploration of a foreign land. Collect the full set to earn an EP token - good for a pro-rata split of 5% of primar...

RŌHKI — NYUMBANI

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RICH GIRL MATH

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@0xDesigner

1 YEAR

Today marks one full year of my daily journey.

Here's what I've learned about creativity and consistency

Farcaster

jacopo on Warpcast

Introducing: Frame NFT -- the first NFT minted directly on Farcaster - Max 1 NFT per address - 1000 units - Can only be minted on Farcaster - On @base - Totally free https://slice.so/frame-nft

Packy McCormick

@packyM

On Friday, @farcaster_xyz released Frames.

I think these very small apps are a very big deal.

Frames isn’t about “onboarding the next billion users to crypto.” It’s about using blockchain networks to do things that billions of people want to do, better.

https://www.notboring.co

Framing the Future of the Internet

Farcaster's Very Small Apps Are a Very Big Deal

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Open Actions and Frames | Notion

Open Actions

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The Sequence: Product, Protocol, Community

The trifecta of Product, Protocol, and Community forms the cornerstone of every organizational map today, as it navigates survival and growth.

https://vibes.mirror.xyz

There's Paint in my Computer

In 2022, I began to think of my smart contracts as "medium-native artworks." After all, they were designed for and within the EVM and its constraints; they were interoperable, exposed APIs to interact with the visual art, and experimented with blockchain incentives.

https://n3xtwave.mirror.xyz

Pixel Lands project by N3XTWAVE Collective

'Pixel Lands' is a series presented by N3XTWAVE Collective and minted as single editions on Foundation.app, marking the group's debut on this platform.

https://mirror.xyz

The Future Is Minting 💫

Minting is going to redefine digital ownership in the years ahead. Preparing for that reality now will set you up to thrive around the future of NFTs.

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Blockchain Royalties: State of the Market

This post is a companion to our marketplace launch announcement. In building our marketplace, on behalf of the community we did a deep-dive on royalties to bring transparency to them and hold ourselves accountable. See our public Dune dashboards, on which this analysis is based, here.

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Paint The Canvas With Your People

Hi, It's been a while since I've posted! I have started to put tother a stock of SCENES at the half way point, but no-one can communicate the value of the project better than those who it has connected with on an emotional level.

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By All Accounts: On Points, Attestations, & Tokens

Written by Katie Chiou, Graeme Boy

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