Collect this post as an NFT.
Over 16k subscribers
Welcome back to UFO news.
A weekly selection of news, music, curated releases and essays.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
UFO 48 Multiplayer Music Communities with Fam — Nick Smith
https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x4174f78b7769650c1b205a2e1ac69cd0e47bbe02/4806 DAOs & Investing in Web3 Social — Jakub Rusiecki
https://zora.co/collect/zora:0xe5a529063b0e20cf4b3c081338019bdaf51a4ed0/6
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)
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
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
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
Halo Kubrick
Halo Kubrick — RICH GIRL MATH
1 YEAR 
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
Farcaster's Very Small Apps Are a Very Big Deal
Open Actions
The trifecta of Product, Protocol, and Community forms the cornerstone of every organizational map today, as it navigates survival and growth.
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.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
Written by Katie Chiou, Graeme Boy
Metaversité: Second Edition (Image made with SDXL)Education was a core value of my upbringing and something I will continue to champion well into ad...
Ingredients for your own homemade music-industry™
UFO is an onchain radio network. A club for music, arts and ideas. Subscribe to be in the loop.
57
Paragraph's new Farcaster frame by @colin helped to set all time highs for readers and subscribers from the latest /ufo issue. Clearly much of the audience is here on Farcaster, and we'll keep on experimenting with shiny new tools for onchain media. https://news.ufo.fm/shiny-new-frames-for-the-internet
UFO news 6 /paragraph Shiny New Frames for the Internet — a selection of news, music, releases and essays ▱ Farcaster Frames, Read Write Own, Fam and Music Collectives, Investment DAOs, 1 Year of Design Everydays by @0xdesigner https://news.ufo.fm/shiny-new-frames-for-the-internet
the newsletter is a really nice and informative companion to the podcast and related Mirror posts. well done!