I'm working on Frameboard and Launchcaster. I use Paragraph to share essays and thoughts, mostly on consumer crypto, and updates on projects I'm working on.
The most successful Farcaster clients won’t compete with Warpcast or Twitter for DAUs or resemble them in any way. They will leverage the protocol for identity, friend graph, casts for creation, and feeds for distribution and awareness. Think Pinterest, Spotify, Zynga, tinder on Facebook, or… Ins...
I shared this with a builder yesterday. If awareness and engagement are your goals, don't an L2 for your NFT. Here's why: Friction Distribution Friction It won't always be like this, but there's so much friction in Web3. L2s make this worse by requiring your users to add a network, switch networ...
Yesterday, I caught up with a friend who drilled me with great questions on Web3 social…. Who does web3 social benefit? What's the problem statement for the average user? How does it scale beyond a crypto/web3 community? I don’t think Web3 social will change much for the average user. They will r...
The discoverability of NFTs is still so magical to me. Yesterday, I minted a Glass Pass . I can now see it in my wallet, on OnceUpon, OpenSea, Farcaster, and any dApp. Hundreds of other users minted it, and now it's trending on NFT leaderboards like Farcaster, Launchcaster, and Mint.Fun , drivi...
Launch Pass now has over 3,000 mints. It was a fun experiment, and I'm more bullish than ever on "Product NFTs." Here are some thoughts for those considering an NFT for their product. Proof of Early : Rewarding and thanking early users for their support is the best reason to do this. We had a li...