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The Sunday purple - Issue #3

Where talk about what happened this week on Farcaster

Been away this week ? Keep calm, sit comfortably on your sofa and let's go back on what happened on Farcaster this week.

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Hot Topics

jessepollak announced ambitious plans for building a Bitcoin economy on Base. This move could potentially bridge the gap between Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems, opening up new possibilities for cross-chain interactions. Given the high activity on base these lasts weeks this announcement sparked attention from the community

betashop.eth detailed changes to the Moxie Rewards system. The adjustments aim to balance the recent increase in platform engagement while preparing for the upcoming FarPower feature. The hype around Moxie is one of the many things keeping the community active these days, such announcement raised a lot of discussion and questions.

jacek.degen.eth reflected on the launch of friend.tech and the responsibility that comes with user investment. This sentiment echoes the commitment many builders feel towards their communities. This cast initated a long conversation as both friend.tech and degen were the center of an incredible attention during the last year.

Farcaster Protocol and Clients Features

dwr.eth shared some impressive stats about Farcaster's account recovery system. In his cast, he revealed that over 22,000 onchain account recoveries have been performed since the system's launch last year. This highlights the importance of robust recovery mechanisms in the crypto space.

haole shared a foundational update of Recaster app by supporting walletconnect. This new compatibility will allow their user to make transaction way more easely in the application.

woj.eth announced the weekly release of supercast introducing swap inside the app between the always growing number of Farcaster tokens. The new feature will allow the user to access a streamlined UX for tipping or any other benefit brought by these tokens.

Onchain Artists

mariuswatz shared an hypnotic piece on rodeo.club that recieved a lot of support by the community, follow him in order to be sure to get the next one !

reallyryl launched a creative NFT collection and frame game. This innovative approach combines interactive elements with NFT minting, offering a unique and funny experience for participants. It gives them the chance to win a free mint through a wheel of fortune directly in frame.

kylepatrick.eth shared a free mint celebrating the 400 000 users on base network, raising the question where to coinbase affiliated L2 will stop its impressive growth.

Rising Stars

onefootballclub made waves with their Product Hunt launch. Their ambitious goal to become the top product of the day demonstrates the growing influence of Web3 projects in mainstream tech circles.

neged launched Season 2 of their hat game, showing continued innovation in onchain gaming and community engagement.

Builders Building

nonlinear.eth announced that monthly recurring subscriptions with card payments are now out of beta on hypersub. This feature could significantly lower the barrier to entry for non-crypto native users allowing creator to earn revenue more easely. A great step forward for this empowering tool.

kiosk announced a new notification feature to avoid missing a creator new drop, mint or art. The application is developping quite fast and giving an interesting point of view of the network.

News from Mainland

vitalik.eth started, as always, an interesting debate over the difference of usage between AI and metaverse.

We got some insider information from emilee about the challenge brought by metaverse development.

emilee on Warpcast

I'm lucky enough to have been a Meta employee during an all-hands in which Zuck discussed his view on the metaverse. It may have changed since then, but TL;DR the claim was "we already live in a metaverse" Adopting this stance, my claim is that a metaverse (the public internet and access to it) has transformed the world, and what modern metaverse companies are doing is wandering through the idea maze to find (1) what the next set of interfaces are to interact with the metaverse (I don't know of a single person who *likes* the fact that hanging out IRL involves distractions from phones) and (2) where the limits are for how the internet can continue to provide opportunity for people that IRL can't. Crypto is currently still 0->1 but Metaverse is 1->2, so imo they can't be compared directly without some extra work to set context first

Farcaster

garrytan share an insightful cast about the need to come back to the memory of users regurlarly after launch in order not to be forgotten. An important discussion to read for all our builders.

And finally, for our meme of the week has been made by hades to kindly laugh about italian food, yes that's easy but always working. Sometime we don't need more.

I wish you all a great week,

zer0jean from the farcaster trenches.

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