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New Opportunities in the Farcaster Stack – Variant

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We’re seeing the emergence of a new social graph in real-time: Farcaster. Up until two weeks ago, today’s most popular client (Warpcast) looked, at face value, similar to a Twitter clone. Then the team launched Frames and it kicked off a wave of growth as it became clear that Farcaster’s permissionless infrastructure enables a new distribution channel. But even beyond Frames, there’s a rich stack of layers that the Farcaster network has unbundled and made open to developers. And with that unbundling comes new opportunities. In my view, there are four layers of the Farcaster stack. At each layer, there are different jobs to be done and different resources that exist. From bottom to top: Modified from the Farcaster Documentation, courtesy of Omer Demirtas Good news for startup founders: there are open opportunities at every layer of the stack! At the onchain layer live resources like storage contracts and accounts. These are net-new assets—and where there are assets, there are opportunit

New Opportunities in the Farcaster Stack – Variant New Opportunities in the Farcaster Stack February 7, 2024 by Alana Levin --> We’re seeing the emergence of a new social graph in real-time: Farcaster. Up until two weeks ago, today’s most popular client (Warpcast) looked, at face value, similar to a Twitter clone. Then the team launched Frames and it kicked off a wave of growth as it became clear that Farcaster’s permissionless infrastructure enables a new distribution channel. But even beyond Frames, there’s a rich stack of layers that the Farcaster network has unbundled and made open t

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