Tokenized content vs. content-ized tokens • TWiF #14
At the beginning of the week Vitalik casted that pump.fun is bad. Jesse Pollak of Base disagreed. Soon the conversation spiraled into a grand debate about launchpads and “content coins” and whether hypertokenization creates the future we want. Not gonna dive deep into that subject today, but it was certainly the topic of the week!
Meanwhile, Splits (the company behind This Week in Farcaster, in case you didn’t know) ran a composability experiment called Structure, which happened to involve tokenized content, or maybe content-ized tokens, depending on how you look at it. The hypothesis:
Consumer access to practical “money legos” has opened a new frontier in composability. While utmost customization will always require writing code, today you can do a lot by cleverly linking various services, tying things together with asset identities (usually contract addresses) and wallet addresses.
Structure involves two NFTs and three airdrops, the last of which will take place on Monday. There is still time to earn some $higher, if you’re interested.
Structure is kind of a DIY follow-up to our previous discussion of airdrops, and I’m going to write a postmortem of the project next week, dissecting what worked well and what didn’t. The best way to learn these things is by getting your hands dirty (in the gardening sense, not the crime sense).
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Ponder smart wallets got hacked, the team dropped everything to figure out what happened, and made users whole. Vulnerability details:
The root cause was an authentication spoofing technique in our API routes due to architectural constraints within our auth system. We've learned a lot from this exploit and are implementing more robust security measures to prevent a situation like this from ever happening again.
Ponder cofounder Ben Adamsky also noted, “We've been fighting off attackers since February, including weekly ddos attacks, mass collusion, and data scraping.” All popular mini apps will have these problems.
More user interaction data is now available through Warpcast dev tools.
How it would work to rename Warpcast back to Farcaster (its original name, which was changed to differentiate the client from the underlying protocol).
The $QR mini app added a winners page.
10K.WORLD, the latest “TikTok but make it crypto” attempt from the team behind Drakula, published a signup page. Intriguing because this is one of the first Farcaster-native Solana projects.
Amps.fun is now open for anyone to boost their casts.
Wholenote: “Discover music shared on Farcaster and listen to previews in-app!”
Find “full support for Mini App hosting on Orbiter. Not only can you host your sites and apps, but you can now create and launch Mini Apps with ease.” Appealing perk: “Farcaster users get 50% off our paid plans FOREVER.”
Farcaster infrastructure upgrade: Snapchain is live.
Speaking of which, “Waypoint is a memory-efficient, Rust-built tool for Snapchain syncing. Stream real-time events and query Farcaster data locally.”
Vibe-coding mini app for vibe-coding mini apps, read all about it.
Rounds (dot wtf, the tool for rewarding content in Farcaster channels) is downsizing.
And OG Zora ecosystem memecoin $enjoy is being released into to the ether: the project “will no longer have a team supporting the token full-time.”
Privy added support for login with WhatsApp.
Another mini app template to help you get started. Plus one more: "another minimalist Mini App starter, this time with SIWF!" (Sign in with Farcaster.)
The Shillr team revealed a new creative studio called Runtime.
The Recaster mini app offers user stats, cast scheduling, and Warpcast invites.
“I got nerd sniped by the new Trending Topics and wanted to see if I could do it in a better way.”
Crowdfunding mini app incoming from Seed Club.
"Introducing Duels ⚔️ — where artwork competes in epic daily battles."
Modbot is sunsetting in favor of Cura, which is “building an entirely new, end-to-end experience for channels/communities.”
Alright, that’s all for today. Did I miss anything? Hit reply with a link.
Cheers,
Sonya
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