Warpcast Complete Guide | The entire Crypto community is signing up, how can newcomers navigate this "crypto alpha social app"?

2024-02-05 19:53:26

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Author: Kaori, Luccy, Jack, BlockBeats

Recently, the decentralized social protocol Farcaster's largest frontend, Warpcast, has become the new darling of social media.

Starting from January 26, Farcaster's DAU (Daily Active Users) surged, with Dune data indicating that the daily active users (DAU) reached an all-time high on February 4.

Previously airdropped meme coin POINTS has "come back to life," and the price of the new leader DEGEN skyrocketed by over 5000 times after its launch. In addition, several meme coins like FRAME and FAR issued on Base have also topped the charts, while the floor price of its OG NFT has been swept up to 2.5 ETH in just two weeks.

Farcaster is not a new concept in crypto; it completed a $30 million funding round led by a16z in 2022, with notable investors including Coinbase Ventures, Multicoin Capital, and 1confirmation. The bustling wealth effect and luxurious funding background have drawn increasing attention to Farcaster and its various clients led by Warpcast. BlockBeats has compiled a tutorial for readers on how to register and use the Farcaster protocol for reference.

Registration Process

Using an iPhone as an example, you can directly search for Warpcast in the App Store to download it. It is important to note that downloading Warpcast with a China region account requires five dollars, approximately 35 RMB.

After installing the app, you can skip the phone number and choose to register with an email. Once the mobile app registration is successful, you can open the web version at https://warpcast.com/ to perform the binding operation. Use your phone's photo gallery to scan the login QR code and click the yellow link to confirm the login.

After successfully logging into the web version, users can bind their Ethereum wallets. Click on settings in the upper left corner of the homepage, connect the address, and click "connect."

Becoming an active user is important, as active participation and interaction in some Channels are the only conditions for receiving airdrops. The airdrop distribution rules for the first round of DEGEN mentioned earlier are based on user activity levels in the DEGEN channel. Users can check the requirements for the second round of DEGEN airdrops at the following link: https://www.degen.tips/.

To obtain the Warpcast OG badge, the following conditions must be met:

Complete personal profile
Bind Ethereum address
Have at least 400 followers
Account must be created for at least 7 days
Have had at least one interaction in the past 30 days, including replies, likes, or retweets
Regularly post content

Upon entering the Warpcast web version, both the left side and the top feature navigation bars. The left "Direct Casts" is for group chat functionality, while the top includes the homepage, algorithm feed, Frames integration, and all channel collections.

How to Purchase Warps

Warps are an important revenue stream for Warpcast, which can be earned by running nodes, being active on Warpcast weekly, or purchasing them directly in the app, with each Warp valued at approximately $0.01.

On January 31, on Vitalik's birthday, a Warpcast user tipped the V God account 10,000 Warps, worth $100. If users want to create a channel on Warpcast, they also need to pay 2,500 Warps.

Click on the Warps option on the left side of the homepage to see the purchase card.

Clicking to purchase will redirect you to the COMMERCE interface, where you can pay using the following methods, supported by Coinbase Commerce, the payment solution provided by Coinbase.

How to Interact within Frames

The new Frames feature launched by Farcaster greatly enhances the playability of Farcaster. Based on Frames, developers can embed their dApps into the Farcaster client, allowing users to achieve various interactive experiences based on Posts. Similar to social media embeds, Frames display content in static or animated images, but they can also facilitate interactive elements through buttons, enabling dynamic user responses. Current main use cases range from games to quizzes, minting NFTs, voting, and much more.

On February 1, the Farcaster Frames Global Hackathon, co-hosted by Tako Protocol, officially launched, sparking a new wave of social dApp innovation in DeSoc. The Farcaster Frames Global Hackathon is a special project of DeSoc Hackathon S1. Winners of the hackathon will have the opportunity to showcase their projects to global developers at the ETH Denver event on March 2.

Currently, there are many free mint NFT projects, as well as some that require payment. The following example illustrates a free mint NFT project, where users click on the mint requirements provided in the frame, such as following, liking, and retweeting, and after completing these, click Mint.

After entering this interface, click CAST to mint, which means minting by posting. It is worth mentioning that users do not need to pay gas fees when minting NFTs; the gas fees are covered by the developers deploying the Frames.

After obtaining a link, press enter or delete the space after the link, then click cast to send, and you can mint free NFTs on your homepage.

Users can refresh the channels in Warpcast to find NFT projects to mint or obtain mint projects through social channels like communities and Twitter. BlockBeats reminds readers to be cautious when clicking links that require you to connect your wallet to prevent asset loss.

Farcaster Related Assets

Meme coins and NFTs related to Farcaster have seen significant price increases in recent days, and as more projects join, more new things will emerge in the future. Below are the currently existing and somewhat exposed Farcaster-related assets: