Recently, the largest front-end of the decentralized social protocol Farcaster, Warpcast, has become a new social darling.

Starting from January 26th, the DAU (daily active users) of Farcaster has surged. According to Dune's data, the daily active user (DAU) activity of Farcaster reached a historical high on February 4th.

Previously airdropped meme coin POINTS has "risen from the dead", with new leader DEGEN seeing a price increase of over 5000 times. In addition, a number of meme coins issued on Base, such as FRAME and FAR, have made it onto the hot list, and their OG NFT floor prices have been swept up to 2.5 ETH in just two weeks.

Farcaster is not a new thing in the encryption industry. It completed a $30 million financing led by a16z in 2022, with other notable investors including Coinbase Ventures, Multicoin Capital, and 1confirmation. The lively wealth effect and luxurious financing background have attracted more and more attention to Farcaster and its clients led by Warpcast. BlockBeats has compiled a tutorial for readers to register and use the Farcaster protocol, for reference only.

Registration Process

Using iPhone as an example, you can directly search for Warpcast in the App Store to download it. It should be noted that downloading Warpcast with a Chinese account in the Chinese region requires five US dollars, which is about 35 yuan in RMB.

After installing the application, you can skip the phone number and choose to register with your email. Here is the invitation link from BlockBeats editors. Using this link to register can get you 50 Warps. Additionally, we welcome you to follow our editing team:

Zhang Wen, editor-in-chief, @wenz;

Jack, researcher/associate editor, @jackxiong137;

Jaleel, researcher/author, @jaleel;

Joyce, author, @joyce24;

Kaori, author, @kaori.

After successfully registering the mobile application, you can open the website https://warpcast.com/ to perform the binding operation. Use your mobile phone's photo album to align with the login QR code, and click the yellow link to jump to the login confirmation.

After successfully logging in to the web page, users can bind their Ethereum wallet. Click on "Settings" in the upper left corner of the homepage, connect the address, and click "connect".

If you want to obtain the Warpcast OG badge, you need to meet the following conditions:

1. Complete personal information.

2. Bind Ethereum address

3、At least 400 followers are required.

4. Account creation meets 7 days.

5、In the past 30 days, there has been one interaction, including replies, likes, and reposts.

6. Regularly publishing content.

Becoming an active user is important for users, and in some channels, active posting and interaction are the only conditions for receiving airdrops. The rules for the first round of airdrops for DEGEN mentioned earlier are based on the user's level of activity in the DEGEN channel. For the second round of DEGEN airdrops, users can check the following link: https://www.degen.tips/.

After entering the Warpcast web portal, there are navigation bars on the left and top. "Direct Casts" on the left is a group chat function, and the top includes the homepage, algorithm feed stream, Frames integration, and all channel collections.

How to purchase Warps

Warps is an important revenue stream created by Warpcast. It can be earned by running nodes, being active on Warpcast every week, purchasing with money, or directly purchasing within the application. Each Warp is worth approximately 0.01 USD.

On January 31st, when it was Vitalik's birthday, a Warpcast user once donated 10000 Warps worth $100 to V God's account. If the user wants to create a channel within Warpcast, they also need to pay 2500 Warps.

Click on the "Warps" option on the left side of the homepage to view and purchase cards.

Click to purchase and redirect to the COMMERCE interface. Payment can be made using the following methods, supported by Coinbase Commerce, a merchant payment solution provided by Coinbase.

How to interact within Frames

The new feature of Frames launched by Farcaster greatly enhances the playability of Farcaster. Based on Frames, developers can embed their own dApps into the Farcaster client, allowing users to achieve various interactive experiences based on Post. Similar to social media embedding, Frames displays content in the form of static or animated images, but they can also promote interactive elements through buttons, thus achieving dynamic user response. Currently, the main use cases range from games to quizzes, and even to minting NFTs, voting, and so on, which are very diverse.

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