Crypto Twitter of the Week: Farcaster, Vision Pro, Dencun, Oh My!

Residents of Crypto Twitter have spent the week fawning over life on other platforms.FarcasterEmerging decentralized social media protocols and other new technological innovations.

In a matter of days, Farcaster went from relative obscurity to the cryptocurrency industry. honeyThis is mainly due to the introduction of a new feature in the network: frames. Users can play games, mint NFTs, and make purchases while remaining in their social media feeds..

Twitter users have been raving about the app, with activity growing exponentially since Frames launched on January 26.

Several Twitter Alternatives (Both) Onchain and off-chain, has come and gone over the past two years. But despite Elon Musk’s divisive and tumultuous stewardship of the platform, few have succeeded in driving users away from Twitter itself.

Some Crypto Twitter users excitedly proclaimed this week that Farcaster is quickly becoming more than just a novelty scroll.

Others singled it out as the long-awaited but not yet released Web3 social networking standard.

But eventually, after more than a week of praising Farcaster, some were eager to move on to other topics.

Technological novelty seemed to be the dominant theme of the week, with other Twitter users amazed by the dazzling number of new applications from Apple. vision pro This is an augmented reality headset sold last Friday.

However, some criticized the new product more harshly because of its cumbersome design and high price. NFT artist Beeple always puts it bluntly: shocked Vision Pro is “a crappy product with absolutely no market fit.”

One of the innovations everyone on Crypto Twitter unanimously approved of this week was Ethereum’s upcoming Dencun upgrade. presentation It will be distributed on March 13th.

Dencun is set to introduce proto-danksharding to Ethereum after years of waiting. This is a way to sample and store data by performing transactions on Ethereum with the help of “blobs”. layer 2 network It’s much faster and cheaper.

Layer 2 network advocates were excited about the news on Twitter this week, hoping that the upgrade would break new ground for efficiency standards for Ethereum-based blockchains.

editor: Ryan Ozawa.