Mon, 03 March 2025 20:01 — Clouds 8°C — Kifissia, GR — #en #farcaster

Farcaster in Coinbase Wallet

Coinbase Wallet will integrate with Farcaster. Here's why I find it exciting.

A month ago, Coinbase announced their plans for the next itteration of Coinbase Wallet. Check out the announcement.

One of the exciting points is Farcaster integration: The evolution of Coinbase Wallet will have a full social feed and mini-apps powered by Farcaster.

Integrating a crypto wallet with Farcaster opens up new possibilities. For example:

Checking if a recipient's address is tied to someone in your network.
Seeing if trusted people have interacted with a smart contract or left comments.
Viewing on-chain activities from your social circle.
Minting/claiming tokens based on social activity.
Notifications about time-sensitive events (e.g., ENS domain renewal).
Fun games!

I can’t be sure what the Coinbase team will build, and some of these already exist either as stand-alone apps or as app features, but Coinbase has the power to bring these features to a much larger audience.

This is a fundamentally different mental model for Farcaster: Warpcast is a social app with a wallet (added recently), Coinbase Wallet will be a wallet with social features (I guess).

Bonus: An old cast of dwr 👀