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

adminFebruary 11, 2024

Crypto Twitter This Week — Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt

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.

while @friendtechActivity level decreased by 97% from peak level,
@farcaster_xyz Since introducing the simple yet powerful ‘Frames’ feature on January 30th, we’ve seen a 214% increase in DAUs 🟢.
Thanks to the amazing UX and cryptocurrency-based content and channels… pic.twitter.com/1IkjcQZJMq
— Poopman (💩🦇🔊) (@poopmandefi) February 4, 2024

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.

I checked Farcaster before Twitter this morning.
— Niko (@nikokampouris) February 7, 2024

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

Now that Farcaster has developed lungs, can he stop pretending the discord is web3 social?
— Mia (@miaferrariii) February 6, 2024

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

Glad Bitcoin is up so everyone can stop pretending they care about Farcaster.
— David G 🏹 (@d_gilz) February 9, 2024

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.

The first week with Vision Pro was crazy.
Here are 12 examples that prove Vision Pro is the best technology ever invented.
1) Next generation surgerypic.twitter.com/aDuig5IN7w
— Stephen Flanders (@SteveFlanders22) February 9, 2024

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.”

great. Let’s start our Vision Pro review with some background.
I’ve owned almost every major VR headset since the DK1. I have also been studying the concept of Magic Leap for several years and am very optimistic about AR, the next era of computing. I see it like this… pic.twitter.com/Lt3GXsCleG
— Beeple (@beeple) February 7, 2024

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.

Blob will be released in mainnet slot 8626176 .oO.
— timbeiko.eth ☀️ (@TimBeiko) February 8, 2024

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.