Checking Out Zapper's New Farcaster Client
As Farcaster doubles down on its wallet, new clients like Zapper highlight the social protocol’s decentralization.
Farcaster has two main arms: a backend protocol for powering decentralized social networks, plus a frontend app for making posts, using mini apps, swapping tokens, and etc.
That said, last week Farcaster co-founder Dan Romero said the project's "social-first" approach hadn't reached product-market fit and that the team would be doubling down on the Farcaster app's native wallet, which has surged in popularity in recent months.
As 0xLuo recently noted in his essay "Walletizing the Social, Socializing the Wallet," this news wasn't really news to hardcore Farcaster users but more like a recap of the project's development trends. Still, some users hailed the wallet-first shift here as marking onchain social's latest failure.
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William M. Peaster
William M. Peaster, Senior Writer, has been with Bankless since January 2021. Immersed in Ethereum since 2017, he covers the onchain frontier with a particular interest in art, games, and other culture apps. He has a background in creative writing and writes fiction in his free time.
