How Farcaster Frame will change Web3 interactions

Author: hitesh.eth, encryption researcher; Translation: 0xxz@金财经

Farcaster Frames will change Web3 interactive games forever. You will be able to exchange tokens and mint NFTs directly from the social media app.

Let’s understand the big story behind Farcaster Frames.

Whenever you post to an external website on Twitter or Facebook, you will usually see some preview of the page. It mainly comes from the metadata tags defined on the homepage of the website. The ability to display website previews is enabled through the Open Graph Protocol.

The Open Graph protocol provides the HTML that you can use on web pages A list of metadata tags defined in . Whenever a social media client requests the web page, it also displays the results based on the metadata tags defined in the preview.

X and social media platforms such as Facebook have been using open A limited implementation of the Graph protocol, which typically only shares images as previews of the web page you requested.

However, developers do have the ability to open the graph by extending it Standard to enable more interactive previews.

Farcaster Frames is one such implementation, completed by Farcaster developer Varunsrin, allowing Warpcast users to turn any cast into an interactive application.

Users can embed buttons, call external URLs and click on buttons Called to request a change to the output of the image. For example, if I want to create a frame that displays the tokenomics of five coins that I like, I can do this by embedding five buttons with the names of the coins.

As an end user, you just click on the token Name to view its token economics. In a more advanced example, developers can create a framework for minting NFTs that end users can mint with a single click - The best user experience imaginable in Web3.

As we discussed, Frames is an implementation of Open Graph, an open source standard that can be Used by every Web2 and Web3 social media platform in the world. Such implementation can create a seamless cross-chain experience for users.

In the future, we could also see frameworks that allow users to trade tokens directly from the social media front-end, without even going through an external website.

I am optimistic about the idea behind Frames, and I believe other teams will come up with more implementations of the open graph protocol in the future. You don’t want to miss the magic of Frames, join Warpcast now.