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|— 20 @farcaster_xyz Mini Apps you must check out.👇 The new V2 makes it easy for teams to launch slick onchain apps that go viral — complete with notifications, great UX, and fast iteration. For users, it’s like an open app store with DeFi tools, NFT games, and more — all right in your feed. ~~ Analysis by @wmpeaster ~~ —> General • 🎧 FC Audio Chat — Imagine Clubhouse or Twitter spaces, but on Farcaster instead. Install this app to either create your own audio chats or join in on others. • 🌿 Mint — The Farcaster team always drops commemorative NFT mints to celebrate their latest protocol releases. This app offers a streamlined minting interface for when these drops are live. • 📊 Onchain Alignment Chart by @jc4p — Are you more of a builder, a decentralist, a pragmatist, or a speculator? This app checks your onchain activity and then gives you a mintable scoring. • 📺 @podsdotmedia — The best onchain podcasts platform also has one of the best Farcaster Mini Apps, in my opinion. It's also a great opportunity to check out the minimization feature—listen to a Pods episode while you scroll! • 🪙 Rewards — Warpcast offers a rewards system where each week the top casters on the platform receive USDC proportional to their posting activity. This app helps you track your standing and earned rewards over time. • 🔄 @roundswtf — Rounds is a platform that lets you set up token rewards for your Farcaster communities, and this Mini App helps you dive into the project right in your feed. • 📩 Warpcast Labels by @thecompez — The flagship Farcaster client uses spam labels to mitigate high-noise accounts, so to speak. This app lets you check how trustworthy you are according to the Warpcast spam algorithm, plus it offers a useful FAQ on how to improve your score if need be. —> Token tools • 🤖 Clanker by @_proxystudio — Clanker is the Farcaster ecosystem's top natural language token launcher. Type a cast, get a token! Yet if you prefer an actual token launcher interface, this app gives you a more traditional UI for not just launching tokens but also for finding other trending launches. • 🦋 Earn on @morpho — More DeFi minded? This app lets you deposit ETH or USDC into a curated selection of some of Morpho's top onchain vaults. It's arguably one of the easiest ways to get started in DeFi today. • 🪩 @MintClubPro — A bonding curve token launcher platform that lets you use any existing ERC-20 or NFT as the base asset against a new token of your creation. It offers you some more advanced capabilities if you're looking for more than basic options. —> Creators • 🔋 Amps — This app lets you purchase likes in USDC in order to amplify your casts. Let's say you have a new NFT drop you're working on, you could release it and then use Amps to juice the boost and get more attention on your drop. • ✍️ @paragraph_xyz — One of the most popular decentralized publishing platforms, particularly on Base. Download this app to browse and explore recent posts on Paragraph right from within Warpcast. —> Games • ⬆️ Arrows by @davidhurley87 — A charming blend between @jackbutcher's Checks and the @higheronchain community's signature green arrow logo, this game calls you to blend your mints until your receive the signature green Higher arrow, thus winning an ETH prize pool. • 🐲 @clankermon — Like Pokémon? This is the Farcaster-native version of it, and it's pretty fun and light-hearted. Worth checking out if you're looking for a chill long-term play. • 👾 @Farcade_AI — This app offers a series of addicting mini-games, like Geo Crush, Minesweeper, and Tower Blocks. Worth exploring if you're into arcade-style gaming titles. • 📍 FarGuesser by @vmathur_— Think GeoGuessr, but Farcaster style. You're presented with an image of a certain random place, and you have to guess on the world map where that place is. Then compare your scores with others! • 🌾 FarVille by @builders_garden — This is a Farcaster ecosystem riff on FarmVille. If you're into casual lo-fi pixelated resource management plays, then this game will be right up your alley. • 💰 @megapot — This is an onchain, transparent lottery game. You can put in $1 in a stablecoin and win up to $100k in kind. If you're a gambler degen type, this would be a natural starting point here. • 🎰 @warpslot — This is a simple and chill casino app onchain built around spins. If you can match 3 slots in a row, you can win onchain token rewards from various communities on Base. Zooming out, the examples above are all interesting, but they're also just a taste of what's to come. They're only just beginning to scratch the surface of what's possible here as Farcaster's Mini Apps scene has started to rev up. It's partly personal taste and partly personal hunch, but as plenty of other apps are winding down amid the current onchain conditions, it really seems to me that Farcaster is winding up. And a large part of that is the Mini Apps boom. I think there are many opportunities to come here. Getting started now makes a lot of sense to me as such, so see you on the purple app!