You're here because someone said "frames" and you smiled and nodded like you knew what that meant. It's okay. We all did.

Context is hard to find, especially if you're new. Everyone's speaking meme, half the words are inside-jokes, and the other half are just nonsense.

So we made this. A guide that actually explains what things mean. It'll keep growing as the lore does. Welcome aboard.

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• 37 Users
  A running joke that Farcaster only has 37 users. Is this true? Maybe.

A

• Amps
  A miniapp that lets users buy and sell engagement actions (likes, recasts, replies) directly from others. Amps handles the transaction and permissions through signers, creating a trust-minimized way to pay for interaction onchain.amps.fun

• AskGina
  Talk to Gina, get things done. An AI agent that answers questions, helps you vote, and makes onchain decisions feel like texting your smart but slightly unhinged friend.askgina.ai

B

• Bankr
  Manage your wallet by tagging a bot. Seriously. Bankr is an AI wallet assistant, just @ it and say what you want. Magic? Nah, just Farcaster.bankr.bot

• Base
  The blockchain where most Farcaster stuff happens. Built by Coinbase. Loved by Farcaster. Memes, apps, tips, all living rent-free here.

• Base App
  The Farcaster Client made by Base. Kind of same with Farcaster, but also different.

• Betrmint
  BETRMINT transforms the act of supporting onchain creators into an addictive live event game inside a Farcaster mini app. Collect content and then spin the neon flywheel to win bonus Base tokens from a $1500 prize pool. Rounds take place every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 12PM PST / 3PM EST.

• Betr Fold Poker
  A community initiative to create a similar environment to BurrFrens to support the BETR ecosystem with FUN via poker. Built by @burrrrrberry, @toadyhawk.eth, and @netnose

• BurrFrens
  A poker club built for the homies to vibe and win free tokens while they do it. Built by @burrrrrberry

C

• Cast
  A post. That’s it. Like a tweet, but it hits different when it's onchain.

• Channels
  Subreddits with slightly less structure and way more chaos. Each has a topic, a vibe, and a mod who may or may not be sentient.

• Checkr
  Delivers token insights from Farcaster and Twitter, showing which tokens are gaining attention and how interest moves across the feed. It provides actionable signals through metrics like Checkr Score, mindshare, influence, and market momentum. https://farcaster.xyz/checkr

• Client
  Apps that let you use the Farcaster Protocol. Think: Farcaster (Formerly Warpcast), Base App, Super, Recaster, etc. One protocol, many faces. Pick your poison.

• Clanker
  Want to launch a token? Tag Clanker. It does the rest. Half bot, half crypto wizard.farcaster.xyz/clanker

• Collectible Cast
  NFT of a cast that gets bid on and won either within a 24 hour or 1 week bid period.

• Content Coin
  A term championed by Jesse Pollak, the notion that everything will be tokenized. In the Base App, you have the option to turn every cast into a coin.

D

• Degen
  The tipping token that started it all. Pure Farcaster culture. If you’ve been tipped with Degen, you're doing something right.degen.tips

E

• Empire Builder
  A Clanker-approved interface and platform offering no-code tools, token deployment or enhancement, resources, and services to help Creators, Builders, and Founders go from Dream to Empire. It anchors your project’s energy — with all its NFTs, cointent, tokens, inflows, and outflows — into a cohesive heart that delivers real utility, community management, and marketing assist from Day 1.

• Enjoy
  Was once the Zora-art-vibes tipping app. Now sunsetted. RIP. We enjoyed while it lasted. https://www.enjoy.tech/

F

• Farcards
  The first fully Farcaster-native collectible NFT cards, transforming your stats into social identity primitives. https://farcaster.xyz/~/channel/farcards

• Farcaster Index
  A directory for Farcaster tokens. https://www.farcaster.in/

• Farcon
  The mythical, decentralized, everyone-can-host-it Farcaster conference. CC0 vibes. No rules. Just lore.farcon.xyz

• Farcade / Remix
  Games that are fun. Rebranded to Remix. Anyone can make or play a game.Remix

• Farville
  Farmville meets Farcaster. Water crops. Farm likes. Vibe check passed.Farville on Miniapps

• Farcaster Pro
  120 $/year to unlock 10,000-character casts, a verified checkmark, and more embeds (4) than your haters can count. It's real. It's purple. It's optional. It was created to support the Farcaster Rewards.

• Farcaster Rewards
  Cast stuff, get paid. Up to $27K a week distributed to active casters. No catch. Just keep casting Farcaster Rewards

• Farplet / Warplet
  Built-in wallet for Farcaster clients. Often referred to as Farplet or Warplet by the community, though this isn't official branding. It handles key signing and storage within the app.

• FID
  Your unique identification number for a Farcaster account. It is in ascending order so you know your line in account creation.

• Frames
  What mini apps were before we called them mini apps. Think interactive posts with buttons. Old term, still used by veterans and hipsters.

• Farther
  Previously a tipping token experiment in the Farcaster ecosystem. No longer active, but its URL remains as a nod to its history.farther.social

G

• Gdupi
  a funny “redacted” character — the embodiment of every stupid trade we make in this absurd market. you know the feeling of dumping a token only for it to instantly pump? that's stupi, and you're the gdupi. https://farcaster.xyz/~/token/GDUPI

• GM Farcaster
  3x a week news show with more episodes than your favorite podcast. Hosts: Nounish Prof and Adrienne. OG energy.gmfarcaster.com

H

• Haberdashery
  A DAO formed during the early days of Degen. Pretty cool people who supported the Degen community since inception.

• Higher
  A culture coin. Headless. Nowhere to go but higher. https://aimhigher.net/

• Hunt Town
  An onchain builder guild where users mint HUNT-backed NFTs, clap to support others, and earn monthly rewards. $HUNT is also a tipping token. https://hunt.town/

• Hypersub
  Create recurring revenue with onchain memberships. Access monthly raffles, early editions, limited drops, group chats, apps, newsletters, livestreams, podcasts, IRL events, and more. Incentivize organic growth with Referral Rewards. Encourage early adoption and long-term membership with Member Rewards. https://hypersub.xyz/

I

• Icebreaker
  A professional networking platform that lets users verify account ownership, make connections, and import existing networks like LinkedIn and Farcaster in order to hire or find a job. https://app.icebreaker.xyz/

• Interface
  Copy trading app meets social media. Follow traders, copy their moves, win or cope together.interface.social

L

• Los Fomos
  Not a podcast. Definitely a show. Chaos, commentary, and culture served. By Pauline and Tako Unik. farcaster.xyz/losfomos

M

• Merkle Manufactory
  The team behind Farcaster. Yes, it sounds like a steampunk startup. No, you can’t buy stock (yet).

• Mini Apps
  Frames leveled up. Built-in apps inside Farcaster. Polls, games, tokens, chaos. Like the App Store but with vibes.

• Mint Club
  A protocol that lets anyone launch tokens or NFTs backed by existing ERC-20s, creating token families with locked, onchain liquidity. https://mint.club/

• Moxie
  An attempt at creating an economic engine for the Farcaster ecosystem. The project has since been discontinued.moxie.xyz

N

• Neynar
  The protocol plumbing. Most clients run on it. Most users don’t know it. MVP in the shadows.neynar.com

• Noice
  The future of micro tipping. Like, follow, comment, earn or send tokens.noice.so

O

• Ok Banger
  Farcaster's highest praise and also a channel/show. When someone drops a heater, you say it. When you drop one, you pray for it.okbanger

• OpenRank
  Decentralized clout scoring. Sometimes accurate, sometimes savage. Always watching. https://farcaster.xyz/openrank

P

• Paragraph
  The best place to publish what you write. Think Substack but onchain. https://paragraph.com

• Perl
  Farcaster OG App. Bet which people will get the most engagement. Already sunsetted. https://farcaster.xyz/perl

• Points
  The original memecoin of Farcaster. Still floating around, still slightly mysterious.

• Purple
  A community-governed DAO that provides grants to builders and projects within the Farcaster ecosystem. It plays a key role in funding growth and experimentation.Purple

• Ponder
  Q&A miniapp that turns Farcaster into your new favorite survey tool. Bonus: predictive vibes.Ponder

Q

• Qrcoin
  A daily auction for attention. The winner of the daily auction decides where the QR points for a day. $QR is a mini app and a token. The mini app runs a daily auction for attention. We call it the onchain attention machine. https://qrcoin.fun/

R

• Recast
  A retweet, but on Farcaster. Boost a post, spread the chaos.

• Recaster (Client)
  Another Farcaster app. Built by Haole. If you want another client, this is your guy.recaster

• RevealCam
  A token launcher where you buy tokens to reveal the image. https://revealcam.fun/

S

• Signers
  Permissions you give apps to post on your behalf. Like OAuth but onchain and existential.

• Sufficiently Decentralized
  Farcaster’s tagline. Just means that you own your data (for the most part).

• Streme
  Token deployment that streams into your wallet every second. Powered by Zeni and Mark Carey. For when your meme needs motion.Streme

• Starter Pack
  A list of suggested follows for users. Think of it as a starter deck but with casters. Anyone can create a starter pack. https://farcaster.xyz/~/starter-packs

• Storage
  Space to store your casts and likes. It's limited. Hit the cap and you either pay up or lose your digital diary. (Your old casts get deleted in replacement of your new ones.)

• Super (Client)
  A Farcaster client by Woj. Fast, open source, and kind of cool in a quiet way. https://www.super.sc/

T

• Tab
  A mini app on Farcaster that embeds social payments. https://farcaster.xyz/~/channel/tab

• Talent Protocol
  Talent Protocol helps builders and creators turn their work into reputation and rewards. It tracks real contributions across apps like GitHub and Farcaster, surfaces verified Builder and Creator Scores, and unlocks perks, prizes, and new opportunities across the onchain world. talent

• Ticker
  One of the earliest projects on Farcaster. Raised money through the Party, then rugged. Really had good promise.

• TN100x
  Early memecoin cult on Farcaster. Tip-focused, lore-heavy, emotionally chaotic.lp

• Tipn
  Tip with your likes. That’s it. That’s the magic.tipn

• Tips
  Send tokens to casters you love, hate, or want to impress. It’s all valid.

• Tipping Tuesday
  A weekly tradition where users send tips to others on Farcaster. You can send 1$ USDC tips to your friends and fans. No, this isn’t unlimited. It comes from your Warplet.

V

• Veil
  Send and receive ETH privately on Base using Veil Cash. Veil is a privacy application leveraging zk-SNARKs, enabling verified users to achieve privacy within a trusted pool. https://farcaster.xyz/~/channel/veil

W

• Warpcast
  The default Farcaster client. Built by the Farcaster team. Eventually rebranded to just "Farcaster."

• Warps
  Farcaster currency used for invites, channel creation, and general gatekeeping. Not onchain. Still valuable, hints of sunsetting it.

• Wowow
  Originally code for a low effort reply; has evolved into a Farcaster meme so deeply embedded in the lore that when you type it, the like button changes from a heart to "wowow".

Y

• Yellow
  Onchain art collective where each day a new piece (aka collective noun) is auctioned. High art meets culture.yellowcollective.xyz

• Yoink
  A fun miniapp built by Horsefacts where users compete to "yoink" a flag from each other through onchain transactions. There is only one flag at a time, and it changes hands as it's yoinked. Rich in community lore and highly competitive.Yoink!

Z

• Zero Rights Media
  Onchain podcast. Good takes, chaotic delivery, no rights reserved.zerorightsmedia

• Zora
  The minting machine. Want to drop an NFT? You probably use Zora.zora

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Huge thanks to everyone who's helped shape this guide. Farcaster moves fast, and this project wouldn't be possible without the contributions, corrections, and casts from the community.

If you spot something off or want to suggest a new entry, feel free to DM kylepatrick.eth on Farcaster! (And everyone else contributing lore, links, and lightbulb moments, thank you!)