Quick look at the 10 winning projects from the ETHGlobal Farcaster Frames hackathon...

Compiled by: Karen, Foresight News

The three-day Farcaster Frames hackathon "Frameworks" hosted by ETHGlobal has come to an end, with the winning projects announced. So what are Frames? It is a special feature on Farcaster with social media embeds, Open Graph tags, displaying images and text as previews, and promoting interactive elements through buttons to achieve dynamic user responses.

In short, Frames provide posts with richer interactive functions such as NFT minting, voting, trading, subscribing, and more. Since the official launch of Frames, it has sparked great enthusiasm and creativity among developers, with development activities continuing to thrive. This article compiles 10 winning projects from the ETHGlobal Frameworks hackathon for readers to explore the infinite possibilities of Frames.

FrameX combines the on-chain SPV infrastructure of the StationX protocol with Farcaster Frames. FrameX is specifically built for Syndicates, venture capital DAOs, and asset managers, allowing them to create an on-chain SPV (site) on StationX, issuing LP tokens to contributors for investing in startups, adding DeFi LPs, collecting NFTs, RWAs, and more.

Magic Frames is a framework wizard for building users' own Frames, allowing the construction of frameworks for community participation in on-chain transactions without coding, even without leaving Warpcast.

CalCast supports creating and scheduling calls or events in Farcaster through reputation-gated Frames. The CalCast team states that using CalCast can enhance user experience and data ownership, as CalCast itself is a booking feature in Farcaster.

Drifting Bottle acts as a message-in-a-bottle, a Frames social game that allows users to share or discover anonymous message bottles, with the author's identity revealed only when replying. Drifting Bottle later applies scarcity to the number of bottles sent or found daily, providing incentives and rewards for the game.

CastSense offers personalized analysis for Farcaster users to better understand their engagement trends and follower activities.

Check-In Caster is a Check-in and Earn app that allows users to check in at favorite locations and integrates directly with Farcaster. In other words, when posting on Warpcast, @checkin and add a Google Maps link to check in on the Check-In Caster client app. Each check-in earns unique location badges as NFTs and tokens.

become{AGI} is a game powered by Frames, focusing on social interaction with the goal of training AI models into AGI. The gameplay of become{AGI} revolves around enhancing AI models by training with the current dataset structured as a 32-byte grid. Each byte holds different types of knowledge with varying degrees of rarity.

Serendipity Engine is based on the "six degrees of separation" theory (which suggests that on average, only 6 steps are needed to connect any two people who are mutually unknown), serving as a tool to help users discover these connections and connect with other users in the network.

Serendipity Engine uses user profiles, interests, and contact combinations to recommend other users that users may be interested in contacting.

Payrennial is a Warpcast native payment Frames project aimed at integrating seamless payment and fund request functions into Warpcast, allowing users to transact using ETH through "payment Frames." For example, Alice can post her personal payment Frames on Warpcast by entering "payrennial.xyz/Alice" while posting.

Frames Hub analyzes Farcaster Frame trends and engagement, serving as a Frame analysis tool on Farcaster.