“A Frame lets you turn any cast into an interactive app.”

Frames are a standard that allow devs to make casts interactive. Frames are essentially an image with buttons. When buttons are clicked this allows a callback to a new image and buttons. This allows a Frame dev to create a walkthrough experience for users inside a cast; whether that’s a photo story, minting an NFT or selling cookies without leaving the Farcaster.

@popwonder Frame demonstrating contrasting colours in an art piece.

Frames allow a much improved user experience, especially for users new to crypto, for whom many commonplace crypto-native activities can be initially bewildering. Frames happen entirely within the app (though they can link to a URL outside of the app), this means that they are very mobile friendly and easy to understand.

Other benefits of Frames include:

• Customized embedding of other services into the Farcaster Feed.
• Frame creators can sponsor activities in Frame, allowing free, gasless minting of NFTs.
• Frames can reference Farcaster’s social graph, for example requiring a user to like, follow a user or recast something in order to achieve something through a frame.
• Frames leverage the permissionless nature of Farcaster by allowing anyone to create new experiences for users.

A curated list of some of the best Frames can be found here.

Frame that allows users to check their daily and remaining $DEGEN tipping allowance and points towards the next airdrop.

Frame that allows you to purchase $DEGEN with $USDC inside Farcaster.