The Farcaster ecosystem is undergoing a major upgrade, and the Airdrop event continues to be hot.

The Farcaster ecosystem is undergoing rapid development, with several new initiatives recently launched, including Airdrops, support for new Blockchains, and feature upgrades. Let's take a look at some of the important highlights.

Farcaster Brand Unification: As a decentralized social network protocol, Farcaster allows developers to create various social applications on top of it. Although several clients have been released, such as Herocast, Litecast, and Super, the most popular remains the flagship application developed by the Farcaster team.

To resolve user confusion regarding Farcaster and its main application naming, the team decided to unify the mobile and web applications under the name Farcaster. This move aims to simplify the user experience and eliminate barriers to brand recognition.

In addition, the team is also considering open-sourcing the application's codebase, which could stimulate the development of more innovative Farcaster clients.

Premium Subscription Plan: Farcaster is about to launch a "Pro" subscription service aimed at advanced users. The expected monthly subscription fee of $10 will provide users with more advanced features, such as a 10,000-character limit per post and the ability to upload 4 images.

It is worth noting that all the revenue from this on-chain subscription system will be used to support the Farcaster creator reward program. This program currently distributes $25,000 USDC weekly to high-quality content creators on the platform.

Farcaster co-founder stated that this initiative aims to seek long-term sustainable revenue sources for the protocol to continuously support content creators and developers, rather than relying solely on funding from a single company.

First batch of Airdrop activities: Farcaster recently launched a native wallet feature for its application, allowing users to interact more conveniently with the mini-program ecosystem on the platform. This wallet is gradually becoming a convenient center for receiving Airdrop tokens.

Considering that Farcaster has a group of active on-chain users, many crypto projects are eager to attract the attention of these users. Therefore, Farcaster has collaborated with several third-party teams to directly airdrop tokens, including $CELO and $WCT, to Farcaster wallet users. Currently, tokens worth $110,000 have been distributed in this way, and more airdrop activities are underway.

The advantage of this collaboration model is that the projects participating in the Airdrop can attract high-quality users, while also enhancing the appeal of Farcaster. The average amount of the first batch of Airdrops is about 10 dollars, providing users with a convenient way to top up their wallets.

However, the head of the Farcaster developer ecosystem reminds users that certain projects may blacklist accounts that participate in multiple airdrops. Therefore, users are advised to consider holding the tokens obtained from airdrops for the long term to increase their chances of participating in future airdrops.

Ecosystem Expansion: While Base has always been the most popular public chain in the Farcaster project, we are beginning to see a more diverse ecosystem develop. For example, the Celo and Monad testnets have recently been integrated into Mini Apps and the Farcaster wallet, and there will be larger-scale integration plans in the future.

Farcaster is developing a beta version of the Solana wallet, which is expected to be fully launched soon. This initiative is expected to become an important driving force in the development of Solana Mini Apps.

If the Farcaster team continues to expand support for the new ecosystem, they are expected to establish the platform as one of the most active social centers on major mainstream Blockchains.

Third-party wallet integration: As one of the most popular applications in the cryptocurrency space, a well-known wallet is undergoing a comprehensive upgrade for its upcoming version 2.0. One of the key features of this update is the native integration of Farcaster functionality.

This means that users will soon be able to post and trade directly within the wallet application using Farcaster. The wallet interface will include social dynamics for browsing and commenting, as well as search and discovery features for the Farcaster Mini application.

Although this new feature is not yet open to all users, interested users can apply to join the Beta testing. Considering the broad user base of this wallet, this integration is expected to significantly increase the number of active users of Farcaster in the coming months.