The Farcaster Protocol has recently seen a peak in organic growth, with frequent activity in the past few days. In addition to announcing the upcoming launch of the Pro Protocol subscription, as the app side is about to be renamed Farcaster, the wallet and Mini App have also officially integrated with Solana.

Behind this growth, BlockBeats has found that exploration of content tipping and creator incentives on the Farcaster Protocol has entered a new stage. The following image is a screenshot shared by Farcaster Protocol co-creator Dan within the app, showing multiple small transfers received through Noice and Tipn, both of which are popular creator tipping tools in the recent Farcaster ecosystem.

One Like, One Penny

Noice is a Mini App built into the Farcaster client, with a product form that combines multiple previously validated social products such as Degen, time.fun, and Frien.Tech. It mainly includes the following mechanisms:

Firstly, there is a tipping mechanism in which every interaction with others on the user's timeline (e.g., likes, retweets, comments) can be accompanied by a tip. Currently, USDC is used, and in the future, any token will be supported for tipping.

Furthermore, any user can request specific forms of interaction from other users, including likes, comments, retweets, follows, direct messages, group chats, and even one-on-one calls.

Noice also has a daily incentive section, where the user with the highest tipping amount each day will receive an additional incentive of 100 USDC, encouraging more interactions, resulting in "more tips, more earnings."

To use Noice, users simply need to search for and enter the Noice interface in the Farcaster Mini Apps Market, then set their own tip amount. For example, the image below indicates that a user will tip the poster 0.01 USDC for actions like liking, reposting, and commenting.

Noice in-app settings interface

Meanwhile, the Noice team also launched the Noice platform token $NOICE on Clanker on May 22, with 30% of the token supply locked up for 1 month, where 20% is allocated for airdrop and 10% is held by the core team. At the time of writing, the $NOICE market cap reached $9.11 million, with a 24-hour price increase of 93%.

The Noice website indicates that the $NOICE airdrop will take place in a month, with specific details yet to be announced. However, the total airdrop amount will increase based on real-time network user usage, with the current total airdrop amount at $1.8 million.

"Base Billboard" Dominance

Just two days after its launch, Noice's founder won multiple bids to secure the QR code entrance of the Base ecosystem QR code display platform qrcoin.fun. qrcoin had previously received official support from Base, and the market performance after Noice's launch also led to a synchronous rise in the qrcoin platform token $QR.

According to the official website, Noice will soon introduce a Creator Tokens module, allowing creators to issue their own tokens. For example, user @tike can create a personal token named $tk, which will be used when they tip others. Additionally, when anyone requests likes, calls, follows, or comments from @tike, the token will be burned.

As part of the integration plan with Zora, holding a creator's token (such as $jesse) entitles the holder to a 1% stake in their future content token. Furthermore, they can earn fee revenue from trading these tokens.

Noice also plans to introduce a tipping and access mechanism in X, where users can directly tip content or purchase interaction rights on the timeline without switching apps, enabling smooth fund flows.

Finally, Noice will integrate Solana, allowing users on X to tip with any token from the Solana ecosystem and enabling Creator Tokens to be deployed on both the Base and Solana chains to further expand usability and liquidity.

The mechanism of Noice easily brings to mind DEGEN, the earliest social tipping token in the Farcaster ecosystem. However, due to changes in the crypto market environment, the Farcaster ecosystem's understanding of "social assets" has also evolved. DEGEN is more of a projection of community emotion and humorized value consensus, while $NOICE attempts to introduce a more direct economic incentive structure, explicitly linking interactive behavior to fund flow.

In a sense, it represents an attempt to transition from a "cultural symbol" to a "functional asset." Compared to DEGEN's emotion-driven approach, whether $NOICE can chart a more sustainable path remains to be seen. Beyond the incentive model, its ability to truly establish high-frequency interaction scenarios and long-term demand will determine its success.

Today, the world's largest "read-it-later" tool, Pocket, announced its shutdown. In the past, we always saved content of interest, hoping that a "future self" would find time to read it. However, the reality is that most of those saved links have never been clicked. We are not lacking in time but rather in the focused attention needed. Farcaster's Tip tool seems to provide a new empowering solution.

Following the recent controversy sparked by the Zora airdrop, there hasn't been too much activity in the Base ecosystem. However, due to the continued activity of Farcaster's Mini Apps ecosystem, readers interested in the Base ecosystem may shift more attention to Farcaster to find alpha opportunities.

Although Noice has recently garnered widespread attention within the Farcaster community and shown some user growth potential, it is important to note that the project is still in its early stages, and the tokenomics, governance mechanism, and long-term use cases have not been fully implemented. The $NOICE token currently relies mainly on short-term activity driven by airdrop expectations. BlockBeats reminds readers to thoroughly assess their risk tolerance before engaging in related interactions or token purchases and to be wary of the structural fluctuations behind the project's hype. This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.

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