Juan Leal - thirdweb

Juan Leal

growth @ thirdweb.

What are Farcaster Frames? The Ultimate Guide

What are Farcaster Frames? The Ultimate Guide

Farcaster is a decentralized social network that aims to reshape the way we interact and share information online. By leveraging blockchain technology and prioritizing user autonomy, privacy, and interoperability, Farcaster represents a new era of social media. In this context, understanding Farcaster Frames becomes crucial, as they play a significant

Introducing thirdweb for Chains

Introducing thirdweb for Chains

Today, we're excited to launch thirdweb for Chains. Grow your ecosystem & bring developers to your chain with: * Full-stack web3 development tools * Infrastructure for account abstraction, payments, & RPCs * Priority support & resources from our team Get started Accelerate your chain's growth, from day one With

What is EIP-3074? The Ultimate Guide

What is EIP-3074? The Ultimate Guide

EIP-3074 is a proposal that aims to introduce sponsored transactions on the Ethereum network. The goal of this proposal is to enhance the user experience by simplifying transaction processes and reducing costs through third-party transaction sponsorship. By allowing a third party to pay for gas fees, EIP-3074 seeks to make

What is Wallet-as-a-Service?

What is Wallet-as-a-Service?

Web3 adoption is accelerating with both cryptocurrency or web3-native companies and web2 brands launching products and experiences that employ web3 components like NFTs, DeFi, or metaverse. However, the onboarding experience to web3 is still daunting, and a critical reason is the complexity of crypto wallets. From seed phrases to needing

What is EigenLayer? A 5-Minute Explainer

What is EigenLayer? A 5-Minute Explainer

Ethereum has been struggling with high transaction fees and low throughput for years. The pivot to a rollup-centric roadmap hopes to solve these scaling issues. While it has given birth to new applications, the unpredictability of gas pricing remains the same. In fact, 95% of rollup costs are tied to

What is Celestia? A 5-Minute Explainer

What is Celestia? A 5-Minute Explainer

The path to onboarding millions of users to web3 hinges on addressing blockchain scalability issues. Current solutions are either 1. improve Ethereum with in-house upgrades like protodanksharding or 2. seek the help of modular networks that take computational efforts out of the mainnet. In the case of Ethereum, scaling is

What is a rollup-as-a-service?

What is a rollup-as-a-service?

Application-specific blockchains or appchains are a product of the modularity thesis that breaks down the tech stack into composable units and makes web3 development more flexible. Developers can pick and build a tech stack of their choice, bespoke to their needs and scale. Most appchains rely on rollups that provide

What is DN-404? A 5-Minute Explainer

What is DN-404? A 5-Minute Explainer

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are vital in the evolution of digital ownership, allowing verifiable authenticity and transparency of unique assets. However, in pursuing scarcity and uniqueness, NFT markets were reduced to a market of speculation rather than utility. Thin order books and lack of liquidity mean the masses find it hard

How to Create an NFT Drop Transaction Frame on Farcaster

How to Create an NFT Drop Transaction Frame on Farcaster

In this guide, learn how to create a Transaction Frame on Farcaster — enabling users to perform onchain transactions (such as minting NFTs) directly on Farcaster. We'll do this using: * thirdweb Contracts * thirdweb SDK * Coinbase OnchainKit For this guide, we'll build an NFT Minting frame on Base

Create an NFT Minting Farcaster Frame on Degen Chain

Create an NFT Minting Farcaster Frame on Degen Chain

In this guide, learn how to create a Farcaster Frame that users can mint NFTs from on Degen Chain gaslessly — airdropping the NFTs to their wallets without them needing to bridge funds to Degen Chain. Here's the link to the GitHub repo: GitHub - thirdweb-dev/thirdweb-engine-farcaster-frame: Thirdweb engine

Introducing Buy with Crypto

Introducing Buy with Crypto

Today, we’re excited to introduce Buy with Crypto: The easiest way for users to purchase crypto assets directly in your app—with any token, on any EVM chain. It comes with built-in bridging & swapping, is completely free to integrate, and enables you to earn revenue for every user

How to Create a Web3 Loyalty Program (with Dynamic NFTs)

How to Create a Web3 Loyalty Program (with Dynamic NFTs)

In this guide, you'll learn how to build your own NFT loyalty program using thirdweb's Loyalty Card smart contract. This will allow you to: * Create NFTs * Issue them to users * Update their metadata to create a points or rewards system Let's get started! Video

How to Build a Decentralized Exchange (DEX)

How to Build a Decentralized Exchange (DEX)

In this guide, you'll learn how to create your own simple decentralized exchange (DEX) using thirdweb. We'll build a DEX contract that allows users to swap between a native token (like MATIC on Polygon) and an ERC20 token of your choice. Then we'll create

How to Build an ERC-20 Staking App

How to Build an ERC-20 Staking App

Prerequisites Before we start, make sure you have the following: * A web3 wallet like MetaMask * An account on thirdweb to deploy contracts Video Tutorial Step 1: Deploy token contracts We'll start by deploying two ERC20 token contracts: 1. Staking token - the token that users stake 2. Reward

Supercharging web3 gaming with Treasure

Supercharging web3 gaming with Treasure

Today, we’re excited to announce our landmark partnership with Treasure — becoming the official web3 development provider for the Treasure platform and all games in the Treasure ecosystem. This partnership will further Treasure's mission to build the decentralized game console — empowering players with true digital ownership, and supercharging

Goodbye Mumbai, Hello Amoy!

Goodbye Mumbai, Hello Amoy!

A new, Sepolia-anchored testnet has been launched for Polygon PoS. Here’s what you need to know.

Superchain App Accelerator - Powered by thirdweb and Optimism

Accelerating the Superchain with Optimism

Today, we’re excited to announce our landmark partnership with Optimism. Together, we’re launching the Superchain App Accelerator — a $3M fund for Superchain developers to build seamless onchain apps. To bring the next billion users onchain, consumer apps must abstract away gas fees & blockchain complexity from users — providing

How to Share a Smart Contract in a Farcaster Frame

How to Share a Smart Contract in a Farcaster Frame

thirdweb Publish allows developers to share a verified smart contract to be deployable by other users. It comes with the following features: * Deployable to any EVM network: Contracts published using the default factory pattern are deployable to any EVM network. * Unlocked functionality: Deploying published contracts unlocks auto-generated SDKs and a

Create an NFT Mint Farcaster Frame

Create an NFT Mint Farcaster Frame

In this guide, learn how to create a Farcaster Frame that users can mint NFTs from directly, on any EVM chain. Here's the link to the GitHub repo: GitHub - thirdweb-dev/thirdweb-engine-farcaster-frame: Thirdweb engine example with farcaster frameThirdweb engine example with farcaster frame. Contribute to thirdweb-dev/thirdweb-engine-farcaster-frame development

Introducing: Connect Embed

Introducing: Connect Embed

Today, we're excited to introduce the Connect Embed component — rendering the same UI as our Connect Wallet modal, but fully embedded within your app: 0:00 /0:15 1× Get started with Connect Embed The Connect Embed supports all of the most popular web3 wallets: And you can

Courtyard.io Brings Collectors Onchain with Seamless NFT Payments

Courtyard.io Brings Collectors Onchain with Seamless NFT Payments

Courtyard.io is a marketplace and tokenization app that enables anyone to own, manage, and trade physical collectibles onchain — bringing true digital ownership, provenance, and global access to the $400B collectibles market. Courtyard does this by insuring & securing physical collectibles in vaults operated by Brink’s, creating rich 3D

Goodbye Goerli, Hello Sepolia!

Goodbye Goerli, Hello Sepolia!

On Jan 1st, 2024, the Goerli testnet will be officially moved to EOL (End of Life) status. This means that the Ethereum Foundation will not actively maintain it any longer. This includes Ethereum Goerli as well as the Goerli testnets for L2s (eg: Arbitrum Goerli, Optimism Goerli, Base Goerli etc.

Whal3s Shapes Next-Gen Events & Experiences with NFTs

Whal3s Shapes Next-Gen Events & Experiences with NFTs

Whal3s is a web3 token gating framework — providing developers with all of the components they need to build token-gated experiences such as loyalty programs, NFT rewards, and in-person events. In September 2023, they brought token-gated experiences and NFT rewards to w3.vision x DMEXCO — Europe's leading digital marketing

Powering Consumer Crypto with thirdweb Engine

Powering Consumer Crypto with thirdweb Engine

TLDR: thirdweb Engine is an open-source HTTP server that makes it easy for developers to launch scalable web3 apps, reliably and securely. Engine provides a blockchain server with a simple API interface that lets developers create backend wallets and make unlimited blockchain transactions using familiar HTTP calls to any EVM

Coinbase Brings Onchain Experiences to the Real World, with thirdweb Engine

Coinbase Brings Onchain Experiences to the Real World

Coinbase aims to bring the next billion users onchain — driving adoption through real-world onchain experiences, powered by Base. In September 2023, they brought onchain utility to Mainnet — an annual summit that brings together 2,000+ industry leaders, operators, builders, and investors — in an exciting activation that highlighted how onchain tech