A hyper-performant, infinitely scalable, universally compatible Layer with unified liquidity.
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Jun 10
Frame recently became part of a public company. Rather than mark that with another milestone post, we wanted to show the work.
The first network insight blog in a series on how Frame actually works is live: frame.community/updates/deceβ¦
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Jun 10
Rafe makes the game-theory case for why cooperation, not extraction, is the winning strategy over time, and how that thinking runs through what Frame is being built to do.
frame.community/founders/rafβ¦
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Jun 10
We're hosting an AMA covering all of this on Thursday 18 June, 7pm UTC. Bring your questions.
discord.com/invite/framecommβ¦
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Jun 5
In crypto, disclosure, audit obligations and governance overhead are usually framed as friction - the things projects skip when they want to move quickly. π
But what rarely gets said is that those same compliance standards are what everyday users have to fall back on when things start going wrong, which is when they tend to need them most.
That's what they're for. π‘οΈ
Frame is being built under those standards from day one because we believe the industry has been missing them - a different starting point than being required to adopt them later. ποΈ
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Jun 5
This is the kind of conversation we have most days in our Discord and Telegram. Come find us below. π€
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Jun 1
Cross-chain liquidity is one of those problems that looks solved from the outside and isn't. π
Every ecosystem has its own pools, its own pricing, its own slippage. Moving between them means either accepting bad rates, using a bridge or splitting the trade across multiple transactions and hoping the price doesn't move between them.
Unified liquidity across chains is one of the infrastructure problems Frame is being designed to sit at the centre of rather than work around. ποΈ
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May 27
Crypto has a perception problem that the industry mostly created itself. π
The loudest voices have historically been the ones promising the biggest returns on the shortest timelines, and when those promises didn't land the credibility damage spread to everyone building seriously in the same space. π’
Infrastructure that aims to be used at institutional scale can't be built on that foundation.
Trust takes longer to build than a token launch and it doesn't come back quickly when it breaks. ποΈ
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May 24
Stablecoin card spend grew around 105% over the past year, and the spending itself is becoming almost indistinguishable from ordinary card activity. π³
The reason it's working is that it doesn't try to replace anything; the cards run on existing card networks like Mastercard and the merchant still receives fiat. π€
What's interesting is happening in the background, where settling in stablecoins frees up capital that would otherwise sit idle until the banks reopen. π
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May 24
It's still under 1% of global card spend, but infrastructure tends to win quietly by fitting into what already works rather than asking everyone to start over. π
That's the world Frame is being designed for. If that's the kind of thing you think about too, we're worth following, and the conversation goes deeper in our Discord and Telegram. π
Discord: discord.gg/framecommunity
Telegram: t.me/framecommunity
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May 22
16 years ago today, Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two Papa John's pizzas and proved that Bitcoin could actually be used as money. π
Those pizzas are worth around $769 million at today's price!
The point of the story isn't what he spent. It's that before May 22 2010, crypto was theoretical. After it, it was real. The entire industry traces a straight line back to someone wanting pizza badly enough to spend digital coins on it.
Frictionless crypto payments were the goal back then. They still are. Sixteen years on, most people still can't pay with crypto without jumping through hoops that didn't exist with cash in 2010. π
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May 21
The crypto market has spent the past six months correlating closely with tech stocks, moving up when the Nasdaq moves up and pulling back when it doesn't. π
That's fine as a short-term dynamic but it points to something the industry hasn't fully resolved, which is whether crypto is being treated as a risk-on speculative asset or as genuinely independent financial infrastructure.
The answer to that question matters a lot for what gets built and who builds it over the next five years. π
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May 18
Most networks let you see the price of using them but not who's running them, what their criteria are or what happens when something goes wrong on the operator side. π
That gap between user-facing transparency and operator-facing transparency is one of the inheritances from early-era infrastructure that most projects have stopped questioning.
Frame is being designed so the people running the network are on record from day one. Selection criteria public.
Performance data public. Penalties and slashing on the same record everyone else uses.
A network that's transparent about its users should be at least that transparent about itself. ποΈ
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May 14
The Frame community on Discord and Telegram keeps growing and the quality of conversation in there is something we genuinely look forward to every day. π€
People asking the right questions, sharing what we're building toward with their own audiences and holding us to a standard that makes the project better.
Sean will be running text-based AMAs in both communities as we build toward launch. The links are below if you want to be part of it before it happens. π²
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May 13
Most interoperability protocols require months of negotiation, governance votes and bilateral agreements before a new chain can be connected. π
Frame is being designed around the principle of adding chains without needing permission from the chain on the other side. Here's why that changes the growth model entirely π§΅
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Every chain added makes the network more valuable for every user already on it because Ethereum users reach further, Solana users reach further and the growth of any individual chain feeds into the whole network's value rather than staying contained within its own ecosystem. π
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The chains not yet connected aren't gaps in the network but future value already in the queue, and every competitor's growth feeds into the flywheel we're aiming to build rather than working against it. π
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