Farcaster client Warpcast has launched a native way to develop apps for the decentralized social media protocol. Called mini-apps and available since Tuesday, the tooling is similar to Farcaster’s existing Frames feature, which lets you run decentralized apps directly in your social media feeds.

“A mini-app view is a full HTML/CSS/JS web page, so it’s both easier and harder in some ways” than running a Frame, Warpcast developer horsefacts explained in a social media post. “Easier because you can use a full interactive canvas and any web structure you want, harder because you have to customize more than just an image.”

Farcaster is one of the most popular decentralized social media protocols, designed to let users own their data. In June 2024, Fortune reported that the Ethereum-based protocol ETH, -0.29% had around 50,000 daily users.