Bando Miniapp: spend in Farcaster 🎮👞🛒🛍️
Spend crypto at +800 top merchants via Farcaster
About
The problem it solves Before Bando Miniapp in Farcaster, spending crypto was fragmented, costly, and required switching between multiple apps, wallets, and offramps. Our project solves this by embedding a fully onchain spending experience directly inside Farcaster. Users can now pay at 800+ top merchants like Amazon, Uber, Airbnb and many more without leaving the app. We eliminate the need for traditional offramps, reduce transaction complexity, and turn crypto into a usable payment method for everyday purchases. **Spending is the best way to offramp, we're making crypto spendable**
How it's made
Challenges we ran into **1. Indexing a massive onchain catalog** Before launching the Miniapp, we needed to make our product catalog with over 19,00 items was fully accessible onchain. Our initial brute-force approach involved pre-indexing all products, which resulted in over 19,000 transactions and covered 15.33% of all Base blocks between April 30 and May 2. This method was effective but highly inefficient. To scale, we transitioned to a lazy indexing approach: now, a product is indexed the first time a user interacts with it. This drastically reduced gas costs and enabled faster onboarding of new products. **2. Building an enterprise-grade widget** We built a highly customizable widget that can be embedded anywhere and loads thousands of products in under a second. This required sophisticated front-end and back-end engineering, including advanced caching strategies with a fully modular solution. Achieving this level of performance and configurability with a lean team was a major technical feat. **3. Making Integration Effortless** While integrating with Farcaster was technically fast, that simplicity is the result of making our platform modular, plug-and-play, and compatible with social apps, mobile wallets, and browsers. The challenge was designing Bando to be effortlessly embeddable across many environments. It's built for the onchain economy. Check our entrypoint smart contract: https://basescan.org/address/0x2d9a53f52dd0cdc922140be6893381330a9e39fc Check our docs: https://docs.bando.cool/