As seen by the Farcaster Dune dashboard @ https://dune.com/pixelhack/farcaster, the launch of Frames on 01/26/2024 has skyrocketed the growth of the protocol, making the metrics before the launch look like a blip.

This piece of backstory is important because we have to note that all of the growth happened while Farcaster users created (and still create) Frames by stitching various frameworks and libraries together. Developers have started building on top of existing frameworks and created easier way to create Frames, but still only for developers and technical people alike. To put this into perspective and provide an example for the difficulty of creating Frames: no matter how easy to use a specific framework is, you still have to host the Frame yourself on a VPS (server) or similar hosting solution. The growth of Frames is severely hindered by the lack of a UI first solution to build these Frames that also integrates hosting under the hood w/out the user having to do _anything_ extra.

FrameTrain has made that possible, but the road ahead has just begun. The next steps are to integrate more templates (achieved through FrameHack and this proposal) and to make the existence of our solution known to current users, they will in turn share these new and useful type of interactions with non Farcaster users (either on platforms like Twitter, or direct sharing with their friends).

We envision a 10x growth of the Farcaster protocol through a solution like FrameTrain. This is not a downplayed, nor an exaggerated factor of growth. The protocol has grown in revenue 10x already (from under ~$200,000 to over ~$2M revenue) after the launch of Frames (given all current barriers of entry noted above). 

We also see a considerable amount of new accounts & transactions on Polygon, each for various reasons:
- Minting (supported natively in Frames)
- Swapping (through Frames that enable that)
- Attestations (through the Ethereum Attestation Service)
- Various contract interactions


METRICS
With ~1,150 users registering on Farcaster every 24 hours, we expect this number to at least double in Q4.

We estimate that 0.05% of all Polygon transactions will come from Frames created on FrameTrain, which means around 1,650 tx per day.