ALFAFRENS
Progressive Web App for private chats with influencers. Subscriptions were done with Superfluid real-time money streams. Project went viral and reached over 20k users within first 2 weeks.
- $3.7Mpaid out
- 38Kusers
- 79Ksubscriptions
- 738Kmessages
- Role
- Lead developer — led the project and the build inside Superfluid
- Timeline
- Launched on Base · figures cover the first three quarters after launch
- Traction
- 38K users · 79K subscriptions · 738K messages
- Money moved
- $3.7M distributed — $789K to creators, $2.9M to stakers
SocialFi apps kept trying to out-build the social networks and losing. AlfaFrens didn't compete on the feed: it focused on the one thing crypto could do better — paying creators by the second — and let subscribers walk the moment the content stopped being worth it.
- A mobile-first PWA for gated creator chats. Subscribe to a creator with a Superfluid money stream, cancel instantly, chat inside the gate. Creators see every message; subscribers see a curated feed.
- Farcaster login and Frames-based distribution with invite codes — five per user — so onboarding lived inside the social posts where the audience already was.
- The $AF token economy: 30% of subscription revenue to the creator, 70% streamed to stakers, staking, invite rewards paid from invitees' activity, and Quality and Activity scoring to keep low-effort channels from dominating.
- Gasless UX on Base — users never pay transaction fees, the app covers them — and the throughput work once volume spiked and the chain itself became the bottleneck.
- Fast iteration off live usage: emoji reactions, mute, channel categories shipped in; the trading feed pulled when users ignored it.
It went viral: over 20,000 users in the first two weeks. Within three quarters the app had onboarded 38,000 users, started 79,000 subscriptions, carried 738,000 messages and distributed $3.7 million — $789,000 to creators and $2.9 million to stakers.
It brought 38,000 new wallets onto Superfluid and put more consumer load on the protocol than anything before it.
- Next.js PWA, TypeScript
- Superfluid money streams on Base
- Farcaster auth + Frames distribution
- Biconomy paymaster for gasless transactions
- $AF token, staking and reward distribution contracts