dylan on Deescuss

taking live notes from today's(back on regular schedule) biweekly farcaster dev call

here's an overview of the top priorities from warpcast, which they'll give updates on (ranked in order): 1. Growth(Channels and Frames updates) 2. Direct Casts 3. Reducing Sign Up Costs 4. Hubs 5. FIP: Locations 6. Sign In with Farcaster

https://warpcast.com/v/0x295c90b5 https://warpcast.notion.site/Oct-10-2024-11a6a6c0c101806697ebcf6a9fb3852b

Growth

- Shipped: new version of Channels, iterations - https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x003e2a2b - https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x4617b806 - https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x3e7c7c59 - https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0xfeb2037f - Upcoming - Channels — onboard a user to Farcaster with channel, requests, decentralization plan - Frames — working on next steps doc - Note: also investing in mini apps but haven’t seen a ton of people actively building them ^^^ (my takeaway: build /miniapps!!)

Direct Casts

- Shipped auto-expiring messages - Working on next set of developer APIs

Reducing Sign Up Costs

- Protocol signups are $2 Warpcast is at $3(https://warpcast.com/v/0x03efc8d1) - New spam model rolled out — much fewer false positives - Prototyping graph based detection using fraudar(https://bhooi.github.io/papers/fraudar_kdd16.pdf) and oddball(https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/PUBLICATIONS/14-pakdd-conn.pdf) with @notawizard

Hubs

- Team has been heads down on memleak, possible V8 bughttps://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/27998#issuecomment-671052263 - Prototyping Snapchain consensus with Informal System’s malachite(https://informal.systems/blog/interchain-meet-starknet) - Writing Snapchain overview doc covering all the cases

FIP: Locations

- Review: location on user profile(https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions) - Review: location on casts(https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/197) - Not as much progress from last week because there were other tasks on Warpcast's plate, will start looking into this more in the next few days - Coming Soon: verified accounts - connecting your Twitter profile, being able to show it as a badge on your Warpcast profile - nice for convenience too - wondering if it’ll help give you exposure on the algo, eg if you’re a new user with a lot of Twitter followers - right now will just be in Warpcast, but want to add this to the protocol

Sign In with Farcaster

- Priorities are web and multiclient support - Looking into whether smart wallets + passkeys can help - Could make it easy, so that no matter what client you request to a domain such as keys.farcaster.xyz - Still doing research on all of this, but interested in the direction & cognizant of the fact that this is something users & devs would want(or is at least trending towards)