Our goal is to scale Farcaster to 1 million daily users. 

Farcaster will need to handle 10,000 messages / second while staying credibly decentralized. That's roughly in the same order of magnitude as most global credit card networks. 

Here's our proposal:

Our goal is to scale Farcaster to 1 million daily users. 

Farcaster will need to handle 10,000 messages / second while staying credibly decentralized. That's roughly in the same order of magnitude as most global credit card networks. 

Here's our proposal: https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/163

The most pressing problem to solve is network sync. 

Hubs can achieve consensus without coordination thanks to CRDTs. But they still need to replicate and converge to the same state quickly. 

We use a combination of snapshots, gossip and differential sync to achieve this.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

The second most important problem is replication. 

Hubs are good for fetching state but less good at running queries on it. To do this, you'll need to transfer data into a db like Postgres, and do it in under a second. 

We're working on a new system called shuttle to solve this.

Wowow this is a real deal problem. Obviously the overall growth of FC is super organic, at least it felt that way to me. I feel like maybe moving cost to consumers might be the play. I’m sure as a collective we wouldn’t have a problem contributing knowing that this affects everyone. 🤝