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Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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https://x.com/smsunarto/status/1692333746907963807?s=46

We want to add REST APIs to Farcaster Hubs

Originally did RPC because it was what hubs used to sync with each other and we just exposed them to clients, but increasingly convinced that REST is the right API for hubs <> clients 

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Aptos uses REST and I’ve actually quite enjoyed the experience

Proper REST APIs are designed around providing CRUD operations on resources and defining a resource hierarchical structure. This doesn't really fit the blockchain node use case.

Many people use REST to refer to RPC over HTTP though. 🤷

Wire protocols allow a lot more flexibility like say switching from tcp to quic etc. 

Trivial to write a little shim that exposes a rest api.

JSON-RPC(which is what EVM nodes have)and REST don't have significant technical differences.

Is more of an ideological thing, so from a naming point it makes sense since a transaction can be described as a Remote Procedure Call.

Ethereum's consensus node API is REST, so it could be shifting