Neynar

Celebrating the experimental launch of hubs.neynar.com

Farcaster Dev Call starting in 5 minutes! 

https://events.xyz/48b4e0

ga, taking live notes from the farcaster dev call!

here's the main agenda for today

Priorities: 1) Growth

- Channels
    - Collecting user feedback, planning to pursue onboarding, requests and decentralization
- Feeds
    - Improving relevance by running a series of experiments and investigations
- Transactions
    - Mini-app transactions are now live (docs: https://www.notion.so/1216a6c0c10180b7b9f4eec58ec51e55?pvs=21)
    - Thinking through approaches to building more usable wallets in apps.
    - Thinking through a unifying design for frames, mini-apps, actions.
        - Mini apps potentially as place to take more frame-based actions

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Priorities: 2) Direct Casts

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

Farcaster protocol fees recently dropped from $3 to $2

If you're using Warpcast, you now can signup with a $3 in-app purchase. 

- $2 for Farcaster fees
- $1 for app store fees

Priorities: 3) Reducing Signup 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

Priorities: 4) Hubs

- Team has been heads down on memleak, [possible V8 bug](https://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

Priorities: 5) FIP: Location

- Review: [location on user profile](https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions)
- Review: [location on casts](https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/197)
- Coming Soon: verified accounts

Priorities: 6) Sign In with Farcaster

- Priorities are web and multiclient support
- Looking into whether smart wallets + passkeys can help

Priorities: 2) Direct Casts

- Shipped auto-expiring messages
- Working on next set of developer APIs (docs: https://www.notion.so/1276a6c0c1018089af2bda0d1697a2fd?pvs=21