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gm from farcaster dev day! everyone’s getting caffeinated/filling up on gjusta pastries and then we should be getting started in a few mins, expect live coverage in /dylan as always 🫡

and if there’s a pressing question/topic you wanna hear about, lmk in the comments!

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ok starting off!! here are today's main topics:

- growth (+ channels and frames)
- direct casts
- reduce sign up costs
- hubs
- other items

*really* good follow-up convo on channels & some of the new changes/things it could solve(just sharing the raw notes below)

Frames
- Making frames better, adding mini apps(new experiments), transaction support
   - Whole lot of composer/cast action confusion etc, wanna simplify the LEGOs
   - Frames -- best way to get distribution for your app
	 - Widget to put anywhere, on a site in a DC etc

Ways to think about it:
- Simple use cases
   - Just take an action from a frame button etc, not a lot of interaction needed
- Complex use cases
	- Launching an app from a CTA in the feed
		- Mini app click comes with authenticated FID that's not on other social media, ton of public info you can use to spruce up your original UX
 - Future iteration they'd like to explore: ability to pass a transaction back into Warpcast and get a frame UX
	- eg. they'll generate the transaction flow, you don't have to go through the clunky wallet connect step, etc
	- *I wonder if there would be session keys here & the embedded wallet is a Farcaster primitive*

another great follow up convo on frames as well!!

Direct Casts

- DCs are stable, programable DCs are growing
  - Some great use cases for purchases, reminders(like streams), etc
- Short term focus: making improvements in programmability
- Long term focus: working on a plan for interoperability, likely 2025
  - If you think this is a top priority, reach out & this will help them prioritize. But for now there are a lot of competing priorities and this is probably still long term as other things are worked out

Reduce sign up costs

- $1 signups by early next year
- Blocker is spa -- need to solve new problems when we lower costs
- Warpcast can subsidize onboarding costs for *non-spammy* users
- Interested in talking about legitimate signup subsidies, but need to make sure it's non spammy users
	- Reach out to Warpcast on this, still thinking through & no full framework here
  - Also separately @horsefacts.eth is working on a v1 solution(and more in the future) that'll make it easier to use an account on Warpcast that you made on another client like @super

Hubs

- Sync is improving, but has rough edges
- Sync needs a redesign, won't scale at current pace
   - New system(Snapchain) introduces a level of ordering & concepts from blockchains to the sync model, won't have these classes of sync issues that'd get in the way
   - Large public GH discussion happening on the snapchain: https://warpcast.notion.site/Snapchain-Public-0e6b7e51faf74be1846803cb74493886
  - More on Warpcast hub status: https://status.warpcast.com

Other items

- More user data on the protocol -- eg. location data(new FIP for this)
- Sign In with Farcaster -- web, then multi-client
- Spam dataset -- Neynar and OpenRank working on solutions

The Snapchain prototyping has begun! 

@sanjay is working on validating the consensus + networking model that we laid out in the initial design to see if it works as expected 

https://github.com/farcasterxyz/snapchain-v0

check this out if you’re interested in the new snapchain development for hubs!

check this out if you’re interested in the new snapchain development for hubs!

https://warpcast.com/v/0x49e6cf96

Growth(top priority)

Overall:
- based on the survey, consensus top priority for the group
- top growth priorities: channels, frames, retention, hubs

Channels:
- Today: membership, core channel UX refresh, APIs
- Up next: better casting in a channel/casting experience in a channel(maybe rushed for some folks), decentralization
^ new channel changes planned to come out next week or so

ooo what's the sign up costs going to be?