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Farcaster Dev Call is in 1.5 hours! 

- FIP: Introducing Ordering
- SWIFT Improvements
- Rewards & Boost
- Blocking 

Details: https://warpcast.notion.site/Aug-29-2024-0e69900902af449a93c2461894d8e9a3?pvs=74

taking live notes in this thread from the farcaster dev call, which starts now!

taking live notes in this thread from the farcaster dev call, which starts now!

https://warpcast.com/v/0xbe5a920c

Ordering - a new sync model

- Sheer number of messages syncing is getting large
- FIP: https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/193

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For developers

Improved QR codes / shorter URLs for SIWF are now live

Test it out here: 

https://farcaster-auth-kit-vite-demo.replit.app

Latest AuthKit repo is available here:

https://github.com/farcasterxyz/auth-monorepo

Will making a few more visual tweaks / adding consumer help docs to the default modal.

Improved SIWF flow -- Dan / Connor / Piril

- Reduced size of URLS to make the QR code easier
- Done for now but if were to do more, would:
    - add the 8 char code in Warpcast
    - think about moving to EddSA, would make it easier for apps like @supercast to be web companion

https://supercast.xyz get the most out of farcaster

@warpcast public blocking

- Users you block
    - Can’t quote cast or reply to you in Warpcast
    - Won’t show up in your feed
- Blocks(unlike mutes) are public, available over an API
- Notes on blocks
    - Not a full block since Farcaster is decentralized(eg use another client), mainly makes it harder to see content on WC
    - Need to do more in WC so the person you blocked can’t fully see your content

More on blocking and the API:

@warpcast public blocking

- Users you block
    - Can’t quote cast or reply to you in Warpcast
    - Won’t show up in your feed
- Blocks(unlike mutes) are public, available over an API
- Notes on blocks
    - Not a full block since Farcaster is decentralized(eg use another client), mainly makes it harder to see content on WC
    - Need to do more in WC so the person you blocked can’t fully see your content

More on blocking and the API: https://www.notion.so/warpcast/Public-Blocking-d0465c4a082f46db8f38a380688f90c7

Warpcast Experiment: Boosts! 

A boost gives your account more distribution for 24 hours. Each day, we'll give out 10 boosts to accounts that: 

- Have < 10k followers 
- Have casted recently 
- Have not received a boost recently
- Post bangers (manual judgement)

@warpcast boosts

- Have been thinking about how to reward good content, espc newer accounts & Boosts is a first experiment in this direction
- Selecting small accounts(<10k followers) who are casting — 10 of them given out per day and the distribution lasts for 24 hours
- Collecting a bunch of stats on if this ups your following/views/etc, will share the results eventually

@warpcast boosts

- Have been thinking about how to reward good content, espc newer accounts & Boosts is a first experiment in this direction
- Selecting small accounts(<10k followers) who are casting — 10 of them given out per day and the distribution lasts for 24 hours
- Collecting a bunch of stats on if this ups your following/views/etc, will share the results eventually

https://warpcast.com/v/0x0f413f42

Warpcast is giving out $5 each day to the top 100 casters.  

Rewards are given based on the amount of engagement your casts get divided by the number of active followers you have. 

We'll run this experiment through the end of the year to see if it drives people to create more interesting content for Farcaster.

@warpcast Caster Rewards

- Warpcast is giving $5(USDC on Base) a day to the top 100 casters through the end of the year
- Filters out engagement from spammy accounts, more bias towards “known good” accounts

@warpcast Caster Rewards

- Warpcast is giving $5(USDC on Base) a day to the top 100 casters through the end of the year
- Filters out engagement from spammy accounts, more bias towards “known good” accounts

https://warpcast.com/v/0x15b1a362

New experiment on Explore: mini-apps

- @matthewfox cleverly built Flappycaster as a composer action
- Play the game, get a high score and cast it
- But we wanted to see if other people had interesting ideas for apps that didn't quite fit into a frame or composer action
- If you build something, feel free to submit and ping us and we may feature it

@warpcast Explore

- Continuing to add new apps, over 150 apps and 50 submissions to go through
- Bunch of requests for media and non-app creations, still exploring that(if media is a frame, easy to add to Explore today)
- Added the FlappyCaster experiment, composer action but right in the Explore Page
    - @dwr.eth's very interested to see what would wanna build, highly encourage to reach out
   - Will help inform if they should essentially work on a mini-app platform here

@warpcast Explore

- Continuing to add new apps, over 150 apps and 50 submissions to go through
- Bunch of requests for media and non-app creations, still exploring that(if media is a frame, easy to add to Explore today)
- Added the FlappyCaster experiment, composer action but right in the Explore Page
    - @dwr.eth's very interested to see what would wanna build, highly encourage to reach out
   - Will help inform if they should essentially work on a mini-app platform here

https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x745e4b42

@warpcast Mobile Wallet Protocol

- @horsefacts.eth has been working on integrating @rainbow 
- few MWP changes that need to be made on the @coinbase side and a few CBW issues getting in the way, but CB is committed to making this work & also excited to have Rainbow working

just put up a blog post going over today's Farcaster developer call that just ended! read below to go over the new Ordering FIP, SIWF updates, Blocks, and other Warpcast Updates

https://neynar.com/farcaster-dev-calls/082924
https://warpcast.com/dylsteck.eth/0xd965cd1a

we just put out the full thread as a blog post as well, go check it out below!

we just put out the full thread as a blog post as well, go check it out below!

https://warpcast.com/dylsteck.eth/0x15e1c331

Improved SIWF flow -- Dan / Connor / Piril

- Reduced size of URLS to make the QR code easier
- Done for now but if were to do more, would:
    - add the 8 char code in Warpcast
    - think about moving to EddSA, would make it easier for apps like @supercast to be web companion

https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x448a6651

^ this Ordering FIP work might be taking a bit longer but think this can not only make sync a lot easier but also make debugging any future sync errors easier