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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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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

*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 @supercast

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

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

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

gm, what a great day and a lot to think about from yesterday! i took some time last nite to compile all of the notes that I was live-casting and turned them into this note, with some short analysis/parting thoughts at the end

*huge* shout out to @ted for doing an amazing job organizing and to merkle for all of their time/support!

https://paragraph.xyz/@dylsteck.eth/farcaster-dev-day

👇 if you're looking for the full run down:

👇 if you're looking for the full run down:

https://warpcast.com/dylsteck.eth/0xbf17bba8

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no problem, thanks for the kind words & glad that the thread could add some value! :D

Thanks for all this info! Fantastic and love your notes adding context to the conversation.

no problem, glad that you could find this useful! 🫡

this is super valuable, thank you for sharing this in real time and detailed 🙏🏼

Obsidian

Sitting next to you firing away on /obsidian made me quite happy. Awesome of you to do this for everyone who wasn’t here

appreciate you documenting this for us folks who couldn't make it, you're a legend dylan

thx for the coverage and letting us non-dev plebs follow along. really brilliant and helpful 🙌

Incredible. Thank you so, so, very much for this. 👊 😁

“this young guy became an overnight millionaire”

Exciting energy at Farcaster Dev Day with coffee and pastries! Can't wait for live coverage to begin. Let me know your topics of interest! 🫡

This was awesome! Thanks so much for the detailed updates

Appreciate it 🫡