A place for developers to talk about building on Farcaster.

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New way to encode a profile picture dropped:

https://x.com/Ethan_smith_20/status/1801493585155526675

320 bits is basically a hash. Small enough to go on chain for every user.

AI as lossy compression. With a big model you might be able to do quite a lot with a few bits.

You could maybe stack this on top of ZK for extreme levels of onchain compression and offchain reconstruction.

Combining AI with lossy compression techniques, you can achieve substantial data reduction, utilizing a minimal number of bits to represent complex information. When paired with Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proofs, this approach can enable extreme levels of on-chain compression while allowing accurate off-chain reconstruction.