Farcaster

Wallet UX is an existential problem for Farcaster. 

If we don't make it easy for users to do things onchain and easy for developers to build farcaster apps, we can't scale the network. 

We're thinking about solutions right now, but want to share the problem statement the team is thinking about. Feedback welcome!

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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Have you looked into apps that Encrypt the seed phrase into a hash and then store the hash on the users Secure Enclave? 

We built an iOS investment app that is similar to Farcaster in a lot of ways (not social whatsoever) and this was the only way we figured out 1. If users loses phone how to gain access 2. Switching between apps

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hosting /kieran /usdc /loans 

This is currently the “‘most secure” key storage method afaik because it uses Face ID on the Apple device to unlock the enclave. Anything can be $5 wrenched tho.

holy shit I did not understand this before. This removes so much backend... we had to build a custom batcher contract and generate safes on polygon and then bridge the tx over to mainnet in batches (this was is 2021). Using the passkey curve removes all of that 🙃 Thanks for explaining 

So then for problem 1, its the lack of not having a way to transfer the phrase that is stored in Passkeys?

We currently store the Farcaster seed phrase that Warpcast creates during onboarding into largeBlob attachment on iOS Passkeys.

With a smart wallet, you can just use the Passkey curve for signing.

nit: hash usually means the output of a difficult-to-reverse operation 

if it's just encrypting, the end result isn't usually called a hash