Farcaster

A sufficiently decentralized social network. farcaster.xyz

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

Developer ecosystem @farcaster, co-founder @bountycaster. Previously: co-founder of Scalar Capital, product at Coinbase, co-producer @ethereumfilm

Author of The Network State.
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helping build farcaster | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina | “lucky me, lucky mud”

@farcaster  builders... I have questions around the storage solution - snapchain: 

1) how would it support use cases that require long-term retention of rich media (e.g., images, videos, AI model weights)?

2) Is there a planned path for Snapchain to support versioned or mutable binary objects — or will it always require external systems for those?

3) How does Snapchain plan to handle horizontal scaling of storage for media-rich Farcaster apps (e.g., Lens-style social video, AR filters, AI-generated posts) take off?

4) Is there any mechanism for developers to "pin" or guarantee high-availability access to large files that are too big for Snapchain state?

cc: @v @balajis.eth @dwr.eth @ted @linda

My views are my own! I am fan of Sui blockchain!

Thanks!  Appreciate your response.  Since Snapchain only stores pointers to media (not the blobs), would love to see integration with a decentralized blob layer like Walrus Protocol by @mystenlabs — which is optimized for large files, cheap via erasure coding, and supports deletions. Feels like a perfect modular fit 👀

What are your thoughts?

snapchain doesnt store media, just pointers to media. 

you can choose for those pointers to be on centralized systems (e.g. cloudflare) or decentralized systems (e.g. ipfs)