Warpcast

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.

Farcaster

We're starting to think about a new sync model for Farcaster. 

The current system works but is unlikely to scale up another 10x. Here's our articulation of the problem we want to go after.

It's very exciting to see where Farcaster goes from here. 

Need a better sync/consensus system, one that may one day enable optional sharding of the state perhaps?

Can DAG based consensus help? They scale super well. What can you do without stake/points scores?

Whatever happens, FC will likely set the bar.

We're proposing reducing the protocol fee from $3 to $2 as part of the Storage Extension FIP this week. 

The plan was to do this later, but it turns out it will be a lot easier to implement them together. 

If you have any concerns, please reply or DM.

https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/191

You owe it to yourselves to read this FIP and the Storage Extension FIP. 

imo being an open protocol makes adjustments like this tricky to do, but Varun and the protocol team continue to be reasonable in how they approach this.

How frustrating was that? 

McLaren had two choices:
1. Ask the race leader to give up the win.
2. Apologize to the guy that lost the race because of your unnecessary strat call. 

Not surprising they made the wrong call again.

It's pretty frustrating that F1TV won't work outside of the US. What do you guys do when you travel? VPN?  

Could only watch the highlights of that awesome race yesterday!

cars

A 2 ETH bounty for the first PR that fixes a nasty CRDT bug.

You'll be racing against @sanjay. Luckily, he's distracted by farcon this week.

@bountybot

Great opportunity to dig into how Farcaster actually works!

Solana

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What's your take on all this F1 controversy? 
Max to Merc? 
Horner to...not work?


2025 looks so crazy that I'm already losing interest in 2024 😅

So sounds like we all think (and I agree) that Max doesn't want to leave RB. That would seem to indicate Horner (and Newey?) has to go?

What a weird spot to be in. Politics always ruin things and we just don't have enough information on the whole controversy unfortunately.

I may or may not have committed to buying a spec boxster. Race license this weekend hopefully 🤞

A huge hub perf improvement from @wazzymandias.eth 

Some gossip messages took hours to propagate, and now they land in milliseconds! 

Also h/t to @sagar and @sanjay for a lot of work on this

Apple Vision Pro

I cooked up something cool this weekend: a native Vision Pro app for Farcaster.

It lets you drag any channel icon out of the main window to pop new windows into existence.

Hoping to add some more feature that take advantage of this like frame widgets.

What do you want to see me add?

frames

A frame to check your Warpcast stats and active score.

Please comment if you encounter issues with it 🫶 

https://active-score-frame.vercel.app

PSA: OP Mainnet is not producing blocks right now. 

Registrations and recoveries will be paused until this recovers. Everything else will work fine.

I was curious about what happened. Some more details are here

I was curious about what happened. Some more details are here https://status.optimism.io/clsmrawc31448hmlj2ja14ui3