Varun Srinivasan

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New: Collectibles! Support your favorite creators by collecting their casts onchain. Each cast can be turned into a unique, 1-of-1 collectible. Just tap the new "collect" icon on a cast to get started. Casts can be collected starting at $1. If there are multiple collectors, it goes to the highest bidder. Creators get 90% collectible earnings, and the remaining 10% goes to the protocol rewards. We’re excited about collectibles for a few reasons: 1. Creators earn directly from their audience 2. New creators can earn on their first day 3. Users get to collect a unique piece of Farcaster history Collectibles will go live tomorrow morning around 9am PT. We're announcing this early so people can be ready to collect their favorite casts when the feature is live! Learn more here: https://farcasterhq.notion.site/Collectibles-2306a6c0c10180d7a917c24892662a3c?pvs=74

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OK, we're really close, but not quite ready yet. Tuesday!

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New: Video Feeds! A new, full screen video feed makes it easy to watch videos from your favorite creators. It also has great gestures for fast navigation including liking, speeding up and commenting on videos. It comes with a new video algo that prioritizes videos from people you follow, while also showing you the best videos from across the network. Tap any video or the top-right video feed button to launch it.

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We’re fixing a few more bugs, expect this to come out by Monday

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Our goal for miniapps is build once run everywhere. If you are running into issues where Farcaster Miniapps dont work with the Base app out of the box, let us know in replies

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Starting today, the trending feed will be removed from Farcaster apps. Trending was launched a few years ago to help user discovery. Since then we've added better ways to discover users: in-feed suggestions, rewards leaderboards and algo recommendations. Fewer than 5% of users check the trending feed everyday, and the algo we use for trending is no longer helpful for discovering new users. In the spirit of simplifying the app, we're removing this feature which has long outlived its purpose.

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Miniapp Devs: What are your top 3 requests for us?

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Farcaster Dev Calls are back! (and starting in 1 hour) Agenda and dial-in details below. https://farcasterhq.notion.site/Jul-17-2025-2336a6c0c10180fbb042cf4a25d0a325?pvs=74

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We're beta testing a new creator monetization feature that should launch by Friday. If you're interested in beta testing, please reply!

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Farcaster app signups going drop from $3 to $1 later today. This change is thanks to the Storage Redenomination FIP, which makes the cost of each storage unit 20c. Clients like Base and Zapper could choose to sign up users for as little as 20c. When you sign up on the Farcaster app today, we will charge $1 and give you 3 units of storage (which is now 60c). The other 40c goes to the app store tax for the in-app payment. Another important change is that we are extended the duration of all storage units for another year. You do not need to renew storage. We will continue doing every year as long as Snapchain can keep up with traffic. If at any point Snapchain is unable to, we will go back to storage expiring yearly. https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/229

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https://farcaster.xyz/siyana/0x7ad2fdf4

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Are you running into video issues? Reply if you want to help beta test a new video player. We'll add you to a group, enable the new player for you and ask you for feedback if you see things are broken.

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The experiment didn't work out. I haven't been regular about recording updates and this has been frustrating for devs. My apologies for that, and we're going to do better going forward. Dev calls will happen (again) every other Thursday at 10am PT. The format remains the same: a quick overview from me and others on the team with time for open Q&A. Suggestions to improve this format are welcome. The next call will be on Thursday the 17th of July @ 10am PT. Please add this shared calendar if you want to join the dev calls https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=NjA5ZWM4Y2IwMmZiMWM2ZDYyMTkzNWM1YWNkZTRlNWExN2YxOWQ2NDU3NTA3MjQwMTk3YmJlZGFjYTQ3MjZlOEBncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t

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New: Miniapps Homepage It's easier than ever to discover new apps or go back to your favorites. The homepage has shortcuts to your most recently used apps. We're going to tweak this algo a little bit, and the goal is to always show you apps that you want to get to. The homepage now has trending categories, so you can find the best games or social apps. It also has a "popular" section that shows you what your friends are using. "Popular Among Friends" was built in a privacy preserving way. It will only show you friends if they have shared the app publicly. Otherwise, it will anonymize the data to "31 friends have used this". The page still has a few rough edges that we're going to fix over the next week. h/t to @pirosb3 for building this!

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An attacker compromised the Amps contract 12 hours ago, stealing ~$6,700 USDC from 112 Amps users. @phil and the Amps team fixed the issue and refunded users. @horsefacts and the Farcaster team have been assisting. Farcaster wallets are safe and unaffected. Who was affected? Users who gave Amps an allowance to withdraw USDC from their wallet to purchase likes and recasts were affected. Users who simply used Amps to receive funds for likes and recasts are unaffected. Users who did not use Amps are unaffected. What happened? The Amps team will publish a detailed report soon. In short, their contract had a vulnerability and the attacker was able to withdraw USDC that the users have given Amps permission to withdraw. Some users gave Amps the permission to withdraw all USDC from their wallet, and the attacker was able to withdraw all USDC. Are Farcaster wallets unsafe? No, Farcaster wallets remain safe to use. The exploit is entirely within the Amps contract and only affects users who explicitly gave Amps the permission to access their USDC. What should I do to be safe? Never give permissions to withdraw unlimited funds (as a user) and never ask for these permissions (as a dev). It is safer to ask user to transfer in a fixed amount (e.g. 100 USDC), and top up as needed.

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US residents: do you have a debit card in Apple Pay? This will help us prioritize ways to load money into your Farcaster wallet.

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underrated account

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99% percent of people complaining about spam are not in spam (just like @szakalmonster) easy way to check: profile -> 3 dots -> about -> spam label if you want me to reply to your complaint, please post a screenshot of this page showing that you have a spam label today, and i will respond.

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This is a normal reaction. Raw tomatoes are disgusting.

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