CRDT's might be one of the absolute worst names for a really good thing. 

Trying to write something describing our CRDT-based system and struggling. No sentence flows when you add CRDT to it.

trying to break dc's today to find and fix bugs. 

if you see this, can you send me a dc?

Bundles are now fully rolled out on Hubs! 

Hubs now use 50% less bandwidth and cpu to stay in sync.

Having issues with images on Warpcast. Debugging.

The most entertaining outcome would be if we found out that stripe pays all their corporate tax to Ireland

Funny if true

Warpcast is hiring for new roles. 

We're looking for staff level folks in design, frontend backend, ml and distributed systems. 

See the next cast for more details.

New @curated interview is live!

@ok and I chatted with Sotheby's to talk about the collection, things we've shipped, and the future of digital art.

https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/digital-art-is-just-getting-started-in-conversation-with-andrew-jiang-and-todd-goldberg

@curated has been quietly building up one of the most impressive collections of digital art in the space

Collecting exceptional crypto art and culture | curated.xyz

We're giving out $50k to people building OSS tools on Farcaster!

Apply for your project here: https://warpcast.notion.site/Warpcast-Retro-Grants-2024-4ce1df2b471941a6aa99173135f161d0

13 more days to apply for the 2024 Retro Grants! 

If you're an OSS project used by any Farcaster apps, you qualify.

A new version of Hubble (1.11.6) is out with Bundles.

Messages are now grouped into bundles before being gossiped. This will reduce network usage and may improve sync speeds. 

Please upgrade your Hubble to 1.11.6 by Apr 17.

Hubble is being min versioned to 1.11.6 in 4 hours. 

If you aren't upgraded, your hub will disconnect from the network and will need to be upgraded before restarting.

A new diff sync algo from @adityapk that improves sync speed by 10x 

The key difference is smarter heuristics to traverse the trie and find nodes with the greatest differences.

A new diff sync algo from @adityapk that improves sync speed by 10x 

The key difference is smarter heuristics to traverse the trie and find nodes with the greatest differences. 

https://github.com/farcasterxyz/hub-monorepo/pull/1907

Carrier pigeons were immune to spam because you had to give someone a pigeon to enable them to message you.

This is about carrier pigeons and nothing else.

Debugging issues in a decentralized network can be tricky

In 1.11.5+, Hubs can report diagnostics to the Farcaster foundation. Diagnostics are used to troubleshoot user issues and improve network health

Users may opt out with CLI flag --opt-out-diagnostics true or environment variable HUB_OPT_OUT_DIAGNOSTICS=true

Hubs will ship with Sentry to collect crash reports. 

This helps us find and fix issues quickly. 

You can disable them with a CLI flag if you don’t want to report crashes.


Launching /tiser, a speculation market for casts.

Trade “Cast Shares” in frames. Share prices are based on demand. Creators earn 5% of every trade.

Simply trigger the Action on a cast & use @tiser's reply frame to invest.
Giving away 5k $DEGEN to a random shareholder of this cast!

https://frame.tiser.so/api

Neat use of cast actions + frames to create an in-feed marketplace

Warpcast is in sync with the network again. 

- All messages picked up in last 12 hours.  
- Not out of the woods, need to make more fixes or this may break again. 

Appreciate everyones patience as we're dealing with increased traffic this week.

Warpcast images are workin again! 

We're now rolled over to Cloudflare and things should be working smoothly. Let us know if you run into any issues. 

h/t to @deodad for the fast ship

Building @warpcast and @farcaster, new dad, like making food

Major update to @nook is now available! Update your apps.

- Nooks are now much simpler and require less upfront thinking
- New flow for creating feeds
- Global mute settings for accounts, channels, and words
- Redesigned notifications 
- Significant performance improvements and app polish

Team priorities this week: 

1. Fix images and message processing 
2. Clean up direct casts bugs and performance issues 
3. Reduce visible spam in cast threads 
4. Improve cast action discovery 
5. Ship improvements to scale hubs

Warpcast is behind on message processing again. 

We're seeing record levels of message traffic which our backend is unable to keep up with. This is our #1 priority to fix this week. 

We'll share updates as soon as we have them.

Warpcast images will be back by tomorrow at the latest. 

Our previous API provider dropped the ball pretty hard. Moving everything to Cloudflare ASAP.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Varun Srinivasan

@v