fc-updates

Account Verifications (Beta 2) 

Verify your phone number and social accounts easily from Settings > Verifications. We now support Github, Discord and LinkedIn. 

Accounts with more verifications will be more likely to get airdrops, rewards and boosts in the feed.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Why do verifications matter? 

Developers building on Farcaster (including Warpcast) want to measure success by seeing how many "real" users they can acquire. 

Farcaster's onchain fee makes it harder to create fake profiles, but does not make it impossible. 

Spam labels are very useful in identifying users who are good casters and repliers. But they're not always the right way to think about valuable users. For example, if you're building Farville you may be totally OK acquiring a user who lurks and plays a lot of games. So you shouldn't ignore everyone who doesn't get a perfect score on the spam labels. 

Verifications provide a third layer - they require some proof of work done via other networks (phone, social etc) and are hard to reliably spoof. Developers can use verifications, spam labels and other tools to target users for their apps and measure how well they're doing.

h/t to @gt for integrating the new social verifications!

How many verifications do I need? Has the scoring changed? 

Accounts with at least 3 verifications will be considered "likely humans".  This may change, as we are still in beta. 

We may also add some qualifiers in the next weeks. For example, a Twitter account with < 100 followers or < 1 year old may not qualify towards the 3 items.

would be cool, once zkTLS is widely supported and easy to use

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we found that there were a number of accounts that were very spammy that had all the verifications after collecting some data. 

having verifications will now make it much less likely that you get a spam label, but it won't eliminate it entirely.

How are verifications and spam labels going to interact? The text on notion made it seem like if you got to level 2 you got a level 2 spam label. But now this is out of 5?

Completely different?

Normie truned into degen in FC | I'm mostly JK | Host /venting /burrfrens | mod /impact /byegary

Optional hiding would be useful. for example I do have a Github account but it would dox me.

I guess I can’t get all the verification points lol

Engineer, Designer, Maths genius.
Inspiration is for amateurs!

this is the old UI, you may need to restart

hmm - we're trying to keep this page focussed on things users can achieve independently to prove they are human. 

top 1% by definition is exclusive and not everyone can achieve it. is there another variant of this that could work?

varun, this is great! besides proof of humanity, qualitative reputation signals are still quite useful for token airdrops. 

a few dozen token communities active on farcaster are using openrank scores for airdropping to high quality farcaster users (degen, superrare, ham, social, some clanker tokens, etc) 

how can we add 'top 1% openrank' farcaster user as a verification? we already have an API for this verification. we're constantly improving our algos, adding criteria, and most importantly are open source.

building farcaster infra @ /neynar 🪐 | casting @ /rish

Any idea when these will be available on protocol?
cc: @rish @gt

Hı 
İ get this error when i try phone verification 
What is problem?

@v I get an error when the phone is faulty, it just says error.

Where can we do the LinkedIn verification, or is it not ready yet?

LinkedIn is where everyone gets doxxed

Does farcaster lose its anonymous edge for this?

Help me ser. This not working for verify number phone😭

I have 3/5 verifications now, but I don’t have an X account anymore nor a GitHub account :((

And what about having an ENS reserved for 42 years? Does that count for "likely degen"?

Why I can’t added my phone, have error.

How to Complete this? I keep clicking but doesn't work.

What about people who are NOT on X but on Telegram, Signal, iCloud

@v Do you even listen to the community a little bit? Give us the opportunity to change the connected social networks at least once. Before I woke up in the morning, I pointed to the wrong Github (empty) and would like to be able to link my real full-fledged working Github on which I have a huge amount of activity.

Can't verify my mobile number. Getting errors.