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

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@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!

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)

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No integration necessary, anyone can write code to do this today with walrus.

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?