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Varun Srinivasan
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Recovery Phrase Export You can now export your recovery phrase for your Warpcast Wallet and Farcaster Wallet from Settings -> Advanced Warning: don't use this if you dont know how recovery phrases work. you could lose your farcaster account and all your onchain assets.
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Varun Srinivasan
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Who should use this feature? 1. You have a Warpcast Wallet, but are not able to use it due to geo restriction. 2. You are a developer, and know how recovery phrases work, and want to test something in your own client. 3. You are an advanced user, and want to import your Farcaster wallet into another app. In all cases - if you make a mistake and store it insecurely or get tricked into inputting it into the wrong app, you will lose your account and your funds! We do not recommend using this feature unless you absolutely have to.
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Varun Srinivasan
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What's the difference between the Farcaster Wallet and Warpcst Wallet? * Warpcast Wallet - has access to all the funds you see in your Warpcast Wallet page. * Farcaster Wallet - has access to your Farcaster acccount and can log into Warpcast Wallet
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Varun Srinivasan
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h/t to @pirosb3 for shipping this!
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christopher
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The language around the export seems excessive/somewhat adversarial. If the goal is for folks to build on the protocol, there needs to be a pleasant medium between stern warning and outright discouragement.
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Varun Srinivasan
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The primary audience for that warning is people who get tricked into opening that page and sharing their seed phrase with a scammer. This is very, very common and most wallets have similarly stern warnings. It's a minor inconvenience for the sophisticated developer or advanced user who knows how seed phrases work, and can tap through. I think its a reasonable tradeoff to protect user funds.
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christopher
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No issue with the inconvenience, but my challenge is the phrasing/framing. e.g. Exporting this recovery phrase risks your wallet funds.
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Varun Srinivasan
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We say this, which I think is reasonable.
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christopher
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It's reasonable to communicate some of these things, but the tone and direct language needs work. The risk is a chilling effect to developers and other apps (ours) in the ecosystem. Also a typo in the last point.
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Varun Srinivasan
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can you elaborate more on why this affects developers / your app? are you asking users to copy the seed phrase over?
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christopher
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Yes. Without an EOA, Farcaster doesn't make sense. Change or register a username, decrypt DCs on hubs (eventually), add a net new verified addresses, add a signer or revoke independently, transfer or recover FIDs, etc.
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