With Snapchain live, we're starting to think about what's next. 

Growth is our top priority the and most obvious roadblock is the "Pay $3" screen when signing up.

Step 1 is to make it a lot cheaper. 

Thanks to Snapchain, our capacity is much higher and we can lower fees. We have a new FIP out (storage redenomination) that will lower fees to ~ 20c onchain.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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Step 1 is to make it a lot cheaper. 

Thanks to Snapchain, our capacity is much higher and we can lower fees. We have a new FIP out (storage redenomination) that will lower fees to ~ 20c onchain. 

https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/229

Storage Delegation is a new feature that would let an account delegate each storage unit it owns to another account. 

An app like Warpcast could rent a thousand units and give it to a thousand users that it onboards without charging them. If an account turns out to be a bot, it can reclaim the storage and hand it to someone else later. 

Apps can easily front the storage costs for users because they can fix mistakes in underwriting "good" users by re-delegating the storage to another new users.

Storage Delegation introduces a hybrid model of decentralization. 

You can pay for your own storage and stay soveerign, or let an app pay for you but be subject to their usage policies. 

Importantly, you can start off being sponsored by an app and then upgrade to being sovereign at a later time. 

This approach seems to strike a good balance between fast user experience, decentralization of the network and a good developer experience by ensuring some fee mechanism to prevent the nodes from being overwhelmed.

We're going to put up a formal FIP for this sometime after Farcon. 

If you have any feedback or thoughts on this, we'd love to hear it.

Step 2 is to get rid of it entirely. 

X and other networks don't charge at all to get started. They are able to handle spam post-signup by deleting accounts that don't meet their policies. 

We haven't been able to do this because it would (obviously) compromise decentralization. But there is a hybrid model that is now possible thanks to Snapchain that would let us get to this "no fee" UX.

Have you tested whether app and users want to pay to onboard people? E.g. let me send my friends an invite link where the account creation fee is already paid for

Sure I can send them USDC, but then they need to install metamask, learn about gas, no thanks