A place for developers to talk about building on Farcaster.

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New way to encode a profile picture dropped:

https://x.com/Ethan_smith_20/status/1801493585155526675

320 bits is basically a hash. Small enough to go on chain for every user.

AI as lossy compression. With a big model you might be able to do quite a lot with a few bits.

You could maybe stack this on top of ZK for extreme levels of onchain compression and offchain reconstruction.

AI as lossy compression: The world has fewer degrees of freedom than we tend to think, and AI is our latest approximation model.