An update on protocol priorities going into 2025. 

We think a lot of interesting things are going to be built onchain soon. Farcaster should be the programmable and credibly neutral social network that brings users, developers and blockchains together. 

But what does this mean tangibly?

Hot off the press 🆕 feature:
You can now tag me to find "MORE LIKE THIS"
Reply to something with "more like this", embed or just type anything after "more like this"
Examples:
https://warpcast.com/randombishop/0xc0099dcb
https://warpcast.com/randombishop/0xd83d8cde

this is really neat. new bot that uses embeddings to find similar casts. 

i wish it were a cast action, so im not annoying people with replies!

Alright feeling like a bit of a noob here and need some follow recs:

1. People building dope shit with actual utility on chain
2. Any Kiwis (NZ maxi)
3. Real meme alpha, preferably on Base...no sleazy KOL bs

And of course...if you hold a Roo, give me a shout.

Vyper 🐍

The contract here is a sublinear staking contract: if you are in the whitelist (specified as an ERC1155 collection), then you can stake N coins, and get a return of N ** 0.75 coins per slot, for as long as the contract has coins to pay for it. There is a fundedUntil mechanism that ensures that if the contract runs out of money, every staker gets rewarded for every slot up to the fundedUntil timestamp, and the mechanism doesn't turn into a fractional reserve.

https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/sublinear_staking/code.vy

Bounty of total 2 ETH for identifying any bugs / vulnerabilities in the contract and proposing specific fixes, if multiple issues are found the bounty will be split based on severity.

Amount: 2 ETH

@bountybot

2ETH bounty from vitalik to audit a vyper contract

papers-please

A new channel to share research papers: /papers-please 

Channel is now open to post in. 

h/t to @nadav for the idea.

CTO @ OpenSea. Fmr. Co-Founder of Dharma Labs. 

Opinions my own

fc-updates

Using app keys for authentication 

A quick proposal to use app keys instead of custody addresses for signign in to other apps. This is a comment on the Farcaster Connect thread, would love to get a quick pulse from users and devs on how they think about these tradeoffs. 

https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/204

Updated discussion with more thoughts about app key vs custody key auth. 

https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/204#discussioncomment-11342304

Warpcast

Please make my selection of the "Following" stream sticky whenever I click on "Home" in the left hand nav.

this should be live on mobile if you have the latest update. 

web coming soon.

Mysticeti is a very impressive DAG-based protocol.

Mysticeti is a very impressive DAG-based protocol. 

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14821

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhhCxyZylx8

Computer Scientist who just thinks onchain is neat. /formative

The open web is dead, long live the open web. ⌐◨-◨

Building /warpcast and /farcaster

— gabrielayuso.com

We just shipped some improvements to image upload today. 

If you see any issues uploading images after today, please reply with: 

1. platform (desktop/ios/android)
2. connectivity (wifi or 3g) 

thank you, this will really help improve image performance.

Been looking at this for techniques to predict "break out" casts

Been looking at this for techniques to predict "break out" casts 

https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/detecting-large-reshare-cascades-in-social-networks/

Request for FC channel — high signal research papers across AI, Crypto, Biology, etc. 

Setting a goal to read 2-3 papers a week and need a backlog

if you read interesting papers, reply with a little known gem. 

looking for channel mods for /papers-please

Farcaster Devs

FC Dev Call is at 10am PT tomorrow! 

Don't forget to adjust for daylight savings if you're non-US.  

Agenda: 

- Frames v2 
- Embedded Wallets
- Update on ongoing bugs 
- Snapchain 
- SIWF / Farcaster Connect
 
It's gonna be a busy one.

FC Dev Call is at 10am PT tomorrow! 

Don't forget to adjust for daylight savings if you're non-US.  

Agenda: 

- Frames v2 
- Embedded Wallets
- Update on ongoing bugs 
- Snapchain 
- SIWF / Farcaster Connect
 
It's gonna be a busy one. 

https://warpcast.notion.site/Nov-21-2024-1456a6c0c1018023be43da7a3fb5ee4a

Parenting

Music

Frames v2 Draft Spec 

A new specification that makes frames: 

- fast and snappy 
- interactive with custom ui 
- fully integrated with wallets 
- retentive, by letting users save them and get in-app notifications

Feedback welcome!

Frames v2 Draft Spec 

A new specification that makes frames: 

- fast and snappy 
- interactive with custom ui 
- fully integrated with wallets 
- retentive, by letting users save them and get in-app notifications

Feedback welcome! 

https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/205

Every crypto bull market started when I was on vacation.

Farcaster

Think Merkle has to maniacally focus on onboarding the entire crypto community onto farcaster.

Not being on farcaster shouldn’t be optional. They may be using other platforms, but they have a presence here. 

Be the Facebook or Instagram of crypto. 

Building blocks to expand into other domains exist, for example: channels - but focus on crypto only.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Varun Srinivasan

@v