A few counter intuitive things we've learned building FC: 

1. Make people sign up on mobile

Push notifications and little red dots on the home screen are the lifeblood of social apps. Most users who sign up on web will simply forget to come back.

Here's some infrastructure code to run a snapchain node on kubernetes with persistent storage - https://github.com/standard-crypto/snapchain-gcp

Don't force users to add a profile pic at sign up. Use whether they add a pfp later a signal as to whether they care enough about their app identity to add one.

@nikitabier has made a counter point which I’ve come to appreciate which is that adding friction in onboarding is not always a bad thing. 

If it helps meaningfully with retention and engagement, it’s often worth doing. 

For us, requiring pfp only causes a 0.1% dropoff but makes real profiles look more legit and spammer easy to identify

Seeing an issue with image uploads. Investigating.

DC Search now works on web too! 

Search inside any conversation from the search bar. h/t to @ashoat.eth

what we're working on to make frames better rn:

- rebranding from Frames -> Mini Apps
- a new, llm friendly standalone docs site
- rethinking developer tooling from the ground up
- a 1.0 of the frames-sdk with improvements to type-safety, error handling, security, and hooks for better debugging
- new APIs for viewing and swapping tokens, composing casts
- continued improvement to Explore and Rewards

@deodad @horsefacts.eth and @gabrielayuso.eth are cranking on some big improvements for frame devs. 

coming next week.

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

Building /warpcast and /farcaster

— gabrielayuso.com

I'm eth newbie..just learning
(working on @farcaster)

terminally.online

Building @warpcast and @farcaster / dad / like to read, cook, ski, code

me: there are no rewards for running a farcaster / snapchain node

everyone else:

There is an easter egg in this block, 50 USDC for the first to find it. 

You can fetch the block data by running your own node here: https://github.com/farcasterxyz/snapchain

building mini-apps /builders-garden /farville /just-frame-it | hosting a web3 hub in rome /urbe-eth /ethrome 🇮🇹🐺

https://limone.lol

First Snapchain block officially mined! 

Will be spending the next week backfilling all data to snapchain before it's ready to be used. `

There is an easter egg in this block, 50 USDC for the first to find it. 

You can fetch the block data by running your own node here:

Farcaster

since the signup fee is a massive barrier for new users, why not:
- delay the registration fee by X days/weeks
- encourage users to cast to earn rewards
- deduct the fee from warplet

smoother onboarding + more bangers = win-win

am I missing something? @dwr.eth @v

kicking around some ideas to improve this right now. 

the biggest contender is storage delegation. allow any account to purchase storage for itself or to redirect the storage to another account. 

apps can basically pay onboarding fees for all their users but reclaim them if they detect that someone is spammy. 

users can always self host just like today if no app wants to host them.

what caused the recent spike in DAUs? we almost got to a new ATH if i'm not mistaken

100,000,000 $BRACKY Bounty!

-> You link to bug you got.
-> You get 1,000,000 $BRACKY.

Bug 1. "Bracky thinks I'm impersonating."
Bug 2. "Bracky spammed replies."
Bug 3. "Bracky did the wrong trade."
Bug 4. "Bracky didn't book the trade."
Bug 5. "Bracky gave incorrect information."

(Up to 20M per category.)

GN! Ready to AMA -- happy to chat anything @privy, building better UX for distributed systems and lessons on crypto product building, key cryptography, or why @dwr.eth's rosé swilling memes are so distatesful for the French. AMA

AMA with @henri  from Privy starting now.

Data privacy on the web. Keeper of the fabric @privy.

Fmr Protocol Labs consensus work. Before that YC S14 🇫🇷🌐🍊

Has anyone ever forced an L2 transaction inclusion via L1? 

I know its theoretically possible, but curious if it happens in practice or if its like fraud proofs which haven't seen usage in prod environments.

fc-updates

FIP: Primary Address Verifications 

A proposal to add primary addresses for Ethereum and Solana to the protocol. This feature was recently shipped in Warpcast and we'd like to make it available to other devs via hubs (and snapchain).

https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/141

uhh 

https://x.com/Caitlyn_Jenner/status/1902819914756600176

Solana airdrops are coming to Farcaster users 

Remember to connect your Solana wallets in Settings > Verifiied Addresses to qualify.

native Farcaster user resolution is now live on all Zapper API endpoints⚡

this means any token holders, transaction participants, or NFT owners can resolve automatically to FIDs & metadata. allowing you to combine onchain + farcaster data out-of-the-box

zapper on fire with the farcaster api improvements

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun