Growth(Channels and Frames), Direct Casts, Hubs, Reducing Sign Up Casts, SIWF, and a new Location FIP

Priorities

1. Growth

• Frames

  • Mini apps are out(current docs here, will get re-labeled)

• Channels

  • New UI rolled out, new version coming soon

  • Focus is on onboarding

  • Channel design iterations

2. Direct Casts

• Programmable DC’s are growing

• Short term: Improve programmability

• Long term: plan for interoperability

  • Probably 2025, also thoughts around an official SDK and what kind of LEGOs they might be able to give devs here

3. Reducing Sign Up Costs

• Target is $1 signups by next year

  • Just cut it to $2 a few weeks ago

• Blocking issue is helping apps overcome spam

• Warpcast can help subsidize costs if you are onboarding users, reach out

4. Hubs

• Tackling ongoing stability issues this week — out of memory issues, backend traffic

• Want to lock down a design in the next few weeks and then can have a clearer roadmap from there

• Sync needs a redesign — snapchain overview out this week (discussion)

5. FIP: Locations

• Review: location on user profile

  • Opt-in, would use long/lat coordinates under the hood to show your location across clients

• Review: location on casts

  • Uses same geo lat/long construct from the FIP above, but would go in a cast’s embed message

6. Sign in with Farcaster

• Web is next priority

• Multi-client is after

• Doesn't seem this is the main focus for the team though rn, Merkle team is mostly focused on(on this order): channels, frames/mini apps, programmable DCs, hubs scalability, location