Channels Iteration, Direct Casts, Twitter Verification, and SIWF with Smart Wallets

Priorities

1. Growth

• Shipped: new version of Channels, iterations

  • https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x003e2a2b

  • https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x4617b806

  • https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x3e7c7c59

  • https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0xfeb2037f

• Upcoming

  • Channels — onboard a user to Farcaster with channel, requests, decentralization plan

  • Frames — working on next steps doc

  • Note: also investing in mini apps but haven’t seen a ton of people actively building them

2. Direct Casts

• Shipped auto-expiring messages

• Working on next set of developer APIs

3. Reducing Sign Up Costs

• Protocol signups are $2, Warpcast is at $3

• New spam model rolled out — much fewer false positives

• Prototyping graph based detection using fraudar and oddball with @notawizard

4. Hubs

• Team has been heads down on memleak, possible V8 bug

• Prototyping Snapchain consensus with Informal System’s malachite

• Writing Snapchain overview doc covering all the cases

5. FIP: Locations

• Review: location on user profile

• Review: location on casts

• Not as much progress from last week because there were other tasks on Warpcast's plate, will start looking into this more in the next few days

• Coming Soon: verified accounts

  • connecting your Twitter profile, being able to show it as a badge on your Warpcast profile

    • nice for convenience too

  • wondering if it’ll help give you exposure on the algo, eg if you’re a new user with a lot of Twitter followers

  • right now will just be in Warpcast, but want to add this to the protocol

6. Sign in with Farcaster

• Priorities are web and multiclient support

• Looking into whether smart wallets + passkeys can help

  • Could make it easy, so that no matter what client you request to a domain such as keys.farcaster.xyz

  • Still doing research on all of this, but interested in the direction & cognizant of the fact that this is something users & devs would want(or is at least trending towards)