Feed Improvements, Mini-App Transactions, Reducing Sign Up Costs, Hubs, and Location Data

Priorities

1. Growth

• Channels

  • Collecting user feedback, planning to pursue onboarding, requests and decentralization

• Feeds

  • Improving relevance by running a series of experiments and investigations

• Transactions

  • Mini-app transactions are now live (docs)

  • Thinking through approaches to building more usable wallets in apps.

  • Thinking through a unifying design for frames, mini-apps, actions.

    • Mini apps potentially as place to take more frame-based actions, also easier than another set of domain proxying for actions

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

• Coming Soon: verified accounts

6. Sign in with Farcaster

• Priorities are web and multiclient support

• Looking into whether smart wallets + passkeys can help