API Updates and Upcoming SDK Changes, Oauth for SIWN, Smart Contracts, FC2X Open Source, and Farcaster Actions

APIs and SDKs

• Recent updates

  • Location APIs

  • Improved cast metadata

    • YouTube and Twitter link embeds for video thumbnails

    • Quote casts are now getting hydrated as well

• Upcoming next

  • v2 NodeJS SDK

    • Will make it even easier/faster to go from API changes to subsequent SDK changes

    • Will update the v1 version for at least a month after v2 is released to give developers buffer time

  • Write APIs for blocks

SIWN

Oauth

• Will be moving to an Oauth 2.0 model

  • Current model/existing use cases will continue working

  • Enabling a way for developers to do SIWN through the backend, on your server-side(no client-side refresh token exposure)

Smart contracts

Moving from Base Sepolia to Mainnet

• More on our current Base Sepolia verification contract

Open source

• Farcaster → Twitter

• Other available repos in neynarxyz/farcaster-examples

Indexer services

• Made progress on ability to write custom schemas for customers

Farcaster Actions

• Shipped the API

• Seeing Stories and Recaster now working on writing to each other(one successful implementation in beta where Recaster can post Stories)