Deltagraphs are a consensus model for decentralizing social networks.
Using a combination of blockchains and CRDTs, we’ve scaled Farcaster to hundreds of thousands of users.
I wrote a bit about how this works - link in next post.
Farcaster sign ups are now permissionless!
Everyone can sign up at
Developers are now able to build an app, sign up users and read / write Hub data without any 3rd parties.
Announcing the Farcaster waitlist
We still have a few more weeks until sign ups are permissionless, but in the meantime if you're still interested in trying out Farcaster, scan the QR code below.
Farcaster actions now support frames
Actions are mini-apps that users can install on their client.
Like a Chrome extension for a social network.
Here's an action that can create a Linear ticket for a feature request right from the feed.
Looking for brutally honest feedback: if you're on Farcaster but not actively casting, why not?
Send me a Twitter DM. Don't have to be nice, just honest. Did this last year and it was really valuable. :)
Farcaster Alpaca is here!
Alpaca is the first protocol upgrade - officially, version 2023.4.19 - which lets casts and reactions point to to URLs, NFTs and onchain objects.
We're redesigning Farcaster's sync for the next 10x.
Here's a quick overview of how it works and what's hard about syncing a social network between apps.
We're focused on user growth and the best way to do that is make onboarding as web2 as possible—mobile and no wallet or crypto required.
If you think this is dumb or "anti-crypto", you're free to a build a Farcaster client that is web-only and uses crypto for payments. No
Any Ethereum address holding an NFT from
@brtmoments
, including all Crypto Citizens, is eligible to sign up for Farcaster today.
Scan the QR code below:
Farcaster is moving to permissionless sign ups next week.
But the top 2000
@delegatedotxyz
Ethereum addresses are eligible to sign up today.
Scan the QR code below:
Farcaster Hubs now take ~ 3 mins to setup. Once set up you can:
- Read 3.8M historical user messages
- Stream new messages from users in real time
- Write messages and have them show up immediately in Farcaster apps.
You could have a Hub running on your laptop in less than
Want to contribute to Farcaster?
We have a few open issues that are ideal for first time contributors who are familiar with Typescript.
Scan the QR code (or save to camera roll and open in your photos app) to get started.
📣Excited to announce that
@farcaster_xyz
data is now live on Dune thanks to the efforts of
@neynarxyz
🪐
@neynarxyz
is an infrastructure provider for farcaster and that allows for easily spinning up a hub and fetching relevant data from farcaster for your application.
🧙
Recover your Farcaster account
If you onboarded to Farcaster at any point in the last 2 years and lost your recovery phrase—we now have an onchain, user-controlled version of "password reset".
Get started with a recovery from the Warpcast mobile app:
The QR code will take you to a webpage is a standard SIWE flow and asks for a EIP-712 signature for verification.
Also see Dan's verification cast on Warpcast: