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

Oct 10, 2024

by

dylan

**Priorities**

1. Growth

- Shipped: new version of Channels, iterations
     
     - [https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x003e2a2b](https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x003e2a2b)
     
     - [https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x4617b806](https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x4617b806)
     
     - [https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x3e7c7c59](https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x3e7c7c59)
     
     - [https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0xfeb2037f](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](https://warpcast.com/v/0x03efc8d1)
   
   - New spam model rolled out — much fewer false positives
   
   - Prototyping graph based detection using [fraudar](https://bhooi.github.io/papers/fraudar_kdd16.pdf) and [oddball](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/PUBLICATIONS/14-pakdd-conn.pdf) with @notawizard

4. Hubs

- Team has been heads down on memleak, [possible V8 bug](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/27998#issuecomment-671052263)
   
   - Prototyping Snapchain consensus with Informal System’s [malachite](https://informal.systems/blog/interchain-meet-starknet)
   
   - Writing Snapchain overview doc covering all the cases

5. FIP: Locations

- Review: [location on user profile](https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions)
   
   - Review: [location on casts](https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/197)
   
   - 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)