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

Oct 24, 2024

by

dylan

**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](https://www.notion.so/1216a6c0c10180b7b9f4eec58ec51e55?pvs=21))
  - 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](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)
- Coming Soon: verified accounts

6\. Sign in with Farcaster
- Priorities are web and multiclient support
- Looking into whether smart wallets + passkeys can help