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

Oct 31, 2024

by

dylan

1. APIs and SDKs

- Recent updates

- [Location APIs](https://warpcast.com/rish/0x2cee178c)

- Improved cast metadata

- YouTube and Twitter link embeds for video thumbnails

- Quote casts are now getting hydrated as well
   - Upcoming next

- [v2 NodeJS SDK](https://warpcast.com/rish/0xbacfbcc6)

- 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

2. SIWN

3. 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)

4. Smart contracts

5. Moving from Base Sepolia to Mainnet

- [More on our current Base Sepolia verification contract](https://docs.neynar.com/docs/verifications-contract)

6. Open source

- [Farcaster → Twitter](https://github.com/neynarxyz/farcaster-examples/tree/main/fc2x)

- Other available repos in `neynarxyz/farcaster-examples`

7. Indexer services

- Made progress on ability to write custom schemas for customers

8. [Farcaster Actions](https://docs.neynar.com/docs/farcaster-actions-spec)

- Shipped the API

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