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@v on Farcaster · Most upvoted by Kiwi News readers
31 stories by @v on Farcaster have been shared on Kiwi News since 15 February 2024, with 87 upvotes and 13 comments in total. The latest was shared on 8 September 2025. They are listed below, most upvoted first.
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- @v: Base app drops Mobile Wallet Protocol support
Farcaster is disabling Coinbase Wallet / TBA as a transaction option on mobile because the latest version of that wallet no longer supports the Mobile Wallet Protocol. Until recently, users could transact on Farcaster through either Coinbase Wallet or Rainbow using that protocol. The post says the change was made after discussion with the Base team, which may add support in the future, and that Farcaster will revisit enabling it then. It also states the change affects fewer than 2% of transacting users.
- @v: New video feeds with full screen viewing and algo for Farcaster
Farcaster has launched a video feed, a full screen viewer for watching videos from favorite creators. The feed supports gestures for fast navigation, including liking, speeding up and commenting on videos. A new video algorithm prioritizes videos from people users follow while also showing the best videos from across the network. Users can open the feed by tapping any video or the top-right video feed button.
- Farcaster Frames transactions spec is ready for feedback
- Warpcast will remove power badges from UI permanently
- @v: Farcaster removes trending feed as fewer than 5% of users check it daily
Farcaster is removing the trending feed from its apps, effective today. The company says trending was launched a few years ago to help user discovery, and that newer tools such as in-feed suggestions, rewards leaderboards and algorithmic recommendations have since taken over that role. It states that fewer than 5% of users check the trending feed daily and that its trending algorithm is no longer helpful for discovering new users, so the feature is being removed to simplify the app.
- bye bye fc active badge, hello Power Badge
- @v: A quick history of the Farcaster feed
Vitalik-style author? No, the post is by "@v" per the title, and the article is a short first-person history of Farcaster's feed. The article says the first feed in 2021 showed every post from newest to oldest with no way to unfollow, which was acceptable when the network had about 100 users. Follows were added soon after, and because new users started with an empty feed, the team picked the most active users each week and suggested that new signups follow them. The feed was first built as a SQL query run on each app load to fetch the latest casts and hydrate links and images, and was later moved to a background job that refreshed every 30 seconds and slowed down when users stopped checking the app.
- Warpcast Block
- @v: Warpcast rebrands to Farcaster, launches new mobile app
- Pay users on Warpcast
- @v: Farcaster gets new color scheme and notification screen updates
- @v: Farcaster launches collectibles - turn casts into 1-of-1 NFTs starting at $1
Farcaster is launching collectibles, which let users turn any cast into a unique 1-of-1 onchain collectible. Casts can be collected starting at $1, and if there are multiple collectors, the cast goes to the highest bidder. Creators receive 90% of collectible earnings, with the remaining 10% going to protocol rewards. The feature goes live the following morning at around 9am PT, and users collect casts by tapping a new "collect" icon.
- @v: farcaster wallet key security best practices
- "We're starting to think about a new sync model for Farcaster"
- @v: Public Dune FC dashboard about 50% off, comparing to internal metrics
- @v: Rough day for pump on the X app, account turned off and getting promoted
- A few counter intuitive things we've learned building Farcaster
- If you're launching a wallet, should it be an EOA or Smart Wallet (4337)?
- Varun on Farcaster and ENS
- some thoughts on spam on Farcaster and how to tackle it
Spam on Farcaster is best defined as "inauthentic activity," meaning actions like following, liking or replying that are done to benefit the actor rather than out of interest in the other person. The author states that automated activity is not the right definition, since over 75% of the spam they find comes from real humans who have phones, wallets and X accounts. The text is a short introduction and does not describe the specific methods the platform uses to tackle spam.
- Warpcast Experiment: Boosts
- How to ship fast as a small company looking for PMF
The article offers five tips for small companies searching for product-market fit: avoid side quests, skip heavy process, hire people who enjoy shipping quickly, avoid hiring people who cannot ship, and keep the tech stack simple. It says any work that is not coding, selling or talking to users is a side quest, and it recommends replacing sprint planning, offsites and recurring 1:1s with one daily meeting to decide what to ship. It also advises keeping the tech stack fast enough that a new hire can write a feature in a day and deploy it to users in 30 minutes.
- @v: NPM QIX attack, Farcaster app safe but miniapps at risk
Farcaster says its app on web and mobile is safe from the NPM QIX attack, but Farcaster miniapps could be affected and users should reject transactions they do not fully understand. An attacker took over an NPM developer's account and replaced packages with malicious versions, and these open-source components are used by many apps, including popular crypto wallets. Farcaster says it uses some of these packages but has confirmed it has not updated them since the attack. Its security scanning should catch most malicious transactions proposed by a miniapp, and users will see a transaction preview they can review and reject.
- @v: Seeing some slowness on Farcaster app, investigating
- @v: How @akshaan built Trending Topics on Farcaster for $1/day in <1 hour
- Farcaster's new storage delegation feature simplifies user onboarding
Farcaster's proposed Storage Delegation feature would let an account hand off each storage unit it owns to another account. The article gives Warpcast as an example: an app could rent a thousand units and delegate them to a thousand users it onboards, without charging those users. If an account turns out to be a bot, the app can reclaim that storage and reassign it later, which the article says lets apps cover storage costs for users while correcting mistakes in judging which users are genuine.
- ETH‘s tactical problem is not being able to serve consumer apps
The author argues that Ethereum's central tactical problem is its free market of L2 chains, which is technically sound and decentralized but creates externalities that degrade user experience. Layers, chains, EIP-7702 wallets, EVM compatibility and bridges are too complex for a normal user to understand. Ethereum fixes such as bigger blobs, account and chain abstraction, and native rollups are described as a massively complex roadmap that will take years, during which Solana is said to be eating Ethereum's lunch.
- Investigating unauthorized token post on @danfinlay's account
- Feed experiment: More Channel Casts
- Warpcast Status Page
- Farcaster is pausing all contracts shortly, back up when OP Mainnet is stable.