FIP: Social Attestations
AI summary of the linked articleFarcaster's proposed FIP would let users verify Github and Twitter/X accounts through a social attestation system, with a standard extensible to other platforms later. An app such as Warpcast would verify ownership via OAuth and publish a UserDataAdd message of the matching type, signed by an app key registered to the app's fid. The proposal states that attestations are not verified by the protocol, not unique per fid, and strongly typed, and that Warpcast plans to display its attestations only on user profiles because they can be spoofed. Warpcast has begun verifying Twitter/X accounts, with Github support possible later and no timeline set. |
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2 comments  macbudkowski.ethSubmitter "Why not use onchain attestations like EAS? Onchain actions are expensive, slow and often fail on mobile devices due to poor connectivity with wallets." 💀  Why not make attestations verifiable with public signatures? Posting a gist or tweet with a signature would create a verifiable chain of trust without needing to trust the attestor. The reason we moved away from this is that 1) the user experience is worse and 2) this does not work on all social networks that we may want to support. This is actually what would be really interesting and the proper technical solution but, of course, nobody is willing to make the investment to actually build this |
