# Farcaster added Solana verification support

Source: https://github.com/farcasterxyz/hub-monorepo/pull/1692/files#diff-3373d34217e15506ee9cc458351332310f875fc8a3c52e9af2062b6c8da8d1db
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Farcaster-added-Solana-verification-support?index=0x65c895b405f1f964be92a9385d0a0b909d2e38f1b319d8a06be03d666894cf3e011b42a1
Submitted by macbudkowski.eth on 2024-02-11 UTC, 1 upvote, 4 comments

## Summary

This article is a code diff from the Farcaster hub software, not a news report or essay about Solana verification. It updates FARCASTER_VERSION from "2023.12.27" to "2024.2.7" and adds a version schedule entry for "2024.2.7" that expires at 4/3/24 00:00 UTC. It also removes the earlier "2023.12.27" constant and adds the matching schedule entry, which expires at 2/21/24 00:00 UTC. The diff itself does not mention Solana verification, so that claim cannot be confirmed from the text.

## Article

Expand Up @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ export const APP_NICKNAME = process.env["HUBBLE_NAME"] ?? "Farcaster Hub"; export const SNAPSHOT_S3_DEFAULT_BUCKET = "download.farcaster.xyz"; export const S3_REGION = "us-east-1"; export const FARCASTER_VERSION = "2023.12.27"; export const FARCASTER_VERSION = "2024.2.7"; export const FARCASTER_VERSIONS_SCHEDULE: VersionSchedule[] = [ { version: "2023.3.1", expiresAt: 1682553600000 }, // expires at 4/27/23 00:00 UTC { version: "2023.4.19", expiresAt: 1686700800000 }, // expires at 6/14/23 00:00 UTC Expand All @@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ export const FARCASTER_VERSIONS_SCHEDULE: VersionSchedule[] = [ { version: "2023.10.4", expiresAt: 1701216000000 }, // expires at 11/28/23 00:00 UTC { version: "2023.11.15", expiresAt: 1704844800000 }, // expires at 1/10/24 00:00 UTC { version: "2023.12.27", expiresAt: 1708473600000 }, // expires at 2/21/24 00:00 UTC { version: "2024.2.7", expiresAt: 1712102400000 }, // expires at 4/3/24 00:00 UTC ]; const MAX_CONTACT_INFO_AGE_MS = GOSSIP_SEEN_TTL; Expand Down

## Comments

**tim**: One more reason to trust their intentions less. If they‘re adding Solana verifications to the protocol layer, then, for growth, what else are they going to do in the future? 

Fuck exit, we need more voice.

**macbudkowski.eth**: I think it was bound to happen. 

Farcaster wants to build a 1B+ social network. There are many chains out there, and - if the history of BTC & ETH forks can be a lesson - some of them will prevail. So, if FC wants to reach as many crypto people as possible, they must integrate more chains (even if they stop at the most popular ones.

Wondering how the Solana community will integrate with the Ethereum majority. I hope that discussions will be more merit-based than the ones on Twitter.



**tim**: I think a 1B user social network can be built without integrating Solana.

**macbudkowski.eth**: Probably yes. It might be harder, though. 

Outside Ethereum, Solana is probably the most vibrant and vocal ecosystem now. If Farcaster doesn't integrate Solana, then someone would probably build Solana-centric social media to capture that community. 

(tweetrel: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko/status/1756704003851948159)

And I think their short-term goal (before going out to non-web3 users) is to become "the social media for onchain communities", regardless of the chain. So, probably one day, they will also integrate Bitcoin, Cosmos, and so on.