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sahil

@sahil #725

building @openrank and @cura
11071 Follower 381 Following
Come hang for Coffee and Channels 3pm today at Maman (address👇)

https://maps.app.goo.gl/s4732ovMPoijycJd9
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sahil
@sahil·18:38 22/04/2025
coffee and channels IRL during Farcon!

come hang with the cura team @moe @anmworld3 and @dharmi
https://events.xyz/events/6082d5

maps.app.goo.gl
excited to talk about openrank and cura with a great crew tonite!
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rish
@rish·3 days ago
we have a strong lineup of presentations for today's pizza hang 🍕

- @neynar
- @warpcast
- @icebreaker
- @askgina.eth
- @base
- @bracky
- @privy
- @zora
- @cura
- @splits
- @unofficial

presentations will be technical, focused on hard problems and how teams either solved them or are currently working through them; expect some presentations to showcase unsolved problems

see you there tonight: https://lu.ma/bxomr102

🪐

PS - we had a much higher volume of both event registrations and speaker applications than expected; apologies to everyone we couldn't accommodate, we used first come first serve approach in most cases 😢
love seeing @afrochicks use the community leaderboards on cura to reward contribution in channels
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channels get their own mini apps with @cura
some cool new capabilities for channels coming up at farcon 👀
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JC
@jonathancolton·23:37 24/04/2025
Check your Leaderboard Status in /nature. The team at @cura updated this recently, and it opens up a mini-app.

https://cura.network/nature/leaderboard?leaderboardType=weekly
Farcon Superfeed is now live on @cura

all farcon content across channels in one place. don't miss any of the cool stuff next week, whether you're url or irl :)

https://cura.network/?t=farcon
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cura
@cura·17:51 24/04/2025
We just turned on the Farcon Superfeed 🤩
Get everything about Farcon in one place, no channel hopping needed🥳
An easy way to stay plugged in, even if you’re not attending. Take a look: https://cura.network/?t=farcon

Cura at Farcon

Stay Up to date with whats happening in the Farcon community

cura.network
I just donated to Helping farcaster grow by looking at Farcaster's data
@yesyes
coffee and channels IRL during Farcon!

come hang with the cura team @moe @anmworld3 and @dharmi
https://events.xyz/events/6082d5
in the spirit of quickly bringing more features and tools for channels through Cura, I missed clarifying some imp caveats related to modbot and cura:
- cura is still working on a seamless and parity experience for channels who use(d) modbot. we're aiming to complete it within this week. h/t to @web3pm for all the feedback.
- modbot still works for your channel in case you don't want to use cura
- modbot added curabot as an additional mod for its channels. this was done so that channel mods don't have to go through the hoops of migrating channel rules and plugging in a new moderator bot. i think we could have made this opt-in. we're working with active modbot channels to resolve this.

DC me if you need help with your channel(s)!
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sahil
@sahil·21:11 16/04/2025
Cura is taking over @modbot 🚀

Cura will power all 15000+ channels on Farcaster with integrated membership gating, curation, feeds, leaderboards, and onchain tools.

big thanks to @haole for building Modbot (and h/t to @jtgi for automod). with evolving technical specs around frames, custom requirements for spam and feeds, we need to redesign the entire channel experience.

Cura is building an entirely new, end-to-end experience for channels/communities. not only catered to those that are on farcaster, but also to onboard net new communities that aspire to have great tools, user experience and a viable business model for communities.

Full details and migration plan below 👇
@cura distribute rewards contract does exactly this for channels - automatically pay people who get top engagmenet in channel every week.
Notifs are sent through mini app
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adrienne
@adrienne·21:21 19/04/2025
A smart contract that I send money to, and each week my funds are disbursed to people whose casts I liked that week.

Notifications get sent.

All programmatically, automatically, and permissionlessly.

But after novelty wears off, people won’t want to keep paying.

Enter brands, who can sponsor people by adding to the pot and in return, they get mentioned in the notification.
great this is finally happening! cheaper (negligible) sign up fee will open the gates for net new users/personas on farcaster
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Varun Srinivasan
@v·15:54 18/04/2025
New FIP: Storage Redenomination

The goal is to get to effectively "free signups" by reducing fees to 5c over time. At this price, apps will be able to sponsor users who pass sybil checks.

https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/229
Great UX for casual chats
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/c3cc9cff-24c1-4b7a-b8a8-a47abaf24a00/original
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humpty
@humpty.eth·18:04 17/04/2025
Join me in this audio space with @sahil @anmworld3 @dharmi and more /openrank fans!

We will be chatting about re-imagining channels and communities on Farcaster

nice Spaces app too @moe
Channel related conversations at 11am PT on the spaces mini app!
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Cura is taking over @modbot 🚀

Cura will power all 15000+ channels on Farcaster with integrated membership gating, curation, feeds, leaderboards, and onchain tools.

big thanks to @haole for building Modbot (and h/t to @jtgi for automod). with evolving technical specs around frames, custom requirements for spam and feeds, we need to redesign the entire channel experience.

Cura is building an entirely new, end-to-end experience for channels/communities. not only catered to those that are on farcaster, but also to onboard net new communities that aspire to have great tools, user experience and a viable business model for communities.

Full details and migration plan below 👇
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cura
@cura·21:08 16/04/2025
Cura is taking over ModBot - all channels that use @modbot are automatically supported by cura.

What does it mean?
- all @modbot rules are already migrated to @cura — no action needed from mods.
- @curabot is added as a mod across all channels that are using modbot - no action needed from mods.
- Channel mods can now view and edit membership criteria on https://cura.openrank.com
- Update your channel’s join link on Warpcast to https://cura.network/(channelid)/details

Watch the quick walkthrough video below 👇🏼
Quote cast with NFT that changed my life

'Loot' was my light bulb moment for seeing the possibilities of programmable, composable and open social, with incentive alignment.
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/4877fbb0-e33b-49f7-9be2-f3699702fb00/original
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join us on thurs (4/17) 11am PT to talk about future of channels :)

will be hosted on the spaces mini app (link in quotecast), built by @moe.

fun fact - using one mini app to talk about another one!
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/cebfcf68-6e57-4859-ccd4-0055d35afc00/original
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Anchal
@anmworld3·19:29 15/04/2025
Join us in a conversation with mods, powers users and community members. Let's talk about what makes a great channel, what does a community mean to you? what is missing? and what can we do?
@sahil
great URL to IRL ☕ 🥐 this morning with @haole. he's one of the coolest vibe coder on farcaster.

excited to collaborate with him on making channels UX great for users & community builders - some cool developments coming soon 👀
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now you can pin your favorite channels on @cura and see a superfeed curated from those channels
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is /football channel activity correlated with weekly EPL fixtures? 👀
@ashmoney.eth @kmacb.eth must verify with these new charts now
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channels now get their own analytics and stats on @cura

you can track weekly activity of users, content, followers in a channel.

any other useful metric for channels/communities we can add?
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curated a bunch of fun, satirical casts in /brypto
@androidsixteen.eth @six keep leading from the front with shitposting, and being spot on at capturing the market sentiment

btw u both can go curate whatever you want from the channel

https://cura.network/brypto?t=curated
just tipped my favorite farcasters!

thank you @tomu @adrienne @samuellhuber.eth @nonlinear.eth @kmacb.eth @j4ck.eth for being here :)
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/790957f8-c889-4bcc-2332-405ec1518000/original
cool analysis on sybil detection for @optimismgrants
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another cool mini app by @moe (always be shipping!)
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try the brand new Cura mini app for your channel!
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cura
@cura·17:06 07/04/2025
👀 Oh hey, checkout our mini app 👇
https://cura.network/

Use this frame to claim your rewards, check your score on channel leaderboards, distribute rewards, discover top content in your fav channels and more...
Great post by @pichi, BUT I think channels are going to be a big unlock for Farcaster (the protocol)

What folks say are top issues with channels:
- exhausting to manage channels (spam, gating, curating feed)
- users want distribution, but they don’t get it by posting in channels
- confusion b/w private and public mode (who joins, posts or earns)
- ephemeral feed not great (can't do multiple pinned casts, discussions/threads)

We must change the way we embrace and use channels. 3 imp points 🧵👇
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experienced this for openrank a lot last year. focus is the most expensive thing for a startup.

got to consolidate focus on the most important shots on goal.

we’re heads down with @cura now
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth·00:18 05/04/2025
"You should build this feature"
"You should make this small quality of life improvement"
"You raised a bunch of money why can't you also X"

Focus.

Not claiming to be world-class at it. Varun is much better at focus than I am—I get distracted by shiny new things all the time.

But ultimately you only have a fixed number of "shots on goal" before you lose momentum (and in other cases, funding).

Have to constantly be asking yourself is this the highest priority thing we can work on? And if everything is high priority, then you're not focused.

Good clip below on what world-class looks like here (note that Jony doesn't think he is good at it).
this is the way for crypto social!

curated a bunch of cool casts like this on /consumercrypto
great posts from @tomu @yekim.eth @cherdougie @ted

channel mods can curate anything on their channel feed on @cura

https://cura.network/consumercrypto?t=curated
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tomu
@tomu·14:36 04/04/2025
how onchain attention turns tokens into timelines

/consumercrypto on Cura

Cura lets you curate, reward, and tokenize your community

cura.network
just curated a few good casts from /ethereum on @cura

channel mods can highlight multiple casts from power users and new users featuring active discussions, updates, AMA happening in the ethereum community. try it out @shazow.eth @chaskin.eth @andreolf

https://cura.network/ethereum?t=curated
started reaching out to a few clanker creators to get feedback on how cura can help build and grow clanker token communities

had a great chat with @dish @btayengco @proxystudio.eth and we’re going to support a great UX for token holders, token feeds and automatic airdrops

Reply below if ure interested and haven’t heard from me yet
/Clankers
get a teaser of Cura through the new mini app!

@phil does a cool job of welcoming new users and curating good content as a mod of /books

https://cura.network/books?t=top
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MOΞ
@moe·20:33 02/04/2025
the cura mini app has been updated with full user and wallet support, and now can be used to check channel leaderboards and claim weekly channel rewards.

please install this new mini app and use it going forward instead of the old v2 leaderboard frame

let me know if you see any issues.

https://cura.network/

/books on Cura

Cura lets you curate, reward, and tokenize your community

cura.network
In March we started beta testing Cura - a channel focussed app
(big thanks to all the early channel mods and users for jumping on calls with us to share feedback💜 )

this month, our goal is to get the first 1000 users who love the new channel experience. we are confident we can bring the right form factor and UX to make Channels Win!
we're going to start featuring channels doing cool things on Cura 👀

everything we're shipping at Cura wouldn't be possible without @openrank
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/23cd1ef9-559a-4a2d-46ae-75e2d5714400/original
to maximize usage and retention (achilles' heel of crypto), we need to evolve our mental model for airdrops.

on a mid-to-long term timeframe, airdrops will be less about ads spend (CAC), but more as a budget for loyalty and ownership (LTV)
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth·19:01 31/03/2025
Airdrops will trend toward advertisements at the limit.

Large airdrops are the result of poor targeting tools. Inefficient spend for the project (but very good if you're in the lucky few that got a big one).

Reality is projects are trying to bootstrap usage and rentention. You want to maximize $ for usage. And retroactive doesn't really solve retention.

Finally, if you increase the number of tokens by 1000x, there's less money to chase each airdrop. So market caps detached from fundamentals (and other low float high FDV gimmicks) will be far less common.

Will take a while for this to shift, but expect the median airdrop to get smaller over time (with more people getting them).
will open source all our learnings at @openrank in 8 mins at farcon :)

what we’ve learned from 200+ experiments around algorithms, channels, feeds, rewards and more. will also make a bull case for farcaster channels 💜

if this resonates, vote here👇 - No.13 "How to 10x Farconomy by unlocking new incentives for users and communities"
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/90b2393e-79dc-433c-738b-8059d40ea900/original
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Emma
@esteez.eth·19:32 31/03/2025
📣 VOTING OPEN FOR COMMUNITY TALKS 📣

TLDR:
💭 lots of submissions - please take time to read through them all :)
💭 ranked choice voting (pick your top 6)
💭 voting open to everyone, not just Summit attendees!

Voting closes at noon EST next Monday -- can't WAIT to see these 🙏

https://app.deform.cc/form/a9c6ccd2-580e-452a-9145-6b9c6505b7a7
Cura feature updates

1/2 get to know users of your channel/community at a granular level
- top token holders
- top contributors, new users on fc, new followers of your channel

helps you easily discover, respond and reward users in your community
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/e7811abe-7e1b-4853-e4da-028af8652400/original
check out channel curated feeds and leaderboards from the cura *mini app on Warpcast.

it gives a good a glimpse into a powerful channel specific experience on cura.

powered by '@moe always be shipping' energy.
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MOΞ
@moe·19:13 27/03/2025
cura web app now has basic mini app support for channel feed pages. so you can for example link to the /nature curated feed in warpcast like below and anyone will be able to explore those posts curated by channel mods.

expanded mini app support (for wallet connection and claiming/sending rewards) coming soon.

https://cura.network/nature?t=curated
shoutout to @afrochicks for being a top contributor in /food and welcome to @oyale for recently joining and casting in the channel!

with user labels, channels can get more context about their community.
https://cura.network/food?t=hot
/Food
this is going to become a default for token distribution, incentives and rewards

launch tokens and distribute them to your friends and other reputable people, wherever they are!

this is a great example of programmable social
- launch token on rainbow
- find reputable users on farcaster using openrank scores
- distribute tokens to their verified wallets

some potential lists of reputable users (openrank can help with!):
- GitHub developer ranking
- Community leaderboards
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Rainbow
@rainbow·14:23 27/03/2025
one of the coolest things about the Rainbow Token Launcher is the feature that lets you airdrop your token to your friends and fav communities

you can manually enter the addresses/ENS names for your friends, or you can choose from 4 airdrop lists to spread your token even further

airdrop Lists available today:
-Rainbow Points Weekly Leaderboard (1k people)
-Farcaster Top Users (1k people)
-Rainbow Points Whales (420 people)
-Suggested Farcaster Users based on your social graph (100 people)

but we need your help coming up with good ideas for what Airdrop Lists we should add next!

bonus for clever and innovative, out of the box ideas.
two new features on Cura

1. Superfeed - see trending casts from the channels you follow, all in one feed. The front page of your communities.

2. User Labels - see 'top contributor' and 'new user' labels next to a user's cast. Will boost discovery of top and new users in channels.
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/e3373136-e7f5-47f1-3da9-f858273f4f00/original
you asked and we shipped - two top features on Cura 👀 👀
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/faa006c9-8ee2-4ccd-847a-e39e9c912d00/original
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sahil
@sahil·18:04 24/03/2025
we're shipping a few cool things for Cura this week.

want to get a quick pulse check on what would most useful/exciting?

vote among the following options:
- Curated channel content
- Automated airdrops to channel leaderboards
- Superfeed from your top followed channels
- User labels within a channel (top contributors, new users, etc)
as we go higher this week, cool way to see top posts on /higher this week here https://cura.network/higher?t=top

also track higher weekly leaderboard
we're shipping a few cool things for Cura this week.

want to get a quick pulse check on what would most useful/exciting?

vote among the following options:
- Curated channel content
- Automated airdrops to channel leaderboards
- Superfeed from your top followed channels
- User labels within a channel (top contributors, new users, etc)
samuel is the OG problem solver, customer support, devrel, product tinkerer, swiss-army knife engineer, and most importantly champion of farcaster.
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Samuel ツ
@samuellhuber.eth·18:17 21/03/2025
If you're a Dev on Farcaster or Startup building here my DM's are always open to help. I debug code, build features or full products and would love to help you succeed!

No strings attached.

To see case studies who I worked with: dtech.vision

That webpage also has a blog with Farcaster Docs
big fan of what @tomu is building

cool use of reputation scores to filter signal from noise in crypto trading experiences
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tomu
@tomu·18:49 20/03/2025
checkr now integrates @openrank to filter users by their farcaster score

if attention moves markets, we must rank those capturing it

@mleejr has been driving the most attention to $drb lately
Reward top users - in any channel, with any token, in 1-click

this feature is a good demo of programmable social - stitching together multiple infras for Cura (openrank, neynar, farcaster, base RPCs)

@anmworld3 just distributed $degen to top weekly users on the /memes leaderboard. here's aligning economic incentives between @jacek and @nonlinear.eth ;)
/football enthusiasts (like me!) can join or follow active discussions on Cura about WC 2026.

btw who's going to see the wc irl?
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/e6d5ac87-347b-4153-3eae-447d9af9cf00/original
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ash
@ashmoney.eth·03:20 20/03/2025
Just curated a discussion thread on World Cup 2026. Argentina vs Brazil is the standout fixture 🇦🇷 🇧🇷

We're initiating discussion threads in the channel curated feed - match analysis, and the best takes, so you they don't get buried in the feed.

Check it out 👇 https://cura.network/football?t=curated
@bizarrebeast just curated a collection of the most impactful artwork and top posts for the /bizarrebeasts community, check it out on Cura here https://cura.network/bizarrebeasts?t=curated

here's a couple of cool unlocks for channels
- The curated feed on Cura allows mods to have multiple pinned posts to highlight the best content, artwork, announcements, channel rules
- Channels/communities now have a dedicated space for having discussions and AMAs that don't get buried in the feed. we'll continue to improve UX for threaded conversations and reply sorting
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/83c8f2fd-8af7-4814-da6a-0f2db4f01300/original
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/22731787-238f-4ad1-d7a4-cbad78a47400/original
now channels can have their own curated feeds on Cura

Users can see Hot (recently trending), Top (day/week/month), New (unfiltered) and Mod Picks (handpicked by moderators) for any channel or community.

here's some cool trending picks from /nature @eriks @jonathancolton
/Farcaster
going to start sharing more frequent updates about Cura - a social app for channels/communities.

here's one for today - Search for top content across Channels
it's now super easy to find whatever you're looking for in a channel/community. we use channel specific openrank scores for users and content to power search on Cura.

Here's a quick search for 'Immunity challenge' in the /crypto-the-game channel @dylanabruscato
aligned with Dan/Merkle's assessment on channels.

we (openrank/cura) believe channels have great potential but they need a dedicated app and design space to grow.

we need to transition from a twitter +reddit mashup for channels on warpcast to new form factors that enable community curation, better UX for conversations/replies, community leaderboards, automatic joining/membership flows.

ultimately, we see channels as powerful primitives to onboard net new communities/users to farcaster.

we've been onboarding some of the top farcaster channels on Cura and we'll continute to share progress/updates along the way. Reach out to @moe @dharmi @gloriakexinwu @anmworld3 if you're excited to grow your community/channel on farcaster.
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/96bbaba2-cb21-4140-6396-190ee156c800/original
/Farcaster