balajis
@balajis.eth
First ENS-native social network! Congrats to @dwr.eth @v and @nick.eth for ENS itself. Thoughts: 1) Adding ENS registration & profile editing may be a good next step. 2) If Farcaster becomes default ENS — if one can *assume* everyone on the network has an ENS name — much functionality gets unlocked.
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balajis
@balajis.eth
An ENS name has the potential to combine email, encrypted messaging, payments, digital signatures, personal website, secure file hosting, onchain resume, and more besides — subsuming everything from PayPal to WhatsApp to Docusign to LinkedIn in a single package. That hasn’t yet been exposed in one app, but…
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
This isnt obvious yet, but a farcaster username (@balajis) is now also a valid ENS under balajis.fcast.id It’s resolved offchain using the ENS CCIP standard , which means that it’s centrally administered by us but free to get All users start with a free ENS and can upgrade to a decentralized one by paying for it
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
fnames are CCIP compatible ENS names. So technically everyone on Farcaster gets a free starter ENS name.
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woj
@woj.eth
@dwr.eth @greg wdyt about applying for a grant from ENS to build this into warpcast? i assume killing core team focus is the bottleneck here, so could run as a tightly scoped project delivered by an external team
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@dr3a
Gm balaji great thread 👏
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castig
@castig.eth
Console.xyz also natively supports ENS. Come give us a try! https://www.console.xyz/blog/ens-names-launch-on-console-group-chat
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humpty
@humpty.eth
Great recap of the work done here and the potential unlock to parallel applications. Talked about this on the bird app too. https://twitter.com/humptycalderon/status/1684256102815502336?s=46&t=ojR5RdK2BHjquxRNMbVGjg
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wijuwiju.eth
@wijuwiju.eth
2nd
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supersir.eth
@supersir.eth
Great idea.
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Vansh
@vansh
Indeed worth to try! 🚀 Thanks for sharing Balaji 💯
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Kade
@kade
👏👏👏👏
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@broke
Love this so much Step 1 is a great idea And record setting thru farcaster🤯 Makes me think about the showcase record again, indicating preference of ur profiles nft sequence with an ens record ENS is so coool
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