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⌨💸  we increased the Developer Rewards weekly payout from $3 to $5k! 

algo also got a tweak with a focus on daily and transacting users and a boost for higher signal users (e.g. Farcaster Pro) that interact with your mini app instead of strictly how many interactions or transactions

https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/rewards

Oh snap. If I was a developer and my rewards were tied to getting more Pro users using my app, I would be targeting those users with airdrops and notifications.

Maybe NOT having a Pro Badge could really leave you out in the cold.

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"higher signal users (e.g. Farcaster Pro)" Extremely carefully chosen words. You can go in all directions with what that really means.

My feeling says that this means users from whom they earn (a lot). Probably in addition to taking out a Pro subscription, swabs are likely to be an important source of income. That's why apps like @mvr's disappear from the top 50 and apps with a lot of transactions (which indirectly lead to swaps) are ranked higher. Generating revenue remains an important point of attention for FC.

Pro is deliberately mentioned as an example to encourage people to take out a Pro subscription.

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I wonder what they will do with the Rewards. I can't imagine that they are going to reward spammers with a Pro account because that will flood the network with low quality casts. Maybe also rewarding interaction with 'high signal users' more, but ruling out spam label 0 for receiving rewards. I wouldn't be surprised if they want Pro users (and other money-making users) to be pampered by other users so that they like to be on Farcaster more.