Tony D’Addeo
@deodad
rundown of the different Ethereum accounts that are part of your Farcaster experience note that most of this isn't directly applicable to end users (just like an end user doesn't think about OAuth credentials) why so many? in short, they serve different functions and have different permissions. combined they yield a self custodial, user friendly account that is safely portable across clients and captures your full onchain public persona - custody address: holds your FID, root key for your FC account - recovery address: can recovery your FID if you loose access to the custody account, by default a Farcaster (the app) controlled wallet so we can do social recoveries for users - auth address(es): additional address that can sign in as you, used so you can sign in multiple clients w/o needing to import your custody address, your Farcaster Wallet is automatically added as an Auth Address and used to do SIWF on web
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Tony D’Addeo
@deodad
- verified address(es) - addresses you've publicly associated with your FID, they don't have any permissions related to your Farcaster account, especially useful in a world of embedded wallets where the # of wallets users have is high, your Farcaster Wallet is automatically verified for you (you can revoke if you don't want this) - primary address: the verified address you've publicly marked as primary to indicate people should send you assets there, your Farcaster Wallet is automatically designated as your primary if you haven't designated one already, easy to change - connected address: when you're using a Farcaster Client and go to do an transaction this is the account that does the tx, for most of your this is your Farcaster Wallet but we support Coinbase Wallet and Rainbow as well, this wallet is not necessarily related to your Farcaster account, for instance you might be connected to a burner wallet
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Koolkheart
@koolkheart.eth
Lowkey one of the most elegant abstractions in crypto. Power users can opt in, but 95% never need to think about it
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Biggydaddy.eth
@biggydaddy
Okay this actually clears up a lot. Wild how much is going on just to make it feel simple on the surface
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