IMPORTANT — this morning a bug was encountered on @noiceapp which had led to sending out ~20k unintended tips 

some older farcaster posts got tipped by mistake due to how we recently changed our event ingestion infra. around 750 users were affected with ~$650 worth tips sent out. 

why/how it happened: 
this got triggered after us internally migrating farcaster event ingestion infra from neynar's webhooks to their kafka based stream for reliability reasons. 

tl;dr:
	•	farcaster emits reaction.deleted events when users hit storage limits
	•	our system misinterpreted these as reaction.created due to missing prior context
	•	that triggered real tips on older casts as our idempotency logic didn’t catch it

what we’ve done:
	•	fixed the event type parsing and strengthened idempotency checks
	•	reimbursed all affected users with 2× USDC of the USD value in the tokens originally deducted 
	•	personally following up in DMs of affected users with a quick rundown 

issue is patched, reimbursements are complete and we’ve added safeguards to prevent this in the future. appreciate who helped debug this 🙏

Even giants mess up. What matters is how they show up after. This was textbook response