Work in progress

Visualizing the Farcaster stack

warpcast needs to find a solution for images and video whose economics and degree of decentralization it is happy with, so the rich media features of the app can become first class

IPFS, Dan, IPFS.

The protocol is highly aligned with Farcaster to ensure permissionless use of data and would match how NFTs and memecoins already manage content.

IPFS, Dan, IPFS.

The protocol is highly aligned with Farcaster to ensure permissionless use of data and would match how NFTs and memecoins already manage content.

https://warpcast.com/nicholas/0xb82b95d5

Everyone is from somewhere. Cofounder and CEO of Pinata. https://www.pinata.cloud/

It creates a standard for builders that they are already familiar with.

The p2p stuff doesn't matter. It's about coordinating around CIDs.

Right now, content is broken across clients because people roll their own solution.

For instance, Supercast's content doesn't show up in Warpcast appropriately.

And then Warpcast wastes resources caching content that is already cached through Pinata.

IPFS solves this by allowing clients/builders to coordinate around CIDs and then process/cache the content how they see fit from there.

This is how NFT marketplaces work. OpenSea ingests content through CIDs and then process it and cache it to ensure the quality they want on their front end.

As for bandwidth, the client/builder serving the content pays for the bandwidth.

So, Warpcast pays for content that it serves but can easily ingest content from Supercast and vice versa. Supercast can grab content from Warpcast but it is on the hook for serving that content.

I like IPFS. 

What problem does it solve today?