Lectern (lectern)

Apologies for the late announcement, the Tx did occur on Sunday, however. 🎰 2026-W23 draw: @kakzob77 won 1M $KEYNOTE from a pool of 2 sharers. Tx: https://basescan.org/tx/0x93a9297907a93401dc299ee3585f77ddf4fae1d772e43317f24eb00e692f752f Next draw next Sunday — share the snap to enter. We'll check that it's actually sent. https://lctrn.app/api/snap/keynote

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We can tell we're getting noticed. There's certainly an uptick in casts around privacy, and we want you to know we've done about as much as can be done to give you a fully sovereign quiet node without a lot of noise, or you can enhance your social quality of life with things like automatic cast archival, automatic DM archival of either FC DMs or XMTP, a feedback tool for easily providing it when needed over XMTP v3, a 15-minute background prefetch that quietly warms your feed, on-device translation via Apple Intelligence, a wallet that ships trade receipts in one click, and per-category notification mutes. All default-off or one toggle away. The point is you get to decide. 🫡 Sovereign + quiet is the default — Lectern reads from a public Snapchain hub, no middleman. If you want more, flip the switches you want.

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Apple wants your trust in exchange for safety. Neynar wants your trust in exchange for convenience. Lectern just connects you to your data-differently. It reads from the public Farcaster Hub directly. No ads, no telemetry, no behavior tracking, no "private" tracking analytics (which is itself a paradox), just meaningful, robust features you might need if you are pursuing a community-minded project on Farcaster the protocol.

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With Lectern, you get a macOS UI, but you also get a CLI that is the backbone of the UI. With Lectern CLI, you can configure your accounts via code to make sure it all lands as you'd expect. You can use this configuration to manage drift across multiple accounts. For builders managing app accounts, this is the unlock. 👈 https://lctrn.app/docs/user-guide

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Very excited to announce Spaces integration will launch alongside Snaps, Follow Managment, Local Bookmarks, Scheduled Casts, Cast Analytics, and Airdropping features already announced. We have a plan to open source the Lectern CLI for all to fork and enjoy. Understandably, there's a lot to consider, feel free to ask your questions openly, or on XMTP.

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A glimpse of the Spaces UI. We're working diligently to polish and QA, but we're on schedule. Treasury is $0. $KEYNOTE pool is at ~600M tokens available for distribution. The first Pros will receive a larger first-week $KEYNOTE incentive. Be sure to register as soon as possible on launch to secure your position. Please visit https://lctrn.app/keynote for more details.

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Thanks @cassie. this needed to be said in public, and the framing matters. Most people don't yet track the gap between "farcaster" and "farcaster legacy" — neynar/merkle still gate the surfaces that didn't make it onto snapchain (dms, channels, signer attribution, wallet onboarding), and the protocol is routinely conflated with their single-vendor stack on top. Your point one — that clients can't meaningfully use snapchain alone — is exactly why Lectern picked hypersnap as our only read+write layer. no indexer, no neynar fees, no telemetry, no app fid tagging users' casts. keys stay in the macos keychain; we sign locally. dms run xmtp v3 + the new snapchain primitive rather than the merkle dc rail. Quorum on mobile + Lectern on desktop + Hypersnap as a validator-eligible snapchain peer is the architecture this protocol needs to actually be a protocol. Hope we can connect and work together 🤝

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