Farcaster

still kind of amazed that a snapchain node costs >$1k to run per month

i wonder how many users' data queries and writes can fit on one node

either neynar loses money on their low/free tiers, or every dev on here is pooled into one node 😆

is there a way to not lose money on a free tier? would love to make money while giving away an infrastructure product for free

building farcaster infra @ /neynar 🪐 | casting @ /rish

Just make devs watch a 30 second add before we process their requests 🫠 🫠 🫠

how is it free if we are charging per API call? 

x402 is already enabled on all our APIs. Don't pass in the api key and it will automatically prompt you. More here:

oh that's awesome! now to see the gasless USDC payments w/ session keys, so these requests can just happen instantly for the user

"Neynar (infra) may periodically charge up to 0.03 for access to farcaster data. Tap to approve" and then the rest just happens in the background

how is it free if we are charging per API call? 

x402 is already enabled on all our APIs. Don't pass in the api key and it will automatically prompt you. More here: https://neynar.com/blog/agents-frames-and-the-future-of-farcaster-neynar-s-vision-for-x402

you guys have any thoughts on billing x402-style per-request?

make your free tier just bill automatically through the User's wallet, and ask the farcaster guys to set up a 7702 delegation for all users s.t you can do this gaslessly + charge from the user's USDC balance (even without a prompt).

session keys but for micropayments on infra

wonder what the economics are for that