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 🙏

Good reminder not to approve more than you're willing to lose on ANY app.

Good job handling this but as the network grows handling catastrophe will become harder.

kind of making sense for such interactions but approvals are an awful ux from the beginning

if you want to send the assets now approval is pointless 

for tips maybe youd rather top up your tip balance