I made a thing

🚀 Introducing Ethereum Comments Protocol (ECP)

ECP lets you post, reply, and react directly onchain—whenever you swap, send, mint, or play. No profiles, sub-cent gas fees, fully composable.

Try it in Interface today, the first app to integrate ECP, live on Base.

🧵👇 (1/7)

Building ethcomments.xyz 

built on farcaster: @larrybot, @qdau, @frames, @framesfun, /open-frames, farcasterchannels.com, farcaster.id, @mod, @search, @discove

Congrats! 🎉

Did you consider storing text on Arweave or IPFS instead (in JSON format). And then store only the hash/id on the blockchain? 

It would save a ton of gas fees, because the longer the text is, the more it costs if it's stored directly onchain.

Full-stack web3 developer, learn more about my projects here: https://github.com/tempe-techie

we considered letting the hook be responsible for storage (and thereby allowing other/no storage) - it's certainly something we'll consider for a v2

Moderation can be done onchain or off chain - onchain moderation is possible via a hook - where the channel sets the hook and defines who can moderate inside that hook - then the hook updates the comment to add moderation metadata to it. Off chain moderation is done at the indexer level, and the open source indexer has a bunch of moderation tools built into it

Ok, but perhaps a v2 could have an option to choose between different types of storage (onchain, IPFS, arweave etc.)?

Btw, another question: can community choose their own mods? E.g. a community issues a modNFT and anyone who holds that NFT can moderate that community's channel? Is that possible in v1 rn?

we did consider it, and here‘s why we chose to put it all onchain

1. gas fees are sub 1 cent on L2 today, and will only get cheaper
2. it‘s much simpler for developers to integrate
3. hooks are more powerful as a result of being able to do things based on onchain content

that being said, our demo media upload uses pinata + ipfs for bigger files