Farcaster Verifications are coming soon

Verify your account by connecting two socials (X, Phone or GitHub) and holding $25 in your wallet. 

Verified accounts are less likely to get the spam label and show up higher in the feed, replies and search. 

They are necessary to earn weekly rewards and qualify for airdrops

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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Why are we doing this? 

There are many inauthentic accounts trying to farm airdrops and rewards. 

Completing verifications allows authentic accounts to stand out by proving things that are hard to fake, like having socials on other networks and holding a balance for a long period of time.

Some additional notes: 

* social accounts must be at least 18 months old 

* verified accounts are much less likely to get the spam label (but can still get them if they behave in a way that is spammy or inauthentic) 

* verifications do not guarantee that someone is human, but they make it very difficult to spin up a lot of fake accounts quickly. this is very important as storage prices are set to reduce significantly

May need to tweak the criteria if something is too easy for spammers or too difficult for new users. 

Once things have stabilized will likely be public

why would the badge be private at launch? i would think for growth it’s better for yall to have it public. and i would think for the user, showing they are verified would be too? isn’t that why we have those rings around our pfps in some way?

How is this rolling out? 

Verifications will ship later this week and unverified users will be prompted to complete them. 

If you have completed verifications previously, you will automatically be verified.

The verification will show up as a badge on your profile, which will remain private at launch (may become public later)

CMO Aztec // mother of chains // in testnet // reply girl

I feel like this is exactly what @aztecnetwork aims to support (but in a privacy-preserving way) 

Also are you active here @clairekart ?

Kaito CT farmers won’t come here - no incentive 
I think the $25 idle is great idea but agree that the X verification is slightly hypocritical but it’s one of the only ways that is widely disseminated.

I don't mind having the idle, but given what you write about keeping FC free of what has infested CT, then why the obsession with X as a means of verification. It signals that if you are infested with that madness, you are welcome here. That is not a good sign.

I don't have a problem with this.

If it keeps FC free from most of the Kaito madness and spam which has infested CT then having $25 idle seems like a small price to pay

I understand the reasoning but would love to see an alternative solution 💞

Funny bc I am an authentic account (I think) & I ain’t get NOTHIN but a low neynar score XD

Well it means the verifications got easier ?🤔

Doesn't it cause the bots to attack again ?