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Build with the grain of the protocol

FIPs.

FIPs are Farcaster Improvement Proposals - the design documents that propose changes to Farcaster, inspired by Ethereum's EIPs. If you are building on Farcaster this season, this is the roadmap: what is being added, what is being debated, and how to put your own idea on the table.

Where they live

How a FIP moves

Every proposal walks the same four stages. Anyone can start one.

Stage 1

Idea

Open a discussion titled "FIP: your idea" with the fip-idea label. The concept gets its first read.

Stage 2

Draft

Formalized into a written proposal and developed with the community.

Stage 3

Review

Evaluated and debated. The hard questions get asked here.

Stage 4

Finalized

Accepted and shipped, or rejected with a reason. Either way it is on the record.

Three kinds of FIP: Process (changes how the community works), Standards (a standard for developers), and Implementation (a change to the protocol itself).

A few worth reading

FIP-0 A proposal for making proposals

The meta-FIP that defines the whole process. Start here.

FIP-2 Flexible targets for messages

How casts can target channels and other surfaces - the groundwork a lot of clients build on.

FIP Farcaster Connect

Sign in with Farcaster - the auth pattern behind Mini Apps like this one.

FIP External cast data

Carrying richer data with a cast - relevant to anyone building content tools.

In discussion Active-speaker metadata for Spaces

A proposal we are following: surfacing who is speaking and when in an audio Space. If it lands, our workshop recap videos go from a 30-second manual step to fully automatic.

FIP numbers and links change as proposals move stages - the discussions list above is always current.

Got a protocol-level idea?

If you are building this season and you hit a wall the protocol could fix, that is a FIP. Write the idea up, open a discussion titled "FIP: ...", tag it fip-idea, and see where it goes. Building with the grain of the protocol - and helping shape it - is exactly the kind of work ZABAL Gamez is for.

The Playbook  -  Build ideas  -  Workshop recordings