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Specification of the Farcaster Protocol

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README

Farcaster Protocol

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Getting Started

Farcaster is a protocol for building decentralized social apps. This repository contains the technical specifications for implementing Farcaster.

If you are instead looking for:

How to get started, check out farcaster.xyz.
Developer documentation, check out docs.farcaster.xyz.

Specifications

The specification is maintained as a Markdown file. There are three important sections:

Overview - A high level overview of the protocol.
Specification - The technical spec for implementing Farcaster.
FIP Discussions - A forum where new proposals to change the specification are discussed.

Contributing

To make contributions to the protocol, please see the contributing guidelines

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