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Farcaster: identity contracts and off-chain messages

Farcaster publishes an identity on a settlement chain and messages stored off that chain, so a social post is not itself an Ethereum transaction.

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Authors: Farcaster
Date: 2022
Publisher: Farcaster
Version: Source cited by the 2022 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0633
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Farcaster publishes an identity on a settlement chain and messages stored off that chain, so a social post is not itself an Ethereum transaction.

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Official source — Farcaster docs
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Relationships

Canonical readingFarcaster study
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Related paperLens Protocol

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Author–date

Farcaster (2022). Farcaster: identity contracts and off-chain messages. Farcaster. https://docs.farcaster.xyz/

BibTeX

@techreport{farcasterprotocol2022,
  title = {Farcaster: identity contracts and off-chain messages},
  author = {Farcaster},
  year = {2022},
  institution = {Farcaster},
  url = {https://docs.farcaster.xyz/},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/farcaster-protocol}
}

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TI  - Farcaster: identity contracts and off-chain messages
AU  - Farcaster
PY  - 2022
PB  - Farcaster
UR  - https://docs.farcaster.xyz/
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

CSL-JSON

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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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