[grant update] bleu's Farcaster sybil detection

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Hello Optimism community!

The bleu team is excited to start building a sybil detection algorithm for Farcaster using social graph data. Our goal is to enhance the integrity of Farcaster and the ecosystem around it.

We’ll post bi-weekly updates here as comments. Your feedback is invaluable for us!

For transparency, you can track our progress on our GitHub Repository.

We look forward to your insights as we go!

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Farcaster Social Graph Project Update #1

Hello everyone!

We’ve officially kicked off the Farcaster Social Graph project and have begun working on our first milestone: “Requirements Definition and Data Extraction”. This milestone should be complete in the next few weeks!

Milestones Tracker

Milestone Type Status ETA
:bar_chart: Requirements Definition and Data Extraction Critical In progress 2 weeks
:abacus: Algorithm Design and Architecture Critical Planned 3 weeks
:robot: Algorithm Development and Evaluation Critical Planned 5 weeks
:rocket: Algorithm Integration and Monitoring Critical Planned 2 weeks

Data Extraction

We plan to run an instance of Hubble to get Farcaster links data and work on replicating it into a Postgres database for further analysis. This approach seems to be our best path forward to get the graph and apply the Sybil Detection algorithms.

Upcoming Tasks

Before our next update, we aim to complete the following tasks:

  • Run a private instance of the Farcaster network with Hubble
  • Extract Warpcast users along with their connections
  • Create a script to track Warpcast user activity