Snapchain: Powering Decentralized Social Media on Farcaster
As Farcaster grew, its existing data synchronization system, known as deltagraph faced challenges in keeping all nodes (computers running the network) in sync in real-time. With thousands of users generating high volumes of transactions, posts, likes, follows, and more, deltagraph struggled to maintain consistency. This bottleneck threatened Farcaster’s ability to handle growth, prompting the development of Snapchain, a new data layer optimized for social media’s unique ..