Warpcast gives power badges to users who are active, interesting to others and not spammy.

What’s a power badge good for?

If you have a power badge, you:

• Have a little badge on your profile.
• Rank higher in search results.
• Can cast in channels that are restricted to badge holders.
• Are more likely to be recommended as someone to follow.

The list of power badge holders is available to developers over an API. They may use it to:

• Change who can interact with a frame or an application
• Use it as a quality signal in their own ranking algorithms.

How does Warpcast choose who gets a power badge?

It’s a PageRank like system which uses a recursive approach to identify power users. It depends broadly on the following factors:

1. Activity — have you contributed to the network recently?
2. Affinity — do power users like most of your recent contributions?
3. Labelling — are you often flagged by other users or our machine learning systems for spam?

The most important things you can do to improve your probability of getting a power badge are:

1. Using Farcaster a few times a week.
2. Posting content that power users will reply to, recast or like often.