Ethereum Follow Protocol

Start by wiring the protocol into your app’s sign-in flow. After a user authenticates with their wallet (via Sign-In with Ethereum), resolve their ENS name and avatar to render a recognizable profile. Expose follow and unfollow as first‑class actions: when a user taps Follow, prepare the transaction, show the estimated fee, and submit. On success, refresh their connection list by reading recent events or pulling from your indexer. If you sponsor gas, detect that path and present a one‑click confirmation. For teams building dashboards, mirror the same primitives in bulk: let power users import a CSV of addresses, preview which are already connected, and queue follow ops for batch execution.

With connections on-chain, build personalized experiences quickly. Construct timelines and recommendation modules by scoring proximity (mutuals, follows-of-follows), then augment with ENS metadata for clean previews. During onboarding, suggest people to follow based on the user’s existing graph, notable communities, or tagged interests from your app. Use the graph for access decisions: show premium content, early feature flags, or invites when the viewer follows your project’s account. For discovery pages, fetch trending profiles by growth in new connections over a window, and surface shared links so users see why a profile is relevant. Because the graph lives on-chain, the same follows appear when users switch devices or try a different app—no migration needed. more