We’ve rolled out a big upgrade to the way accounts work on Paragraph.

Creating an account, signing in, subscribing to writers, and collecting posts are now faster, simpler, and more secure. We now support multiple sign-in methods, including multi-factor authentication and passkey-based login. We've also deepened our connection with Farcaster, making it easier than ever to find your friends and discover great writing on Paragraph.

You can now create an account and sign in with your Farcaster identity (SIWF), instantly connecting you to your friends and the writers you follow.

Once connected, you’ll start seeing:

• Writers you follow on Farcaster recommended across Paragraph.

• Posts from those writers in your home feed.

• What your friends are reading, discussing, and collecting.

SIWF also ensures you have a cohesive experience on paragraph.com and in the Paragraph mini app on Farcaster.

Even if you don’t sign in with Farcaster, connecting a wallet you use on Farcaster lets us surface people you follow, helping you find friends and discover great writing on Paragraph. You can also see all the writers you follow on Farcaster in your account settings.

We’re only scratching the surface of what’s possible and we’re excited to keep making discovery even better.

Looking forward, we're excited to support embedded wallets, which allows everyone to start with a secure, easy-to-use wallet on Paragraph — no setup, extensions, or seed phrases required.

This makes it much easier for readers to support the writers and writing they love right away. For writers, it means getting paid for your ideas becomes dramatically simpler.

But embedded wallets also open up space for us to try more outside-the-box ideas.

We’ve wondered whether we could allow readers to bring a piece of writing they love onchain — even something published outside of Paragraph — and support it without any action required by the writer. Then perhaps the writer of that posts shows up to find an embedded wallet with funds from all the readers that wanted to show their appreciation.

We're excited to leverage embedded wallets and similar account-related features that help us uncover these types of magical moments.

This update shores up lots of account-related complexity and issues. But more importantly, it lets us turn our focus to what matters most: helping readers show their appreciation for great writing, enabling new ways for writers to earn for their ideas, and expanding the creative economy in ways that were never possible before.

A special thanks to Privy for helping power the infrastructure behind this. Identity and wallet tooling is incredibly hard to get right — and thanks to that foundation, we can now spend more time building what makes Paragraph unique and valuable.

Let us know any questions or feedback, and stay tuned for more updates & improvements around account infrastructure on Paragraph.