Under the Hood

The RIPS platform is built by a full-stack team of backend engineers, frontend developers, and product designers who’ve worked together for years. We believe products like RIPS succeed when built by a dedicated, full-time team focused on long-term community value. Our stack combines Farcaster-native app development with modern web and onchain infrastructure to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure experience.

Architecture & Infrastructure:

RIPS is a Farcaster mini-app built with Next.js and deployed on AWS serverless infrastructure, with a potential move to Vercel. The backend handles authentication, user state, and coordination between on-chain contracts and off-chain services, providing scalable, consistent performance.

Smart Contracts:

The RipsManager contract on Base manages on-chain actions for pack purchases and ERC-20 distributions. Purchases emit PackPurchased events with unique identifiers and metadata. Coin claims transfer ERC-20 tokens from the contract treasury to user wallets, with all gas fees paid by users.

Coin Swap Mechanism:

Users can consolidate up to 10 RIPS ecosystem coins into USDC via the 0x Protocol API for optimal routing and live pricing. The system enforces a $0.01 minimum per coin and warns when gas costs exceed 10% of swap value. Wallets using EIP-5792 batch multiple approvals and swaps into a single signature to reduce friction.

Notifications:

User alerts are delivered through Neynar’s Farcaster service, with CloudWatch-triggered Lambdas resetting claim quotas and sending notifications daily.

Anti-Abuse System:

A behavioural analysis module detects abnormal request patterns to prevent automated abuse and protect the free daily claim system.