# Hyperfy Discord - 2025-04-05

## Overall Discussion Highlights

### Development Updates
- **Voice Chat Integration**: Ash announced upcoming voice chat functionality using Livekit, with HypPrivakos offering to provide a free Livekit server.
- **World Wallets & In-World Currency**: Ash shared PR #87 introducing world wallets and in-world currency with server-side transaction handling for security.
- **Default Apps System**: Plans were discussed for implementing default apps/app palettes in worlds, similar to v1, allowing worlds to come with default apps while enabling custom additions.
- **Solana Integration**: Buffer polyfill is no longer needed in the Solana branch, making it easier to use libraries like @solana/wallet-adapter through direct imports.

### Team & Business
- **Full-Time Development**: It was revealed that developers had been working on Hyperfy while maintaining full-time jobs elsewhere, but now development is a full-time focus for the team.
- **Market Conditions**: Community members discussed "hyper" token performance during market volatility, with suggestions that the price may have found a floor.

### Community Management
- **Security**: A scammer was identified and successfully banned from the community.

### Gaming Initiatives
- **Game Development Fund**: Discussion about creating a "hyper enabled game fund" to support game development.
- **Game Jam**: Potential participation in the Gamedev.js Jam 2025 was mentioned.

## Key Questions & Answers

### Development
- **Q**: Is it possible to create an app with speech to text using Google Cloud API for real-time captions?  
  **A**: "Absolutely possible" though it may need some core changes (answered by ash)

- **Q**: Is the Solana integration PR meant to be part of the main branch?  
  **A**: No, it's just a PR for reference, not to be merged (answered by ash)

- **Q**: What's the best RPC provider for Solana in production?  
  **A**: Helius is "beast mode" (answered by ash)

### Business
- **Q**: How did you raise funds for Hyperfy development in the meantime?  
  **A**: By working full-time jobs (answered by Knar)

- **Q**: Have devs been working for Hyperfy without pay?  
  **A**: Yes, but dev is full-time on hyperfy now (answered by Knar)

## Community Help & Collaboration

- **Speech-to-Text Implementation**: When cru asked about creating an app with speech-to-text for real-time captions, both ash and peezy provided guidance, with peezy suggesting modding core and using WASM to run small models client-side.

- **Voice Chat Infrastructure**: HypPrivakos offered to provide a free Livekit server to support the upcoming voice chat implementation.

- **Scammer Identification**: Shiffty helped HypPrivakos identify and ban a scammer from the community.

- **Solana Development**: Ash shared detailed documentation on world wallets and in-world currency implementation to help developers working with Solana integration.

## Action Items

### Technical
- Add voice chat functionality (mentioned by ash)
- Implement default apps/app palettes for creators (mentioned by ash)
- Consider user settings for apps to capture audio (mentioned by general hyper)
- Create a "hyper enabled game fund" for game development (mentioned by ash)

### Feature Requests
- Add FOV slider for camera control (mentioned by ~/drdoge.eth)
- Create speech-to-text functionality for in-game captions (mentioned by cru)
- Add console USB controller support for games (mentioned by Agent12)
- Implement quest system with caps as currency (mentioned by Agent12)