Investing in Farcaster – Variant
The Farcaster community feels like a microcosm of the early crypto community I (Jesse) got involved with about a decade ago: optimistic, technical, ambitious, collaborative, always online. For the average daily user, Farcaster is a fledgling but quickly growing protocol for building “sufficiently decentralized social networks.” It is a community most notable for its high quality and low noise relative to traditional social media. This is the direct result of extreme efforts taken by the core team to seed a curated social graph one person at a time. And also the sweat of the earliest enthusiasts, who kept the network active for years before a crowd showed up more recently. For technologists, the promise of Farcaster is a new distribution channel with permissionless building blocks that can realize the potential of crypto that many of us came here for: permissionless identity, money, and data. A notable example of the power of how these building blocks are being put to use are community
Investing in Farcaster – Variant Investing in Farcaster May 21, 2024 by Jesse Walden , Alana Levin --> The Farcaster community feels like a microcosm of the early crypto community I (Jesse) got involved with about a decade ago: optimistic, technical, ambitious, collaborative, always online. For the average daily user, Farcaster is a fledgling but quickly growing protocol for building “ sufficiently decentralized social networks .” It is a community most notable for its high quality and low noise relative to traditional social media. This is the direct result of extreme efforts taken by t
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