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Trust, Loss, and the Social Graph: FarCon 2025 Reflections

I’ve lost money, friends, and trust. Then I found Farcaster. This isn’t just a recap of FarCon 2025. It’s a look at what happens when a protocol starts to feel like home.

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Routine corrections

History shows that 30–40% pullbacks are common and often a sign of a healthy market reset rather than the end of a cycle.

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Crypto, but make it AI

While crypto speedruns its predictable path from innovation to grift with AI agents, we're missing the real opportunity. Beyond the Twitter LARPing and 'agentic' buzzwords lies an untapped goldmine in adaptive systems. But first, we need to learn the difference between what we can and are doing.

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I stealth-launched Higher on Solana and didn't ask for permission

Long-time Higher community members anonymously launched the Higher token on Solana, aligning with Higher's ethos of optimistic action. This token features deflationary mechanics and complements the original $HIGHER token, with no vampire attack planned. An airdrop is forthcoming for holders, aiming to create a cross-chain ecosystem that maximizes benefits for both tokens. The team has also undergone pseudo-doxxing via an on-chain signed message.

The trenches have arrived on Base

Base, Coinbase's layer 2 solution, is often admonished by crypto natives for its lack of degeneracy. Yet, by every conceivable metric, Base's growth has been meteoric. With nearly $2.7B bridged to their network and Ethereum-native functionality, Base seemed to have everything except that special sauce that makes crypto degens foam at the mouth. But that might be about to change...

Bot swarm

Pundits have made claims about the narratives that will drive crypto forward into Valhalla and beyond for the better part of this halving cycle. One such claim is that AI and blockchain will have a symbiotic connection; our digital compatriots' preferred currency will naturally tend toward digital. Unsurprisingly, this hypothesis is proving true before our very eyes in real-time. The rise of AI has dominated the last couple of years. ChatGPT took the world by storm; Nvidia has done nothing bu...

The Farcaster Paradox: A Platform in Search of Its People

As Farcaster grapples with declining metrics and internal strife, a deeper story emerges about the future of web3 social platforms. Despite outpacing competitors in funding and technical innovation, Farcaster faces a paradox: can a platform be ahead of its time technically while struggling to meet contemporary social needs? This analysis explores the tensions between technical achievement and user adoption in decentralized social media, and what it means for the future of web3 communities.

From Inside Farcaster Dev Day

Farcaster Dev Day was an intimate, invite-only event that brought together developers deeply invested in the network's future. As a relative newcomer, I felt a mix of excitement and nervousness - classic imposter syndrome - knowing I'd be rubbing shoulders with Farcaster OGs and creators of essential ecosystem tools. Still, I was thrilled to participate, network with exceptionally talented builders, learn about Farcaster's future, and make new friends (the delicious food was a bonus). While t...

Minting the Renaissance

Patronizing the arts is of great importance. Art is as important as language in the annals of history. It illuminates the moments in time wherein the artist existed and provides a subjective but often unfiltered perspective on events. Without major patrons throughout history, we might never have known the true nature of things as they were in the earliest reaches of human civilization. The internet has tarnished this behavior to a degree in that media consumption is often free, and if it's no...

Balancing Ideals and Practical Growth

Dan Romero on WarpcastI often see people Farcaster isn't "sufficiently decentralized". You're free to define what "sufficiently decentralized" means to you, of course, but how we think about it is laid out in Varun's blog post. https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/a90fe4fe-303c-4814-1c56-d73678954c00/original https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2022/01/11/sufficient-decentralization-for-social-networksFarcasterFarcaster promises a "sufficiently decentralized" protocol with various bas...