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Founders

A Farcaster Founding story.

13 months ago (Jan 12, 2024), we recruited our first Bracket Testnet players for this new, experimental sports game. We attracted casters by  sponsoring $25 /channels of NFL teams. These super fans collected other fans to their channels, the group of whom became critical mass for Bracket games.

*ff 12 months*

A striking % of those very first users – recruited in this manual way, which already seems antiquated – have grown into some of the most core parts of our community. @purp  and @cojo.eth spearheaded funding 10M $degen prize. @itai and dynamic power our bracket wallets. @redbeard and @nickmorgan got us huge support at Coinbase. @javabu.eth won our first brackets and is a big onboarder. @qt and @garrett invested / advise.

*ff to today*

Our NFL bracket was run *entirely* on FC (frames!), powered by the native token of our AI agent @bracky, with 13K TxnUsers. @leohenkels dropped his $bracky winnings to that /eagles channel we created back in Testnet.

Awesome place.

It’s amazing to see how far you’ve come in just 12 months. From humble beginnings with fans to running a full NFL bracket on FC, this is true innovation in action. Excited to see where this goes next!