Announcing the first Farcaster L2: Cast!

After working 6 years on Meta infra for 3 billion users, I knew Farcaster proliferation had to be cheaper - we built it.

Cast today has ~500,000 messages external to Farcaster, with ~30,000 .cast handles, only costing $0.39/year on OP!

Building far.quest & wield.xyz, angel investing @ miy.com // Previously Meta, Coinbase // cryptojcdenton.twitter // FID #251

I love that this enables more experimentation via Cast's different protocol approach and flexible messages and I think that's net good, but I'm also struggling to see the symbiosis of this as an L2 rather than a Farcaster fork that has a name and logo that is so similar that new people will inevitably confuse the two

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I definitely agree that Farcaster's upfront registration cost limit its proliferation and add a lot of friction to onboarding new users

Would love to better understand the funnel of L2 -> L1 or how the network effects are shared, a blog post would help me a lot. Would also love to play around with new message types

Linking my reply here, realized it's hard to find it!

Linking my reply here, realized it's hard to find it!

https://warpcast.com/jc/0xe402c1f6