Reposting this from October.

Things that will make Farcaster successful:
- Getting to credible neutrality / 100% permissionless protocol
- Continuing to grow protocol *daily* active users
- The developer experience for building new apps is solid
- Minimizing spam on the network
 https://i.imgur.com/IFAvrGp.png

Strongly held POV: near-term effort into onboarding non-cryptonatives to Farcaster is not a high ROI use of time.

Reality is we are built on Ethereum, which is crypto. That is immediately polarizing to a whole segment of tech Twitter. That's fine! Has been this way for the 10 years I've been working in crypto.

My pov here is informed by a decade in crypto and seeing 2 of the most successful companies in the space—Coinbase and OpenSea—win because they were willing to stick to their vision / mission / strategy despite crypto becoming uncool for a few years.

But if others disagree — that's fine! Why it's so important to get to credible neutrality / 100% permissionless. If you have a better strategy for onboarding, you're free to do so.

Do you think that user growth will stagnate if we don’t have good onboarding for non-cryptonatives along the line? If so, how would you combat it or are you fine with it? If not, why do you think it will not stagnate?