Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Is Farcaster too Base-centric? A common piece of feedback is "Farcaster is only for people in the Base ecosystem." Fair / accurate parts of this criticism: most onchain activity for Farcaster users is on Base, there are 3x as many connected Ethereum addresses as Solana addresses on the protocol, Warpcast's wallet does not support Solana. We also do our USDC pay outs on Base. Misconceptions: Farcaster, the protocol, is 99% offchain—we use a blockchain-like system called Snapchain (previously Hubs)—and the part that is onchain is on OP Mainnet (still part of the Superchain). We support a bunch of other chains via mini apps (frames) and Warpcast wallet: Arbitrum, Polygon, Gnosis, Degen, Zora, Unichain. The reality is Farcaster users index on 1) Ethereum and 2) apps. And Base is clearly the leader in that category—but entirely based on their own execution. Relevant casts below: https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x3c85c5d5 https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x3304f7ab
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BrixBountyFarm 🎩
@brixbounty
Still think Ronin would be a natural add and bring some energy if you were interested in further broadening geographical diversity (ph and lat am)
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jacob
@jacob
Have you weighed up adding Bitcoin and Lightning network support?
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Trish🫧
@trish
I don’t think this would be such a problem if the FC and Base community at large was a little more lighthearted about things. I said this recently but the community often comes off as taking itself too seriously. Any jab at all leads to a lot of defensiveness and overly serious lengthy “explanations” to less serious comments It’s not that the information isn’t accurate. And I fully understand the desire to clear things up but it inadvertently presents as un-fun. People don’t want to read all this. They want to feel like they are going to get good engagement with their target audience
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arob.base.eth🍖🎩
@arob1000
It’s not a problem but I had thought (incorrectly) that Farcaster was on Base until you corrected me last year. Supporting the leading L2 makes sense…some more Solana integration wouldn’t be a bad thing to build off of to onboard more users but focus is at the right place imo
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Señor Doggo
@fubuloubu
Yes, even the chatter, like half of non-following content on main is something related to base
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beleth
@clown
Yes, but why does it matter?
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Mikado
@mikadoe.eth
I only know Base since I got into crypto through Farcaster but I think supporting Solana would benefit Fracaster if it's possible.
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Antidote
@0xantidote.eth
Cool stats, but I would argue it is not just the technical implementation, it is the community. There is a certain path dependency here that will not be easy to break.
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Icetoad 🍕 🎩 🐈
@icetoad.eth
Based
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