POV: there is no influx of people waiting to join Farcaster once it goes permissionless other than airdrop farmers.

1. We use Ethereum, so anyone anti-crypto is won’t be convinced in the near term

2. Existing apps are too similar to Twitter, with way less content

New types of apps / behaviors for growth.

what can ppl get/do here that they can’t anywhere else?

fractalist. tech lead at cabin.city. founder of LBRY.com, Odysee.com, vibe.camp, @farcon, grin.io

How does Merkle make money in the medium and long term? The names contract pays out to Merkle directly, plus maybe value-adds on top of the proto?

As of right now, beyond a differentiated graph, not much beyond a few NFT features. Discove SQL power user stuff is pretty cool. A lot of promise though!