Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
As previously discussed, we're considering renaming the Warpcast app to Farcaster. Why? - Top priority is grow users on the protocol - The name split is extremely confusing for new users - So, we want to simplify How we're thinking about it - Rename Warpcast mobile app - warpcast.com to farcaster.xyz for web app - Open source both apps - No change protocol name, i.e. similar to Uniswap with app / protocol What we’re doing - Seeking input and want to make sure we understand concerns - Ultimately Varun and I will make a decision; it won’t be a vote. - Expect a decision in the next week or so; if yes, we will give plenty of notice and will take time to do this correctly / cleanly. How you can provide input - Developers: please reply here or feel free to reach out to me via direct message whether you agree or disagree. - Everyone else: you're free to offer input, but we will be weighting developer input a bit more since it has a bigger near-term impact on what they are building
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mark mollé
@marmo
Short-term: Unify. Call it all Farcaster. One face. Clarity first. Focus on growth. The split between Warpcast and Farcaster was always confusing. As someone who’s named scores of products snd organizations in crypto and beyond, I’ll say it plainly: names are narrative frames. You name influences the stories told in and about your world. They reveal who you are, where you’ve come from, and where you’re going. Long-term: Take the unified name face off and let the decentralized narrative frame of an app layer and a protocol layer bloom. • Designate the app layer the Caster layer. Your app remains Farcaster, but -caster becomes the suggested client suffix and naming convention. Basecaster, Beracaster, Polycaster, etc. • The protocol layer then leverages mythology and nicholas cage movie history by taking the face off the the centralized unified name and becoming the Pollux layer. The celestial twin. Eternal and immutable.
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