Degen

useful stats from dune:
🎩 /degen is only 162 days old
🎩 /degen is one of 7 stadium tier channels
🎩 of those 7, /degen is the biggest
🎩 degen x base x farcaster isn't just a meme, it's the rank
🎩 $degen is said a lot by active accounts
🎩 /degen is growing fast

useful stats from dune:
🎩 /degen is only 162 days old
🎩 /degen is one of 7 stadium tier channels
🎩 of those 7, /degen is the biggest
🎩 degen x base x farcaster isn't just a meme, it's the rank
🎩 $degen is said a lot by active accounts
🎩 /degen is growing fast

https://dune.com/ilemi/farcaster-explorer

I think the hopium is to compare the potential in dollar terms to DOGE. It's a third of the size in terms of total tokens and currently has far more utility - generally speaking, it's basically what DOGE could have been to X had it been integrated. If $degen continues to be successful, it may be the case study for that

and x's recent changes makes it very, very unlikely that they /could/ realize this vision w/o butchering it completely. in our case, we have the rare opportunity to build actual financial synergy w/ farcaster, [not] a cumbersome, ad hoc monetization model that trades freedom for ad revenue.

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They can't control it or fairly tax it for shareholder profit without killing it.

They also can't implement technologically, too centralized and gate-kept.

And an official token launch would get them kicked off the app store.

A thousand other reasons.

This is very very interesting. What are these changes you think that makes it unlikely for them to bring in a mechanism like degen?